‘It’s worth thinking about the roughly 12,000 tenants who have been evicted in London in the last year’

• AS we approach another general election it must be time for us as a community to remember what we have been through in the last period of Conservative governments.

Maybe I need to think that no government will get it completely right and that includes the Labour government.

Let’s recall the whole issue of PFIs – private finance initia­tives – where hospitals, schools, universities etc have signed long-term contracts which will keep them paying capital and interest for decades to come.

At least the Tory chancellor Philip Hammond stopped any further PFIs in 2018.

The issue of no-fault evictions of private tenants is a prime example of Tory misrule. The no-fault issue was in the first session at the last election but they have dragged their feet until Michael Gove stepped in last February.

The bill was then pulled about by both Houses of Parliament until a couple of days before the House of Commons was suspended, so it fell at the last fence.

It’s worth thinking about the roughly 12,000 tenants who have been evicted in London in the last year.

Just think of the misery inflicted on those tenants, many of them low-income, one-parent families, who have to present to hard-pressed local authorities whose funds have been cut by the government for years, with at least a dozen councils declaring that they are technically bankrupt.

Never mind that there are 118 MPs who are landlords who didn’t want the bill to proceed. And we can only guess at how many landlords there are sitting in the House of Lords.

And so it goes on.

We can all focus on a different area of activity where we have witnessed dysfunction; water, HS2, the railways, immigration, Europe, crime.

The list is endless.

I will continue to remember!

CHRISTOPHER MASON, NW1