"Where is your evidence for that, Richard Bridge? Don't you mean, "...for the rich to get richer and the poor to get richer, too?" "

You might like to consider this evidence, Ringer:

•Nearly 4 million children are living in poverty in the UK (after housing costs)
•The proportion of children living in poverty grew from 1 in 10 in 1979 to 1 in 3 in 1998. Today, 30 per cent of children in Britain are living in poverty.
•The UK has one of the worst rates of child poverty in the industrialised world
•The majority (59 per cent) of poor children live in a household where at least one adult works.
•40 per cent of poor children live in a household headed by a lone parent. The majority of poor children (57 per cent) live in a household headed by a couple.