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This can’t have come as a shock though? For years we’ve had countless organisations working on the front line telling us they’re struggling to cope, countless charities telling us things are bad and getting worse, and all illustrated with countless tragic personal stories.
You’ve highlighted part of the reason why this is so readily accepted by some of us. If it’s reported in the ‘wrong’ press people dismiss it as propaganda because they’re so tribal in their politics.
As I said on Ryorry’s thread, it’s a national embarrassment.
The government have denied it of course  . |  |
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| Today’s United Nations report on poverty in the Uk on 15:05 - Nov 17 with 625 views | factual_blue |
| Today’s United Nations report on poverty in the Uk on 14:22 - Nov 17 by Swansea_Blue |
This can’t have come as a shock though? For years we’ve had countless organisations working on the front line telling us they’re struggling to cope, countless charities telling us things are bad and getting worse, and all illustrated with countless tragic personal stories.
You’ve highlighted part of the reason why this is so readily accepted by some of us. If it’s reported in the ‘wrong’ press people dismiss it as propaganda because they’re so tribal in their politics.
As I said on Ryorry’s thread, it’s a national embarrassment.
The government have denied it of course . |
Anybody who has had any dealings with universal credit since it first surfaced in 2010 has known from the outset it was going to be an unmitigated disaster, both in terms of the introduction of a colossal IT project, and in terms of the underlying philosophy of the return to the values of the Victorian Workhouse.
The project has gone through Civil Servants like German machine gunners on the first day of the Somme, usually because they had the temerity to tell ids what was actually happening.
And as for the ordinary folk whose lives it has ruined, and will continue to do so.... |  |
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| Today’s United Nations report on poverty in the Uk on 15:25 - Nov 17 with 596 views | No9 |
| Today’s United Nations report on poverty in the Uk on 14:22 - Nov 17 by Swansea_Blue |
This can’t have come as a shock though? For years we’ve had countless organisations working on the front line telling us they’re struggling to cope, countless charities telling us things are bad and getting worse, and all illustrated with countless tragic personal stories.
You’ve highlighted part of the reason why this is so readily accepted by some of us. If it’s reported in the ‘wrong’ press people dismiss it as propaganda because they’re so tribal in their politics.
As I said on Ryorry’s thread, it’s a national embarrassment.
The government have denied it of course . |
As you say Cahrities have been flag waving on these problems for a long while. Now we have councils unable to meet their obligations to the poor in their area.
All the public services are ringing alarms while this government keeps telling us a different story.
& still Minister come on TV /radio & lie |  | | |
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