...he's clearly not missed many meals!
It’s been one of Cat Onyac’s better days. Her two children are concentrating on their crochet project, sitting in the sunshine at HvH Arts in north London. And they’ve eaten. “All the children get a hot meal,” she says. The family is at a summer scheme for children in Camden on the edge of Keir Starmer’s constituency, and food is just as important as learning photography, painting or music.Salads might be a better option in summer, Cat...
“That means not worrying whether they’re going to eat or not,” says Cat, a single parent. “It helps reduce the shopping bill. I’m not worrying what am I going to make for them and are they going to be the only child who hasn’t had anything to eat?”
What are you doing with the child benefit you get then?
It’s people like Onyac and her family who were on the minds of the seven Labour MPs who rebelled against the party last week and voted for an SNP amendment to lift the two-child benefit limit. That, along with the benefit cap, the effects of inflation and the roll out of universal credit, pushed 700,000 more children into poverty over the past 14 years.
No, it didn't. They are talking about relative poverty, not absolute poverty.
We're in for 5 years of this propaganda. Where are the reports about poor white families? Poor white homeless families who can't even get on the housing waiting lists?
ReplyDeleteThey can't get on the waiting lists because the government doesn't have a statutory duty to house people that live here. It DOES have a statutory duty through various U.N. treaties to house people from other nations. Hence why the number of people from other countries in social housing far outweighs the British majority. Brits are now about 20th in the league of ethnicities in social housing.
DeleteAnd trending ever downwards...
DeleteDo they have a large screen tv, computers, SKY or NETFLIX? Do the kids have the latest big name trainers and hoodies. Do any of them have a double chin? If yes to any of these, they are not poverty stricken. They are the offspring of adults, both the 'single Mum' (shagged at least 3 times by the absent baby daddy), who are incapable of prioritising for their children.
ReplyDeleteWhen was the last time Cat put breadcrumbs in their Bolognese to make it go further, or tell the kids she'd already eaten, so they could share the meal?
Someone is taking the social services for a ride.
Penseivat
Well, if they are gullible enough to be taken....
DeleteIf only today's definition of poverty applied when I was growing up. Then again just about every family I was acquainted with would have been suffering abject poverty.
ReplyDeleteAnd it would have been genuine.
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