Eye-openingly depressing, Broomfield’s account of the 1972/73 Kirby rent strike – during which 3000 residents of the new town refused to pay their rent (after it was doubled) in protest at the substandard housing, schooling, and policing, and the lack of promised local jobs – actually manages, despite all of the suffering, to be strangely optimistic in its depiction of an unbreakable human spirit. Iain.Stott
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
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