The amount of social housing exceeds private housing by some considerable margin.There is one grey area. The large amount of new private flats that are sold on by to let deals and are let to local authorities On one development in Brentford this is in excess of 72% of occupied flats.This information is not being made public and I have gleaned it from a local journalist who has spent months obtaining this info.I may be cynical but are councillors keen to increase this figure to protect their vote?As is well known, Labour have traditionally courted council tenants with preferential treatment and as a result, many council estates are staunchly labour. Increasingly there are those who now stop and think a bit are realising that they are being used and find labour are not much better than conservatives, lib dems or any other group.Not that that bothers politicians they just want that vote
Anthony Waller ● 4866d