Andrew Dismore

Dear editor

So Conservative Cllr. Tom Davey has finally let the cat out of the bag. Barnet’s answer to

Basil Fawlty, with his “no riff raff” approach, has confirmed the Conservative secret housing

agenda of social engineering and gerrymandering, with their switch of a planned and

approved 238 affordable homes on Beaufort Park to properties for sale on the open market,

in a move reminiscent of the infamous Lady Porter’s “homes for votes” policy when she ran

Westminster Council in the 1980s. but while she was secretive about what she was about,

Cllr Davey has admitted openly it is about recasting the local population.

When I met the Beaufort Park developers in the Summer, they made no complaint about

the then proposed affordable open sale/ affordable mix. So what changed in the last few

weeks? Only that the Conservatives have realised they are in trouble in the elections soon

to come and want to mould the growing population in their own image: wealthy people who

do not use the public services on which the rest of us depend: their ideal expected Tory

voters.

Barnet’s extremist Conservatives do not wish to support the vibrant mixed communities

which have made Barnet such an interesting place. They do not care about the impact

on the many families waiting for the homes they desperately need and which they can

afford in the borough. All the Conservatives care about is their own sordid interest whilst

simultaneously boosting even higher the profits of big business developers.

No wonder the polls show that people see the Conservatives as increasingly out of touch

with the problems of ordinary hard working families, as their Government ensures the

tentative economic recovery only benefits the wealthy few, whilst the squeezed rest suffer an

increasing decline in living standards, as the cost of living rises way faster than pay.

yours sincerely,

Andrew Dismore

Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden

Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Hendon