Picture of poverty under Tories
IN the Yorkshire Diary section (Saturday August 2) there was a picture of the children preparing to go on holiday to a camp called Silverdale, a camp for poor children who had never had a chance to walk on sandy beaches or enjoyed the thrill of a paddle in the sea.
These children belonging to Britain, the richest country in the world in those days – with Britain owning one third of the world's surface, with the Empire the largest since the fall of the Roman Empire, why then did we see such abject poverty here in Britain, a country awash with money yet the children, for the most part in rags? Who then was responsible for this debacle? Certainly not the Labour Party and was, it transpires, the Conservatives. Please, never ever allow them to turn back the clock.
REGINALD KIRBY, Stanningley, Pudsey
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08 August 2008 11:55 AM
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