Thatcher’s big idea was to persuade the C1C2 classes that they did not want council houses but to buy their houses. They completely failed to spot that once they had a mortgage they could be evicted if they could not keep up the payments, and so could no longer afford to strike.
Lemmings don’t really line up and jump over cliffs, but lemming sociologists might think that the British working classes like to do precisely that.
