Child Poverty.

[gulliver1]

Child Poverty will rise to a record 60 Year High under a Boris Led Government,.
Because in its Manifesto it retains Benefit Cuts.

[jourdain2]

Apg How about no carpets on the floor, baby in playpen protected by bit of plastic from floorboards, no washing-machine and doing the wash by hand (no dryer of course), frantically scrabbling to pay the mortgage when interest went up from around 4% to 18% - so food for all except said baby was cut? Had to stop smoking (good thing) if you want a drink - brew your own - went out to collect elderberries) Does that qualify as being poor Apg? If so I am more than qualified. Don't try getting at me, I have had to scrape bottom and got through. Made my own clothes from cloth bought at jumble sales etc., etc..

Your 'middle-class mum' comment is unfair, the petrol commitment has hit our household budget quite hard and Mr. J2 has a heart condition (triple bypass so leaving him on his own is not a good idea) at an age when we should (having worked hard all our lives and paid into the system) be relatively comfortable. You should consider your attitude. I don't call myself poor - I say that I understand poverty through no fault of your own.

[Peter Pedant]

// I'll stick to my mum's definition - 'The poor children had no shoes'.//

your auld mam will remember one politician snarling of Harold Wilson
if he had no boots, it was because he was too big for them !

oh dear dear ! - labour politicians in the usual race to the bottom where they plead poverty and not their private educations and onto Ox-bridge

[TheDevil]

In the past 9 years the Tory party has made many cuts under austerity. To win this general election, they've promised to do things such as, put 20,000 police on the streets and improve school budgets. They are reversing all the wrong doings that they have done in the past 9 years. In fact, they won't even be putting all of the police back on the streets... Only 20,000. They cut 21,000.

They talk about increased crime. This is because they cut police figures.

Imagine someone stealing your glasses, then coming up to you saying "Don't worry, I'll get you some brand new ones" and then putting the glasses they stole back onto your face. Then imagine thanking them and feeling like they're a good option for trust and politics.

Imagine the progression our government and politics could have had in these past nine years, if we didn't have a government who subject us to austerity. Tories are reverting many changes that they have made in the past 9 years and using these changes as promotion for themselves.

What a waste of nine years. What a waste of effort. What a waste of a vote if you vote Tory.

[hc4361]

Life is different to how it was 'back in the day', so is child poverty.
Families living in the slum back to backs were part of community where many people were willing to help out however and wherever they could. (Not everyone, there has always been people who can't or won't help their neighbour). Often they lived within walking distance of their wider family.

Today a family in poverty could be living in one room in a Travelodge far from family, friends and neighbours. No cooking facilities so providing meals is hugely expensive, not even the means to cook beans or egg on toast. No fridge. No washing facilities and very often no laundry within easy travelling distance. Parents and children in one small room with a severe lack of storage space. Some families live like this for more than a year. They have a bed and heating but morale must be low. Nowhere for the kids to run round. Even worse, the rooms are allocated on a 28 day basis after which the family must move often to a different Travelodge in another part of the country.

The parents, the council, society - somebody, somehow has messed up, but not the children. If you think those kids have it easy, think again.

[TheDevil]

Anyone see the Tory MP who said "We will be putting 50,000" nurses into the NHS and she regarded the 19,000 current nurses as being part of that 50,000 number.

What about the Tory MP who was discussing the police budget cuts?

Both on good morning Britain. Very amusing. And people have a go at Dianne Abbot for getting statistics mixed up. I'm sure Dianne at least knows what "additional" means.

[TheDevil]

[retrocop]

Trouble is Peace Lily when you have a P.M with an over inflated ego who believes his standing alonside Bush is worth more than we can afford we are then left with a deficit again. Chasing non-existent WMD and other ego boosting endeavours has cost the UK £33 Billion in the last 20 years of our intervention where Labour have taken us where we have no business.
Any prudent P.M. will have to make cuts after being,again, left by the previous Labour Government with a bare cupboard.Having made the cuts and now repaired the economy the Torys can deliver again.
You have a party with a Lemonade Budget and a Champagne Lifestyle and Champagne Socialists could never manage the purse strings.Maths and Fiscal management is not the forte of Corbyn,Abbot and McDonnell

[TheDevil]

Ah yes, of course. "Labour" (AKA, tories in red) ruined our country. They ruined everything! A party that is 66 years younger than the conservative party managed to

[TheDevil]

only ever had 8 prime ministers into office, two of whom were Tories in red, yet we can blame anything bad in politics on them.

Seems clear as day.