Not on the agenda

In Not On The Label, Felicity Lawrence describes food deserts, areas where out-of-town supermarkets have left behind urban wastelands where it is impossible to walk to shops and buy fresh fruit and vegetables. The inhabitants of these areas are mostly the poor and car-less who take taxis they can't afford to buy poor quality processed food from supermarket giants.
Yet oppression of the poor is not just through denial of access to everyday healthy requirements, but can be seen in the way government runs filthy segregationist trunk roads through deprived areas of east London like Bow where people are too poorly educated and disaffected to complain.
The legacy of Thatcherite Britain is this new proletariat: semi-literate subscribers to a benefit hegemony where second-class health and education are a brand of poverty. These people have been abandoned to fast food and Blockbusters by all political parties in favour of an aspirational and self-deluding middle England who turn a blind eye to the fact that they are the next in line.