Labours new identity politics housing project aligns eligibility with your sexuality
Buying a home is not based on someones need anymore, it's based on who you find attractive and if that is aligned with the governments narrative. It's the most vile identity politics yet.
A video posted by Patrick Christy on X has exposed yet another example of state sponsored segregation but now we are moving into housing. The clip highlights Manchester City Council’s push for the UK’s first majority LGBTQ+ social and affordable housing scheme in Whalley Range. What should be a straightforward effort to provide homes for those in genuine need, has instead become a vehicle for political preference, division and identity driven policy that leaves ordinary British taxpayers footing the bill.
Manchester’s New LGBTQ+ Housing Project and Council Comments
Manchester City Council is pressing ahead with a £37 million scheme in Whalley Range on the site of the former Spire Hospital. It will deliver around 80 social rent homes designed as extra-care accommodation for people aged 55 and over, with the majority reserved for the LGBTQ+ community. The project is promoted as meeting specific needs and aspirations of older LGBTQ+ residents who, according to the council, require extra support as they age. Yes extra support.
Councillor Gavin White, executive member for housing and development, has hailed it a landmark development for Manchester’s LGBTQ+ community. Councillor Bev Craig stated: “Some older LGBT residents told us they need extra support as they age, so we’ve been working with the LGBT Foundation to fix that.” Work has already started on site, with completion expected in summer 2027. The council frames this as enhancing diversity and vibrancy while insisting all other housing schemes remain welcoming to everyone, as long are you are not straight of course.
Straight, gay and lesbian people openly offended by the segregation
Far from uniting communities, the scheme has provoked anger across the board. Straight British residents see it as yet another example of everyone else getting priority except them. Gay and lesbian voices have been equally vocal in rejecting the patronising premise that their sexuality creates unique housing needs in old age. What a load of political rubbish this is.
Comments under Christys’ X post reflect the depth of resentment;
“Gay man here. I’ve never heard such a load of patronising, divisive baloney in my whole life. These lunatics need removing from every level of government ASAP.”
“Thanks but no thanks. I don’t want to be segregated because I am gay.”
“I’m gay and think this is 100 per cent wrong! Housing should be allocated upon NEED not protected characteristics!”
Straight commentators were blunt: “So literally everyone gets help except straight white men.” “Why does one section of society become more important than any other section of society?” “Its the constant divisive droning dreariness of it all. Where are the housing schemes for those of us who just want to be left alone?”
The message is clear, this is not equality, it is special treatment that insults everyone and in its very nature promotes division but Labour cant see it.
This is not the first segregated community
This is not an isolated case. In September 2021 London saw the launch of Tonic@Bankhouse, the UK’s first LGBT+ affirming retirement community in Vauxhall. The project, supported by a £5.7 million loan from the Mayor of London, was celebrated by Sadiq Khan himself at the official opening.
Khan has repeatedly signalled a preference for faith-based and minority clustering in housing. In an interview on the Islam Channel he said: “The other big issue facing Londoners, particularly Londoners of Islamic faith, is the issue of housing. We need to build far more homes in our city because often people from minority communities want to live near a mosque, near halal food, near where there are other people like them for a number of obvious reasons. And they are priced out, because there is not enough housing. So, we’re going to build at least 40,000 council homes, at least 6,000 rent-controlled homes.”
Whether in Manchester for one identity group or London for another, the pattern is the same. Public money is being used to create and promote enclaves and breaking up communities rather than promoting integrated ones.
OBR statistics show more housing going to migrants, not British people
The situation is made worse by the sheer scale of migration. Conservative analysis of the latest Office for Budget Responsibility forecast reveals that net migration of around 1.17 million people between 2026 and 2030 will require roughly 499,000 additional homes. With only 1.34 million new homes expected to be built in that period, migrants could account for nearly 40 per cent of new stock.
OBR statistics indicates that only 40% of new housing will go to native British people and now we find that if you want some of that stock you will be blocked if you are not of the ‘correct’ sexuality. Its just wrong.
As reported across GB News and other outlets, senior Conservatives have warned that British families already on waiting lists or saving for years will be left with the scraps. The message is blunt, high immigration has direct consequences for rents, house prices and access to housing. Native Britons, who have paid into the system their entire lives, saved hard, sacrificed, are being pushed to the back of the queue because they don’t meet the Labour governments criteria of being a minority.
Restore Britain puts British people first and rejects divisive policies
Restore Britain offers the clear alternative. Their core principle is simple and unapologetic - put the British people first, each and every time. Lowe has repeatedly stated on X that Britain must prioritise its own citizens before spending on foreign adventures or identity experiments. We reject the DEI-driven division that fragments communities and demands housing allocation based on need, not protected characteristics.
Scrap the segregation schemes. End the preference for minority clusters. Halt the flow of new arrivals that overwhelms housing supply. Restore Britain’s policies would ensure council homes go first to those who have waited longest and have the most need, British families who have contributed most, and communities that want cohesion rather than engineered division.
The Manchester scheme, the London precedent and Khan’s comments are not progress. They are symptoms of a political class that has lost sight of who it is supposed to serve. Only by putting British people first, as Restore Britain promotes, can we end this taxpayer funded fragmentation and rebuild a united country.