James Bloodworth
James Bloodworth is the former editor of Left Foot Forward.
Thatcher didn’t destroy the Tories. They were already a party in decline
The Conservative Party has been in steady decline since the Second World War, as the graph below depicting the Conservative share of the vote since the turn of last century shows.
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Thatcherism saw child poverty grow by 121 per cent
Yesterday we ran a piece on the level of people living in poverty under Margaret Thatcher in response to a claim by Guido Fawkes which claimed the poor had "got richer under Thatcher". I dealt with a lot of this yesterday; but here is another graph showing a bit more straightforwardly the growth in relative poverty during the Thatcher years.
The brighter side of famine
As we've been picking on the Daily Mail a lot recently, I thought it only fair that I should have a go at someone else today. With that in mind I decided to pick on the Guardian.
8 million people one paycheck away from homelessness
One in three people would be unable to pay their rent or mortgage for more than a month if they lost their job, new figures from Shelter reveal.
Did the poor get richer under Thatcher?
A post at Guido Fawkes' blog boasts that under Thatcher "wages went up across the whole spectrum, including for the poorest". As evidence, he produces this graph taken from Channel Four Factcheck.