This guide helps small businesses that have chosen to register for an AUSkey authentication credential to access the Business Portal and use the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House (SBSCH).
If you already have an AUSkey, go straight to Step 4 and log in to the Business Portal. If you've forgotten your AUSkey password you'll need to register for a new AUSkey. Passwords cannot be reset.
The first person of an ABN to register for an AUSkey will need to be an eligible associate of the ABN as listed in the Australian Business Register (such as an owner or director) and will need to register for an Administrator AUSkey to access the SBSCH.
Once you have obtained the Administrator AUSkey, you can then register someone else (such as a staff member) for a Standard AUSkey that they can use to access the Business Portal and use the SBSCH.
Go to: Register for an AUSkeyExternal Link on the abr.gov.au website.
your full legal name, date of birth, an email address that only you have access to and your personal tax file number (TFN).
Once the application is submitted, you'll receive an activation code and reference number on the screen. Print or save this page as it's needed to activate the AUSkey. The reference number is handy if you need any help with the registration.
An email will then be sent to you with instructions on how to install and activate the AUSkeyExternal Link on a computer or a USB.
In the AUSkey activation email you have received, click on the link to Install your AUSkey to your computer. The link will check if you have the required software already installed on your computer. If not, it will take you to a page where you can download the right software for your browser and operating system.
Once you have installed the software, close your web browser. Return to your AUSkey activation email and click on the activation link again. If you already have the software installed on your computer the link will take you to activate your AUSkey.
If the software is not automatically recognised or enabled in the browser, refer to the General Installation Guide for AUSkey Software and Browser extensionExternal Link.
In the AUSkey activation email, click on the Install your AUSkey to your computer link. This time the link will take you to the Install AUSkey page. Follow the prompts to activate your AUSkey.
enter a password for your AUSkey.
If you have any problems with registering or setting up an AUSkey, troubleshooting advice is available under the help and support tabExternal Link of the abr.gov.au website.
enter https://bp.ato.gov.auExternal Link as the address in your browser.
When logging in to the Business Portal, the Authentication Service screen will display. Select your AUSkey from the list, enter your AUSkey password and select Continue to access the portal.
The SBSCH is located in the Manage Employees menu of the Business Portal. This can be found on the left hand side menu.
A new page displays that includes the link to the SBSCH. Click on this link to enter the SBSCH.
If you are unable to see the SBSCH in the Business Portal, you may need to check your settings under the Access Manager menu item.
Everyone who needs to access the Business Portal will need their own AUSkey. If you're an associate of business and would like to authorise someone (such as a staff member) to act on behalf of your business, you can grant them authorisation using AUSkey ManagerExternal Link. This process registers your staff member for a standard AUSkey.
Full Administrator access to act on behalf of the business (as per the previous steps).
The full legal name of the person you wish to register.
Their email address. Ensure this is up-to-date, and that the person being authorised can access that email account.
Log in to AUSkey ManagerExternal Link using your AUSkey credential.
Go to Register new AUSkey and fill in the details.
Select the Standard AUSkey checkbox.
Confirm the details you've entered are correct.
You'll receive a message confirming that your application has been submitted.
An AUSkey activation email will then sent to your staff member with instructions on how to install and activate the AUSkeyExternal Link on their computer or USB. They then activate their AUSkey using the same instructions outlined in Step 2 and Step 3.
After the person you're authorising has finished setting up the AUSkey you'll need to set their permissions using Access Manager.
Log in to the Business PortalExternal Link.
Click on the Access manager menu item.
Use your Administrator AUSkey credential to log in to Access Manager.
Under Access and permissions, select the name of the person you want to assign permissions for.
Under the ATO Transactions section, next to Small Business Super Clearing House make a selection to Lodge and/or View. Select Save.
Access and permissions – more information on authority levels in Access Manager.
A step-by-step guide to help small businesses register for an AUSkey and use it to securely access the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House (SBSCH) in the Business Portal.


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Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama claims that his statement about Albania and Kosovo having a common president was "taken out of context."
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Rama also said he would not be "calming anyone down" - and added that if someone was worried, "let them worry."
"The EU's reaction in this respect was normal and in line with its policy. It was nothing but pure imagination," Rama told a local television, the agency ATA reported.
Addressing the Kosovo Assembly last Sunday, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence, Rama presented the idea of Albania and Kosovo having a common foreign and security policy, and electing one president.
This statement caused strong criticism in Serbia, with one cabinet minister suggesting the Albanian prime minister should be declared a persona non grata. Not everyone in Kosovo was thrilled with this idea, either, with some describing it as an insult to the residents of Kosovo and to the effort to join the EU.
The EU reacted as well."Statements that can be judged as political interference in neighboring countries do not help in building good neighborly relations. The European Union expects all countries to continue constructive and cooperative relations," European Commission spokesperson Catherine Ray said.
"Nothing is over or ruled out when it comes to the resolve of the Kosovo issue"
Grenell brings America's request, Vucic has a condition?
Vucic and Djukanovic discussed in Israel the position of Serbian people in Montenegro
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Albanian police have confiscated 613 kilograms of cocaine that arrived in the country in a land hidden among bananas shipped from Colombia.
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Bosnia must be united on road to EU - Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker told both houses of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH that it was necessary for all political sides to unite on the road to the EU.
Serbia-Croatia-Bosnia meeting announced for next week
A meeting will be held next week between the presidents of Serbia and Croatia and the members of the tripartite Presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH).
Thousands protest in Skopje against Macedonia name change
Several thousand people gathered in Skopje to protest against the change of the name of Macedonia, Macedonian media reported.
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PM wants Macedonia's new name to be translated into English
Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has dismissed as unfounded Greek claims that Macedonia has territorial pretensions towards Greece.
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US embassy attacker didn't blow himself up - police
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Slovenian president responds to criticism from Belgrade
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Macron: I'll engage myself in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue
"We've waited for 24 hours; we'll know what to do"
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Wind Creek Casino
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Monroeville is a city in Monroe County, Alabama, United States, the county seat of Monroe County. At the 2010 census its population was 6,519.It is known as the hometown of two prominent writers of the post-World War II period, Truman Capote and Harper Lee, who were childhood friends in the 1930s. Lee's 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, earned her the Pulitzer Prize. The lasting fame of To Kill a Mockingbird became a tourist draw for the town. In 1997, the Alabama Legislature designated Monroeville and Monroe County as the Literary Capital of Alabama.
