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Barry
I was going to respond to your comments paragraph by paragraph but your last posting makes that unnecessary as it demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the world as experienced by many. You also state that DT1 is 'arrogant', 'snobbish' and 'patronising' without any sense of irony while throwing out statements based on opinion or personal experience but unfounded by research.
Can I draw your attention to the following?
"There has always been an association between health and social class and, despite the welfare state and the improvement in health in all sections of societies over the years, this discrepancy remains".
Dr Laurence Knott, Patient.co.uk, 2011
"Poverty makes people's lives shorter and more brutal than they need to be. Poverty is not simply about being on a low income and going without - it is also about being denied power, respect, good health, education and housing, basic self-esteem and the ability to participate in social activities".
Child Poverty Action Group 2011
"It seems to us that the research evidence we have reviewed indicates unequivocally the need for extensive and complex policy interventions if the established relationship between poverty and poor educational outcomes is to be disturbed".
Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2008
"Social background influences the way children feel about school from an early age. At primary school, children in poverty are more likely to have negative experiences...".
Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2007
"Life expectancy at birth varies significantly according to social class, with professional men expecting to live to around 80 years and unskilled manual men to 72.7 years, For women, the figures are 85.1 and 78.1 years". Office of National Statistics, 2007