DARK FORCES CAPTURE KENSINGTON LABOUR: THE LIES OF THE EXTREMIST FACTION

This comment has been escalated due to its pertinence. As usual, THINK has written a forensic piece about the KLP people behind the smearing and lies. It's an important read if you want a deep analysis.

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Some recent comments about both the planning situation of the Chelsea Sutton Estate and the character of Ian Henderson himself are so off-beam that it is difficult to know where to start :

1. The vast majority of the Sutton Estate was NOT listed before Ian's campaign began. All the rest of Chelsea was already safe with 'Conservation Area' status but the Council had colluded with 'social' landlord Clarion to neglect & then knock down the estate, built originally to house the poor of Chelsea. If you look at the plans submitted & recommended by officers, it was intended to build a nasty new development FOR SALE  (marketed to overseas Eurotrash with no links to the area) 

Clarion would then have been free to spend the millions it received from the development in modernising its estates elsewhere in the country and rewarding its overpaid executives for sacrificing the working-class community of Chelsea for their own gain. What few replacement 'social housing units which were to be provided to give cover for the sell-off of the historic Sutton Estate were all pokey and North facing ( so poor that they could not have been sold on the open market). 

In saving the historic and architecturally significant Sutton Estate , Ian Henderson performed a huge public service for which future generations should thank him ( lt is a crying shame that the only recognition that Ian has received was a third rate BEM gong- when actually a knighthood would not have been more appropriate )
2/ As for the unfounded slurs about Ian's character that have now once again been stirred up by 'the forces of darkness' in North Kensington,these are from the same source that spread rumours that former Cllr Judith Blakeman was an alcoholic,  former Cllr. Atkinson enjoyed cocaine during Council meetings and former Cllr. Healy was not only housebound but senile. There is not, and never has been, an ounce of truth in those colourful allegations but they served to break up the effective Labour Group and local branches of North Kensington Labour Party that served the borough for decades.
Luckily, led by Joe Powell & Monica Press, the Kensington Labour Party had been saved from itself. The 'Forces of Darkness' have been comprehensively defeated and, except for a few pathetic and ineffective Councillors who will cling to office till the next round of Councillor selections, been driven out of the Party and public life.
At the General Election, both Kensington and Chelsea stand poised to elect sane, effective and conscientious Labour Members of Parliament who will at last give the whole of the Borough a political leadership worthy of our magnificent Royal Borough.