The Gap

[DanaC]

There's been a lot of talk recently in the UK about 'Narrowing the gap': reducing the inequalities which exist in our country.

The town I live in is not a big place, yet within this little northern town the disparity between haves and have-nots is staggering. When I say town, I refer to the larger unit, incorporating a number of villages outlying the central town. The life expectancy of a child born in the part of town where I live is ten years greater than the life expectancy of a child born in the part of town I represent in council. Ten years.

Here's where I live.....and then where I represent.