The trouble is that while the increases in welfare payments were welcome, the previous Government was inept in a host of other areas. It spent a fortune on the health services and after spending the money, it produced a strategy. Most reasonable people would have done the reverse. Most people on average incomes have given up on the dream of owning a house. Local authority housing is unavailable to most people unless they are waiting for two years. Those factors mean that the otherwise welcome increases in the income of the poorest will make no contribution to eliminating inequality and injustice in our society because this Government, like the previous one, does not understand the difference between inequality and poverty. We can eliminate consistent poverty – I hope we will do so – but if we continue to put together a society which is the most profoundly unequal in the western world with the exception of the United States, we will never be able to produce the sort of housing that will get our people out of poverty. We will never be able to produce the quality of life that our people expect. While social welfare increases are to be welcomed, this motion represents such a limited vision of the future, of equality and of what poverty should really be about that it is not worthy of support.