UK hasn’t seen poverty like this for 60 years, says Gordon Brown
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/two-child-benefit-cap-gordon-brown-child-poverty-b2803529.html
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UK hasn’t seen poverty like this for 60 years, says Gordon Brown
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/two-child-benefit-cap-gordon-brown-child-poverty-b2803529.html
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
23 Comments
The boomers got out just in time for the rest of us to face this head on
Yet no one is protesting. How much lower before people get to the streets and demand change…
Instead of uniting and fighting together, they easily pit us against each other in the name of immigrants and religion.
How’s this different to any “third-world” nation?
No sh*t, Sherlock. Brown contributed to it by selling half the UK gold reserves at a multi-decade low and supported the Iraq war costing us more money driving up the national debt as a result
Our definition of poverty is much different to poorer countries of the world. Its relative!
> UK hasn’t seen poverty like this for 60 years
“The will of the people, doesn’t matter if we will be poorer, at least we have sweat sweat sovereignty”
Yet gold prices and stock markets are all hitting record highs. The money’s here it’s just in the wrong hands.
It’s not poverty. It’s corporate greed which should be called corruption, or even treason. These corporations have been allowed to “lobby” to politicians and get away with murder.
It’s not just the UK, it’s Americas sprawl into the developed world.
There’s more money going to animal charities than children’s charities in the UK.
Universal income should just become a thing. Money works better than donations anyway. People will spend it on things to improve their lives and small businesses and the economy would be good.
And yet the Labour government is more concerned with censorship in the guise of child safety
Is a £17.25 per kid a week really going get these people to buy beds for their kids, ovens and washing machines for their kids?
A half decent bed is going to be around 2-3 months of child benefit.
A washing machine is 3 months worth at least. An that won’t be a very good one or a very energy efficient one.
When it doesn’t work, what will the next demand will be that they need to increase this rate, more money.
People need to stop having kids they can’t afford.
Bruh the Gordon Brown hate is insane. I’m a tory, and even I think he did a pretty damn good job as his time as chancellor. The gold reserves pale in comparison to the cock ups we’ve seen since.
Second home tax, private pension tax over a certain amount, tax on share options via employment, 90% tax rate over £1,000,000. Problem solved but no one wants to hear it
Breaking all kinds of records: poverty, censorship, authoritarianism.
You guys gonna redistribute now or are you just going to continue to do Reaganism for all eternity?
Don’t worry, Farage will fix everything with four word slogans.
Biggest transfer of wealth during COVID and yet folks seem to be scratching their heads where the wealth has gone
It’s cool bro, the migrants getting free food and housing will solve it
UK was cooked by its own hubris. You rode the train of British exceptionalism right out of the EU. Now look 😂
And the current Labour government has absolutely no plans on how they are going to solve it. It’s becoming ever more clear that they simply wanted power, with no plan of how to use it.
Come the next election, I genuinely have no idea who to vote for. Maybe a protest vote for the new Corbyn-led party.
Vocal minority opinion on this r/ appears to be it’s mainly down to these illegal immigrants coming over here in their hundreds of thousands.
The key to all of this is house prices. If they had remained in line with other prices we would have better day to day lives.
And who,s fault is that.? Its only going to get worse as well due to an utterly crap government. That then could open the door to an even crapper government.
Could really do with that gold that was sold off right now