In article >, says...
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> Bruce wrote:
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> > On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:37:37 +0100, Janet > wrote:
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> > > When Margaret Thatcher was PM she offered all Council House tenants
> > >the chance to buy and own their home and many did. In other words, they
> > >had a sufficient steady earned income to obtain a mortgage; and the
> > >property and its community were desirable places to live, not a social
> > >dumping ground.
> > > The money raised should have been ringfenced to build replacement
> > >stock of social housing for rent, but wasn't. As a result, so many
> > >council houses passed into private ownership, the UK now has a dire
> > >shortage of social housing for those in need.
> >
> > Margaret Thatcher is a universal symbol of how not to run a country.
>
> Not what I've heard. MT was a good PM

as usual, you're misinformed.

http://historylists.org/events/10-ke...d-to-margaret-
thatchers-resignation.html

Margaret Thatcher lost her PM job in the most public, brutal and
humiliating way possible, in mid-term, forced to resign by her own
Conservative party Cabinet ministers because she was a political
disaster.

Telegraph is a right-wing Tory supporting paper.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-
thatcher/9980358/Margaret-Thatcher-Brought-down-by-the-sharks-in-the-
water.html

"When the longest premiership of the modern age came to a crashing end
in November 1990, it was neither the Labour Party nor the British
electorate that defeated Baroness Thatcher. It was her own colleagues. "

Janet UK