Its so sad that our society is so infected with US social aspirations via tv etc., that we never look to the European countries who have sucessfully implemented public housing policies.
It just crazy not to make sure the basics such as housing and public transport are affordable as it then creates a more flexible work force.
Some of the rooms people seem to accept was all they could get are worse than the bed sits that in fact many people lived in, in the 50s and 60s and into the 70s. Although shared bathrooms are always a night mare.
And of course the other irony is that all those people who are saving up for and getting into debt to buy a house are also being sold short. Since the Tories, some decades ago, got rid of the Parker Morris (?) standards people are being sold housed with double bedrooms etc., which they are clearly not (ie a double bedroom should not only have room for the bed but room for other furniture and still be able to walk around in, not a room where the bed fills the entire floor space). In fact I think this was another Thatcher legacy. And of course a lot of the building standards were better.
Why is nobody, in any political party looking at the cost of Thatcher.
What with the railways and privitisation of utilities. And now many of these are run by the nationalised industries of other countries.
It makes me believe that old saying (not the on the anarchists love that whoever you vote for the government gets in) you get the Government you deserve. We seem to love being told lies and want to believe some fantasy that it is never our fault but always some outsider creating problems.
