Sheffield city council has been labour controlled since 1958, except for 2 short isolated periods of short duration. they presided over the slow dereliction of the park hill flats, a squalid 1960s slum that dominates the city skyline, and which is only now being refurbished due to a part privatization deal with urban splash. I don't recall privatization being labour party policy, particularly for a redder than red council like Sheffield, who squandered millions of the city's money on the world student games in the 1980s.
just goes to show that times change, and the modern labour party is probably just a clone of the tory party now.