A Christmas Carol – 2003 style: Part Two: The Blair leadership's strange concept of "social justice" In Gordon Brown's recent Budget Report for 2003 we are told that "social justice" is the aim of the Blair government. A closer look at official statistics shows that the opposite is being achieved.
A Christmas Carol – 2003 style: Part One: Scrooge is alive and well in Blair's Britain The festive season in Britain got off to a grim start with the discovery of two pensioners who died weeks after their gas supply was cut off because of an unpaid bill of £140. These events happened, not in 1840 but in our own times. The Office of National Statistics predicts that 2,500 people will die of cold this week. The cause of these deaths is usually attributed to things like influenza, heart attacks, pneumonia and the like. But the real cause in most cases is poverty and neglect.
