Our Labour-run council is planning to build some private housing which it will then rent out. Great on the face of it. But it will not allow anyone on a low income to rent the properties. Rents will be as much as £200 a month over the local housing allowance rate.

I asked if after six years of my asking they would work with me to get some social housing built in our area. No answer was given to my question.

So we have a Labour run council happy to build luxury homes with taxpayers money and refusing to rent them out to anyone on housing benefit, whilst at the same time refusing to invest in social housing.

Meanwhile the Tories are putting social housing at risk through forcing the sale of homes without the money being made available to build new ones.

Begs the question “What’s the Difference between the Tories and Labour?

Forcing the sale of social housing without the money to reinvest is a madness – I expect that from the Tories. The Labour Party refusing to invest in social housing – that goes beyond madness, it is nothing short of disgraceful.

I will continue to push for social and affordable housing in our area on brownfield sites regardless of what our Tory-lite-Labour council does.