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This is my blog to explain why I am a member of the UK's Conservative party and my political thoughts.

Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Poverty. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Child Poverty Rates increase

Figures released today by the DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) show that 100,000 more children now live in relative poverty compared ...

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The great Council House debate

This seems to have some to the fore recently since a minister who seems to have profiteered by buying not one but two social housing units f...

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Family breakdown and government policy

Frankly there has not been enough discussion of Ian Duncan Smith's policy paper on Social Justice, entitled Breakdown Britain. You can ...

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Relative Poverty and the fallacy of redistribution

Much waffle has been spoken today about this document revealed to the world by Guido Fawks (Big hat tip to Guido again). The document is n...

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About Me

Benedict White: I was born in march 1968 in a small village in Hertfordshire, just north of London. My father was English (English father Irish mother) and my mother is Welsh. When I was 2 months old the family moved to the Lebanon. I had some very good times there. We left due to the war in a convoy that was miles long and travelled by road from Beirut to Damascus in an 8 hour journey on the 4th of July 1976. Since then i have lived in Croydon then various parts of Mid Sussex where I now live.

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