"You need to consider that idiot Corbyn is calling for the overturning of due legal process and trashing property rights to try to score cheap political points. "
It was Labour who introduced homes for all back in the 1940s when the peopel of Britain needed them most; it was thatcher who burst that dream by turing homes into investments and disenfranchised many millions of people overnight.
There is no question of "winning votes" - homes for all has always been Labour's policy.
on the contrary, Corbyn's policy is likely to lose him votes in the rich underbelly of Britain and areas where they swallowed Thatcher's policy of respectablising greed.
You quote the European convention of Human Rights - totally immaterial in this situation
Even the American Constitution guaranteed "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" " - how about the homeless - how do they get that in your property world
How about those who have just been burned out of their homes in the last few days - do thehy have no rights to a roof over their heads, or running clean water, or sanitation
Are their rights less important than property owners who wish to leaaave their property empty
I find threads like these extremely useful for throwing the spotlight on what your word is all about - total inhumanity - wealth before people's right to live decent lives.
Your "lefty" epithet is fine by me - in my lifetime "right" politics sent six million Jews to their deaths in extermination camps; right companies in fascist Germany financed the rise of fascism and used slave labour in their factories, it was right wing dictators who massacred and tortured thousands of its opponents in Chile and Greece and it was right wing Thatcher who described his policies as her kind of democracy and those who attempted to bring Pinoochet to trial as "running a police state"
The right, historically has the worst record of human rights abuses and war-crimes on this planet.
So feel free to refer to me as a leftie, even if it is not strictly accurate - "the right has nothing to recommend it in today world.
Would you like to offer a solution for how to assist those who have been made homeless in this fire - wouldn't tents in Hyde Park offend your rich friends in Park Lane?
Jim Carroll