Your insight into mooting is interesting but meaningless. The Labour government might have finally acted on their early moots but that does not mean the resulting freedom to buy council houses was also directly linked to not building more. That took the Tory Housing Act of 1980. We can ponder over mootings right, left & centre all we want but all that matters is the details of the statutes implemented.
Even Arthur Scargill tried to use Thatcherās right to buy policy.
Scargill used Thatcherite policy in bid to buy London flat - BBC News
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Very simple really.
I would simply say give us a kiss darling, in a broad Yorkshire Accent.
That would get to her.
So? My point is that it was not bad, in of itself, to offer long term tenants the right to buy the place they called home. For a fair price. All very positive. My point is that it was very wrong to stop council house building along side that. That was the mistake.
ā¦ and when a block goes up around here nowadays the flats are mostly private sales, next to that part-ownership, with a small percentage of social housing. I think thereās rule saying thereās got to be at least a few council/housing-trust properties, for people already living in the borough.
How long have they lived in the borough for and under what circumstances?
Oh I donāt know Chilli. But Iāll vouch for you, say youāve been lodging in my attic for 20 odd years, we canāt take it anymore but heās a good lad really. 
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Youāve got an attic in a west London post code areaā¦ very posh, when can I move in d00d?
I promise to play my Stranglers albums very quietlyā¦ honest guv! 
are you nice 'n sleazy?
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Iām not telling, things arenāt always black and white 
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Iām also one of those fortunate folk who was able to purchase my council house, thus securing a better future for my family, after working non stop in my lifetime. I think it was disgusting the way Mrs Thatcher was treated by her party, and all the stupid, āDing Dong The Witch is Deadā, rabble, who need to focus on some real horrors. Like Hamas & Hezbollah lover, Jeremy Corbyn, who has supported just about every nutcase regime going. There are plenty of other loonies, Scargill, Starmer, Owen Jones, Momentum, and loads more too numerous to mention. Mrs Thatcher left office with great dignity, for which I salute her. Itās a pity the weasel politicians we have at the moment, donāt take inspiration from her career.
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John, are you still grafting now? Your country needs you. 
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You seem to have taken a shine to the word āMootā Lincs, since you have referred to the word three timesā¦Iāll make a Yorkshireman of you yetā¦
If I ever think of Thatcher Oscarās
āa man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothingā
comes to mind 
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Thatcher did what Reform are trying to do, namely get lots of not rich people to vote for a party whose policies only help rich people. Incredible but true and done most successfully in the US. But begun in earnest in the UK by Thatcher.
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If you were alone in a room with Thatcher, what would you do?
Have a sound check and ask her what the driving force was that made her swap a decent job for one in politics? 
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Interesting where all these people were when we were looking for somebody to run the country. Thereās a good reason why they are all just keyboard warriorsā¦ 
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ON a personal basis we managed to afford a nice house run our own business and with saving retire comfortably, Mrs T had backbone over the Falklands issue.
Labour has done nothing to improve our life style. Seems to me those that vote labour are extremely jealous and hell bent on spend spend spend at the same time increasing our national debt .This results in higher taxes taken from the blue collar workers, and not only that but filling there personal saving accounts.
Look at the disaster of Kerr Starmerā position as P.M. I have never ever heard or seen such protest nationally calling an PM a W**k*r. Not just my opinion but those of most clear thinking people in this country. That is how bad it got. unbelievable
No we have another trying to overturn the vote on leaving the EU. This time no national vote but in his own big headed way. Talk about bringing up the dregs of the labour party, they have hit rock bottom and should hold a general election before the UK goes so far under we will never survive.
Donāt even get me on illegal immigrants arriving in rubber boats and welcomed by the absolutely disgraceful Labour govenment . Giving all benefits of houses -mobile phones cash- transport , yet our own servicemen have to sleep on the streets
And what is our navy and army doing? sitting in barracks playing cards
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It wasnāt Margaret Thatcher that ruined this country it was the person who thought joining the EU and giving them 30 billion quid every year was a good idea.
Itās also the person who signed us up to Net Zero to show the world how itās doneā¦
It was the person who closed all the coal and gas fired power stations before we had an alternative put in placeā¦
It was the person who allowed us to be flooded with the human debris from god knows whereā¦
It was the person who decided to spend all your taxes on weapons to fight someone elseās warā¦
It was the person who thought it would be beneficial to the country to close all the branch railway lines and transport everything by truckā¦
It was the person who decided that Chinese goods were cheaper than oursā¦
And I could think of hundreds more reasons why we are in the state that we are in.
Getting through 7 prime ministers in 16 years just goes to show how politics has deteriorated over the last thirty years that started with Blair sending all of our young people to university and bringing in foreign workers.
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