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Brendan Barber, Can you explain why the trades union movement has continued to support a government whose policies have actively and deliberately caused the expropriation and transfer of relative wealth and purcahsing power from the non-property-owning class to the speculative property-owning-class, to an extent that would make Margaret Thatcher blush with shame?
Asked by PatNInterupt on Feb 14 2009 10:44:46 AM and supported by 26 members MORE!

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PatNInterupt at Mar 11 2009 12:00:00 AM : A very poor answer I think. A classic politician's answer indeed: ignore the actual question being asked, then re-frame the question on a totally different basis and answer that instead. He has chosen to ignore the issues raised totally, presumably because they offend his own sense of identity with the Labour Party, and accepting them as potentially fact would be devastating. Whether he chooses to recognise it or not, there has been a massive polarisation of wealth in the UK since Labour came to power - their desire to create a "Home-Owning Democracy" through encouraging high loan-to-value, and discount mortgages and perpetuating tax breaks for investors, forced up house prices condemning millions of prudent, "hard-working families" and key-workers to relative poverty. The fact the TUC General Secretary would rather ignore this issue than openly question it and address is it a very sad indictment of the modern political class.

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