tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17510864.post9039840230331696109..comments2024-03-26T17:00:35.384+00:00Comments on Helen McCookerybook: Huntrhymeswyth's Big IdeaHelen McCookerybookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10997428723795124462noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17510864.post-89594891388206906632016-01-31T14:32:25.456+00:002016-01-31T14:32:25.456+00:00I enjoyed that! Of course, you do assume that the ...I enjoyed that! Of course, you do assume that the man in the story does have a reflection.....<br /><br />Shirley Porter, leader of Westminster council, heir to the Tesco fortune and Thatcher wannabee, did try something similar in the late 80's when she shifted labour voting council tenants out of marginal tory wards. The great jerrymandering scam. She got fined (I think) 21 million quid for that, but claimed poverty and got away with it (the joy of trust funds). One of the other councillors involved committed suicide as a result. <br /><br />She also had centre armrests fitted to all council park seats to stop homeless people sleeping on them<br /><br />and finally, she tried to evict the residents and then purchase a block of flats on the embankment that were there, via a deed of covenant, to house the working class of the borough on the basis that no working class people lived in westminster. The owner, the Duke of Westminster, told her to get stuffed.<br /><br />Funny how Nathan Barley turned out be true. Wilky of St Albanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06082833989305448408noreply@blogger.com