Save the Children launches appeal for children in the UK

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BBC link

And it will get worse :(

JacquelineHyde I think the 'issue' is one of sheer prejudice on Xenia's part. I think all the so-called arguments which are being put forward here are red herrings. The point of this thread is to discuss child poverty in the UK and what can be done about it, but as usual it's turned into a finger-pointing blame game. I've given up answering the more bonkers posts on here. Apparently child poverty is fine because "it's only relative poverty" or it's the poor people's own fault that they're poor and if they'd only get a grip the problem would disappear.

(I've decided Xenia is just a wind-up merchant who is best ignored/not responded to.)

Rosebud05 said
'is a 'lefty eutopia' (I assume you mean 'utopia?)'

Why did you assume that? I took it to mean the perfectly reasonable 'lefty EU topia'

How could someone oin a thread about how the poor are not given enough by the state to eat think obesity in the poor is not relevant? No wonder they never emerge from poverty.

The only issue of the thread is most of those in the charitable sector like Neary believe British benefits feed children and that STC is wrong in its report. However we all accept that many parents lead chaotic lives on benefits and have a raft of problems from drink to drugs to low IQ and many cannot manage money. The solutino is not to increase the benefits but do as IDS plans to target help where needed. Thankfully we live in a country where most of us want a welfare state and there is very little difference between the two main political parties.

This isn't a thread about how the poor are not given enough by the state to eat, learn to read.

Its about how the WORKING poor are finding it increasingly hard to put food on the table, while prices of everything goes up and their wages stay the same, it's about how the cutbacks in benefits has hit the working poor who's crappy wage is topped up by benefits to make it something you can exist on.

It's about how woman are trapped as kept woman in households, stuck on benefits or stuck in part time jobs because childcare is unaffordable.

It's about all the emergency help being pulled away from those on benefits so that whenssomething goes wrong in the system they are left with nothing and no where to turn, no cash at all for weeks or months.

All of which had led to people choosing to heat homes or pay off debt over eatting and has led to a massive rise in food banks.

Learn to read.