Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain |
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 | Ferdinand Mount believes that there is a growing gap between the rich and the poor in Britain. The reasons for this are: economic policies that favour the rich; a welfare state which has infantilised the lower classes; strict planning laws that make land and housing unaffordable for the poor; and the contemptuous and paternalistic attidude that the rich in Britain have always had towards the poor.I would agree with the previous reviewer that the author does romanticise the lower classes. However, I would not agree that this is a right wing polemic. Despite the fact that Mr Mount was once an advisor to Mrs. Thatcher, he is not a conventional Tory. He proposes education and health voucher schemes, and that the tax and benefits system be reformed to encourage marriage. He also proposes that the minimum wage should be increased, that only the better-off should pay taxes, that businesses should be owned by their workers and that some land should be transferred from wealthy landowners to ... read more.
Written by Ferdinand Mount.
Published 29 September 2005.
Published by Short Books, London.
rrp £8.99.
320 pages Paperback.
ISBN: 1904977324
ISBN-13: 9781904977322 | |
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