I think the fact that the British economy in general was performing very well, they say we have prosperity. What the common ordinary people in Britain understood was that more and more people at the top were getting more and more of that economy, and they were getting less and less. The great shock was they swept overwhelmingly, they swept out a party at a time when prosperity, so called, was very much in motion there.
Discussing the disparity in wealth during a period of economic prosperity in Britain.
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