Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
Tragically, this is no longer the case. Look at that frightful Thatcher woman, a grocer's daughter for Pity's sake, going around giving the peasantry ownership of their own homes and reducing their tax burden that should be grinding them into submission.

Not at all what is expected, what.
Yes, but you see, the thing is she was upwardly mobile, but in a bad way as she ended up in a party that oppressed the poor as she reduced the handouts available to them as the State knows what they want better than the individual does (occasionally the individual is wrong, of course).

Giving them their own homes reduces the number of homes that are available to be given out by the government, which are intrinically better as when owned by the government they are part of the Social Housing stock which can be used to help the Poor whereas ownership might stop them being poor, which is counterproductive...

Simples...