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Barking and Dagenham - the two neighborhoods elect separate members of Parliament but make up a single London borough council - have witnessed rapid demographic change since the last national census, in 2001. At the time, 80% of locals identified themselves as "white - British." There's been a big influx of nonwhite families since then, with many blacks and Asians - British-born as well as new immigrants - looking for cheap housing. "There's a sense of competition for finite resources," says Jon Cruddas, Dagenham's MP and a Labour Party member. "These are generic forces, but they collide in an intense form...
...Come to This? The last time Britain felt this bad about itself was in 1976, when soaring inflation and unemployment forced the Labour government to seek a humiliating bailout from the International Monetary Fund. Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives took power in 1979 and went on to abolish exchange controls, cut taxes and engineer the 1986 deregulation of financial markets, known as Big Bang, restoring London's position as one of the world's most important financial centers. Blair's New Labour did nothing to restrict the unfettered growth of the City, as London's financial district is called...
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Brown bears some of the responsibility for the economic mess: he was Chancellor of the Exchequer under Blair and has been Prime Minister since 2007. But he has deflected blame to global pressures and has made political hay of his rival's lack of experience. "This is no time for a novice," declared Brown in September 2008 as the global financial crisis gathered pace. A Conservative poll lead of 20 points has eroded to the narrowest of margins, not least on fears of the youthful opposition team's collective inexperience. There's another factor that counts against them: the Conservatives...
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