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Originally Posted by cashman
I was always under impression that council houses were fer folk who couldn't afford a mortgage? on that basis it was folly to flog em off cheap.
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Yes, I'm sure they were...but it meant that many folk who couldn't get on the property ladder(the ones who were considered poor - not usually the type helped by the tory party) were given that opportunity.
I am not saying it was right. I am responding to a question that was posed.
'did any of the Thatcher policies help the man in the street?' That was one which did......at least in the short term.
And when you consider that many of the people living in these houses, had been there for many years...they had probably paid the market value for them over the years.
It was a policy to catch votes and beggar the long term consequences...all parties are guilty of similar things.
I told myself I wasn't going to post to this thread again.......this is definitely the end of it for me. It has all beeen said...over and over and over......tediously, without it making an iota of difference to anything.