They’ve had twelve years
Britain under Gordon Brown is a more unequal country than at any time since modern records began in the early 1960s, after the incomes of the poor fell and those of the rich rose in the three years after the 2005 general election.
What’s it all been for?
Posted on May 11th, 2009 at 5:17pm under New Labour
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It’s so an Old Etonian can appear to be the face of change apparently.
What’s it all been for?
It’s all been for the ruling classes, that’s what.
The definition of poverty they’re using in the piece is arse: according to it, I was one of the ‘one in seven’ living in poverty from 2000-02 when doing first-grad-journo work (and I rented my own shitty flat rather than living rent-free at home, unlike many of the one-in-seven do). Sure, that involved cooking & drinking carry-outs rather than restaurants and pubs, but never going hungry/thirsty/roofless.
More relevantly, given that (unlike living as a single bloke) raising a family on sod-all money is *hard*, the fact that even the IFS grudgingly admits the government has cut child poverty by 16% is a massive, concrete & genuinely amazing achievement, one the Tories would never have done, and one which’ll probably be reversed when the bastards get in.