http://lanekenworthy.net/2009/06/01/did-blair-and-brown-fail-on-inequality/ Lane Kenworthy Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://lanekenworthy.net/2009/06/01/did-blair-and-brown-fail-on-inequality/#comment-2652 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 09:58:50 +0000 http://lanekenworthy.net/?p=2905#comment-2652 A graph entirely consistent with the rich getting richer and the poor remaing, well, poor.

]]> http://lanekenworthy.net/2009/06/01/did-blair-and-brown-fail-on-inequality/#comment-1322 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:48:12 +0000 http://lanekenworthy.net/?p=2905#comment-1322 Hi Lane
You’re dead right that the distribution of income gains was far better under Labour than the Conservatives, but in the end there was so much to do that this didn’t prove enough. Labour had a decade of untrammeled power under the Westminster model and rather ‘bottled out’ in the end.
The chart from Brewer et al also gives us a nice clue as to why Labour’s support is collapsing. There was a redistribution from the median voter – or something just to the right of him/her – to the poorer and richer parts of society. The 4th-8th deciles are too big a bunch of voters to mess with, and they would have done better under a less redistributive regime.

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