Millions of children in the UK are living in, or on the brink of, poverty, a report claims.
The Campaign to End Child Poverty says 5.5 million children are in families that are classed as "struggling" - 98% of children in some areas.
Oh, the humanity!
Before I even read this article, I knew what was coming:
1. Quango action
2. Gimme some money
3. Another government fuckup.
And so it came to pass:
The Campaign to End Child Poverty is a coalition of more than 130 organisations including Barnardo's, Unicef and the NSPCC.
Unlikely to be biased then.
Campaign director Hilary Fisher said the figures were "absolutely shocking".
She said: "There are currently 3,900,000 children in the UK that are classed as actually living in poverty, which impacts on every aspect of a child's life.
"A child in poverty is 10 times more likely to die in infancy, and five times more likely to die in an accident.
"Adults who lived in poverty as a child are 50 times more likely to develop a restrictive illness such diabetes or bronchitis."
Ms Fisher said some families could not afford school uniforms, and chose schools for their children based on uniform cost - which was "not acceptable".
She said: "The government has lifted 600,000 children out of poverty, but 100,000 have gone back for each of the last two years.
"If the government does not allocate £3bn in tax credits and benefits in the next budget, then their plans to reduce child poverty will fail."
God bless those cunting tax credits, eh? Where the fuck would we be without the dead fucking hand of those cunts in government?
She said local authorities and other service providers had to help it raise family incomes, encourage people to apply for tax credit and benefits and help parents work.
She said the latter was known to be one of the best ways for families to get out of poverty
Yeah, fucking right. Meanwhile, colour me severely pissed off as the fucking government steals more from my grandchildren to give money to my children. Except, of course, my fucking children won't see fucking shit.
Instead of supporting fucking tax credits, why don't you tell the monocular fucker to stop charging tax on any income below £12,000 per annum or something? Dozy cunt.
12 comments:
Why don't they try and stop people who cannot afford children from having them?
That seems to be the #1 way of really stopping poverty.
Funnily enough it's not on their list. I can only conclude that child poverty is an excuse for socialism (failed everywhere).
Ta for link, agreed.
One day, I'll commission a survey, sponsored by NPSCC, CPAG, Barnado's, Gingerbread etc and all the other quangoes that will show that the main cause of child poverty is when poor people have more children than they can afford to look after properly. It will have the title "F*** me! Why didn't I think of that?"
MW snap!
Damn. AC1 beat me to it by a whisker.
Real poverty courtesy of Pravda
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7643250.stm
Beeboid:"Where does your money go?"
Fat, thick Brummie:" TV, er..food"
Fat, thick Brummies wife: "Yeah, I'm obese, but we only eat one meal a day"
Bring back gas chambers.
"Before I even read this article, I knew what was coming:
1. Quango action
2. Gimme some money
3. Another government fuckup."
And you weren't wrong. Particularly on points 1 and 2.
Oh, and 3.
This comes of relativising poverty. That method will always yield "poor" people.
Poverty in the rest of the world means your child dies in your arms from malnutrition.
Poverty in the UK means your kids have to borrow someone elses hair straighteners.
Any extra money given to these cunts will go on bingo, fags and adding sky movies and television X to their Sky package. The kids will not see a cent.
Hang on, that Bernie Eccleston earns more in a day than I earn in 10 years. In fact, lots of people earn much more than me.
That means I am in extreme poverty. I must be. Everything's relative, including poverty.
I only eat out three times last week, and I have been reduced to just two holidays this year: Venice and Switzerland, and we all know what shitholes they are.
I don't know how I cope, I really don't. I have no idea where my next Cashmere sweater is coming from. And you try going a whole day without Russian Caviar – it's a bloody nightmare.
I demand tax credits and welfare, now. It is your duty in the name of the Common Good to help me, you selfish bastards.
Whereas I reduced the swelling on my twisted ankle after I tripped over a broken pavement in my designer heels with frozen foie gras.
And who has frozen foie gras these days? I demand compensation from Westminster City Council for not mending that paving stone, trauma from having to hop along Shaftsbury avenue to find a taxi and having to take my broken shoe back to the shop and tax credits to ensure that I can have proper foie gras, even though I am a vegetarian.
And only then will the world be fair.
I'm sorry (well in fact no I'm not actually) but anyone who has parents that can afford to drink Bucky to their heart's content isn't in poverty. What they mean is poor parenting. No amount of state intervention can help with that but that's mostly because there's nothing short of a fucking guillotine will sort them out.
This country is screwed by design. And nothing will bring it back.
I read over on Samizdata about the golden age of liberty before World War I. If you think we'll see anything of the like again then I want what you're on.
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