AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF AN ECONOMIC BOOM SO MASSIVE IT'S REQUIRED IMPORTING MILLIONS OF WORKERS...:

Britain in 2008: a nation in thrall to Thatcherism (Andy McSmith, 23 January 2008, Independent)

[W]hen it comes to blaming the poor for being poor, attitudes are harder now than they were in the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher was at the peak of her influence.

The surveys, compiled from more than 3,000 interviews with a representative cross-section of society, have been conducted annually since 1983 by the National Centre for Social Research, with government backing.

21st-century attitudes

POVERTY

More than a quarter think poor people are poor because they are lazy or lack willpower, a view held by less than a fifth in 1986. Only 34 per cent think the Government should redistribute income, compared with 47 per cent in 1995.

...they have the gall to believe that the poor don't want to work hard?

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 22, 2008 10:44 PM