Jeremy Corbyn: What else did it say?
Jeremy Corbyn: When the hon. Gentleman visits Islington perhaps he will look around him and notice the number of people in need of help from the council's social services, and in need of housing help. If the order goes through, they will not get any help in the coming year and many jobs will also be lost. How many jobs will be destroyed by rate capping and by the hon. Gentleman's Government, and how many...
Jeremy Corbyn: Where is the evidence?
Jeremy Corbyn: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Jeremy Corbyn: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
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Jeremy Corbyn: The hon. Member represents part of a poor borough and is talking about self-sufficiency in local government. I should have thought that the likely effects on Southwark and particularly his part of Southwark—Bermondsey—which is one of the poorer parts, will be catastrophic. What little help it gets from central Government will be taken away and the council will be destroyed as a force for...
Jeremy Corbyn: That means that there will be higher rates in Southwark.
Jeremy Corbyn: What is Liberal policy?
Jeremy Corbyn: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Is it in order in a debate about rate capping for the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) to claim that local councillors are dishonest?
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Jeremy Corbyn: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Jeremy Corbyn: When the Secretary of State was making his rather lengthy and inaccurate attack on borough councils and their spending, and by innuendo on their powers of decision making, does my hon. Friend agree that it is significant that at every stage and at each attack on individual councils he refused to say how much money his Department and he personally have taken away from the boroughs in the past...
Jeremy Corbyn: My hon. Friend is involved in the Committee stage of the Bill that will abolish much of local government in this country. Will he advise the House on the close relationship between the attempt to destroy local government in London and other places through rate capping and the attempt to get this Bill to precepting authorities before 6 March?
Jeremy Corbyn: Will my hon. Friend give way?
Jeremy Corbyn: Can my hon. Friend tell us what opportunities he has had since the Secretary of State finished his reply to the debate at 10 o'clock last night to discuss with either his local borough council or people at the bus garage in his constituency how many jobs will be affected by the revelations made last night by the Secretary of State? Does my hon. Friend now feel able to contribute adequately to...
Jeremy Corbyn: Does my hon. Friend agree that the remarks made earlier by the hon. Member for Harlow (Mr. Hayes) are disgraceful since the Department of the Environment withdrew its order because of its own incompetence and not the incompetence of Haringey council?
Jeremy Corbyn: The only national emergency that we face today, which we faced yesterday and will face tomorrow, is the incompetence of the Secretaries of State for the Environment and for Transport. We are in this mess because the Secretary of State for the Environment cannot get his figures straight before he goes on his merry way of destroying local government services, and the Secretary of State for...
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