The Re-Emergence of Victorian Values.

A recent survey of teachers has shown that an increasing number of them are buying food out of their own pockets to feed children who are going to school hungry. Another report shows that the uptake of emergency food provision for the poor is also rising.

This is Britain, a modern, technologically advanced country. It’s a country which, for thirty years between the early 50’s and the early 80’s, had a sensible mixed economy in which the wealthy didn’t become too wealthy and the poor didn’t become too poor.

And then Mrs Thatcher came along and set about demolishing it, moving us instead towards an increasingly free market economy. Britain is now dripping with wealth, but it’s all in the hands of a small number of people. There are millionaires and billionaires in Britain who can never hope to spend even the interest on their capital, let alone the capital itself.

Mrs Thatcher said she wanted a ‘return to Victorian values.’ Charles Dickens described Victorian values very well, and it seems she’s getting her wish.