1. Edmund Pettus Bridge Selma
2. Fairhope Municipal Pier Fairhope
Fairhope is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, United States, on a sloping plateau, along the cliffs and shoreline of Mobile Bay. The 2010 census lists the population of the city as 15,326. Fairhope is a principal city of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley micropolitan area, which includes all of Baldwin County. In 2016, Fairhope was named the best small town in the South by Southern Living magazine.
3. Foley Railroad Museum Foley
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Top 10 worst towns in Alabama. #1 is a bigfoot hotspot.
Today's list we will take a look at some of the worst towns in Alabama. Every state has them so let's take a look. I hope you enjoy.
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Welcome to Camden, Alabama
Camden is the county seat fo Wilcox County. The first county seat was in the community of Canton Bend. It was moved to Barboursville, later renamed Camden, in 1833. Located in Camden, you will find many historic structures, including some beautiful home. This video shows some of the historic sites that you will find in Camden. For details about these and other sites in Camden, visit
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Peterman, Alabama, a small southern railroad town, is located approximately 7 miles north of Monroeville close to the intersection of Alabama Highways 21/47 and Monroe County Road 30. I did not know anything about Peterman except that my map showed that I had to go through it to get to Burnt Corn, Alabama. But the minute we drove into Peterman, we knew we had found a treasure.
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Corporate guests will appreciate that JFK Airport is seven miles away, and LaGuardia Airport is twelve miles from our Lynbrook hotel. The Lynbrook and Rockville Centre business districts, Molloy College, Hofstra University, Rexcorp Plaza and Doar Litigation Consulting are all within six miles of our choice hotel in Lynbrook-Rockville Centre, NY. Business travelers can also take advantage of the 24-hour business center with copy, mail and fax services.
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Delux Designs (DE) founder and head designer Keara Douglas has leveled up to Leader to start off our 2018 year with Global Citizen! Keara was granted the opportunity to join this wonderful organization last year to bring awareness to current world wide issues and causes. Since the beginning of her membership, she has taken hundreds of actions to help those who need it in various countries around the world! Global Citizen mission is to build the largest possible movement of global citizens taking action to solve the world's biggest challenges.


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The decision to write The Quark and the Jaguar
The voice of scientists in the public arena (Part 2)
Murray Gell-Mann	Scientist
181. Information overload. A crude look at the whole (Part 2) 279 04:49
182. Conservation. The MacArthur Foundation 237 02:48
183. The World Resources Institute. Policy studies, climate change 234 02:13
184. The World Environment and Resources Committee 2 179 02:48
185. Other work with the MacArthur Foundation 183 01:28
186. Serving on presidential advisory Committees 1 201 02:09
187. The work of PCAST and PSAC 165 04:09
188. The voice of scientists in the public arena (Part 1) 1 253 00:59
190. The decision to write The Quark and the Jaguar 508 02:57
In the old days individual scientists, many of them, presented their work to the public, to the interested lay public themselves. That became much less frequently the case during several decades and the job was left to science reporters and popularizers, some of whom are very clever and very good, but most of the work I think was not very good. And now, fortunately, it's becoming popular for scientists to do their own popularizing. Again, I think that's very good and I've tried to do it a little bit in my book…
[Q] Yes, well then what I'd like to talk about now a little bit is your book. You spent some years recently writing a book...
…and I think we can play something of a role in… as intermediaries in trying to extract some knowledge, understanding, wisdom, or at least to present some for the public… for the interested lay public.
New York-born physicist Murray Gell-Mann (1929-2019) was known for his creation of the eightfold way, an ordering system for subatomic particles, comparable to the periodic table. His discovery of the omega-minus particle filled a gap in the system, brought the theory wide acceptance and led to Gell-Mann's winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1969.
Title: The voice of scientists in the public arena (Part 2)
Listeners: Geoffrey West
Geoffrey West is a Staff Member, Fellow, and Program Manager for High Energy Physics at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is also a member of The Santa Fe Institute. He is a native of England and was educated at Cambridge University (B.A. 1961). He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1966 followed by post-doctoral appointments at Cornell and Harvard Universities. He returned to Stanford as a faculty member in 1970. He left to build and lead the Theoretical High Energy Physics Group at Los Alamos. He has numerous scientific publications including the editing of three books. His primary interest has been in fundamental questions in Physics, especially those concerning the elementary particles and their interactions. His long-term fascination in general scaling phenomena grew out of his work on scaling in quantum chromodynamics and the unification of all forces of nature. In 1996 this evolved into the highly productive collaboration with James Brown and Brian Enquist on the origin of allometric scaling laws in biology and the development of realistic quantitative models that analyse the influence of size on the structural and functional design of organisms.
Tags: science reporters
Date story recorded: October 1997
Date story went live: 29 September 2010


This is an exceptional story. It's good to see Harry powerful yet humane. I have to admire that you've made Luna into a force to be reckoned with.
is there going to be amother part in the wizard's fall universe?
Why is Hermione stopping Harry and the gang from destroying Bumbles, the ICW, and all the rest of the brownshirts and their Kristallnacht supporters.
At this point exactly how were things worse under Moldie?
So, I'm a bit unclear. Was this part 3 1/2?
So, quick question. IS this IV in the series... or is the new story 'down the rabbit hole'? Or is this more like III.V?
Your H/Hr stories are pretty much the pinnacle of this ship in fan fiction, please come back to it when you're done with Mutant Storm!
I went ahead and read all the stories in this prior to reviewing. They were all quite good, but I'm uncertain if it was better to cover a summary in the first, and then details in the others, since some of the suspense may have been lost. Additionally, some of the actions Harry did in the first made less sense, without the backstory in the others. Regardless, this series was excellent work. Thanks for sharing it.
Poor Luna. I definitely think your Luna is in character, and that is why she is my favorite character.
This also reminds me of a little one shot I read, in which there is an unwritten law that Lovegoods can do whatever they want, because bad things happen when you interfere with them.
You know what's better than a donut by itself? A glazed donut with hot chocolat or a glass of milk.
Well, I hope my review is as good as a chocolate cake donut then, *grins.
There are very few authors who pull of H/Hr that I like-and you are top of those few. L/H/Hr is quite favorable though and Im interested in seeing how you put them together... Also, the Fred/George quartet i really like.
