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Originally Posted by endless psych  As a means of reducing social housing stock. |
I have to agree with this; the selling off of social housing (and privatisation of everything else) was a completely stupid idea and could only have been done to make some quick money without any thought to the consequences.
Yes people could afford to buy their council house for next to nothing and then sell it a few years later for several times what they paid for it, but doesn't that completely defeat the point of social housing? If the houses were replaced or people were helped to buy private housing, then fair enough, but that didn't happen.
I'm not going to laugh at Thatcher; finding out repeatedly that your husband of 50 years has died is just horrific (Happened to my grandfolks as well), particularly for her weans since she doesn't remember it. I'd like to think she'd be treated the way she'd want everyone else to be treated but I can't see that happening either, and I'm also marginally dissapointed that she won't remember most of what shes done, but at least that means she'll probably go peacefully.
