Hackney Council Kicks Tenants In The Teeth

Congratulations are in order to Hackney Council, for one of its crassest acts in some years!

In December tenants were 'consulted' on rent increases - with 5%, 10% and 12% being 'offered' to lucky tenants.

This morning I received a letter from Cllr Alan Laing, noting that whilst 62% of tenants responded by requesting only a 5% increase, the Hackney Cabinet had decided upon a 6.7% increase.

Bizarrely Laing refers to this 62% vote as "just over half" - with a grasp of mathematics like that, it is no wonder Hackney is in the mess it is.

When is a consultation not a consultation? When Hackney Council does not get the result it wants!

I wonder how Cllr Laing would feel if he received 62% of the vote in the next Council elections, but found he was not allowed to take his seat, and the vote ignored? The noise would be deafening. However when it comes to Hackney's Council tenants, politicians can be guaranteed to cock a deaf 'un.