UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has stuck his oar into the debate on ‘crap parenting’ that Tory MP James Daly foolishly started last week.

Daly sparked an outcry when he said “crap parenting” was the cause of many young people’s problems in life.

Members of the public were quick to point out that government decisions have played a huge part, with the axing of Sure Start, abolition of youth clubs, reduction of resources for child and adolescent mental health teams, austerity coupled with rising food costs and exorbitant rents, budget deficits for special educational needs and children with disabilities, the crisis in teacher retention and decimation of learning support staff, a level of impoverishment that food banks cannot alleviate, and dwindling nursery and pre-school provision.

The sharp rise in adolescent knife crime has been linked with massive cuts to youth services.

Asked about Daly’s comments, Sunak went off on a tangent about poverty. He said:

“All the evidence and the research shows that the best way to ensure that children don’t grow up in poverty is to make sure that they are not growing up in a household where no-one is working.”

“No one wants to see any child grow up in poverty. I certainly don’t.

“The best way we can help families is to make sure that those parents are in great jobs and are well-paid and that we are cutting their taxes.”

No individual family can use wealth to rid itself of problems that are caused by failings in society.

This Writer personally knows plenty of young people from rich families who are dysfunctional at best.

And Sunak’s government has cut wages, year on year, since it slithered into Downing Street in 2010. Junior doctors are the current classic example, with a whopping 35 per cent pay rise needed simply to bring them back up to parity with their 2010 level.

So in 2019/20, 18.8 per cent of children and working-age adults in poverty lived in families where all adults were working and at least one was working full-time. This rose to a whopping 65.9 per cent in families where at least one adult was working part-time or more.

Furthermore, if taxes are cut, Sunak will say there is no money to restore the vital services listed above, that young people have lost.

He’ll be the first to bemoan adolescent knife crime if it hits the headlines again – and the last to admit his government caused it by cutting youth services.

Source: No one should grow up poor, Sunak says after Tory MP’s ‘crap parenting’ remark

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