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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
And to top it all off, those who had a free university education along with grants, Housing Benefit etc then pulled the ladder up for those coming after them.
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Well, it wasn't the individuals who did this, it was the Government. There again, it could be argued that it was many of these people who voted for the Governments that did these things.
Edit: I've just been reading that Thatcher made no mention of privatisation in her first manifesto.
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Points of information
A) in 1970 600,000 attended University, now it is 2.4 million - four times as many
B) Housing Benefit was introduced in 1982, and £22 billion was spent on it last year, which is double the amount spent in the early 2000s, and 4 million people receive it - how is this "pulling up the ladder"?