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by Polly Toynbee (Author), David Walker (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Granta Books (1 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1847080936
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847080936
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
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'A brilliant blend of moving human stories, cast-iron statistics and real-world solutions to our great national scandal'


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'A dissection of Britain's record on today's inequality like none other'
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars From a woman who knows, 4 Mar 2009
By Jonathan Carr "joncarr" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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I respect Polly Tonynbee because she did did something none of her peers would do - she lived on benefits for a few weeks to see if she could survive. What she realised was that she couldn't.

While the likes of Piers Morgan are still looking up, Tonybee is looking down - down at the millions whose faces remain in the dirt in this so called rich era. What she finds is a world that is being punished even as it creates the actual things that we all want - clothes, electronics, cars, airplanes. The workers have always been treated wrongly. This is Toynbee's biggest argument for change and her biggest cry that society is due a fundamental change.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Useful exposure of Labour's capitalism, 23 Jan 2009
By William Podmore (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Polly Toynbee and David Walker of the Guardian have written a fine study of the injustice of our society, the second most unequal among developed countries, after the USA. A UNICEF report of 2007 found that Britain was the worst of 21 `rich' countries for children to grow up in. A fifth of children still live in poverty.

They write of the key `myths that helps to keep things the way they are' and then assert, "A two-thirds working class society became two-thirds white collar ... with the working class a minority." Don't white collar workers work for a living, for an employer? Haven't they organised in unions to fight for better wages for more than a century? The idea that white collar workers are not workers is surely one of the most damaging of conservative myths.

The authors note that since 1997 the richest 10%'s share of the nation's wealth has risen from 47% to 54%. They write, "parental income pretty accurately predicts whether a child will win or lose in life: the more unequally income is shared, the tighter the link becomes."

Yet they write, "Without anyone quite willing it, the UK has become more divided." And again, "So Labour, unsure of its own mind, cut inheritance tax although only the richest 6% of estates were ever liable." (My italics) They repeatedly call the Blair and Brown governments `naïve'. Who is being naïve?

They replay Polly Toynbee's `camel train' image of society, which omits the key fact that the few at the front are only ahead because they have stolen the wealth produced by the majority. No wonder David Cameron has borrowed the image.

Senior executives gave themselves an average 33% rise in 2007-8, looting the country's wealth. The boss of Punch Taverns, for instance, got 1,148 times more than his bar staff. In a recent Financial Times poll, 60% wanted to cap senior executives' earnings and 74% said the rich/poor divide was too wide.

We spend only 0.5% of GDP on under-5s, compared to Denmark's 2%. We need access to Sure Start Children's Centres for all under-5s, and access to the Every Child a Reader scheme for all children struggling with reading. Its 38 hours of one-to-one teaching has raised three out of four children on the Scheme so far to at least average literacy.

`Naïve' Mr Brown is now giving the bankers another £200 billion, when just £3.4 billion a year would halve child poverty.

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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars truth about divided britain, 16 Sep 2008
This book is first class.As with Toynbees and Walkers previous publications it is exceptionally well researched.Through careful evidence based arguments the true nature of a socially and economically divided Britain is vividly critiqued and exposed using the full force of the authors considerable gift for bringing new light and clarity to issues of social justice. Despite the scandalous levels of inequality that prevail in Modern Britain that are explored in this book, the book is not at all defeatist or disheartening.
Why? Because the authors raise the debate by raising the game above complaining about terrible things are and how nothing can ever really change.Solutions is far more the theme of this book rather than problems.I as a reader was left feeling reinvigorated and hopeful for the future because any false mystique attached to the inevitability of having to settle with the current shambles as the best we can hope for is completly stripped away by Toynbee and Walker who refuse to tip toe around those whose entrenched priviledge needs to be urgently questioned.
The authorship of this book has a gift for clarity that is second to none.It will make uncomfortable reading for New Labour ,It will at first make you angry but you soon come to realise that the main problem is political will and that equality and fairness by no means need to remain just pipe dreams.An excellent book.A must for anyone truly interested in social justice.
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