The poor are still here

 'Even before the Labour government’s cuts to welfare spending, it was clear that poverty in the UK has been increasing (Guardian 27 March).

In April 2024 a record 4.5 million children were living in poverty, a hundred thousand more than the previous year. More children than before lived in families reliant on food banks, and were in food-insecure families.

The Domestic Poverty Lead at Oxfam said, ‘We live in the sixth-richest country in the world where billionaires alone saw their wealth soar by £11bn last year. It is morally repugnant that children, disabled people and carers are the ones who are taking the hit.’

This is life under twenty-first century capitalism!'

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