Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) during a visit to the West Carclaze Garden Village housing development in St Austell, ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall
THE electoral map of Britain shows vast areas of the country swathed in Conservative blue, and while it is clear that the working-class vote is concentrated in urban areas — most particularly the big cities and industrial towns — these are the surface indicators of class politics.
That said, they also reveal much about the economic realities and the physical topography of our country in which land ownership is concentrated in very few hands.
When Britain’s richest man — the Duke of Westminster — was asked what advice he had for young entrepreneurs, he suggested that they secure an ancestor who was very good friends with William the Conqueror.
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON