1970s news headlines | Bill Grundy | 1970s housing | Right to buy | Today | 1977 

Two years after this show went out Thatcher was elected and started flogging off millions of council houses on the cheap - but then didnt allow councils to use the money from the sales to replace their housing stocks (shamefully this continued under major - and the blair lab govt). Decades later we've got a massive housing and homelessness crisis

A neighbour of mine on my street purchased his council house for a 85% discount, and retired at 50 years old, he now moans to everyone how lazy the youth are today, gotta love the boomers.

Strangest ever interview with Marlon Brando

What a Rotter!

Interesting. Mr Rossi MP interviewed here, only passed away last year at the age of 92. The interviewer reminds me a bit of Jon Craig, political journalist at Sky News

Hugh Rossi MP, one of the main architects of the 'Right to Buy' scheme - resulting in the effed up state of the housing market today.

Right to Buy policy also wanted to change mindset of occupiers from being Labour voters to Tory voters.

I believe Mr Rossi was a Vampire .Ray Reardon told me.

16th March 1977.

Wow, how times have changed,

I bet he wish Queen had showed up instead of the sex pistols though!

What a scorcher!

My mother in law from Kent bought her house from the council dirt cheap and when she died it passed onto her alcoholic son. He sold it and lived the life of Reilly which eventually killed him!

Thanks to Maggie, Council housing is no more

Bah. 40 degrees means a nice day to me.

"No, no....what was the bad word?"

It's 2021 and I'm still waiting for these fishing hints.

Messrs Grundy and Rossi in conversation - that could have been from a script for "Yes, Minister" (and I say that with respect) 😉 By the way, ancient Britons of March 1977, be careful out there - 19 degrees (C)..! Phew, you're all going on a Summer holiday! Greetings from Australia 🇦🇺

No sh*t, the majority of people would rather invest their money in bricks and mortar than pay rent. I guess the majority of people would rather own a Rolls Royce rather than a Hillman Imp. The problem is they couldn't afford it. The financial system promised everyone that if they got into debt enough they could all be home owners. The result was the 2008 financial crash which the world has never fully recovered from. Now a so-called "affordable' house, (arbitrarily defined as a fraction of market prices, not by incomes), in London would require you to earn over £70,000 a year, more than twice the median average income. On top of this there is no social housing stock left.

Today that relatively high temperature in March would have had the greens all over it -sign of global warming blah blah blah

complaining about being censored even back in the 70s, not much has changed since then

Then he met the Sex Pistols........

1st, just like that!

Panto as always