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Originally Posted by Cyfr
Thatcher.... she allowed hundreds of thousands to buy their own home
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Wrong.
Thatcher's government allowed prople to buy the council owned houses they happened to be renting.
'Selling the family silver' was a term banded about at the time, to describe this short term vote winner.
When this social housing was sold off it was never replaced.
I won't even begin on the gerrymandering that Shirley Porter was found guilty of at Westminster Council, where council homes were sold off to prospective Tory voters.