These deeply flawed people are the same hopeful, generous ones who have, mostly, made the country more decent, open and equal in every generation.
Here disadvantages by birth or social status etc. need to be balanced because decent, fair and equal education is the best way to health literacy and to give all people the opportunity to understand how they can take responsibility for their own health.
The politics of austerity and the increasingly centralising tendencies of British politics mean that achieving the kind of decent and more equal society that we in Wales would like to create requires us first to rebuild our own economic base.
Social inclusion, on the other hand, is an effective way to counter violence, ensuring that those who are on the margins of society have a decent standard of living and equal access to basic services and entitlements as well as support in times of stress.
We often assume, therefore, that such a fine balance of results must emerge from societies made of decent and depraved people in equal numbers.
A decent, equal and well-resourced music education for all in Britain – wherever they live – would have been a more useful demand.
It was about ending economic injustice and fighting for fair and equal access to good jobs and decent wages.
But he said he now he saw the work of unions as central to creating a decent, more equal society, telling activists he had opened a creche in the Commons and ensured that all employees were paid at least the London living wage.
Jeremy Corbyn will tell the Labour Party conference he loves his country, saying he wants to rid it of "injustice, to make it fairer, more decent, more equal".
It's because I am driven by these British majority values, because I love this country, that I want to rid it of injustice, to make it fairer, more decent, more equal.
