Piss Poor

"Britain under Gordon Brown is a more unequal country than at any time since modern records began in the early 1960s" http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/may/08/poverty-equality-britain-incomes-poor and in the telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/5291482/Gap-between-rich-and-poor-grows-to-record-levels-official-figures-show.html as yet, this finding has not triggered any real debate in parliament or elsewhere, it seems to be an issue that both labour and the conservatives would rather duck. If you were wondering how a Labour government could possibly spin this as an achievement – here's the press release http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/pns/DisplayPN.cgi?pn_id=2009_0086