While Sunak offers pointless meal vouchers they can’t use, child malnutrition doubles in six months
The offers in Rishi Sunak’s summer statement were intended to distract you from this. Of course child malnourishment has doubled …
Category Archives: Poverty
Tories are denying Covid-19 test-and-trace system to disadvantaged people
Typical Tories: if your credit isn’t good, you don’t get to take part in their new online test-and-trace system. It …
Coronavirus: Higher death rate in poorer areas – because that’s what the Tories want
Well, what do you know? The useless Tory compensation schemes mean poorer people are going hungry, and there’s a higher …
Huge surge in poverty – and that’s BEFORE the Tory coronavirus response kicks us when we’re down
The Conservatives have put another 100,000 children into poverty – meaning 4.2 million are now living under the breadline. …
Evidence shows Tory poverty-increasing policies are pushing children to early death
More English children are dying than should be expected – and the reason is likely to be poverty caused by …
MPs get above-inflation pay rise to £82,000 after creating massive increase in in-work poverty
Doesn’t it make you proud to be British? The so-called Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has given MPs an enormous pay …
UK poverty is at its worst for decades. It is a Tory policy that they’re not about to reverse
One in five of the UK population is living in poverty, more children and pensioners are in poverty now than …
Tories took £50 million from Britain’s poorest families in one month
It’s wilful impoverishment of the needy. The Tories have been working hard to force poverty-stricken families further into destitution, clawing …
Tories STILL haven’t bothered to research the harsh impact of Universal Credit delays
This is no surprise to anyone who has been following the contribution of Universal Credit to the spread of poverty …
Why do Tories keep carrying on about families having ‘too many children’?
I’ll answer that straight away: because it pushes responsibility onto the parents, rather than on governments that cause the poor …