It is a real legacy (if not a really noble one). New labour have found the 'Poor'. I mean for years and years the Poor were simply to be oppressed and ignored (by conservative and then Labor). Now they are yet another political (as so meaningless) term to be bandied about (rather than to be wooed). Cameron makes cynical political capital claiming to talk for the poor (Clegg does the same). the claim is nonsense (look at Tory policy to see that, well as much as they have them). But that is not the point. the point is that New Labour have defined this category as something which matters, a word not to be lost (well for the next few years at least).
a legacy of sort I suppose!
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