Israel isn’t the only home of fake news – is it, Victoria Atkins?
Tory fake news: yes, they’re talking about child poverty.
Following up on the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s research showing the number of people in the UK who are destitute has doubled since 2018… it seems to have triggered Tory MP Victoria Atkins.
Check out this video clip:
#KayBurley – A million children are destitute according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, that can't be right in 21st century Britain?
Victoria Atkins – 3.8 million more people are in work
KB – It's doubled since 2017?
VA – I'd have to ask DWP if they accept those figures pic.twitter.com/e7UuB6nhlf
— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) October 24, 2023
Economist Richard Murphy takes issue with the claim that 3.8 million more people being in work is any use in combating destitution:
Government minister Victoria Atkins claimed this morning that 3.8 million more people are in work now in the UK since 2010. That is a claim needing a little unpacking.
The number of people paying tax has gone up by 5.3 million since 2010.
However, 4.4 million of those have…
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) October 24, 2023
To This Writer, it suggests that being in work is not the way out of poverty that the Tories keep parroting it is.
But they keep saying it. Isn’t it time someone debunked this falsehood?
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Working is not an automatic end to poverty because unless one is earning at least £25,000 a year then any amount less than this will not result in no longer being impoverished! Rental costs are astronomical as are utiltity bills and not forgetting food prices have increased dramatically.
So work does not ‘lift one out of poverty’ rather it depends on how much employers will pay employees!