Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Yes, and you've been wrong for some time too.
We're stuck with them for 2 more years
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Children in working families fall below the poverty line
Children living below the poverty line are now twice as likely to come from working families struggling
on low incomes and falling wages than those whose parents are unemployed, official figures have revealed.
The number of children growing up in absolute poverty in "breadline Britain" increased by 300,000 last year
- an annual increase of 2 per cent, representing the biggest rise in two decades - according to official
Department for Work and Pensions figures.
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Guardian..............rvhised................
Poverty rose by 900,000 in coalition's first year
Official DWP figures include 300,000 more children, as charities point out that the entire increase
came from working households.
Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, said: 'While this government is committed to
eradicating child poverty, we want to take a new approach by finding the source of the problem and
tackling that..................and keep the rich happy at the same time.......plonker................ '
An additional 900,000 people were plunged into poverty during the first year of the coalition government,
including 300,000 more children, according to official figures.
Keith Sansum1
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That's not a good sign, 900.000 that's a lot
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Quote from Fraser Nelson:
Anyone paid £13,300 and given a £300 pay rise would be amazed to hear that they had been "lifted out of poverty". The idea of a binary poverty divide is laughable, existing only in the imagination of policy wonks. Yet this bizarre concept has dictated British policy for years. This has a real human cost; the poorest 10 per cent, for example, are ignored because they don't have a chance of crossing the threshold. When Labour left office, the poorest tenth were actually poorer than they were in 1998/9. Except no one really noticed, because Labour's policy was not about people. It was about manipulating spreadsheets and playing a Big Data game.
And he's a leftish winger.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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Why is it when governmental spokesmen announce pathetically microscopic tax reductions, or invisible benefit increases, they have a patronising smirk on their face and they believe we should be eternally grateful and lavish gratitude upon them?
Never give up...
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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That's politics for you Richard!
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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certainly is lesley
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Courtesy Guardian.......
Britain is 'pulling itself apart' as North-South divide grows Economic growth had bounced back strongly
in London despite its industries being the main cause of the downturn
The North-South divide has become a "chasm" since the recession, with the split growing at its fastest
rate since the Second World War, Britain's leading expert on the subject has warned.
But the issue has fallen off the political agenda, with far too much attention focused on whether the banking
sector in London will get back on its feet, or the problems in parts of the eurozone, he said.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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yes the divide continues, just like a lot of other divisions
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