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Key questions: what, in general, to do about poverty and specifically, how to recreate a vibrant, productive middle class? These are not a tasks for politicians alone but for society as a whole - it's a matter of survival. Pease let's have much less "someone over there should" and much more "let's do this right here where we live".

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The chance of a burger flipper ever moving up beyond store manager are probably similar to the chances of an able seaman who can hand, reef and steer, becoming an admiral in the old Royal Navy, or of winning the lottery.

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