[Margaret Pilkington]

Lord Carey is right...especially about the poverty of aspiration........there can be no doubt that this is what is the most worrying.
Material poverty can be overcome....you have to work hard at it(no-one promised that life would be easy. I was always told that things that were hard won were more valuable than things you achieved easily - personal experience confirms this) but it isn't insurmountable. Poverty of Aspiration means that you don't even want to try.