Kosh wrote:She presided over the destruction of our manufacturing sector
What? You think our manufacturing sector was thriving in the 1970s? What were you on back then?
Quote:She flogged off the social housing stock at prices way below the going rate, and forbade the reinvestment of this cash into new social housing.
So she forced people to buy their longstanding rented houses did she?
Quote:coupled with deregulation of banks
That was Gordon Brown.
Quote: runaway house price inflation and all the subsequent problems in the housing market.
Gordon Brown did the same thing ('no boom or bust under New Labour' - ha!). Is he evil too?
Quote:Again, we are still dealing with these issues today - and not least the wholly inadequate social housing stock.
Again I say, Labour had 13 years in which to correct this. However, they did not. Therefore, any inadequate social housing stock has nothing to do with Thatcher. She left office 23 years ago.