RE CT Riley’s comment that we should forget about the Thatcher period and think instead about the present plight of victims of repossession (HAS, April 22).
He’s missing the point.
The train of events that has produced all this trauma was started off by the Thatcher government, which originally gave the green light to bankers and City speculators to make obscene amounts of money with absolute disregard for the inevitable, if long-term, social consequences.
Furthermore, the evident unconcern – practical or otherwise – of the present Government for the victims of repossession and negative equity is its biggest single indictment. They’re not just corrupt, which you can live with, they’re inhuman, which you can’t. But isn’t new Labour a misbegotten version of Thatcherism?
Tony Kelly, Crook, Co Durham.
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