Salary sacrifice to be taxed

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not only are my generation not going to have a state pension or private healthcare, but we also can’t save into our own pensions because we need to fund the current generation.

this makes me so angry

I think it was, and remained, popular with Labour voting council tenants. I have met people over the years who will not have a word said against Thatcher because her policy allowed their family then to buy, when they wouldn’t have been able to otherwise. Created a load of Tory voters. Labour voters - as I was - didn’t agree, but I had nothing to gain so wasn’t swayed by personal gain.

Created a load of Tory voters.

Precisely. Just as intended.

Again does depend who you know…I’m certain the right to buyers (one of whom was a Labour councillor) I knew didn’t suddenly start spouting Tory lines.

tbh, it’s what’s wrong with this govt, no aspiration to get people into work or home ownership…it’s not a Tory idea.

What’s so great and left about trapping people in social housing or private rentals?

A lot of erstwhile Labour voters switched their allegiance to the Tories when right to buy was introduced, exactly as they were bribed to do. Blue collar Tories were an unknown phenomenon pre Thatcher.

I don’t see what was in it for them by keeping it because most Labour voters have always hated it

it would lose them votes and they knew it, labour voters were loving the fact they could purchase their houses from the council, it was the self preservation and selfishness kicking in

I disagree. Those voters had already turned blue because the bribe worked.

This. All day long.

Labour won the election, that was the point they turned their back on troys knowing that labour wouldn't change their advantage of being able to purchase their council home that they had lived in since 1981 or whenever

Blair's idol was thatcher.... No real labour party has been in that I can remember. B. 1971