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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

''The de-industrial revolution''

From New Left Project

''Let’s start with a question: if I asked you to think of a place that sums up what’s wrong with Britain, where would you choose? For some people, it’s the City of London: all those bankers who broke the economy just a few years ago and are now back to business as usual - complete, of course, with megabonuses. For others, it might be any Jobcentre or some other place that speaks of poverty of ambition, welfare dependency and all those other terms they use in the Daily Telegraph. For me, there’s a specific place. It’s called River Road and it’s in Barking, in the furthest reaches of East London.''

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