Robin9 wrote:

e27002 aurora;149992 Wrote:

Here we differ. The years of tepid socialism were culminating in
piles of garbage in the street, a growing rat population, and the dead
were unburied. Can you imagine how this added to the emotional load
of the families and friends of the recently decease?

Margaret Hilda Baroness Thatcher was raised up to restore our United
Kingdom. She achieved so much before the cowards in the tory party
had their palace coup.

This included trades union legislation and the defeat of Scargill and
co. Decent people were making a living again and the UK's national
esteem was being restored.

The refuse not being collected and the dead lying unburied were not
normal,
consistent features of life in the 1970s.

Thatcher did not restore the U. K. and because of her, huge numbers of
decent people were unable to make a proper living.

I was lucky. I was already a home-owner before 1979. In the 1970s,
before
Thatcher, normal people on normal incomes could aspire to owning their
own
home. Thatcher destroyed that dream. She created a housing shortage and

then, at the behest of her financial backers who could not compete, she

killed off building societies who dominated the mortgage market. I feel
sorry
for today's young people, most of whom have given up dreaming of their
own
home.

The percentage of home owners increrased from 1981 to 1991 for all ages
and looks like the total in creased up to 2001 so Thatcher, Major and
Blair increased home ownership
http://visual.ons.gov.uk/uk-perspectives-housing-and-home-ownership-in-the-uk/




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Mark