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Article: The people's wake-up call for the Left

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The Sunday Telegraph London
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July 5, 2009
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We are all egalitarians now, right? Everybody (apart from a few political Neanderthals) regards it as unjust that some people are much poorer than others, and those who are richer than most are resented, right? Poverty is universally seen as a product of an unjust society and all modern political parties must be committed to correcting this, right?

Wrong. None of the above statements is true. An oddly under- publicised study from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, published last week, which bears the rather dry academic title "Understanding Attitudes to Tackling Economic Inequality" (rather than the more explanatory "The Left Has Completely Failed to Comprehend Public Opinion"), reveals the ...

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