Harry seems to have the right idea and it might save innocent lives. Will Luna find her soul mate in Harry/Herms? It can't be Zabini or else she would have known at Hoggy.
Need more Victoria, Puff, and Gabby.
The Wizards Fall series was highly entertaining. How do we bribe you for more? It seems that I am dead curious about what you would have the Norman's Cay colony doing during their slowed-down down time. And how you would have them repopulate the Wizarding World - er - as in the reintegration of Wizards outside of Norman's Cay or any other little bubbles of magic that might have also have been hiding when Luna's Revenge swept the through the world.
So, how do we get you to write a final installation or two?
hi i'm just a lowly reader BEGGING for the next installment of wizards fall.... maby when herm's preggers and luna wants to get preg..
I love your Wizards Fall series, and am looking forward to more as you flesh out all the wonderful characters on the island (and have a few more luaus!) You've been intriguingly vague so far about the relationship between Luna, Hermione and Harry, a little (but not enough for me!) more explicit about the twins, Alicia and Angelina. I'd really like to know more about Amos and Angie and their antipathy towards each other - more scenes with them would be a bonus! You could do so much with these characters, and I look forward to reading more about them as time goes by.
Okeey! Now that was a real trip!Bye the way, Llamas spit more than they fart - and that's the last time I'll say it!!!!
WOW. I'm really looking forward to the 'rest of the story'. I couldn't put Wizards Fall down, or stop reading. Excellent story.
Definately looking forward to the next installments to see how you develop the Harry/Hermione/Luna relationship and what whacky things they do to put a thorn in the side of the ICW.
I know we got the general outline in the first installment, but there are a bunch of little things that you could have them do. And with minds like yours, I look forward to the madness.


The Murraylands' Aboriginal people will be granted more power to determine how federal funding is spent under an initiative to be introduced next month.
The Ngarrindjeri nation is the first new community to join the Empowered Communities initiative since its formation five years ago, and only the ninth in Australia.
The program originated not with government, but with leaders from eight communities across the country – including prominent land rights advocate Noel Pearson, of Cape York – who developed a framework for tackling disadvantage by empowering Aboriginal people to address it.
Meetings are currently being held across the region to let Aboriginal organisations and the broader community know about the initiative and how they can contribute to it.
After that will be a series of round-table forums where anyone can identify community needs and service gaps, shaping a list of first priorities to be addressed over the next three years.
The priorities which emerge in those discussions will be advocated for by the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority, and given a 75 per cent weighting in determining where federal Indigenous advancement strategy funding should go.
The priority list will be published on October 30 at an Empowered Communities community event, to which the likes of Mr Pearson and federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion have been invited.
Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority chairperson Derek Walker said there were significant differences between a community like Cape York and the Murraylands, but that lessons learned there could still apply here.
"We're really excited about the opportunity," he said.
It was not just about Aboriginal-operated organisations such as Moorundi and the Raukkan Community Council either, Mr Walker said, but about government and non-profit organisations which provided services to Aboriginal people.
"For the first time we'll be able to direct resources around where we're going to get the biggest bang for our buck," he said.
He hoped to visit Redfern, in Sydney, and the New South Wales Central Coast to see first-hand what had been achieved there.
But the success of the initiative would be determined by the willingness of Aboriginal organisations and community members to get involved, NRA engagement coordinator Bill Wilson said.
"Our mob will need to vote with their feet to say what are our priorities, what are our needs going forward?" he said.


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Wolff, Joseph
Christian Missionary and Traveller (1795-1862)
Who visited the Punjab in 1832, was born of Jewish parents at Weilersbach, near Bamberg (West Germany). He was coverted to Christianity in 1812. He studied oriental languages at Cambridge. Between. 1821 and 1826, he travelled as a missionary in Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula. His travels onwards brought him to the Punjab. As he crossed the River Indus into the Sikh territory, he was given hearty welcome, twentyone guns being fired in his honour. A daily ziafat (banquet) of Rs. 250, twenty pots of sweetmeat and linen to make twenty shirts was provided for him. At Rawalpindi, he was put up in the camp of Kharak Singh, heir apparent to the throne of the Punjab.
At Gujrat, he stayed with the governor of the town, Dr Josiah Harlan, an American, and at Wazirabad, with General Avitabile, an Italian serving Ranjit Singh. In Lahore, taking up his abode with General Allard, one of the French officers, Dr Wolff issued proclamations, which were posted in the streets, calling on the nations to turn to the Christ. For this he received from the Sikh sovereign a polite letter of disapprobation in which he said that he had read his proclamations, adding that " such words must neither be said nor heard." The Sikh sovereign who had been following his travels through continual reports, received him in audience in Amritsar and overwhelmed him with his customary wit and banter. He told his visitor that he had been preaching that people should put their trust in the Creator. He asked him why he was not preaching to the English in Hindustan "who have no religion at all." He told Dr Wolff ironically that one way of coming near God was by making an alliance with the British government and that he had ensured this for himself by having a meeting at Ropar with the " Lard Nawab Sahib" (the Governor-General, Lord William Bentinck). Ranjit Singh's native power of persiflage showed to great advantage on this occasion.
Dr Wolff wrote a book entitled The Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff which was published in London in 1861. His account of the Punjab and its people, however, suffers from a high tone of Occidental superiority and religious bias.
Dr Wolff died at his Somerset Vicarage on 2 May 1862.
Source: TheSikhEncyclopedia.Com
Wilkins, Sir Charles


Another instalment in a very occasional series which looks at a year in the life of radical community newspaper Hackney People's Press. We last saw HPP in 1975, with a focus on health, Hackney Mental Patients Union and lots more.
A demand by the Hackney Nursery Campaign for More Nurseries – "There are 4000 children under five years old in Hackney whose parents both work (or in the case of single parent families, whose one parent is at work). To cater for this immense need, there are 379 Council day nursery places at the moment…" the campaign emerged from discussions between Hackney Under Fives, Council nursery workers and the women's subcommittee of the Trades Council.
Speed up long term plans for purpose built nurseries.
This was to be an ongoing issue and was part of the reason for the emergence of radical nurseries such as Dalston Children's Centre in the early eighties.
Unfortunately landlords are very much still with us 41 years later, so this sort of campaigning is still sorely needed. Luckily we have Hackney Renters to take up the gauntlet.
