so threatened iran not to make these kinds of criticism i mean it would be like the iranians claiming that the united states supported saddam hussein bombing iran and killing loads of iranians it's exactly like that and i'll tell you something else if it was the other way around washington would not hesitate to point the finger of blame towards iran if they had half a chance to do so if there be an atrocity in some other part of the world interesting also the drays of may has been meeting with the rouhani on the sidelines of the un u.k. and russia on the same side about the u.s. violation of the nuclear threat well that's right the u.s. is increasingly isolated on the global stage because everybody else involved in the iranian nuclear deal is still standing by it but washington's quite happy to bully and threaten the companies in the european union saying if you do business with iran you can't do business with us you've got to make your choice ok well ever since we were the labor conference but you've chosen a headline about your leader of the liberal democrats well let's give the lib dems

some jew as well the independent reports what do you call the lib dems climax gone horribly wrong that's right an exotic spread this is the liberal democrats who people still vote for in this country some vote for them their poll ratings kind of been a little bit but it is finale speech the current leader vince cable tried to use a phrase which was meant to bring the house down with humor and he was describing backstairs as having he was trying to say and erotic spasm but instead it came out as exotics present we began by talking about the state and he b.b.c.'s drama i'm not sure these saw one of their broadcasters telling jeremy corbyn the leader of western europe's largest labor movement to apologize to camera for being an anti c major something like that and the chance you can apologise for your leader well i'm going to break with that tradition and on behalf of vince cable and the lib dems i'd like to apologize for the leader's mistake but we all know of course it was caused by jeremy corbin. sure there was an apology and the labor party deny any of

those accusations have it over thank you. now to the gren fell fire tragedy one of the toughest challenges to prime minister tourism a's leadership though she has instituted an inquiry an alleged ultimatum has just been given to survivors joining me is labor councillor from the royal borough of kensington and chelsea. councillor thanks for coming back on the program let's start with the letter what do you advise grunfeld survivors threatened with losing their council tenancies apparently i've seen text of the letter and i've seen what emma dent called the labor m.p. for kenton to set about it when she wrote to kim taylor smith a climate of fear. fear and saying it's absolutely disgraceful that these people should be forced to to choose and kim to list with as written but you know he's a deadly different housing and property and he's obviously got the brief for a grand film he said in response to him event code that we will not force anyone to give up their homes against their will and the thirty to the thirtieth of september

decision required make a decision by is not a hard deadline so now there is no story or towards a scare tactic by people of the left in your council to make out that there's some lack of humanity here with part of the democratic here that the council of the rich is more and this is that this is a tale of two realities so you've got the leadership team making decisions about what will happen in the home and a whole plethora of different field services on the ground including this you've got kim taylor smith making decisions about when people move reasonable from the move and all the rest of it but actually i'm on the ground the survivors the m.p.'s the councils for the grenfell tell us that actually what the leadership team and compel a smith think they are deciding is not actually happening on the ground what about the prime minister then mrs may said these people should be c. weeks after the fall remember she had no idea what she was talking about we were all aghast some in the government she didn't concern. the council for telling

everyone they would of course not the leadership of the council told me. the first they had about it was when she said on the in the house of commons that on the t.v. screens they were just making up anything to get past this but get back to this letter the people who are being. forced to move from hotels and so on because it's costing us a lot of money to keep those people into into tendencies i talked to a survivor just three days ago who told me that some of the reasons why people can't actually move when they're being forced to move he said that repairs needed to properties residents are expected to move back into in one case the house the person was meant to move back into had no floating but they're still expected to move back into it and the other big issue is that mrs made don't forget said that those people and they could endlessly said it was survivors other people will be able to whichever properties that move into they will stay on the. twenty four

thousand housing rights should a secure tendencies which gave better rights than the well if you've already got a few more to go on a shoot as your tenancy you wouldn't lose them unless you signed up on your tendency so now if you survive or are some of the people from the walkway blocks and you as the walkway blocks around lee. and others as well if you're going to sign a new tenancy imagine how difficult that is because the incoming landlords and housing associations want to sign up affordable rent tenancy is twenty fourteen housing act but but the people who are going into those i've been assured that that will not happen in the same rents the same conditions the same tendencies and that's that's that's a big problem that's holding men in the muck as well the other thing is that many i was told that many of the grenfell walkway blocks the blocks right below the tower are still not decent holmes standards some of them are still patrolled by fire warden so this would go. one thousand

