How to get rid of poverty; redefine it.

Here is a nice post from Stewart, Burchardt, Hills and Vizard about the current government's approach to dealing with child poverty. Truly the nasty Right has so much influence in the Conservative Party that it no longer bothers to even try to disguise its vileness. 

And while this goes on what does the Labour Party do? Fiddle while Rome is burning. The only person putting up even a squeak of effective parliamentary opposition is Harriet Harman. The rest of her party seem to be  back with the baggage train squabbling among themselves.