It is not very often that I say this, but the Scottish Executive has done something right in its ultimate repudiation of Thatcherism. Her assault on council housing is the one thing that her supporters still feel able to defend
unconditionally.
In reality, it created the Housing Benefit racket and
it used the gigantic gifting of capital assets by the State to enable
the beneficiaries to enter the property market ahead of private tenants,
or people still living at home, who had in either case saved for their
deposits.
What, exactly, was or is conservative or Tory about that? Or
about moving in the characters from Shameless either alongside, or even in place of, the respectable working class?
Absolutely right.
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""moving in the characters from Shameless either alongside, or even in place of, the respectable working class?""
Agree entirely-yet you condemned me for making the same distinction between the chavs (or the Shameless cast, if you prefer) and the respectable working class earlier in our discussion?
Glad to see you've seen sense.
Keep digging.
ReplyDeleteAre you a chav? You seem worryingly defensive about it.
ReplyDeleteDo you have some secret tattoos, drum & bass C.D’s, rottweillers, Burberry caps and Sovereign rings hidden away?
Don't be shy, Davey boy. Be Shameless, so to speak.
I have never been either.
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