The Tories are scrambling to try to get the report by the UN on child poverty withdrawn.
This report must be one of the most embarrassing reports that the U.K. has faced.
They are accusing it of being political. How on earth could it have been anything else?
The report quotes Hobbes in describing live for the poor in the U.K. as being, “solitary, nasty, brutish and short”
“The Tory government persisted with policies of austerity and welfare cuts despite clear evidence that large scale poverty was persisting and growing.
In doing so “ much of the glue that held British society together since the Second World War has been deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos. British compassion has been replaced with a punitive, mean-spirited and often callous approach apparently designed to impose a rigid order on the lives of people least able to cope.
Austerity has deliberately gutted. LAs, shrinking libraries, youth,police and park services to the extent that there are now unheard of levels of loneliness, and isolation.”
If this evil, malevolent government returns to power, we will truly know that the U.K. has entirely lost any decent values or compassion it once so proudly held
