I have to admit, I am a foreigner, living a long way away, commenting on affairs you see affecting you, and I don’t know the details of your local politics.

But ask yourself; why would she write those words, advising folk to rebel against their landlords, which will probably spell the end of her career in any appointed capacity?

Seems to me she might know where the economy is going, her job is already gone, along with everyone else’s, so the money you all have now, her included, could be as much as you’ll have for quite a while.

Faced with the choice of paying rent now, or still being able to put some food on your table next month, what should you choose?

The strategy she is advising is one that is effective, if things really do come down to the wire, and no-one has any money for rent.

If you don’t stand together under those circumstances, you’ll be evicted one by one, until you are all in the street, and your houses are empty, and your landlords will still go unpaid, as no-one else will have money to move in.

The mass non-payment of rent strategy has been demonstrated effective in places like Brazil, who’s people have known financial hardship for a long time. Private blocks of apartments are often literally commandeered by the residents, and turned into community fortresses, from which it is very difficult for anyone to be evicted.

When the going gets tough, you gotta stick together.

Reason I am saying this, is that I think we are going to have these same dilemmas in UK also, very soon.