A granny in the front line against New Labour

Ken Bishop

Sadly, Liverpoool is demolishing thousands more houses like Pascoe's. Many are tiny, many are large, many are in horrible condition, many are not. But all have stood long enough to make it clear that they are well built. They are to be replaced by flats (less privacy, more neighbour problems), even though the newly built flats all along the waterfront are proving unsaleable. When we we ever learn?

BrianSJ

It is such a shame we don't have a Conservative opposition.

Leah Owens

This is not about 'renewal' other than the demolishing of history and remaking the area in Zanulabour's own image. When a country has no historical references then its history is, in effect, negated, forgotten and rewritten. Mao Tse Tung did this - albeit on a larger scale - during the Great Leap Forward, razing the beautiful buildings of old China to the ground. This vile Government is going about it in a more piecemeal way, but its purpose is the same.

Sidney Chambers

This is typical of modern Britains juggernaut authoritarian attitude to the man in the street. Free speach has gone, you can be fined for describing a road worker as a Pikey. The police are just Yobs in uniform who have been given too much power and are obviously drunk on it. So keen to club the public at the first oppotunity. The saddest thing I heard recently was from of a wartime Wellington bomber pilot who said "If I had known what this country would turn into I wouldn't have bothered". Mrs Pascoe deserves an award for services to the public, but no, the head of the banking system will get it instead. The system is corrupt.

LiverpoolTory

There are many houses in Liverpool which are in an absolutely appalling state. They are so dilapidated that it is impossible to view with any sense of admiration for the Georgian, Victorian or Edwardian architecture. This makes them slums of squalor and crime. Ultimately some housing should be knocked down in Liverpool to make way for new flats. These will be expensive with less living space but thats what you get with a rising population. Hopefully, it will get people living back in the city again and offset the inexcusable urban sprawl which is destroying our countryside.

jon livesey

To me, the issue is wider than homes. The fact is that we have inherited laws that were written to be sweeping in their scope because that was safe in an age when the Civil Service was aware of the proper limits to the exercise of power, and the proper relationship of the Civil Service to the citizen.

Today we have a civil Service that exemplifies the arrogance of ignorance, and which tends towards the exercise of arbitrary powers simply to keep those powers in existence.

Today's Civil Service may not be very bright, have very much self-control, or understand its basic mission, but it does understand that powers must be used, otherwise they can decay away.

Expect to see yet more exercise of arbitrary powers in wider areas by Civil Servants and their legal representatives who are simply interested in keeping those powers in existence.

Tom Norton

Zanulabour disaster area - again.

Forlornehope

Interestingly, the same problem exists in the land of the free, but for a different reason. In the USA you can have your house taken "for the public good". This has been interpreted by t he courts as any economic development. So if someone wants to build a supermarket you lose your house. It happens and you have no comeback.

Gervas Douglas

Don't expect the likes of David Cameron to do anything about these glaring injustices. There is no real constitutional opposition at present, just a bunch of opportunists hoping to grab the trappinhs of office by default.

Archie

Sidney Chambers: My parents had a beautiful and historic piece of their property in the Midlands compulsorily purchased for a road widening scheme to provide access to a "redevelopment" by a friend of a councillor. No surprise then my father and an uncle, who both fought in WWII, are now staunch BNP members for exactly the reasons in your article.

Peter Kemp

As a foreigner and regular visitor to your country I am not surprised by these actions.They are simply designed
to replace old traditional England with something that will accommodate the continuous
stream of old empire hopefuls that add very little to your economy yet continually want to change your culture and way of life.Take back England!!

Cisco

The really sad thing is, the road in question, Edge Lane, does not need widening. Granted, the area does need sprucing up, but this is more to do with the spitefulness of a landowner who is letting large areas of Edge Lane (including a fair sized retail park) fall into decay because the local council wont let him have his own way with redevelopment. The council aren't falling over themselves to compulsorily purchase any of his acres of property.