Why are the Tories forcing children to grow up in squalor?
We should be grateful to Peter Stefanovic for raising this issue; the BBC wasn’t about to do so, when he posted this to Facebook on September 11:
LAST NIGHT BBC1 didn’t think we should know about a SHOCKING RISE IN NUMBER OF CHILDREN RAISED IN SQUALID RENTAL HOMES or be reminded CONSERVATIVE MPs VOTED DOWN a Labour amendment to ensure all private landlords made certain their homes were “fit for human habitation” RT! pic.twitter.com/SQX8Kamb6k
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) September 11, 2018
Never mind the shockingly-low reporting standard at the BBC; that has been a national disgrace since before I interviewed for a job there, back in the 1990s.
The substantive issue is the low standard of rented accommodation demanded by Conservative MPs, many of whom are landlords.
We have discussed this before.
When will the Tories be properly held to account for this disgrace?
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Part of the nasty Tory plan to take us back to the 18th century.
Indeed, Forget 19th Century “Victorian Values”, the Tories want to take us back to a time before Charles Dickens first learnt how to read and write.