{"id":37573,"date":"2017-06-19T20:09:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T19:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=37573"},"modified":"2017-06-19T20:09:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T19:09:05","slug":"the-case-for-requisitioning-property-for-the-people-of-kensington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/06\/19\/the-case-for-requisitioning-property-for-the-people-of-kensington\/","title":{"rendered":"The case for requisitioning property for the people of Kensington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was phoned by the PM programme on Radio 4 at 4.40pm this afternoon and asked what I thought about requisitioning property for the people of North Kensington to live in following the Grenfell Tower fire.<\/p>\n<p>I should add, this is not a subject I usually talk about but in a few minutes, and off the cuff, I clearly persuaded the producer that I was the right person to debate it on air at 5.45. So, I set off for BBC Cambridge and whilst waiting with headphones on bashed out this note to develop my thinking:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/06\/19\/the-case-for-requisitioning-property-for-the-people-of-kensington\/screen-shot-2017-06-19-at-19-54-37\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37574\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37574\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-19-at-19.54.37-413x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-19-at-19.54.37-413x1024.png 413w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-19-at-19.54.37-121x300.png 121w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-19-at-19.54.37-768x1906.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-19-at-19.54.37-91x225.png 91w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-19-at-19.54.37-53x132.png 53w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-19-at-19.54.37.png 1016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was up against Andrew Lilico, an economist with the profoundly neoliberal Institute for Economic Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>I was given the chance to talk first and made the point that what we were discussing was at the core of the politics of Grenfell Tower: do people or property come first. Of course I offered a balanced view.<\/p>\n<p>Lilico used words like 'hard left' and 'people have housing benefits' and managed, quite extraordinarily, to make Theresa May sound like a model of compassionate empathy. I had to do little more than let him implode whilst being reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b08tvj7f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listen from about 49 minutes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was phoned by the PM programme on Radio 4 at 4.40pm this afternoon and asked what I thought about requisitioning property for the people<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2017\/06\/19\/the-case-for-requisitioning-property-for-the-people-of-kensington\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}