Mind the gap.

The financial and skills gap according to the latest research just published by www.centreforcities.org between the towns in the south and the rest is growing wider and wider. Milton Keynes is the leader of the pack for growth followed by London, also there is Brighton, Coventry and a few more, while the north has a preponderance of poor town like Blackpool, Rotherham. So life chances are already set in train from where your born/parents/ live/schools/university/work. The dice is loaded against you unless you are most fortunate and lucky, but why should it be dependent on the vagaries of the roll of the dice? This has been the case down the ages, but can't we break the links in the deprivation chain? It appears to be extremely difficult to change the status quo as many societies have tried to do, but have failed in many ways.
I guess the important moral issue is that we do what we can to minimise the corrosive effects of this serious gap in society, as the glue of all society is contingent on the spoils being distributed relatively democratically.
Oxfam predict that by 2016 1% of the riches will own over 50% of the worlds wealth. How is that sustainable? The forthcoming election in May will say which side of the moral argument we are on when we cast our vote.