[andrewb]

Originally Posted by Mancie

If the income from sales of council housing had been placed into a fund that could have been used to build good new community housing then it would have been a good policey.. but Thatcher banned councils from building new council homes with this money... the tories did not and still don't believe in social housing.. we ended up again with working families and even the armed forces paying high rents for below stantard homes...I'm getting fed up of saying this but It will all happen again when the tories bring in the every ten years review that rent paying council families will have to go through.

The Thatcher Government did build more council housing than the Blair and Brown Governments combined. Lets not allow that to get in the way of a good rant about Thatcher though, eh Mancie.