Thatcher And The Tories Created The “Ghettos”

Works and Pension Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says we have “created almost ghettos of poverty where people are static, unable to get work because there isn’t any there. They are stuck”.
Not so very long ago people who wanted to relocate were assisted by the Employment Transfer Scheme, which provided grants to pay for removal costs and the legal fees involved in moving home.
It was Margaret Thatcher who scrapped the Employment Transfer Scheme.
So if Mr Duncan Smith wonders why workers are trapped in these “ghettos” that he describes so vividly, he might like to point the finger at Mrs Thatcher.
Because God knows, she, in her wisdom, helped to create them.