Vote Labour! Demand taxes on the rich!
Since 2009 the richest 1,000 households in Britain have more than doubled their wealth. The top thousand’s assets total £547 billion, according to the Sunday Times Rich List 2015. In 2009 the total was £258 billion. The 2015 figure is a 32% rise compared even to the figure at the giddy peak of the boom before the autumn 2008 crash. Meanwhile the average household’s real income is still below what it was in 2009-10. Low-paid workers, disabled people (whether working or not), young workers, and public service workers have suffered especially. Some categories are over 20% worse off than in 2009....