Perhaps, maybe Maggie Thatcher's policy of selling off 'council houses' (ie state built housing for the poor) - at a massive, unjustified discount - to their tenants possibly could have bolstered the Tory voting base a few notches, (I'm unconvinced since the lumpen-prole, sans-cullotes underclass of Britain has grown massively since here tenure in office, and these people are Labour fodder), but in terms of public policy, the scheme is and has been an utter, utter disaster.