And thats a price that Tony Blair, low tax saviour of middle England, won't pay. By 1993, the UK had 3.9 million children living in poverty - more than any other EU member state. For Labour, the solutions to all this are clear. Capital can no longer afford the cost of the welfare state. Labour's task is to dismantle it.
Crime becomes something the poor do to each other.
Anyone who steps ouside this gets hit even harder. The pro Labour left are buried by history - having been cheerleaders for New Labour and therefore de facto cheerleaders for the crackdown to come. The rest of us are left to deal with the consequences.