""Thatcher destroyed affordable rented homes that council housing provided and it is the lower income families who will suffer from the present crisis.""


Those rented houses were occupied by people who had security of tenure, and with every likelihood that the majority would have stayed in them all their lives.

The houses are still there, and still occupied, but the population has increased massively, so the shortfall has nothing to do with whether the occupants rent or have bought them.

Either way they are not on the market, affordable or otherwise!

""Your silence on allowing racist ranting to go uncommented on speaks for itself.""

Be careful what you wish for Jim, you might one day get it!

Your own comments also display a tendency to racism.

Phrases like "Little Englanders" and your obvious dislike of all things British, would quite likely cause your own disappearance from the site along with those you want removed.

Don T.