"People are going without meals -- it is that bad," Durack said in that interview published in London's Evening Standard newspaper. "There are pensioners dying because of fuel poverty. It's horrible."
In that same article the chairwoman of London Council's Transportation and Environment Committee said, "Fuel poverty is a real and growing danger to low-income families in the capital. With rising living costs and fuel bills, more households face a miserable winter fighting off the cold."
British broadcast journalist Dotun Adebayo sees many small incidents evidencing recession woes.
"I talked with my barber, asking him about the recession's impact on his business. He reluctantly admitted that business is down. Customers he used to see each week now come every few months," said Adebayo, who writes a regular column for The Voice, Britain's leading black newspaper.
"People are showing up at my door asking to sharpen kitchen knives and offering other services. These are signs of tight times."
The name Karl Marx, for most Americans, is synonymous with evil (Marxism=Communism) not with salient economic insights.
Many Americans who embraced Marxism have endured political harassment and even imprisonment over the years, despite America extolling its First Amendment constitutional right providing citizens with freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom to protest against government policies.
One pivotal but all-but-forgotten 20th Century America black activist, Claudia Jones, endured harassment, repeated imprisonment by the federal government and eventual deportation in 1955.
Civil rights/human rights activist Jones had risen to a position on the National Committee of the Communist Party of the USA by 1948.
Granted asylum in Britain following her deportation, Jones continued her activism in London, activism that included founding the nation's first Afro-Caribbean newspaper.
Jones, who died on Christmas Day 1964, requested a burial site next to Karl Marx in London's historic Highgate East Cemetery. Appropriately, the grave site of proud left-winger Jones sits to the "left' of Marx's monument-adorned grave site.
Marx predicted that bourgeois society would collapse because those "who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything do not work."
The massive collapse of western economic systems during the past few years results in large part from the risky/reckless schemes of wealthy to expand their wealth, this aggravated by their then receiving massive government bailouts to cover their greed-based looses. Those bailouts required gutting resources important to the middle and lower classes.
Last month the International Monetary Fund issued a report warning that the global economy had entered a "dangerous new phase" due to economic woes wrecking the Euro Zone and the United States.
The IMF predicted "weak and bumpy expansion" for the economies of developed countries like the United States, which have been savaged by get-rich-quick schemes hatched by Wall Street financial power players -- who like their counterparts in England -- have not been held accountable for their misconduct and crimes.
While mitigating the devastation of financial fraudsters, the mantra for both Britain's conservative and liberal political leaders emerging from their respective annual national party conferences recently is holding the poor more accountable for doing more for helping themselves through reducing governmental aid.
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