It seems that UK citizens are more worried about the nation’s housing crisis than they are about Brexit. Parliament, meanwhile, has moved beyond obsession to a state of flat-out craziness over the mechanics of either exiting or staying in the European Union.
Nonetheless, the Tory government has found time to make pledges about the National Health Service and policing as part of their strategy for a forthcoming election. They’d like to call immediately or sooner, if only the combined opposition parties would let them. Alas, in the meantime there is no sign of pledges from the national government to address the intolerable housing burden of the nation’s poorest.
As the parliamentary combatants sneer, snarl and swear their way to a Brexit deadline crunch, read a current ‘state of the union’ article on the UK’s housing crisis for its lowest wage earners in The Guardian: Social Housing Crisis Builds As Government Passes The Buck