Homerton Project: new life in and old library – A centrespread on plans for a community centre being developed in the old library building on Brooksby's Walk. The old library had been closed in 1974 when the new library opened (it's still there on Homerton High Street). The Citizens Advice Bureau had been using the old library building but the article mentions an impressive array of plans for educational, social and cultural activities. Many of these did actually take place as the old library reopened as Chats Palace later in 1976.
Things hot up in July with an expanded 12 pages.
In the general election of 1974, NF candidates received 1044 votes in Hackney North and 2544 in Hackney South and Shoreditch (the latter being almost 10% of the vote). After this they announced that fascist grandee John Tyndall would stand for MP in Hackney at the next election (which he did in 1979, with reduced vote share of 7.6%).
Four hundred local trade unionists and anti-racists marched through Hoxton (taking in the market and Derrick Day's house). There was a small NF counter protest which stuck to shouting racist slogans.
You can read the full article by clicking on the image above. There was a lot more work to do. In 1978, the National Front opened its headquarters, Excalibur House at 73 Great Eastern Street in Shoredtich.
Pollution: The Socialist Answer – a report on the inaugural meeting of the Socialist Environment and Resources Association.
Bad Deal for Backward Kids – a slightly excruciatingly worded article by today's standards, but obviously well meaning. Cuts to resources and bad planning at the new "Educationally Subnormal School" at Nile Street in Hoxton.
Broadway Market Is Not A Sinking Ship – It's A Submarine – attempts by squatters and other locals to reclaim some waste ground opposite Brougham Road and Brook Road which was due for redevelopment by the GLC. The hope was that the space could be turned into an adventure playground.
Highway Robbery on the Buses – fares go up, even though there are less buses. A mixed bag of proposals including mention of the Italian "autoreduction" campaign in which unions issued passes to passengers at the old prices, which were endorsed by drivers. Less excitingly there is also talk of trade councils passing resolutions and sending letters of complaint to the London Transport Executive.
And: Health cutbacks and closures, Claimants Union, appeal to rebuild a hospital in Ky Anh Vietnam to treat victims of the war, listings, Hackney Marsh Fun Festival.
Themes from previous issues continue- cuts to health services, unemployment up, nursery provision down, benefits claimants get a poor deal.
Workers Sacked for Striking – The Psychiatric Rehabilitation Centre was a Hackney based organisation that helped "ex-mental patients find their feet in society". Its staff had a number of grievances with the trustees, including no written contracts or pay scales, no grievance procedure, poor communication, etc. They unionised and were about to strike when they were dismissed. There is an account of a discussion with PRA Director John Wilder and some rebuttals to his account from workers. The PRA became the Centre for Better Health in 2010 and is now based on Darnley Road off Mare Street.
The End of the Line for Hackney? – redevelopment of Liverpool Street station including office blocks. Also some proposals for more stations and their impact on the local community.
Hackney Committee Against Racialism reports on canvassing local residents, removing NF graffiti and demanding that the Council ban fascists from using public property to pedal racialism including markets. Gay centres in Shoredtich and Finsbury Park were vandalised by fascists and a Labour Party anti-fascist canvasser was beaten up near Manor House.
Occupation of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in central London.
Health Hierarchy – a more analytical piece about the power imbalance in the NHS and calls for more democratic control.
Hackney Abortion Campaign and the effect of the cuts on women.
GLC Tenants in Slum Housing: conditions on the Pembury Estate: "whole blocks of flats empty, boarded up, vandalised and left to decay. One block, Adisham House, has been empty for three years." Also general disrepair for flats which are occupied – by residents which the article notes are primarily BME, squatters or former squatters.
People Before Roads – opposition to a new road from Hackney Wick to Highbury.
Also – opposition to education cuts, campaign against Dublin anarchists Noel and Marie Murray being hanged for robbing a bank, Regents Canal – a new walk in Hackney, Friends of the Earth forms, Half Moon Theatre, Hackney Women's Aid asking for furniture etc for new premises, Gingerbread (assistance for single parents) plea for donations.
This pamphlet was produced by Hackney Communist Party, probably in 1937 – prior to the London County Council elections that year. This page in the Amiel Melburn Trust Internet Archive suggests that similar pamphlets were produced for 28 London boroughs.
1937 was twenty years after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and one year into the Spanish Civil War. But there is a disappointing lack of revolutionary zeal (or even mention of communism) in the text below – the focus is on critical support for the Labour Party and commendable bread and butter working class issues like health, housing and wages instead. This is partly down to Lenin, whose "Left Wing" Communism – An Infantile Disorder encouraged British communists to work with the Labour Party rather than taking a hardline extra-parliamentary position as suggested by Sylvia Pankhurst and others.
So, whilst the General Strike of 1926 gets a mention, the Battle of Cable Street which had taken place in the previous year does not – even in the section on combatting fascism.
Some of the demands have resonances with today – landlords exploiting tenants with high rents and poor conditions, a lack of social housing or affordable childcare, poor people struggling to make ends meet etc.
All the Hackney constituencies and Stoke Newington (which was then a separate borough) returned Labour councillors in the 1937 elections.
Bob Darke's disaffection from the Hackney CP in the 1950s.
A Hackney Communist Party banner from 1952.
Of related interest is a look at Lenin in Hackney.
The full text of the pamphlet follows below. I have amended some of the grammar, particularly some hyphenation that annoyed me. Scans of the original text are included too – you can click on the images to see a bigger version.
If anyone has a copy of Communist Plan for Life in Stoke Newington, please get in touch!
Hackney's nearness to the City of London has influenced its development from a country manor to a suburban town and finally to a part of London. With the growth of the City of London and the rise in influence of city merchants we see a change taking place also in Hackney. The ownership of Hackney passes from the landed aristocracy into the hands of the city merchants, with the result that [in] about 1700 Mr. Tyssen, one of the merchants, became the Lord of the Manor. Today, descendants of this Mr. Tyssen still own large parts of Hackney. Among other large landowners of Hackney today are of course the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, St. Thomas' Hospital Estate and the Spurstowe Trust.
