Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:changes to housing policy needed. | |
Posted by: | Michael Brown | |
Date/Time: | 06/01/15 17:44:00 |
I agree, Will, but I don’t think I’ll ever become comfortable with it, and voicing our concerns is all we’ve got; and things have got worse for the average man in the street in recent years. In simple terms, there was a time when big business would vote Tory and the working man would vote Labour, with those in between splitting the votes; so we’d get some years of one-sided Tory policies that made the rich, richer, and some years under Labour where the rich were still rich but the working man was given half a chance. I wasn’t a fan of Thatcher, but she believed in what she did, she was open about her beliefs, and people voted for her, so democracy prevailed; but I believe that she was the start of the trouble in this country. When Kinnock failed to win the election in 1992, or possibly a bit later, when John Smith died in 1994, the Labour party gave up its values, and in came Tory boy, Blair, to run the party. That was as bad for the average working man in this country as the Thatcher years, but the average man can only blame himself for getting carried away with the Thatcher greed machine, which Blair went on to further oil. My main point, however, is that regardless of whether people voted for the likes of Thatcher or Kinnock, they pretty much knew what they would get; but with the Labour party having made itself an alternative Tory party, big business seems to have taken over the running of the country with any prime minister of any major party now being a mere puppet, which they’re quite happy with because they’re also not short of a few bob. People complained when the working man would strike occasionally to make his voice heard and get some discussions going across the table; but, today, big business doesn’t have to resort to anything so desperate because it charges/takes as much as it wants. Things are now totally one sided with all sense of balance gone hence ordinary working people are stuffed; and the housing market is a good example of this. |