Readers' Blog: Only rich benefit from upswing in two-tier society

The ‘land of milk and honey’ is a nice sentiment, if you’re a beneficiary of society’s largesse, but most of us are not, even if the country is supposedly thriving again.

I was thinking this the other day, when I was picking up discarded litter from the drains and footpaths: I’m on one of those community schemes that take you off the unemployment register and which allow the Government to claim that jobs are being created and that unemployment now stands at a very favourable 5.3% (which is still 127,000 people without a wage or a community scheme top-up).