Universal Credit is increasing ‘Victorian’ diseases while worsening the nurse shortage
This is the reality of Conservative politics – they simultaneously make serious problems worse while deliberately reducing the nation’s ability …
Category Archives: Poverty
What’s worse – the fact the Tories left a 64-year-old man to starve, or some of the reactions to it?
I was shocked when I saw the images above – as I expect you may be, if you are seeing …
Working parents are starving for a week at a time because they aren’t paid enough to feed their children
It breaks This Writer’s heart to learn about the suffering of parents in my home town of Bristol, although I’m …
Insensitivity of Queen’s Speech prompts backlash against the monarchy
In her Christmas message, the Queen spoke about poverty – a message that was utterly undermined by the opulence of …
Food bank opens AT SCHOOL after famished children start stealing from lunchboxes
Now even children are being forced into crime by repressive Conservative government policies. Think it through: Schoolchildren are almost entirely …
PMQs drama: Corbyn outplays May – and her poodle press – by highlighting poverty
What kind of idiot thinks Jeremy Corbyn is going to waste Prime Minister’s Questions on Brexit when he’s supposed to …
December 3 was the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. If you didn’t know, that’s half the problem
As Samuel Miller states below, December 3 was a day of mourning in the United Kingdom. Tory austerity has killed …
Hypocritical Tories try gaslighting us with foodbank photocalls – but is something more serious behind it?
What is going on at the Trussell Trust? Britain’s biggest food bank charity was once one of the wolves at …
UN poverty expert has an uphill struggle – with DWP ministers who don’t even understand their own rules
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on poverty, Professor Philip Alston, has hit back at Conservative government ministers over their refusal …
Support the petition for the government to act on the UN poverty inspector’s report
We all know what happened: UN poverty rapporteur Philip Alston said Tory government policies were worsening the lives of millions …