In January 2010 we learnt that within London the best-off 10th of the population each had recourse to 273 times the wealth of the worse-off 10th of that population (Hills et al. 2010, An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK Report of the National Equality Panel, Government Equalities Office, London). It is hard to find any city in an affluent country that is more unequal. This wealth gap did not include the assets of the UK super-rich, who mostly live in or near London. In April 2010 the Sunday Times newspaper reported the wealth of the richest 1000 people in the UK had risen by an average of £77 million each in just one year, to now stand at £335.5 billion. Today in the UK we are again as unequal as we were around 1918. For 60 years we became more equal, but for the last 30 years, more unequal. Looking at inequality trends it is very hard, initially, to notice when the party of government changed. However, closer inspection of the time series suggests there were key times when the trends changed direction, when the future was much less like the past and when how people voted and acted appeared to matter more than at other times. With all three main parties offering what may appear to be very similar solutions to the issue of reducing inequality it seems unlikely that voting in 2010 will make much of a difference. However, today inequalities are now at unsustainable extremes. Action has been taken such that some inequalities, especially in education, have begun to shrink. The last two times that the direction of trends in inequalities changed, in the 1920s and 1970s, there were several general elections held within a relatively short time period. Inequality is expensive. The UK is not as well-off as it once was. It could be time for a change again. Which way will we go?

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所有连接？种族，死亡，财富，投票和出生地。

在2010年1月，我们了解到，伦敦最富裕的人口中，有十分之一的人的财富是穷人的十分之一人的财富的273倍（Hills等人，2010，《英国经济不平等状况剖析》）。伦敦政府平等办公室国家平等小组）。很难在富裕国家中找到任何一个更加不平等的城市。这个贫富差距不包括那些主要居住在伦敦或伦敦附近的英国超级富豪的资产。2010年4月，《星期日泰晤士报》报纸报道说，英国最富有的1000人的财富在短短一年内平均每人增加了7700万英镑，如今已达到3355亿英镑。今天，在英国，我们再次变得像1918年左右那样不平等。60年来，我们变得更加平等，但在最近30年中，我们变得更加不平等。观察不平等趋势非常困难，最初是要通知政党何时变更。但是，对时间序列的仔细检查表明，在某些关键时刻，趋势改变了方向，未来变得不像过去，而且人们如何投票和采取行动似乎比其他时候更重要。在所有三个主要政党都提出了减少不平等问题的解决方案时，2010年的投票似乎不太可能发挥很大作用。但是，今天的不平等现象已经达到了不可持续的极限。采取了一些行动，使某些不平等现象，特别是在教育方面的不平等现象开始缩小。最近两次不平等趋势的方向发生了变化，在1920年代和1970年代，在相对较短的时间内举行了几次大选。不平等是昂贵的。英国并不像过去那样富裕。可能需要再次进行更改。我们走哪条路？