wannabeeahack wrote:
Nice shiny buttons thanks
One for Maggies trophy cupboard
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200,000 council houses were sold to their tenants in 1982, and by 1987, more than 1,000,000 council houses in Britain had been sold to their tenants, although the number of council houses purchased by tenants declined during the 1990s.
The Labour Party was initially against the sales and pledged to oppose them at the 1983 general election, but the dropped their official opposition in 1985. However, at the 1987 general election, the Conservative government warned voters that a Labour government would still abolish the scheme.
My eldest daughter has just bought hers, in 3 years she will make a packet just by selling the garden off for development (with OPP)
God bless Maggie!
Thatcher bought off large chunks of the electorate by selling them council houses at a fraction of their value.
She sold them shares in companies they already owned, setting up a new middle class who would ultimately pay the price of her dogma.
She wiped out the country's industrial base and made us dependent on foreign imports for almost everything.
And what happened to all the money?
Given away in tax cuts, disproportionately according to greed.
As for the unions, they let most of this happen because they were too busy playing politics to really give a [edited by admin]
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