From the Kensington and Hammersmith Times:
Tenants of a tight-knit housing estate threatened with demolition are fuming over incendiary comments made by the Council's housing chief about "ghettoes" that can be "full of fear and paranoia." Councillor Rock Feilding-Mellen, lead for planning policy and housing policy, made the comments as tensions over Kensington Housing Trust's (KHT) plans to demolish Wornington Green Estate reached boiling point at the Kensington and Chelsea council meeting on January 20.
A Labour activist from that part of town points out to me that K&C leader Merrick Cockell was on the guest list for the semi-legendary Stephen Greenhalgh-Localis round table discussion about Hamersmith and fulham's radical Decent Neighbourhoods regeneration programme. I'd point out that Tory politicians should be careful with that "ghetto" talk: it risks giving the people you insist you're trying to help the idea that, deep down, you don't think they really deserve it.
