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what progress have missed is that many of us on the so called left grew up among the working classes. I rember mould on the inside of the windows, and occassions when we had very little money and on one occassion seeing my mother cry after the so called National Assistance officer had left and said why did she not sell her wedding presents etc. This when my father had cancer of the osophocus.
I have worked for many years as an advice worker, at the coal face and looked poverty in the face daily. I now represent a ward in the top 8 % of deprived areas of the uk and the highest premature death rate in Bristol. Its OK number crunching, but some of us in the party are now seeing the reality of the ConDEms policies and understand what is happening in the area of the country which progress rarely get involved with.