You invent your own "contexts" for every conversation, Keith, which is why you are seen as an incredibly tiresome person. The point I made was about Thatcher initiating the sale of council houses which had been built with our tax money, sold off at massively discounted prices. No-one ever gave me a discount on the house I was buying at that same time when Maggie's policies whacked my mortgage interest rate up to 15%. Yes, for a time there was mortgage interest tax relief on a proportion of repayments, long since abolished, but the right-to-buyers got that too. Hardly anyone opted to buy the crappy Keith Joseph tower-block flats where I worked in Poplar and Walthamstow, I noticed. The undeserving poor got the grease, as ever. All the nice stuff with gardens on quiet estates sold off, much of it now in the hands of grabbing private landlords who buy with favourable mortgage deals and who are immune from rent controls. As Kevin says, we now have to subsidise those properties all over again with housing benefits, straight into the hands of the landlords, who put up the rents until the pips squeak. A nice clear channel for money to flow from the poor to the rich. Toryism, Keith, right up your right-wing alley, as you are demonstrating in this thread. If you wish to discuss the entirely separate matter of not enough house-building, start another thread.

"The neighbouring countries only provide the ground for the camps"

This statement is indeed a heady mix of ignorance, cluelessness and slander. The refugees in Turkey have cost the country $6 billion so far, rising fast, at least half of that straight out of central government budget. We have spent less than a quarter of that, and what we spend is mostly money diverted from our international aid budget.