Champagne and strawberries for the rich

When I look at town centre shops, I see charity shops, pawn brokers and pay day loans. Then there are discount stores like Poundland. I also see some signs of wealth in this photo, some posh shops and expensive take-away food. I also see a pedestrian area that must have cost a fortune to lay out. The blue signs of the local council are evident everywhere. The top council officers and the top councillors probably don’t use the charity shops. Do they?

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12, October 2012 | Categories: culture, Finance, Finance Friday | Tags: benefit day, Britain, champagne and strawberries, Charity shop, chipping norton, Costa Coffee, occupy-wall-street, Oxbridge, pawn brokers, Politics, posh shops, Poundland, poverty, society, Starbucks, survival attitude, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer | 8 Comments