By Kasredin:
Sadiq Khan, the MP for Tooting who is of Asian extraction has recently written an article for The New Statesman about poverty in London.
He notes that, “A new report released today shows that the government and Mayor are turning London into a divided and segregated city”.
The report’s findings regarding poverty in London are probably accurate. Having lived there myself, I know only too well how expensive it can be. Bus tickets tend not to cost very much, and grocery prices are pretty much the same as elsewhere in the country. Nevertheless house prices are so high as to make exaggeration difficult, and the report seems clearly to a situation that is becoming worse rather than better.
Khan also cites an allegation by the Confederation of British Industry that house prices in London are an obstacle to economic growth in London, which makes sense.
Let us suppose you are thinking of launching a new business, but are unsure where to locate it. To make matters simple, you narrow the choice to either Greater London or Nottingham.
A two-bedroom house on the outskirts of Nottingham can be bought for around £70,000, whereas a two-bedroom house in Stevenage (roughly half an hour from central London by train) would set you back more like £200,000. Now consider how much more an employer would have to pay their staff, for their staff to be able to afford to live and work for them in London?
As you would expect from a Labour front-bencher, Khan blames the coalition government and the Tory Mayor of London, and is right to do so. People who are lucky enough to be in power should either make the right choices or else take the blame. Nevertheless, Khan is hardly adroit when it comes to offering solutions. Given that he will – on current trends – be a government minister in less than two years from now, this is hardly cause for optimism.
Khan argues that “Ten Labour councils are now Living Wage employers, while not a single Conservative council is accredited”. What he perhaps fails to grasp is that those council salaries are funded from taxation. How are private sector employers expected to pay the Living Wage when they are paying enormous tax bills to fund public sector wages?
Another of Khan’s proposals is that “On housing, the government need to match Labour’s commitment to build 200,000 new homes a year by the end of the next Parliament, with the majority in and around London.”
And where exactly should these new homes be built? I suppose we could sacrifice Richmond Park or Wimbledon Common. If anyone thinks I’m being absurd, then please tell me where else we could build all those new houses. Would anyone miss Hampstead Heath?
Another important point to note is that new houses require facilities such as sewers. Likewise, more people living in a given corner of London puts more pressure on the public transport facilities. I am not saying that these challenges could not be met, but they are quite substantial.
Of course a large part of the problem is the very high levels of unemployment in Greater London. If unemployed people were to be moved out of London to live in provincial towns with lower property prices, then that would free up large numbers of houses and flats which could then be occupied by people who have jobs in London. Not that I am suggesting this would be a suitable solution, simply noting that it has been muted by others for consideration.
A better solution would be to recognise that London is increasingly a city of immigrants and if Britain had a racial nationalist government that put the interests of our own people first, then we could begin repatriating those immigrants, start with immigrants living in Greater London. Doing so would free up large numbers of homes, which could then be allocated to British people who work in London and would like to live there also.
As a lot of immigrants subsist on state benefits, repatriation would also have the effect of reducing public spending, and given that immigrants are disproportionately involved in violent crime, repatriation would almost certainly lead to a reduction in the level of offences such as muggings.
If White Londoners want to improve their lot, they should start by recognising that politicians like Sadiq Khan and Boris Johnson have very little to offer them.
By Kasredin © 2013
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Kyle McDermott
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No taxation without repatriation!
John Beattie
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Obviously no immigrants are going back to their homelands willingly. With what I read from various British patriots, the Magna Charter is now toilet paper in all aspects. Is there really any choice left but to the streets ?
Max Musson
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You need to read some of our older articles John, try this for starters: https://www.westernspring.co.uk/the-great-white-hope/
John Beattie
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Sorry. Not impressed. The Hungarian Revolution in 1956, martyrs who pushed the wall a pinch. Not planned. The people poured into the streets spontaneously. Forgotten already the Russian guy and the Russian people (was it Boris Yeltsin maybe )……..anyway, as did the Hungars in 1956, facing tanks, only this time the Russian street people won. Lech Walensa in Poland at the gates ? These were all spontaneous. The spontaneous uprising will hit the streets, stirred up by excellent writings as herein; and dozens of other similar blogs, etc. Yes we could go on about Robespierre, then say the sailors storming the Palace of the Czar, etc………all these uprisings were “planned” ? Sure some schemers in back rooms, but when peoples are fed up to the teeth, they hit the streets, and leave plans at the bottom of the outhouse. Sincere thanks for giving us all freedom of expression .
frederickdixon
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Cities always attract the poor because they offer more means of survival – plenty of menial work of all kinds; more opportunities to live off your wits or in less respectable ways; plenty of places to find shelter; soup kitchens and other charitable provision
The problems of London’s poor, the native poor, have been hugely exacerbated in modern times by mass alien immigration which has now taken our capital from us. Immigration hits the poor first and hardest by introducing direct competition for the sort of jobs which the poor do and for the public, or other affordable accommodation, which the poor need.
As for very high house prices, these do not affect the poor directly but they are very undesirable for all sorts of reasons. They are largely the result of allowing London properties to be become items of international trade and offered for sale to persons who do not have a right of residence in Britain.
A ban on the sale of properties to foreigners, strict border controls and the repatriation of all those who do not have a right of residence in Britain would begin to curb the problem, but it would still leave much to do.
Michael Woodbridge
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Without a painstaking building up of resources and organisation in the same way that organised Jewry and freemasonry have done, any racial socialist victory is bound to be pyrrhic just as the various ‘colour’ revolutions in Eastern Europe have been pyrrhic; or for that matter, the so called ‘Arab Spring’. So long as the Global capitalists retain their control on the world economy idealists such as ourselves will simply be manipulated by them and all our achievements will amount to no more than a quixotic tilting at windmills. Only by building our own resources will we be able to wrest control from an all pervasive enemy.
The crucial point that John Beattie makes is that the building up of resources without moral leadership is futile because our people are in desperate need of an inspirational model if they are going to be motivated to do anything in the first place. Moral leadership stems directly from courage and that’s exactly where we have to begin. We have to be prepared to lead the way to the proverbial barricades through danger and self-sacrifice just as much as we need careful preparation.
Anonymous
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This might be ‘thinking the unthinkable’, but why not shift the capital from London to some other city closer to the heart of England? Or emulate the Australians and simply build a new capital?
John Beattie
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An offshoot from the post by Anonymous: how about ex-Pats gathering and regrouping here in Canada’s wide open spaces, to activate the rescue of the Motherland. A LUG dare we suggest ( Legal Underground ). Regardless of thoughts about Churchill & the man called Intrepid, Sir William Stephenson, this famous duo succeeded in their master plan to draw America into WW2. Time is ripe from this side of the pond, to repeat that historical masterplan. This time the enemy invasion of the Motherland has succeeded. No option left but LUG to reclaim Our Ancient Isles.
Steve
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Go back to Colchester?
Steve
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I remember years ago reading some comment about cities is that so often they represent the worst of man despite being man made, instead of the best of man.
Maybe the idea needs to be rethought?
One of the main problems is population density exacerbated by many different cultures with different needs.
If Heathrow is a shoo in for expansion then that just adds to it even faster.
If carbon emissions are so important, why isn’t London limited in its growth?