Cllr Diarmaid Ward

• ANOTHER divisive tweet went out from Cllr Diarmaid Ward on June 1 when he tweeted his thought for the day, “Protests against the building of council homes are invariably spearheaded by those who are more than adequately housed. I can say hand on heart that I have never had an objection to council home building from a homeless person. Enough said.”

I do not know where to begin with this disappointing, misleading and disingenuous statement.

Is Cllr Ward saying that a person who doesn’t have a home cannot care about the environment? And that people who have homes cannot care about the housing and the dire lack of it? Or that people in homes cannot care about the homeless?

I am a member of the Labour Party, I have worked as a support worker, and I support the saving of trees and improving the environment for everyone.

I do not object to the building of new council homes; however I do object to the destruction of mature trees to make way for private dwellings. And I do not support the misleading tweets coming from my Labour council.

TERESA
Upper Street, N1