Shore's ideas on housing
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It was Shore who, in response to the IMF cuts in December 1976 extended the ban to most other forms of council building orders, including roads and schools.
It was Shore who in March 1977 first set up the system of cash limits for housing expenditure which Heseltine has been able to use so viciously against council housing ever since.
Yet now the same Peter Shore is posing as a 'left' in the farcical leadership elections in the Parliamentary Labour Party!
One point that may well be overlooked in the wave of rhetoric that will gush forth from Labour Party leaders on the latest housing cuts is that all the methods now being used by Heseltine to destroy council housing programmes were invented by Peter Shore in his term of office as Secretary of State for the Environment in the Callaghan government.
It was Shore who, in response to the Healey cuts of July 1976 first imposed a ban on new housing contracts and land purchses, as well as halting the growth of housing association schemes and council mortgages.
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