Iains - did you live on my estate from the 1960s to 1980s.
Did you experience first hand the history I relate...???
Did you feel the despair of a community abandoned to joblessness and hardship.
Did you witness the decline and fragmentation of a stable community that had lasted decades..???

That is my EXPERIENCED and well considered reality..

I benefited from Grammar School and Higher education, and was equipped to experience all this with a balanced view of personal emotional ties and educated objectivity....

Your glib dismissal of thatcher bribing my neighbours for votes with fantasies of home ownership,
then abandoning them to survival of the fittest when the factory closed is clearly indicative of your harsh dismissive tory mindset of denial.

My dad was destroyed when the world he knew and trusted fell apart...
My family never recovered.

I watched that....

..and to think my dad had been a moderate shop steward who laboured hard to avoid shop floor disputes and risk aggro from his work mates,
to keep that factory running and productive..

Management must have thought he was a sucker...

May you wonder why folks like me care so much about the issue of social housing
and how that relates directly to this current disater and it's fall out...???