I remember people voting for Brexit because life was tough and it “couldn’t get any worse”.
So I’m all for children ***not ***starving, I’d like to get that out the way. That being said, this article could be a lot more specific.
4 million people experienced destitution in 2022. Destitution is when people cannot afford to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed.
Is that an “and” or an “or”? Are children hungry and homeless, or are they going hungry to avoid being homeless, neither is good obviously, but it makes the difference between a third world country and a very shitty first world country.
with almost three quarters (72%) of those destitute being in receipt of benefits. charities – such as food banks – to try to prevent people from experiencing the worst of destitution, but the task is too great for them.
Are the destitution statistics based on what people can afford pre or post these thing? Obviously it’s bad when people need to rely on charity & government assistance to afford their essentials, but it’s unclear from the article how stressed these systems are.
Single people of working age continue to be the worst-affected group by far … followed by no statistics pertaining to this group!!!
Idk I just want more figures. That’s all I guess
Is that an “and” or an “or”? Are children hungry and homeless, or are they going hungry to avoid being homeless, neither is good obviously, but it makes the difference between a third world country and a very shitty first world country.
I find that an appalling conclusion. We are the 6th largest GDP in the world, and 2nd in Europe. Being either should not be acceptable in this country. However, it is not that we still have kids in this position that is the problem it is the fact that those figures are increasing at such a pace. The report is very easy to find, link here.
it was a question not a conclusion, as I said, either way is bad, There’s nothing wrong with wanting to know the scope of a problem.
(Thank you, though, link was helpful. <3 )
Million children hungry: I sleep.
Wrong pronouns used to Twitter: straight to jail!
The neoliberal establishment that “the Left” wholeheartedly supports.
I’ve never met a lefty that even remotely, nevermind wholeheartedly, supports the Tory government. You know, the right wing party that’s been in power for ~13 years. If you think leftists have caused this problem you’ve been living under one big fuck off rock for a long time.
Who said anything about the Tory government? You really think you have a million hungry children because of the Tories? You’re politically illiterate then.
Which part of “figure trebles since 2017” were you thinking was the fault of someone other than the tory government, and by what means did they cause it, and what, ffs, has it got to do with pronouns?
Well, it wasn’t caused by pronouns. That’s for sure
Why do you think we have seen the number of hungry children triple since 2017, if it isn’t the government that has been in power for the past decade plus?
What is this even supposed to mean? What possible relevance could Twitter or pronouns have to starving children?
Maybe the left should care more about starving children and less about what JK Rowling posts on Twitter.
Maybe the left should be building a broad coalition with everyone who’s fed up of there being starving children instead of chastising and cancelling normal working class people for not getting the latest most esoteric gender discourse.
No. Genders are way more important than children.
Again: what possible relevance does Twitter or gender have with starving children? People are capable of caring about two things at once, y’know.
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For the third time… What relevance does it have here?
You know it must be great being the Left. A totally external locus of control. It’s the Tories! It’s the bigots! It’s the billionaires!
I’ll digress a bit here and give you an example. In my country there’s an organisation called Marks21. They say they are a “movement to build a worker’s party.” They’ve existed for more than 20 years now. No worker’s party in sight. But what do they occupy their time with? Endless discussions on gender. And before you accuse me of bashing the woke, this organisation is actually very transphobic.
What I am saying, and you’re wilfully ignoring, is that the left is also to blame here. Not just the Tories. Not just the billionaires.
The left has abandoned common people instead focusing on academia and middle class liberals cosplaying as radicals. This left would rather pal around with woke corporations while denouncing normal people over fringe and esoteric issues like neopronouns.
That’s the longest “none” I’ve ever seen.
