People in poverty
Tony Stoller challenges the prevalent discourse on poverty
For the best part of forty years I’ve been involved in, tried to influence and been impressed by public policy-making in the UK. I’ve been equally appalled too. Here, at the end of 2012, we can start to see that we are now in a new time. What we have now is a completely new paradigm for public policy-making, dominated and managed by what we can call the ‘new elite’. It is a cohort of politicians, policy wonks, commentators, journalists and media owners, who both shape and comment on policy. They are the masters now, and they jointly take part in a symbiotic dance, which the public is encouraged to believe they are part of, but from which they are, in reality, consciously excluded.
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