With the growth of London we see workshops and factories rising in Hackney. Among the earliest known industries in Hackney were paint, and boot and shoe manufacturing, and as industry developed, so did working class activity! Hackney played its part in the famous Chartist Movement. Our workers providing a fair quota of Chartists, while the Lord of the Manor and his brother helped the Government to organise special constables in the attempt to prevent the demonstration of April 10, 1848. But this demonstration did meet – and elected delegates to present to Parliament the famous "Six Point Charter", claiming political rights for the workers.
The working people of Hackney were among the pioneers in the trade union organisation, some of London's oldest trade union branches being in Hackney. Just as in the past, so today the people of Hackney are in front wherever there is a need to defend the people's rights. They actively participated in the General Strike in 1926. They helped the miners both morally and financially. They assisted the famous Hunger March in 1934 by providing shelter to the Tyneside marchers. There isn't a single working-class activity in London from which the workers of Hackney are absent.
Growing industry and the rise of factories and workshops have changed Hackney from an area of open spaces to a densely built-up town. It has also brought a big rise in the population. In 1807 there were, in Hackney, four persons per acre, whilst now we have an average of 64.5 persons per acre! This growth has been chaotic and unplanned, causing very serious hardships for the workers and people of Hackney. It is the object of the Hackney Communist Party to discuss some of the more important questions concerning the life of the people in Hackney, and to give some positive proposals for the solution of these questions.
Win Better Factory Conditions !
There are many other factories, particularly in tailoring, where conditions are absolutely appalling. Speed-up is the predominant factor in production, and the conveyor belt, known among the workers as the " chain-gang," is in operation. Labour [i.e. the workers] is mainly juvenile owing to its cheapness, one particular factory connected with Hector Powe [tailors] has been a source of grievance not only to the workers in the factory but to the clothing workers in general.
A large number of factories have sprung up in the last few years in the Hackney Wick area where trade union organisation hardly exists and juvenile labour is predominant. The conditions are such that last year we had strikes taking place at Ingrarns, Bouts Tillotson, Morris's, Bloom & Phillips, and other factories. Only complete trade union and shop organisation can secure improvement. Every year a large number of young people are crippled through accidents whilst working without proper protection. This barbaric system could be prevented if an adequate number of factory inspectors were maintained.
Whilst the conditions of the workers in factories are very bad, the conditions of 'the workers who subcontract out and take the work home is far worse. This out-work is largely seasonal and even at the height of the season very few earn a decent wage for a working week of anything up to 100 hours. According to the Medical Officer of Health's Annual Report for 1936 there are 1,565 out-workers in Hackney. These are on the register, but in reality this number can safely be doubled. Apart from the large factories and workshops there are, of course, a very large number of workshops employing a few workers each where exploitation is again very high, because of the lack of organisation.
Make the Transport Combines Give Us Better Travel!
Thousands of our workers have to travel long distances to work. Their life is made a bigger burden by the lack of trains, buses, and trains. In many cases they have a 10 or 20 minutes walk to get to one of these services and then they are invariably dangerously and unhealthily overcrowded.
The transport problem would not be difficult to solve were it not for the monopolist control by the London & North Eastern Railway and London Transport Board. These companies, anxious to maintain their profits, prevent any improvement being made in this vital service. The people of Hackney are entitled to better travelling facilities. This can be achieved by building an underground railway to the city, by adding more buses on existing services as well as by introducing new services where needed. There is now a favourable opportunity through the present extension of the underground railway from Liverpool Street to Woodford, passing through Bethnal Green, for Hackney to have a branch line giving speedy travel to the city and other parts of London.
(b) Unfit Houses. Out of 11,380 houses inspected for defects under the Public Health Act 5,067 were "found not in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation," and in addition there were 344 houses found to be in a state so dangerous or injurious to health as to be unfit for human habitation (suitable for demolition). 5,511 of 11,380 unfit for human habitation! If this is not bad we would like to know what bad housing conditions are!
The Labour Borough Council have made a good start, during the last three years they have cleared some of the blackest spots. Their 1935 Housing Programme provides for clearance of 31 acres containing 570 buildings and further clearance schemes are in hand. Compare this with. the Municipal Reform (Conservative) record. Their 1930 five-year programme provided for the clearance of 16 areas containing 277 buildings. The Labour Borough Council has built new flats at Clapton Common and Rossington Street. The new Hindle Street scheme provides for 205 flats to be built in blocks with perambulator and cycle sheds, also a communal laundry fitted with electric washing machines. A communal hall is provided for the use of residents. The rents of the Borough Council Flats compare very favourably with rents for private houses and they are much lower than those rents originally fixed by the Conservatives for their Council flats. For example the rents of the new Rossington Street flats are: 4s. 6d. one room; 7s. 6d. two room's; 10s. 6d. three rooms.
Rents today are too high. But now every tenant is threatened with rents actually being put up! For the Rent Restrictions Act, which protects tenants from profit-grabbing landlords ends early in 1938! This Act must be renewed, and extended to protect every working-class house. But will the landlords' National Government do this? Not unless the people themselves act, in support of our Council. Tenants' Defence Leagues in many parts of London have won better conditions from landlords. Hackney needs such a League, if the coming struggle for rent control is to be successful, and we urge our Borough Council, with other Boroughs, to bring immediate pressure on the National Government.
Increase your housing programme so as to provide houses not only to replace overcrowding and slums, but also to provide houses at reasonable rents for those thousands of workers who are forced to pay high rents to private landlords. The chief reason for the existence of these bad conditions is the blocking of housing plans by the landlords and their National Government. Our Labour Council, with a strong Labour Government behind it, could soon solve the problem of housing!
The Labour Borough Council have also improved the Public Health Services. In the face of bitter opposition not only from the local Conservatives, but also from the National Government, the Borough Council has some remarkable achievements to its credit. The result of improved health services is best seen in the death rate. In 1936 the Hackney Borough Council was able to record its lowest maternal death rate. Only four mothers died in childbirth, the rate being 1.2 per thousand, whilst the rate for England and Wales was 3.6. Similarly the infantile death rate reached its lowest point for Hackney in 1935, being 47 per thousand as compared with 58 per thousand for the County of London for the same year. The Labour Borough Council has built a new Child Welfare Centre in Richmond Road and is proposing to build two or three other centres. No doubt it would have done much more but for the policy of the National Government, which puts armaments before social services. For example, but for the Labour Borough Council's fight against the Ministry of Health, the Richmond Road Centre would not have been comparable with what it is today.
