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摘要

In that foreign land of Britain before the credit crisis, the Conservative opposition party started to fret about a "broken society". The new Tory mission, now that Thatcherite remedies carried forward by Blairite Labour had saved the economy, was to tackle the outlands of a prospering society-the bleak estates where too many people were marooned, out of work, luck and hope. If that ambition cost money in the short-term, a Conservative government could draw upon the "proceeds of growth"-tax revenues generated by a never-ending economic expansion.