This is from Larry Elliott's column posted this afternoon:
Ed Miliband's big idea at last year's Labour conference was One Nation Britain. This is a nice as an aspiration but bears no relation to the country we actually inhabit.
Enforcing the minimum wage, scrapping the bedroom tax and sacking Atos won't change that.
I'm waiting to hear the ideas that will this week. The ideas that say our official opposition believes that they could make a real difference f entrusted with power.
I want to know they believe in the power of the state to make a difference. But I'm not getting that as yet.
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Unfortunately I think the answer will be some sort of vague and muddled version of ‘no’.
Interesting that the article seems to imply that the unemployment is structural – the only way people can get back to work these days is to work for free and there is even fierce competition for that!
I think that the phrase should have been:
“One Britain:One nation (well, 99% one nation)”
Unfortunately, the politicians see themselves as being in the 1%.
How those who are really rich, as opposed to nearly rich (really rich is assets of over 25 million), see the politicians is something we’ll have to guess about. I’m guessing they see them as something on the bottom of their shoe…