In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole … - John Major

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God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

John Major

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

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