Differential rents, with newer tenants paying more, will lead to an end to affordable housing.
Tenants face blackmail and bullying in the run-up to an outrageously undemocratic ballot.
Despite calls for it to be postponed to allow proper consultation, the council seems hell-bent on rushing it through. The meeting agreed to hold weekly city-centre stalls, coordinated local public meetings and a demo before the ballot. It called for unity in action between tenants and trade unionists, whose rights and job security would be devoured by this costly, insane act of backdoor privatisation. This is not just an issue for council tenants and council workers. On September 4 the parents turned out for the council's Education Committee and voiced their objections to the plans to close up to 41 schools in Dumfries and Galloway - one third of the total number of schools in the area.