Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Poor were better off in 1979

[el-ahrairah]

Another piece of research to show that Labour have failed the poorest in society.

http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/comparing-taxes-benefits-summary.pdf

The poor, it says here, have become better off under Labour than the Tories, but only if they were continually employed and had didn't get sick.

Oh, and your pension is fucked.

So working classes, stay in work, don't risk your job, don't get sick, and die rather than retire.

 

[weltweit]

So,
Is Labour working?
Aparrently not!

 

[Idris2002]

 

[tbaldwin]

Another piece of research to show that Labour have failed the poorest in society.

http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/comparing-taxes-benefits-summary.pdf

The poor, it says here, have become better off under Labour than the Tories, but only if they were continually employed and had didn't get sick.

Oh, and your pension is fucked.

So working classes, stay in work, don't risk your job, don't get sick, and die rather than retire.

Kind of missing the point of what 18 years of Tory rule did for the UK.
Under Thatcher and Major inequality grew massivelly and policies`they put in place also had longer term effects.

Have the rowntree foundation ever commented on what a`scum company Nestle are?

 

[gosub]

was an article on similar in the spectator blog last month

 

[tbaldwin]

was an article on similar in the spectator blog last month

Shit article. But the graph clearly shows that inequality went up massivelly under Thatcher....Who Fraser Nelson admires.....

 

[gosub]

posted it for the graph, and links to GINI. Would actually say holding politicans words up against stats is something journos should do more of.
On the rise again now which is kind of what Rowntree are saying