Thatcher sold off the social housing stock leading to the clusterfuck we have today where the rich live off the hard work of ordinary people (either through rents or mortages) but yeah, it's the socialists that take other peoples money for doing nothing!
I use the same argument a lot with the Alberta Maple MAGA who imagine Canada is 'broken' while their province only has $25B saved from O&G over the same time period as Norway. They never blame their own gov. that has jurisdiction.
Hmmm, I have no love for Maggie but there are some important facts missing here about which party first started the oilfield sales and why. Answer - Labour and at the request of the IMF because they didn’t want to lend the bankrupt UK any more money.
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Now they’re buying it back at $100 per barrel.
At least they have their multi billion £ sovereign wealth fund to show for it.
What’s that? It all went to CEOs and the citizens got nothing but the bills? That can’t be right.
It is true though that they invested their oil wealth much better than we did in their sovereign wealth fund…..whilst we gave tax cuts to the wealthy.