ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a number of fundamental policy considerations. The first concerns the crucial importance of supporting those people on low incomes who spend so much of their time resisting the new barbarism they witness operating and destroying all around them. In all sorts of ways the poor are being as successfully segregated geographically as they were in Victorian towns. Housing subsidies, repair grants, and council house sales policy are all playing an important part in achieving this result. The effects of economic growth used to be likened to a great steamer coming into port and bringing with it a whole barrage of driftwood. Three important trends, economic, social and cultural, are working their way through and transforming Britain's ghettos. These forces are collectively bringing about a destruction which can only be likened to a social anthrax. The common thread of unemployment runs through all these wretched trends.