a month of course would suggest that there's still a fire risk so how would you move people out one is using a letter like this then there's the data that is his best problem that what we house is still being cleared of his best by professional companies so that residents think it's unsafe to move in and sort of the legal people and then the whole civil fabric of the lancaster west. and the walkways is about to begin so actually going to have to decant people from that state any way they want to move people back into an estate they're going to be the counting from anyway so there's a whole plethora of. yes that's a council phrase because you might call it social cleansing but what they're saying is there's no point in moving people back into those blocks when a woman is going to take place where the people have to move out you're going to stay on the council and the present us budget is overspent at the moment by eighteen million and every week those people are in hotels where they don't move into accommodation cost the council more money the eighteen million of you talked about the government the council of hoping to get some of that back from the front

from the government but nobody knows from month to month to month they actually said in the in a meeting the other day at the leadership team meeting of the eighteen million some of it may or may not be covered by an exit government grant so they may get it they may not be vast the heads of department go back and try and create a budget plan for next year that covers some of that money and i said well actually i hope you know that a cut frontline services in the car rental services the council is effectively bust compared to what it was before twenty seven times it was rich it was about how do you operate at a three hundred million. every year of going down to like ten million. eighteen million in the red on the. on this year's budget to create a bottom requirement of six hundred million which we haven't all spent so the councils in a difficult situation and they're reacting day by day to what's happening on the ground we've gone to get them and they said that the lesser is fair and that no one will be homeless without getting into the minutia of the changes in housing acts

under the coalition government. do you think there's something ideological at play here with a lot of the talks about a council tenancy is because obviously one of the great tory projects has been reducing the number of houses accountable to local government i mean we've got thirty years of house building we've now got ten years of cameron government putting back on housing benefit support cutting benefits we've got a stat at the. program at work in britain but it's hitting the putus the hardest which the wage levels are at the same rate they went up two thousand and seven we've got people living from hand to mouth these are some of the poorest people so even if the council wants to house people that they are truncated by this by the system but on the other hand i mean you mention the shortfall in what used to be one of the richest burrs in terms of funding we heard one shadow cabinet minister. saying in liverpool talking about councils boring money to pay

for those essential services you don't think the way your a councillor that should happen to get even jealousy to has. been there is the greatest sympathy on what well they didn't do i mean they spent doing them thirty five million to twenty of the twenty seven file allocated for either buying housing buying out the lease holders of things about fifty six seventeen lease holders and to make deals with housing associations and so on you got no money from westminster additional where did the they did get money yeah they did a lot that was covered by by government grants dwindled as time went on and they borrowed the six hundred million bottoming requirement so they have had to borrow without that probably would collapse basically the government made huge promises after the pharmacist may sit up in the commons and said anything that the councils wanted it's a bit like the e.c.m. plotting across the country when they stood up i think it was said to javid stood up some point after everything was asked a check and said you know there was also submit available but of course it didn't still a hundred towns across the country with. clotting either up or i'm going to come

down but these. being battered senseless by static cuts from central government i wonder where the money will come from. so the council has had to battle that down to almost zero ten million is almost zero for this council there were wondering how they can get through the next year of budgeting without government support if they have to fund if they have to fund all of the costs that granville has cost the council would have sunk by now like a fountain shop but just finally and briefly new me israel youth ambassador for a local theatre group in kensington and chelsea told us that it's up to the community to step up to do council jobs i know you are a councillor you know whether you know they have to do your job as well until all of this is sorted out is it really up to the communities of the poorest areas of the richest bar in europe to sort things out for themselves well they did do after the fire they did it for nearly a year after the fire and some of the still doing it community volunteers who

didn't get a penny. and in fact were were from the pond by the council and not seen as legit by the incumbent workers so they had to do what they shouldn't have to do i mean there's vast amounts of money gets spent on these services they shouldn't have to do it i mean everywhere you look to do what renfield is lines and lines of services whether it's counselling or mental health or community services i mean you only have to go online you'll see that so they shouldn't have to do it why should they have to do it of course they should enough to do it mason thank you thank you that's it for the show we're back on saturday when we exclusively interview an inmate beside a british prison about the rise in suicides drug use and violence to be judged by social media as he was a big twenty seven years since president bill clinton cia back to. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the

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