After all that was the political thinking that made council house sales so popular with working class voters. (liberalconspiracy.org)
«The constituency was, for many years up until Thatcher's promise of council house sales, a marginal Tory - Labour constituency,» he explains. (politics.co.uk)
In his inimitable podium - thumping style, Prescott told the packed hall that the capital receipts from council house sales of the 1980s — that local authorities were banned from spending — would be released in order to build new houses. (labour-uncut.co.uk)