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Right to Buy split my estate. Now its days could be numbered (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Because normally the Tories sell it off to themselves or their mates. In this instance, they let council tenants benefit from their practice.

Doing so endears people to them and their behaviour of selling off assets. It thus makes it easier for them to get away with selling more state assets off to their mates.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    Thatcherism was a huge program of selling stuff off to ordinary people. Your reasoning makes no sense at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Most of the stuff was sold off to the wealthy on the cheap. A little bit was sold off to ordinary people on the cheap.

    Selling some to ordinary people made the bulk of the fire sale more palatable.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    That doesn't match my understanding. Even if you convince me about the proportion, you'd still need to have some reason to believe that your claimed motivation was the real one, because just selling stuff to rich people and ordinary people doesn't automatically mean the portion sold to ordinary people was done primarily to make the other portion palatable.

    You're just asserting this was the motivation without trying to convince me.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I'm not asserting intent, I'm describing effect.

    Regardless of their intent or whether their belief in the philosophy was genuine, the effect of selling some state assets off to regular people was to make the rest of it more palatable to the general population.

    If I had to speculate on intent, I would say their reason was to expand the stock of the private housing market, primarily for the benefit of those who trade at a commercial scale.

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