Over time, socialists change the badges on their lapels, their slogans, their colours and their flags.
But one thing always remains the same - they will always climb up the ladder but once they’ve reached the top, they pull it up after themselves.
The latest example is of course, Angela Rayner, the housing secretary who infamously benefitted from Lady Thatcher’s policy of the Right to Buy. Ms Rayner is now reportedly drawing up plans to abandon the policy.
The Right to Buy policy embodies everything that is great about conservatism - the belief in social and economic mobility, the belief in home ownership, in wealth creation and prosperity.
The policy gets to the heart of the distinction between conservatives and socialists.
Conservatives want to create a pathway to prosperity while socialists want to keep people poor in the hope they will be a captive vote.
The proposed move to cancel the Right to Buy scheme comes from concerns that the council houses sold enter the private market.
A report earlier this year from the left-wing New Economics Foundation lamented the fact that 40 per cent of former council homes sold under the scheme are now owned by private landlords - the horror.
What socialists also don’t understand is basic supply and demand.
Property being in the private sector is a good thing.
The housing crisis is caused by a chronic lack of supply.
With more homes entering the rental market, this could help make rents more affordable.
But this move also marks a signal that we are not witnessing the resurrection of New Labour, but rather the old Labour.
For Angela Rayner, the Right to Buy scheme meant buying her own home and improving her financial circumstances, but it seems such a policy will no longer be afforded to people living in council houses.
Up the ladder for Ms Rayner, but it’s only snakes for you.
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