Labour pledges to end child poverty by 2020 - A Reply

Who says New Labour will be in government in 13 years time. Such a statement by the New Labour government is total and utter nonsense, the kind manufactured to comfort the well off middle classes in Southern England so that they can continue living it up (without any concerns for theirconscience) because New Labour promises to deal with the outcomes of tax cuts for the wealthy gained through the consequent cutback in public and social provision for everyone else and ongoing privatisation across the public sector.

To ask questions as what child poverty is and how to measure it is a pointless distraction.

That we've had the greatest growth in social and economic inequality under the New Labour government should tell us all we need to kno

In the end it's about political principles, New Labour certainly has principles (the wrong ones) they're not the ones that have anything to do with genuine social justice or redistribution of wealth. New Labour's principles are more in line with the CBI, the arms trade, oil industry, globalised capitalism, the Tory party than anywhere near the workers or trade unions interests.

If we consider that sixty years ago a Labour government with socialists and working class orientated ministers founded a welfare state and a National Health Service because it believed in social justice, redistribution of wealth based on solid political principles and beliefs. That after three years (not three terms in office) it founded the NHS in 1948, this was while simultaneously the British economy was wrecked after the war, while food rationing was still in operation, while Britain's economy was close to bankruptcy and the Labour government had to go cap in hand to America's banks, money lenders and government to get a multi-billion dollar loan through lease/lend. That's about having principles that drive decision making policy in government.

So that a welfare state and NHS was founded when Britain was at it's poorest point socially, economically and structurally, contrast that with 21st Century Britain a strong economy (6th biggest internationally) and we're talking about an end to child poverty deferred for thirteen years.

Who's fooling who?

Kai Andersen