Homeless Children Record Numbers Shame

[Theland]

Clegg, Cameron and May should hang their heads in shame for allowing on their watch so much poverty and homelessness particularly affecting children.
It is correctly described as a national scandal.
Under the Tories, being poor is a crime and punished with even more poverty.
Unless Boris is made of different stuff, how can he expect support from anybody with a social conscience?

[Theland]

The Shelter report provides unsavoury facts for the blue rinse brigade, and the fans of rubber chicken fund raising dinners.

[dannyk13]

Gulliver //he Blamed the London Bridge disaster on Labour //
Because it was a Labour Government that passed the legislation for early release of prisoners.

[teacake44]

Pushing the blame from one party to the other is not going to solve any problems. In my view both parties have made bad decisions in the past that have caused problems now.

[Theland]

Danny - I agree, but Ken Clarke had an input in 2012 I understand, and missed an opportunity to close loopholes. Yes?

[dannyk13]

Theland . what loopholes, there were no loopholes, simply a law providing for early release.

[naomi24]

Theland, I’m contradicting nothing. According to Shelter Wales is the only UK nation to see increase in child poverty - and that is Labour controlled.

Now to my post at 08:52 Tue. Could you answer the question please?

[Theland]

Tea cake - Quite. The future not the past is important, but we need an end to austerity and the trickle down wealth policies, Quantitative Easing that only gave benefit to those with a share portfolio.
The poor need more than crumbs off the table.

[naomi24]

//The poor need more than crumbs off the table. //

In that case don't vote Labour because if you do that's all the poor will end up with.

[Theland]

Naomi - you must be looking at a different report.
Your question?
We need investment, and we have not had any except to swell the pockets of the rich.
But you know that.

[naomi24]

//We need investment, and we have not had any except to swell the pockets of the rich. //

Oh right - but swelling the pockets of the rich also swells the pockets of the poor because without business and the people who invest in business there are no jobs - and who suffers then?

Can you answer my question please? Tell me what benefits there are to the poor in voting for this Labour party?

[teacake44]

Rich, poor, your debating on a subject that's been the norm for hundreds of years, and always will be the norm. But the poor of today are a lot better off, but not as much as we would like.

[Theland]

Yes Naomi - The benefits are a national investment policy to create wealth, something the Tories have abysmally failed at, except for the few.
Eliminate cruel benefit policies leaving people relying on food banks.
Building more social housing, and hopefully an end to right to buy, which decimated our housing policy from the days of Maggie.

Anyway, maybe back later.
Got to leave now, lots to do, and don't feel like doing it.

However, thank you all for your posts, and friendly disagreements.

[gulliver1]

09.05 , Because it is a Con Gov that have had ten years to change it .

[teacake44]

Do some research, not that you may have to. Off the top of my head, lets take from 1920 to 1950, and compare it to 2019, you will find that the poor of today, are in fact rich. :0)

[hc4361]

teacake, it is pointless comparing poverty of today to 1920s poverty and say that today's poor are rich. Nothing is as it was in the 1920s.

By the norms of today, some children live in very poor conditions and are indeed impoverished. It is a fact that some children do not have enough food to eat and go to bed cold. It is a fact that some children are homeless. It is a fact that some girls cannot go to school at certain times of the month. That is not my idea of being rich.

[naomi24]

Theland, typically full of pie in the sky hand-wringing along with the usual derogatory references to the ‘Blue Rinse Brigade’ and ‘fans of rubber chicken fund raising dinners’, but still no rational explanation for voting for this Labour party with its disastrously damaging policies to govern this country. How would alienating business help the poor when all that would achieve is job losses and price rises right across the board? Tell me?

[teacake44]

hc4361There was six of us in our family without a farther, I was cold when I went to bed, I didn't have enough to eat, there is a lot more help now, no such thing as a food bank then, and there is help for girls in the month ( red box) the benefits are there. Its how a family use them that's the problem. The family that were on tv last night had a twenty pack of fags on the arm of the sofa, and a bigger tv screen than me.

[gollob]

In last nights prog, the freezer is shown empty yet iced up so why would you be running an empty freezer unless all the food had been taken out to give a poorer effect

[hc4361]

Teacake, there has always been families that struggle. When you were a child you were better off than a child from a poor family 50 years earlier. Today’s poor elderly are much better off than the poor elderly of yesteryear; it doesn’t mean today’s situation is is acceptable

[Rockrose]

Was there no poverty or child homelessness when Labour were in charge then?