I know a lot of people like to blame the nasty baby eating Tories for the housing situation in this country (especially on MN) and especially Margaret Thatcher for selling off the council houses.
However, for all those who blame the Tories can I ask - why is there never any criticism of the last 13 years of Labour in which they could have build millions of social homes and got rid of right to buy but did neither. Instead they were the main protagonists of buy-to-let (especially after Brown decided to tax private pensions) which has taken millions of first time buyer homes out of circulation, enslaved millions of families to be perpetual renters and all the horrors that go with it and oversaw a housing boom based on debt which has priced out so many people?
Where is the opprobium for Labour and the mess they are partly responsible for? And just to add, that is not to say that the Tories do not bear any responsibility, of course they do, but they certainly are not to blame for the situation that arose during Labour's tenure in office.