Friday, July 10, 2009

A thousand times a thousand

In an article in Wednesday’s Times Matthew Taylor referred to the day when “Margaret Thatcher handed a delighted family in Aberdeen the keys of the millionth council house purchased under right-to-buy

On a small point of correction it was not Aberdeen, it was Morayshire (Forres). Not far from Balmoral, where Mrs Thatcher had just been staying on the annual prime ministerial visit

I always suspected that secretly she hoped that a member of the royal family might go along to make the presentation





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