Though, as we have seen above, the Labour Borough Council has made a good beginning in this field, the Maternity and Child Welfare Centres are still, with one or two exceptions, inadequate in some ways. The centres are not open long enough to deal with the number of mothers attending for advice and help, and no privacy exists for consultations with the doctors, etc. We ask that the Borough Council build Welfare Centres (in spite of the obstructionist tactics of the National Government) in all areas, so as to be in reasonable reach of all mothers, and that no new housing estate be built without its own Welfare Centre.
Every year there are 3,000 babies born in Hackney. The majority of them are born of working-class parents whose mothers cannot afford to go into private nursing homes, and who are forced either to have their babies at home (often in already overcrowded premises) or seek confinement accommodation outside of our Borough. This is an intolerable position and we demand that a modern Maternity Hospital be built in Hackney. Our Borough is not a poor Borough; if we can afford to spend £250,000 for a new Town Hall, and also to spend £3,000 on Coronation decorations, and pay 5 per cent. interest on loans to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, surely we can afford to spend an appropriate sum for a Maternity Hospital.
Milk, the most essential body-building food, is absent from many homes in Hackney. It is too dear to buy. Many a mother cannot afford the price of 3 1/2 d. per pint, Yet milk is cheap for industrial purposes. More than 1d. out of 3 1/2 d. you pay goes to subsidise the manufacture of butter, cheese, chocolate and other milk products. These manufacturers get their supplies of milk as low 1/2 d. per pint. London's milk trade is dominated almost entirely by one huge company, the United Dairies. Over the past 10 years this company has netted nearly £6,000,000. The National Government protects the profits of these huge combines and with its armaments programme forces food prices to go up. The cost of living is rising every day and housewives find it more difficult to get enough, bread, let alone milk. The Communist Party urges the Borough Council to provide every child with at least one pint of milk daily. We ask the Borough Council to provide not only free milk, but also other nourishing foods and medicine to all necessitous mothers, ignoring the Means Test and all other restrictions. This can be done—make the National Government pay the bill. We must also insist that the policy of the Milk Board of cheap milk to industries and dear milk to workers should cease.
Higher and higher prices for food. More and more mothers unable to buy proper nourishment. All the more need to see that full powers are used to give our children cheap milk and free meals!
An adequate number of Day Nurseries is urgently needed. Hackney, with a population of over 200,000, has many thousands of working women who go out to work, and there is only one small Day Nursery. Even this nursery is a private concern, though subsidised by the Borough Council to the extent of £200 a year. Therefore we demand that Municipal Day Nurseries be established in every ward and every large housing estate. These nurseries must be staffed by competent and qualified persons.
The C.P. demands the raising of the school-leaving age to 16 years with adequate grants to parents. This would contribute to the solution of the problem of unemployment among youth.
Full opportunity-for every child of access to free education up to University standard.
Limitation of classes in accordance with the National Union of Teachers demands.
Provision of sufficient number of well-equipped modern schools, especially in areas where large new housing estates have been built.
Hands Of the Unemployment Fund ! Food Before Guns !
A 40-hour week for all workers. The Borough Council to give a lead to introduce this at once for municipal employees.
A fortnight's holiday for all with pay.
All the Borough Council building schemes to be carried out by direct labour under T.U. rates and conditions.
Full relief for unemployed at T.U. Congress scales: 20s. each adult, 10s. each dependant, 5s. each child, and full relief for single men and women.
Abolition of the Means Test.
The Means Test was introduced as a means of economy in 1931 by the National Government; the Unemployed Fund has accumulated a surplus of £60 million. The war-mongers' Government is after this money in order to use it for its arms programme. The C.P. declares that this money belongs to the unemployed and it must be used to increase the scales of relief, particularly in view of the rapidly rising cost of living.
But not with the Food Prices Rocketing!
The cost of living has risen so much that a pound buys less than 57 shillings did a year ago! Meat, bacon, flour, butter, bread, tea, milk—all are going up almost every week ! To catch up with these rising prices, workers need a rise of at least 3s. 6d. in the pound. Not to make them better off, but just so they can eat as well as they did last year!
The workers who are most seriously hit by the increases are the unskilled labourers, unemployed, and old age pensioners.
Who is responsible for this increase? The shopkeepers? The Co-operative Societies? No! The policy of the National Government, in giving subsidies to the Marketing Boards and their price-fixing policy. Who benefits from these high prices? The big trusts and companies who are piling up profits. And it is the deliberate polity of the National Government to raise prices to help pay for the war plans. They make the poor pay instead of the rich, through their food taxes.
To force a reduction in the combines' profits, and so a reduction in food prices.
To abolish the taxes on our food.
To put working-class representatives on the Food Council, and to make this body publicly expose profiteering prices.
To raise wages to meet the high cost of living. Our Council must help in this by an increase of 5s. to all municipal workers under the Joint Industrial Council. To win an increase of 2s. 6d. in the pound to all those on Public Assistance—and the unemployment scales to those advocated by the Trades Union Council, of 20s. to each adult, 10s. to each dependant, and 5s. to each child. To increase old age and all other pensions. To make the rich pay for these necessities out of their super-profits.
"Electricity is cheap in Hackney," says the Borough Council. But it is not cheap to the small consumer. The scale of charges favours the rich. For example, it varies in price from 1/2 d. to 4 1/4 d. per unit, and for industrial purposes the rate is half that of the domestic rate. For example, in 1936 the industrialists paid an average of 1.09d. per unit and domestic users paid an average of 2.01d. per unit.
We want the unification of the scales of charges, and free wiring installations for all working-class houses to make electricity available to all.
Banning of all Fascist meetings in Hackney, whether outdoor or indoor.
The closing of the Fascist barracks.
Democratic control of the police to ensure protection against Fascist attacks.
With the continued existence of the National Government in office the war menace grows daily. Everything goes to prove that the National Government is encouraging Fascist aggression abroad and at home. Spain and China today, and it may be England tomorrow. How can those who are leading us to war be trusted to protect us against war? Can the National Government and their local Conservative allies, who have continually condemned the British working class to ill-health and starvation with their economy stunts, Means Tests and rising prices, be trusted? Can these people be trusted to protect us from air raid attack? Obviously not! We believe that the only defence for peace is the defeat of the National Government and their local allies. We do not think that war is inevitable, but we believe the National Government should be made responsible for the supply of suitable protection equal to that for the rich. Gas masks must be of the very best quality, and the construction of gas- and bomb-proof shelters, under the control of the Borough Council, should be undertaken at once. All air raid precautions should be democratically controlled by the Borough Council and the working bodies in the Borough. The full cost of these schemes must be borne by the National Government and not by the Borough Council.
