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JNugent

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JNugent wrote:

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JNugent wrote:

It was Maggie and co that forced an end to tied housing.

Sheer, biased, blinkered, knee-jerk, nonsense.
The tied cottage was being "phased out" (pilloried as a
social anachronism) decades before 1979.
S'funny, that.
Had the tied cottages remained in their original use,
there'd be less need for hand-wringing over the housing
fate of agricultural workers, wouldn't there?

I didn't say it wasn't on the way out, I merely made the
point that Thatcher forced it to end. A subtle but
distinct difference that is obviously lost on you.

The more so because it was a lie.

So it wasn't a Thatcher government the introduced the "Right to Buy"
legislation then?

No.

As you would know (if you were not simply motivated by unthinking knee-jerk
socialism - if you'll forgive the tautology), the RTB:

(a) was introduced under the Edward Heath government of 1970-1974, and
(b) only applied to council houses - and certainly not to tied cottages on
farms.

Try again?