Contention that an underclass exists in Britain?

He thinks that job and training opportunities have little effect, as the underclass is unlikely to exploit them. He believes that the only way to help underclass communities is to encourage self-governance. In this participation they are to have power over education, housing, criminal justice and benefit systems. He believes that if people have to change the way in which they live, they can do it how they wish. In my eyes this is just another way of washing your hands of problems that are unsolvable. "Money isn't the key. Authentic self-government is" (Murray 1990). Is this just the easy way out?

George Elliot

She disliked anything which reminded her that her mother's father had been an innkeeper" (pg 101). She actively seeks to increase her social standing by marrying Lydgate, a doctor, a man of 'good birth'. At first, Lydgate seemed to shy away from Rosamond, but she soon got her prey and enticed Lydgate into proposing to her. Once married, Rosamond groomed herself into the model upper-middle-class lady, she played the piano, took up sketching, dressed appropriately, and read novels and poetry.