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0 pointsahartmetz8mo ago0 comments

Maybe they are now (I doubt it), but they surely weren't under Thatcher.

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The Tories decided to flank Farage from the right during the last elections. Calling them "centre-left" is a joke.

qcnguy8mo ago

Correct. But by "decades" I meant in the 40 years since Thatcher.

cma8mo ago

Water was privatized in the 90s after Thatcher.

The pipes that "are Victorian and should have been replaced before privatisation" were around before then.

They have had plenty of time to replace them.

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