| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Brentford Steering Group Video on Front Page..... | |
| Posted by: | Guy Lambert | |
| Date/Time: | 02/12/14 10:39:00 |
| I have no special insights as to what the next (I hope) Labour government will do, and I wouldn't go out of my way to defend the record of the last one on housing. They clearly didn't do enough. The next government of whatever colour will have plenty of difficulties because (despite the spin we get daily) this one has made a terrible mess of the economy: the deficit was supposed to be down below £40Bn by now but in fact is not only £100Bn but rising. I was mainly talking about councillors in my previous post because I do have some insight into how they see the world, but the national Labour party, flawed as you may think it is, is still on the side of ordinary working people (and the polls say they have a huge majority amongst those in work). It will therefore do its best to resolve the problems that ordinary working people face, because it is with them that their instincts lie and from them that they get votes (and funding - no Russian oligarchs are paying £150K to play tennis with Labour). I agree with most of what Paul Brownlee says, though when I first set foot here Brentford had a vibrant manufacturing economy with Firestone, Trico, Gillette, Beecham etc as well as Wilson and Kyle and whatever else was going on in Ballymore land. It also had the culture that went along with that, some of which remains and gives Brentford a bit of a different character to most of W London. I regret the passing of all that but its water under the bridge and, with globalisation, it's not coming back anytime soon. So the options are to continue with a derelict waterfront and half the High St hoping for something to turn up, or to take the best offer available and do your best to improve it. I have no doubt at all they have done the right thing. |