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That's the ting with inequality it's very much unequal

From a materialistic point of view I would agree, if you have not already done so I recommend a short book written by "Harry Leslie Smith a survivor of the Great Depression, a World War Two RAF veteran and now, aged 92, he is a social activist for the poor and preservation of social democracy...

The Guardian in an article this week said and I paraphrase here when talking about inequality in Britan in 2018: This trend is especially pronounced in Britain, where the dramatic rise in inequality has been fuelled by the creation of a super-rich class. The share of the top 1% of income...

Inequality is the measurement that interests me and the Establishments role in maintaining the status quo In 1776 Adam Smith to many the father of capitalism wrote The Wealth of Nations where he made the point explicitly and repeatedly, that the true measure of a nation’s wealth is not the...

Indeed my point we have not had a socialist government in the past 30 years as you quite rightly point out its upon the backs of a capitalist economy and the current Labour Party is not that radically different, equally we have not had a true capicalist society from the right of British Politics...

The Labour party has in the past implemented broadly socialist policies: the welfare state, National Health Service, nationalising key industries, progressive income tax policy, minimum wage, equality legislation. All those things suggest it has in the past been a party with socialist values...

The right and left of British politics have both been centralist for the past 30 years and in that time it has not reduced equality in fact quite the reverse the differance between minimum average wage and maximum average wage was seven times in the 1970s it's now fourteen times. The current...