The proposals as outlined in the preceding pages will, of course, require money. Now, where is the money to come from? This need not come from the rates, but should be borne by the people who are exploiting. Hackney. How can this be done?
End the Derating Act, by which the National Government relieved the rich employers of three-quarters of the rates making the workers foot the bill. Make employers pay their rates in full!
The rating of empty premises. This measure would not only bring in more money from the landlords, who can afford to pay. But it would immediately bring down rents!
Reduction of interest on loans.
Increased grants from the National Government. Social services must come before armaments. The National Government spends £350 million per year for arms. If they can find the money for armaments, they can find the money for the improvement of the standard of life of the people!
Communists believe that all working people of Hackney want to see the plans outlined in this pamphlet put into action. How can it be done? By a united, determined, Labour Movement, composed of all working class bodies including the Communist Party. United Labour action will not only strengthen Labour Councils everywhere. But will also defeat the National Government and put in its place a strong Labour Government.
Published by the Hackney Communist Party, 280a, Richmond Rd., Hackney, E.8, and printed by Marston Printing Co. (T.U.), Nelson Place, Cayton Street, London, E.C.1.
My HPP archive is missing the issues between the debut in 1973 and the ones below, but a previous post highlights an edition I don't have from 1974.
Both of these issues are about 3 quarters A4 size. The May issue is 12 pages and the July one (below) is one sheet bigger at 16 pages.
Abortion – opposition to a private members' bill seeking to disallow abortions except where a doctor agreed that there was a risk to a woman's life or health. (Like a lot of these bills, it didn't go anywhere. Hard to say whether that is through resistance or lack of support). Also the lowdown on the difficulties faced by women seeking abortions in Hackney.
Hackney Helps Hoteliers – on the huge subsidy (£450,000 a year) paid by the council to the owners of bed and breakfasts so they could house 155 homeless families. Hackney was the top borough in London for this at the time. The article rightly points out that the money would be better spent on building or acquiring council houses. Nearby Camden had purchased several thousand homes for this purpose over the previous few years, compared to 189 by Hackney in 1974 – and 37 in 1973.
Hackney Reading Centre – a new joint adult education venture between Centerprise and City and East London College.
Centerprise – funding difficulties and a deficit had built up. The council had refused to increase its £1000 a year grant.
Hackney Health Guide – a four page feature on health facilities in the borough – and also the issues they faced.
Stop The Road – opposition to proposals for a huge new road from Dalston to Hackney Wick.
Marsh Festival – taking place in July with a "Hackney Marsh on Sea" theme – Punch and Judy, donkey derby, etc.
Groups / Contacts – everything from Gamblers Anonymous to playgroups and 3 branches of Hackney Young Socialists.
The meeting was adjourned after the senior nursing officer attempted (unsuccessfully) to break it up.
The Hackney hospitals branch of the Mental Patients Union is the first in the country to achieve recognition. Psychiatric wings in both the German and Hackney Hospital are affected.
The MPU aims to bring about a better deal for patients in mental hospitals, and improved status.
Mr Andrew Roberts, of the Hackney branch, claims that several patients in Hackney Hospital psychiatric wing had spoken of better treatment by staff since the branch was recognised on July 18.
People's News Service 1.6.1974 "MENTAL PATIENTS' UNION MEMBER ESCAPES COMPULSORY DRUG TREATMENT.
Last week Tony O'Donnell moved into the house of the Mayola Road Mental Patients Union in East London after a long struggle to find a place where he could live without having to undergo injections of modicate, an extremely strong drug used on people diagnosed as schizophrenic…".
We ran the Robin Farquharson House in Mayola Road for three years. This was divided into individual rooms that were entirely under resident's control, but it also had an office which served as a crash pad in emergencies. We often had people staying who were going through a crisis and who were supported by other residents. We also helped and advised people by telephone and letter, and there were any visitors from all over the country as well as from abroad.
Hoxton Hall – 80 years of its role as a hub for working class culture and education.
Stop The Road – the proposed Dalston to Hackney Wick road was refused by the council, but there was concerns it could still be pushed through by the GLC.
Health on the Cheap – a critical article about the reorganisation of Hackney hospitals by an anonymous doctor who had worked in them.
Abortion: the fight goes on – report on a demonstration against the proposed amendments to abortion law covered above. And the general lack of access to abortions for women in Hackney even without it.
Hackney Women's Aid – short feature on women's refuges etc. The absence of funding from Hackney Council is very troubling.
Nursery Nurses Win – negotiations culminate in an agreed 36 hour week and backdated pay rise.
Repairs: Who carries the can? – The state of the 26,000 council homes in Hackney. HPP conducted surveys amongst tenants in De Beauvoir and Stonebridge – a number of issues were identified.
Also groups and contacts (pretty much as above, but now includes Hackney Committee Against Racialism), a call for help with the paper, various upcoming events.
A round up of housing news including housing association / council skullduggery and some properly horrible stories about housing situations people in Hackney had to endure.
Plus! Music on the back page!
Music makes money. The star system produces glamorous performers on the one hand and passive consumers on the other. It's not just that the music industry is a business – ruled by profit – the star system corrupts everybody learning or creating music. The motivation for learning or making up music is too often dreams of fame or fortune, not creating something for our friends, workmates or comrades to express the realities of our lives.
Having said all that, Hackney Music Workshop looks like it did great work!
Hackney People's Press was a local left-leaning community newspaper published regularly from 1973 until 1985.
An interview with HPP contributor Charles Foster is available elsewhere on this site. As you can see from the masthead below, HPP was formed by the merger of Hackney Action and Hackney Gutter Press, who were both publishing in the early 70s and have also been covered here previously.
The issues below are all large tabloid format – click on the images for a full size version.
The debut issue – 5 pence, worra bargain! As you can see from the introduction on the cover, the plan was to publish monthly and to hold open public meetings for contributors. The issues I have from 1973 suggests that this schedule was kept to initially. (Although the page count went down from 12 to 8).
