My "70s workers' paradise"? Please don't put words in my mouth, I made no such claim. I was referring to traditional local pubs, not the town-centre "vertical

My "70s workers' paradise"? Please don't put words in my mouth, I made no such claim. I was referring to traditional local pubs, not the town-centre "vertical drinking establishments" which replaced them. "Right-to-buy" schemes weren't the problem - my in-laws live in an ex-Council House which they bought. This was actually a good thing in that one of the problems with large out-of-town Council Estates was that they ended up containing a monoculture lacking in good visible role models for the children growing up on them. Private purchases on those estates improved that situation. The problem wasn't "Right to Buy", it was "Right to Build" - Councils should have been allowed (and encouraged) to use the money raised from Sales to build replacement housing. I find it interesting that you describe my pointing out mistakes that have been made as "romanticising the past". On the contrary, if you want to improve things then the very first thing you have to acknowledge is when and where things have gone wrong.