Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
My parents weren’t “greedy selfish gits”. Yes, they were lucky because in 1976 (under a Labour Government and I’m pretty sure a Labour council in Cardiff) my father being made redundant by British Rail coincided with an offer from the council that gave them a chance to buy the council house they were renting for a sum they would never have been able to afford without the redundancy money. There was someone from my family living in that house for the next 42 years until I moved up here and in the block of six houses we lived in three other families took up the offer - one of them were still there when I left and the other two stayed until the parents had passed away some thirty odd years after they’d bought their houses.
None of those families were rich, they just took advantage of what they thought was a generous offer from the council. My father voted Labour all of his life and my mother was a Tory who switched to Labour when she was about thirty after hearing Harold MacMillan tell her she’d never had it so good - they’ll be turning in their graves at being described as being “as bad as Thatcher.”
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