Oh really? Thatcher made home ownership wider did she? so that is why we had to demolish 10,000 council houses that no one wanted and apart from a few the rest were passed to so called "housing associations" because the city council were not allowed to use the money from the sales to build new social housing but to plug the gaps due to cuts in government funding.I'm afraid that's your over simplification. I've never had any unionised employment, certainly not during my largest rises in salaries.
And lunatic though Thatcher was, her policies of wider home ownership and shareholdings were more instrumental in spreading affluence more widely than anything a labour government ever did. They all made us poorer, albeit sometimes in a good cause.
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And the result ? the housing associations are currently turning what were quite attractive housing into Soviet style grey rows of still rented properties and putting up the rents.
What made the city so Leave orientated is that where the 10,000 houses were demolished they were redeveloped into housing too expensive for locals to buy and foreigners (often from the York Commuter belt which shows how little it takes to be regarded as a foreigner!) and a large number of very nice and productive Poles and people of African origin came in and bought them up.
So the end result is we have large numbers of folk often elderly who couldn't afford to buy their council houses seeing an influx of outsiders in desirable new properties that they own.
Imagine how they are feeling now having voted for Brexit and expecting no more better off outsiders coming in and getting new and desirable houses when they are now in rented houses uglier than they started with.
And the government isn't doing itself any favours with an immigration policy that not only doesn't halt immigration but from their point of view encourages more of the people who are going to get new houses coming in?
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