Yes it did change the quality of the housing stock, for the worse. Once you've sold off your good stuff, you can let the tatty inner-city stuff run down because the tenants you have left matter a lot less and won't fight back. I know this because I worked in the East End and Walthamstow in two of the toughest bloody schools in London, whose kids came almost exclusively from those shitty, run-down estates. I lived in one of them for three years as it happened, a very formative experience, a four-year-old old tower block, lifts not working and full of piss, whole floors no-go areas, heating system always bust. That's what Tories don't give a flying shite about, Keith. The undeserving poor. You haven't lived, have you, Keith. It takes the PC Blakelocks and the Damilolas to open people's eyes, and how bloody sad is that?

As for your stupid remarks about the food festival, etc., I won't dignify them with a response if you don't mind. You must be feeling desperate.