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beltaneboy
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Edited Mar 21, 2012, 12:16
'No Political meetings allowed in your own home!
Mar 21, 2012, 11:55
I have just got back from an 'open day' held by 'Knightstone Housing Association' (the biggest HA in my area) in relation to a brand new block of flats they've built in Taunton, one of which I have been offered a tenancy for. We were all (about 20 potential new tennants) given an info pack, in which was the tennancy aggreement plus another three page document called 'estate rules applying to. . . ' (said property) Number one of these rules, at the top of the list is, I quote:

"You & your visitors must not hold in your home or common parts any political meeting or sale by auction".

I could not believe this and questioned the HA rep doing the presentation (it was all hideously corporate) & she didn't have any real explanantion why there should be such a stipulation specifically outlawing political meetings. I questioned if it was even legal in a so called democratic 'free speech' country.

The creep creep of the fascist state is definately gaining pace!

The tennancy is also one of the new government social housing fixed term tennancies, mine's for 6 years, after which they 'review' me and decide if they give me another 6 years! I asked what criteria they used to 'review' and was told if I then am earning lots of money/inherited a fortune/lottery etc. But her answer other than that was extremely vague, along the lines of: 'well, this is such a new kind of government tenancy, we don't really know much more about it'

I have the instinctual feeling that it may be related to 'well, you are still unnemployed (I have a serious permanent illness) and you haven't accepted the jobs offered you / 'help' we've offered you to get you back into work, so now, 6 years on, get out of your home!'

After all the recent talk by Labour of: social housing being for "the hard working and most deserving rather necessarily than the most needy' and the Tories of 'social housing tennancies should no longer be for life'!

Am I just paranoid?
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