Nationalising land: winning Labour manifesto of October 1974

[Tony Gosling]

Harold Wilson plot, Treason & Conspiracy by MI5, 1968 Coup, 1976 Resignation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG6FR03BqIQ
Yes two top BBC journalists Penrose and Courtieur 
were steered out into the long grass by the powers that be.
In 1975 Britain's last honest Prime Minister, 
Harold Wilson was bugged, burgled bullied and 
hounded out of office by fascist, even Nazi, 
elements within MI5, the army and establishment 
who smeared him as a Russian KGB agent. As for 
books on this subject the best in order are as follows:
'The Pencourt File' by Barrie Penrose & Roger Courtiour (1978)
'Smear!: Wilson and the Secret State' by Stephen Dorril & Robin Ramsey (1992)
'The Wilson Plot: How the Spycatchers and Their 
American Allies Tried to Overthrow the British 
Government' (1988) by David Leigh


October 1974 Labour Party Manifesto

http://www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/1974/oct/1974-oct-labour-manifesto.shtml

Britain Will Win With Labour
Foreword


by The Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson, OBE, FRS, MP


................................
Our Homes, Our Land, Our Environment

Everybody is entitled to a decent home at a price 
they can afford. This cannot be achieved in a 
free-for-all market, which has resulted in 
homelessness, over-crowding and squalor for 
thousands of our people. We have in a few months:
    * given an extra £350m for councils to build 
more new houses and buy existing housing;
    * given a £500m loan to Building Societies to 
keep mortgage rates down, and to make more mortgages available;
    * introduced a rent freeze for both council and private tenants;
    * passed a Rent Act to give security of 
tenure to furnished tenants of absentee landlords;
    * legislated for the creation of Housing 
Action Areas and against the abuse of improvement grants;
    * introduced a Bill to demolish the Tory Housing Finance Act.
The Labour Government will take into public 
ownership land required for development, 
redevelopment and improvement. These proposals do 
not apply to owner-occupiers, whose homes and 
gardens will be safeguarded. But the public 
ownership by local authorities of necessary land 
is essential to sensible and comprehensive 
planning both in our towns and in the 
countryside. The land will be paid for at 
existing use value and the expensive disgrace of 
land speculation will be ended.

The next Labour Government will:
    * help home-buyers through a new National 
Housing Finance Agency to assist first-time 
buyers and to stabilise mortgage lending. Local 
councils' lending will be expanded so that they 
can play a major part in helping house purchasers 
and keep down costs by supplying unified services 
for estate agency, surveying, conveyancing and mortgages;
    * restore to local authorities the right to 
fix rents which do not make profits out of their tenants;
    * protect council tenants by giving them security of tenure;
    * ensure that rent increases in the private 
sector will be limited by Government action and 
that houses without basic amenities will not be taken out of control;
    * encourage the public ownership of rented 
property, except where an owner-occupier shares his home with a tenant;
    * help conserve homes and areas that can be 
improved with the aid of grants rather than demolish them;
    * reverse the disastrous fall in 
house-building, which will include measures to 
tackle the 'lump' and other proposals which must 
be worked out by both sides of the construction 
industry to attack the system of casual labour in 
the industry and create a stable, permanent work force;
    * abolish the agricultural tied cottage system;
    * transfer housing management and allocation 
to elected authorities in the New Towns nearing completion.

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