Earlier this month Swindon’s Labor Councillors brought a motion to council calling for an end to no-fault evictions to give greater security to private tenants. Despite the Conservative councillors calling it “dangerous” and voting against it, our motion was passed.
Swindon is facing a housing crisis, caused by a mix of damaging national government policies and the inaction of the local Conservative led council. Since 2010 home ownership in Swindon has declined and rented accommodation has become increasingly unaffordable for many. More people are sleeping rough on our streets and the number of families in temporary accommodation has increased. A Labour-led council knows that #SwindonDeservesBetter and would seek to address this by all measures available to it. Labour’s flagship policies…
Imagine a visit to Swindon town centre, battling through traffic jams and badly designed junctions to find an over-priced parking space in a newly built car park that is already starting to fall apart, despite being mostly empty. As you walk past increasing numbers of homeless people and struggle to find an open shop amongst the empty properties, you notice the dirty streets and litter and wonder why the Conservative administration have run up a debt of over £300million and…