Yesterday evening, the three Labour council candidates and Andy Slaughter gave Shaun Woodward, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, a tour of the West Ken and Gibbs Green estates. We are pictured to the left in Dieppe Close. Shaun spent an hour knocking on doors with us, talking to residents on the street and in their homes. As you would expect, most residents expressed their concern over the future of the threatened estates and asked for help in their fight to save their homes from demolition.
Shaun was visibly moved by the situation. In particular, he noted the discord between national Tory promises of a "Big Society" with inclusive government, and the hard reality of working families being displaced by a Tory Council against their will to make way for luxury flats and office blocks.
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