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    Barry
    What amazes me is your inability to grasp what, for me, is a simple concept that wealth creation does not lead to generalised improvements in society. Again, I refer to a study from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (1997):

    "Researchers working on the first report found that households in already-wealthy areas have tended to become disproportionately wealthier and that many rich people live in areas segregated from the rest of society".

    Would you call the Rowntree Foundation 'class and wealth obsessed'?

    A programme on BBC1 last night, 'Poor Kids', was an amazingly eloquent expose by young children of life in poverty, in Britain. If you didn't see the programme I would urge you to try and locate it. It showed: how chronically damp housing caused illness which led to missed school (and therefore future opportunity); bullying at school because of ragged clothing; children going without meals due to lack of money and if not at school because of being sick (caused by their housing!) missing the chance of one substantial meal a day; reduced socialising opportunities because the children recognised their condition and would not invite school friends home. Despite this the children were upbeat and talked about their hopes for their future. The parents were impressive too, trying to keep things 'normal' - i.e. provide for birthdays, Christmas etc - while having to struggle to provide for the basics for life. They recognised they were desperately poor but were not seeking to blame anyone but neither was one man having any success in finding work as jobs are being cut left right and centre at the moment. These people were unable (due to their circumstances not due to being 'feckless') to make the life choices that you expound. If you didn't see the programme I would urge you to try and locate it.

    All this is before the cuts that Osborne has announced have really hit home. All most people want is a chance but this is being taken from the most vulnerable members of our society whilst they watch the richest get richer.

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