IN some respects the latest report on Britain’s wealth from the Government’s Office For National Statistics holds few surprises – the gap between the richest and poorest is huge, and is getting bigger.
Wealth is concentrated in England’s south-east; pensions are a luxury for those who have the least.
But what is perhaps remarkable is that the electorate continues to put up with it.
Scotland didn’t vote for the Tories at the last General Election – or the one before that – but as long as David Cameron and George Osborne have their hands on the public purse there is little hope that Westminster will abandon its ideological love affair with austerity.
Cameron, Osborne and many of the Tories are the privileged few described in the ONS report.
They set the rules, they win the game.
Government for the many, not the few, seems a vain hope.
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