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Originally Posted by gunner  A generation of low wage family's were able to get there first rung on the housing ladder by purchasing there council house [A Thatcherite policy]. This has borne fruit for people in "our" generation because parents now have something to pass down thus enabling many a better start in life. |
They also, due to attempts to centralise power, stopped local councils from investing in their social housing stock. The homelessness problems (with reliance on low quality, high cost B&B accommodation) generated were substantial.
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Your pedantic tone is most tedious and suggests clouded judgement in a lot of your posts.
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I'm just not easily kidded. Take the usual whinge about unions. Whilst Labour did have their "In Place of Strife", negative union behaviour is more focused on post-1979. As an example, we have Denny (1979, Productivity and trade unions in British manufacturing industry 1973-85, Applied Economics, Vol 29, pp 1403-1410) who finds no relationship between unions and productivity levels in the 1970s but a negative relationship post-1979.
I didn't bother with the rest of your comment. It was pure nonsense