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Couldn't have put it better mylsef. Furthermore what is inexplicable is that those involved in the Coup, hounded Brian Salinger for years for having a 'socialist housing policy'. However Brian Salinger had committed the Council to the Three Strands Approach, which has all but been abandoned by Freer, who puts himself forward for photo ops quaffing champers with property developers bent on building flats SO SMALL that Housing Associations wouldn't consider renting them for social tenants.So having called Brian Salinger a 'socialist' he boots him out and accelerates the rabbit hutch flats against direct opposition from, not only, Boris Johnson and Brian Coleman (who still somehow manages to support Barnet's plans in Cabinet whilst criticising them at City Hall) but also former Labour Deputy Mayor Nicky Gavron who have both called for an end to this.Mike Freer also omits to mention, when he casually mentions there is pressure for boroughs to build more homes in London, that so called 'Conservative' Barnet has put forward a target for itself about 10 (that's right TEN) times higher than any other Conservative borough in London. The only boroughs that are higher or close are ones where the govt have sprayed millions of pounds of cash at them to practically pay for the development itself. You are right to point out that what Barnet is doing is Barnet's own work, not the Mayor's and not the Govt. If they wanted to they could pull the plug tomorrow.As regards goings on in Hendon Association, it is rare for me to criticise Matthew Offord but he has been in control of matters in Hendon for 5+ years and the Conservative Association is almost moribund and at risk of being taken over by Central Office. People (including mylsef - despite having raised 1000s for the party and won many votes) have been told bluntly that their help is not wanted either politically or financially ie to p*ss *ff. Yet the Association raised an embarrassingly low amount of money and gives most of it to Mike Freer's Finchley Association for 'administration' leaving them with two pennies to rub together.To think they are about to go down another civil war period is unthinkable.
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