post me a link Les pls .Originally Posted by les_taxi
Think you will find it was before
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/20...s-poor-society
But from the very beginning of the 18 years of Conservative rule the poor were under the cosh. No developed state, with the exception of New Zealand, suffered such a brutal widening of inequality.
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New Labour lifted 1.1 million children above the poverty line. A Conservative chancellor is again hitting the poorest the hardest – harder than even Thatcher.
