The purpose of this article is to examine the published views of two leading politicians who can claim to speak for their parties. From their discussion of poverty and social deprivation (and the terms will be used interchangeably) an attempt will be made to emonstrate that their policies or proposals rest on similar assumptions about society and a similar model of poverty. Their consensus of approach will mean that no alternative policies are being seriously mooted within the party political system. Their assumptions will be examined critically and the suggestion made that an approach deriving from an alternative model is required to counter poverty.
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Robert Holman (1973) studied this question.