A disastrous Thatcher policy was the sale of council houses.
5 million tenants took up the right to buy.
It radically diminished the housing stock and allowed tenants to make a massive capital gain off the the back of taxpayers...the rightful owners.
Whether Angela Rayner owes capital gains is a moot point.
What is not is why a diehard left wing politician (who likes to throw 'mate' about in parliament) so cynically abused right to buy.
The Labour opposition at that time was rightly furious about the sale of social housing stock.
The Dame brands Rayner a hypocrite.
Dear Dame,
ReplyDeleteThatcher did not create a decent economic policy - her economic policy was underpinned by large amounts of public money - that is, your money and my money.
Thatcher appealed to people's greed. For example, Angela Rayner, with the right to buy. Thatcher selling off the public utilities for a fraction of their true value so her greedy Tory mates could make a fast buck. Nice.
Thatcher’s chickens are coming home to roost one by one. The loss of 4m council homes, unreplaced, is keenly felt. Sewage is a good metaphor for utility privatisations, with water, energy and rail companies reviled.
Delete18.26 here - too bloody true 21.07.
DeleteSpot on. And Starmer is a snake
ReplyDeleteStarmer has destroyed Labour - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5osj--jTOfc
DeleteThe Snake distanced himself very quickly when Angela Rayner described the Conservatives as “homophobic, racist, misogynistic … scum”.
DeleteIn the Daily Mail today, reminding us of Brexit’s failure, Kemi Badenoch attacks Lord Cameron (Cabinet colleagues).
ReplyDeleteThe only conclusion i can make is the Tories just don’t want to win.
More chickens coming home to roost: Taxpayers brace for £100bn money-printing bill – as George Osborne says it’s ‘not my responsibility’. Ex-chancellor’s decision to transfer QE profits to the Treasury has come back to bite Hunt
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/04/26/taxpayers-qe-100bn-bill-george-osborne-not-responsibility/ (£££)
Today's (rather than last month's) news is ...
DeleteCentral Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Dan Poulter has defected from Tory to Labour.
Rats and sinking ships come to mind.
He knows the gig is up sticking as a Tory, so hopes by switching now, Labour will endorse him to stand for his current seat.
DeleteAs health minister Dan Poulter was responsible for pushing through the Lansley Review recommendations. Estimated cost £3billion to the NHS to make things worse.
DeleteThe NHS is a 'Failed State'. It needs deconstructing. Money pours out of every pore of its diseased body
DeleteThis is month old news. Is there any update on Rayner Terror and her Gallons of Ginger Fear?
ReplyDeleteIn the news two weeks ago: Granny Ange said she would 'step down' if she was found to have committed a crime.
DeleteThis is about Rayner not Thatcher though some would like to distract us.
ReplyDeleteHow could you miss the Dame's analysis: "A disastrous Thatcher policy"! The prominent first four words in blog.
DeleteAngela Raynor was quoting a Conservative MP when she called Rishi Sunak a "pint sized loser."
ReplyDeleteSunak won't be judged against a playground insult. he will be judged as a crap PM.
DeleteYou may call it playground insults. A serious Tory politician would call is "good-humoured HoC banter". Same thing really excet they learnt it at Eton and Oxford.
DeleteIn terms of 'political stature' - even if he was six foot six - Rishi would be a midget.
Delete11:02 It was a joke. Don’t be a snowflake.
DeleteThe public think it’s ‘unacceptable’ to tease someone for being short https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2024/04/26/3ffc9/1
DeleteThe Dame is incorrect.
DeleteAngela Raynor didn’t “abuse right to buy” she “correctly used right to buy” just as Thatcher set it out.
The Dame draws attention to Angela Raynor throwing around the word ‘mate’ in Parliament. ‘Mate’ is a term derived from ship-mate, meaning fellow crew member. In common parlance, it’s normally used as a greeting between friends and aquaintenses. ‘hello Mate…’ etc. Using it to a stranger is a bit different, it can be seen as a friendly introduction, although some people find it presumptious. Purposefully using it in Parliament may well be her way to try to cut through the pomposity and formality of the place.
DeleteI think we don't need education in the history of 'matiness' 15:44. I resent being called mate. In Rayner's case she uses it in the Commons to be seen as 'authentic'. Cringemaking
DeleteWhether Angela Rayner owes capital gains is NOT a moot point. If she owes capital gains she should pay it!
ReplyDeleteAgreed: I don't think the Dame disputes that
DeleteThe problem is Tory right to buy. Angela Raynor would have been an idiot not to have bought her bargain priced property. The Dame attacks her as a “hypocrite” but she wasn’t a politician (or even part of the debate) in the 70s.
ReplyDeleteShe may not have been a politician but she was a staunch socialist from her early days so she claims: in other words, we should all get what we can even if it goes against our principles and political ideology?
DeleteThe legislation to implement the Right to Buy was passed in the Housing Act 1980. And Angela Raynor was born 28 March 1980.
Delete16:27 You are making assumptions about a baby!
You seem to have the mind of a baby, mate. What has the date of the legislation to do with anything? mate. She took advantage of hated legislation to enrich herself.
DeleteShe made a very small profit on a property that she had owned for a decade - if she 'enriched' herself it was only at the same rate as everyone else who exercised her right to buy the hone she had rented for years . Pales into total insignificance compared to Baroness Morne and the Tory chancellor who had to pay £7 MILLION in back taxes he had 'forgotten ! Or the covid contracts given to their friends by Tory MPs - they even had a private hotline to get their snouts in the trough!
DeleteThe attacks on Angela Rayner are misogynistic bullying of a northern working class woman and are backfiring with the public
08:22...we are not discussing Mone or anyone else: they are what they are. We are discussing a left wing socialist from many years back and socialist at the time of the Housing Act. She knew the Party abhorred the sale of council homes but thinking she was exceptional decided to put her snout in the trough
Deleteand make some dough. She's a hypocrite
This is becoming tedious - at the time that Rachel sold her flat she was not a significant figure in the Labour Party - she was a really poor working class woman struggling to make her way in the world with little help and no connections. Nobody suffered or missed out when she sold the humble property she had bought & used for years before. She bought it as her home & not as an investment or a stepping stone to a property empire . And when she bought the property under the right to buy legislation (along with millions of other council tenants)she was a complete nobody . So why are these rootless and worthless millionaires trying so hard to do down a working class woman who serves as an example to and gives hope to millions of powerless people ?
DeleteStop it!!!! The tears are deluging my keyboard. She is a hard nosed ambitious piece of work. Did she have an outdoor privy at the boom of the garden? Did she keep coal in the bath. You don't climb the dirty political pole without being toughie.
DeleteNobody is claiming that she isn't tough ( thank god - she needed to be ). But you show yourself up for mocking the poverty and difficulties of her early life . We need more politicians with het experiences and resilience . And fewer people in public life with nothing but contempt for the poverty and difficulties of others
DeleteShe probably did have an outdoor lav as a child . Many of us did in those days . What does this prove ( other than that you are a callous sneering product of privilege )
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