Yes, but we all know that the tories did a basic accountaing trick on the sale of council houses, claiming that depreciation set in over the years of tenure. So that effectively houses worth in excess of (at that time) of £60,000 - 90,000 were given away for sums anywhere between £5,000 - 15,000.

Who is going to resist what was effectively free money ? Which, after all, is what an awful lot of thatcherite policy amounted to, a massive bribing of the electorate to allow them to screw the poor in the long term.

And that basic fraudulence is what Blair admired and which is now biting Brown in the bum.


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