IN DECEMBER 2008, Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice argued for an end of any obligation for local authorities to provide council housing in order to encourage private landlordism.

This was followed by a report, titled Principals For Social Housing Reform, from Localis recommending that councils should “exploit” huge reserves of capital value in their houses and land by selling it off and charging “market terms”.

A report by New Local Government Network recommended market rents, end of secure tenancies, forcing elderly tenants to leave their family homes once children have grown up and intrusive “advice sessions” for tenants, designed to bully them into the private sector.

Basically, Conservatives are not only trying to to dismantle the NHS, which will affect poor, needy and vulnerable people, but they are also dismantling social housing, which will affect poor, needy and vulnerable people.

One quarter of Conservative MPs are private landlords, according to research by Inside Housing.

And, to add insult to injury, Iain Duncan Smith’s department handed over £44 million of taxpayers’ money in bonuses last year, while at the same time slashing benefits for the disabled, sick and vulnerable.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Conservatives.

Mrs S Davies, Bebington.