[14 million people-26% of Rritain's nonulation-are living in…]
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14 million people-26% of Rritain's nonulation-are living in poverty, according to a major new survey published last week.
Up to 49% of all oneparent families live on the borderline of poverty, while seven million people are incapacitated to the extent of needing social welfare provision.
The survey by Professor Peter Townsend is based largely on 1969 figures, and stresses that under successive Labour and Tory governments the situation has got steadily worse, not A profound further lurch towards mass poverty is certain until the Thatcher government is defeated and removed from office.
The story so far. Princess the shit.
Filthy rich, spoilt and notorious she is seeking to get back in her sister's good books by touring her former colony of America, opening supermarkets to raise money for a London music hall.
All is going well until in a moment of careless honesty at a society dinner she tells her hostess that she thinks all Irish are pigs. Her Irish hostess storms out in a fury and our poor Princess is followed everywhere by nasty ruffians making grunting noises.
Her holiday lies in seems lost.
Now read on:
Deep throat has a plan to save the day. He picks up the phone, dials a number_and begins to speak. All over Fleet Street editors stand to attention as they take their orders. The next day:
The Telegraph: 'IRA plot to kill Princess' The Mirror: 'Margaret IRA Death Squad'.
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14m poor
Margaret, intrepid sister to the Queen of England is in