‘Tis the season to be HOMELESS – especially if you’re a child in Tory Britain
I write this story every year – and every year the number of children who will be homeless at Christmas increases.
The reason is obvious: Conservative government.
Usually I get my figures from Shelter but I haven’t seen the press release yet. Sadly, the Evening Standard is here with figures that make depressing reading – because they are for London alone:
Nearly 90,000 children in the capital are expected to be homeless this Christmas, London Councils warned today.
This compares with 131,000 across the whole of Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) at Christmas last year.
It seems Covid-19 is going to take the blame:
The rate of families being placed in temporary accommodation is spiralling out of control as the pandemic continues to stretch local authority finances and demands for help reached record numbers, the umbrella group said.
It’s a scandalous figure – indicating an appalling increase in child homelessness.
And Boris Johnson’s government must take the blame. The arrival of the virus didn’t mean they could take their eyes off the UK’s other problems.
Indeed, some may argue that Johnson will be delighted by these figures.
We need to await Shelter’s official, national figures to be sure of the extent of this annual tragedy – but this report is advance notice that it will be extremely distressing.
Source: 90,000 London children to be homeless this Christmas, London Councils warn | Evening Standard
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Christians hay they not they brought forth a system were each and everyone will fail it’s not a Christian society anymore even the bishop of cant couldn’t bring himself to tell government of so we see more out on the streets all because they tell you you not trying hard enough hmmm
To our bishops you have a staff use it to protect the flock you forgotten your duty to the poor rather you sup with oldnick