We kick off with an excellent lead story on parents in De Beauvoir seizing some vacant land to use as an adventure playground for kids. The author, Crispin Aubrey, was an interesting figure who was later prosecuted under the official secrets act for interviewing a former GCHQ worker.
(The De Beauvoir Association has published an archive of the "De Beaver" newsletter from the 1970s and 80s which is well worth a look and also covers this).
Learning Exchange: a free service which puts people interested in learning the same subject in touch with each other. (c/o Centerprise).
Support for striking teachers campaigning for an increase in the London Allowance (and concern that rising housing, prices etc mean that teachers were leaving London – just like now).
After Six in Hackney: full page piece on an advice service for homeless people, operating after 6pm every evening.
Homes Saved From Ringway: 1,000 properties no longer being demolished because of the collapse of plans for a big road through Dalston and Hackney Wick following protests.
Also interesting to see the council criticised for making Kingsmead into a ghetto, concentrating black people, OAPs and benefit claimants there, the implication being that other estates were reserved for white, relatively more affluent types?
Haggerston Food Co-Op is introduced (but more on them below).
Perhaps slightly jarring with the community articles is a press release about the Stoke Newington 5 (originally the Stoke Newington 8).
Tony Soares (who ran the Grass Roots bookshop in Ladbroke Grove) writes about being convicted for "incitement to murder persons unknown". Which is as mad as it sounds. Turns out Tony had reprinted the Black Panther Party's "On organising self-defence groups" article: "The police conceded that there probably would have been no prosecution had it not been for a complaint from Jack Backsi, the Community Relations Officer for Hackney". Backsi apparently referred the publication to Hackney's then MP Stanley-Clinton David, asking him to raise it in parliament. Soares was sentenced to 200 hours of community service, which suggests that everyone agreed that the threat he posed was minimal – but that this sort of politics was not welcome in the UK.
There's a story about some black youths being hassled by the police because one of them was carrying a walking stick – and how this was falsely reported as "Mob Storms Police Station" by the Hackney Gazette.
Also two pages of contact info for community and political groups, and a back page piece by Ken Worpole on William Morris and the meaning of May Day.
Issue 2 leads with a story about a mother and 4 young kids being evicted from an empty house that they had squatted after waiting for 4 years on the council list. The 3 other squatters who helped her to re-occupy the property were charged with assaulting the police.
Unhealthy Health Report – NHS understaffing, infant mortality 33% higher in Hackney than the average for England and Wales, drop in ante natal care sessions, criticism of factory inspectors (2,546 factory premises in Hackney!), etc.
Mike Knowles of Hackney Trades Council is given a full page right of reply to the drubbing they got in the first issue. Alongside the correction of some errors in the original article, the general tone is that it's alright for lefty activists to hold forth about a general strike and socialism but the real issue is how to actually get there – especially if it's not possible to organise a one day strike on May Day as was being mooted.
Page 2 covers the trial of the squatters featured on the cover of issue 2. Five charges of breach of the peace were dropped as the cops couldn't produce their lead witness. Two women were found guilty of obstructing the police (the sentence/fine isn't mentioned). More happily it's also reported that Anita Keating, the mother who was evicted, was now squatting successfully in Islington with her kids.
The centre pages contrast the Matchgirls strike of 1888 with a strike by Ministry of Defence contract cleaners in 1972.
A report on a family of squatters who have had to move 11 times in the last 8 years.
An update on De Beauvoir playground which seemed to be doing well despite council indifference.
Hackney and Islington World Development Group – concerned with global poverty, development, trade.
Workers Education Association music workshop, Learning Exchange, listings.
The back page reports on some incredible community direct action. After getting nowhere with the police or the council, Stonebridge residents move cars which have been dumped on their estate into the middle of Kingsland Road, causing a traffic jam, but resolving the issue!
Echoes of this sort of thing were later seen with Reclaim The Streets, where old bangers were driven into the middle of big roads as a way of blocking them off before a party commenced. Hackney Independent Working Class Association were still shaming the council about dumped cars in the south of the Borough in the early 21st Century.
Mr. Pike To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what was the cost to local authorities of dealing with squatters in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
Mr. Maclean I understand from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment that this information is not recorded centrally and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.
Mr. Pike To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what estimates he has as to the number of squatters there are currently in England; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Maclean The nature of squatting makes it impossible to assess the number of squatters with any degree of accuracy, but estimates as to the total number of people squatting in England and Wales generally range between 30,000 and 50,000. More precise information is, however, available about the number of local authority dwellings under unauthorised occupation: on 1 April 1993 there were 2,963 local authority dwellings so occupied, of which 88 per cent. were in inner London: Hackney—1,152; Lambeth—327; Tower Hamlets—232; Camden—153; and Islington—135—being among the areas worst affected.
David Maclean is a Tory who campaigned vigorously for fox hunting, and against the Freedom of Information Act applying to Parliament. Oh, and for keeping MP's expenses secret, which would have meant we never knew about his tax-payer funded flat screen TV and quad bike). He stepped down as an MP in 2010 and was made a life peer shortly afterwards.
Peter Pike was the Labour MP for Burnley from 1983-2005. It's unclear what he had against squatters, but I've not been able to find any expenses scandal linked to him.
Another source estimated a total of 3,500 squatted properties in Hackney in the late 80s / early 90s. (i.e including council property and other types).
It's probably worth pointing out that the high point of squatting in Hackney would have been the mid 1980s. Any more statistics welcome.


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Former Junkers designers Roland Berger and Werner Deglau brought examples of Lambretta, Glas Goggo and Zundapp Bella scooters to East Germany in 1953 and using ideas from these developed the Pitty.
In June of 1954 a 125 prototype was ready, and 75 of these were built. They proved a disaster - poor welding and other problems plagued the new machines, and experienced riders were hurt due to mechanical failure. All 75 were returned to the factory, repaired, and with a further 39 machines released back to the now somewhat dubious public "making the roads unsafe again" 1.
According to one source over 11,000 scooters were delivered, and once the numerous bugs were sorted out the owners were quite happy with them. 2 However, other sources give very different production figures and indicate that the whole project was an unmitigated disaster. A senior figure involved in the Pitty escaped to the West with less than glowing reports. Towards the end of 1956 the Wiesel was released, and this proved more successful.
The nose of the Pitty was used on the both the Piccolo and the Krause Trumpf.