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Sell off or sell out?
• RESIDENTS will remember how the Lib Dems, almost immediately on taking control of Islington, made massive cuts to the voluntary sector, including a total withdrawal of funding for Islington Irish Centre in St John’s Way, Archway. The building, a fine example of Victorian architecture, remained empty and deteriorating for many years until it was finally sold for private development some years ago.
The eastern part of the building has now been converted to six flats and is up for sale for a total of £2,545,000.
The western part, which housed the centre, has still to be marketed, but even with the fall in house prices will go for hundreds of thousands of pounds more than the council got from the sale to property developers.
While the Irish government, through its Dion Committee, spends £6million on welfare for Irish people in the UK, the council undersells the financial interests of all its communities while offering nothing for its increasingly elderly Irish residents.
JEREMY CORBYN
Islington North Labour MP
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