Poverty

I read a heart-breaking article on poverty today.  The author wasn’t a “sensationalised for reality TV benefits scrounger”.  Her family life had simply spiralled into desperate poverty through life-changing illness. I absolutely refuse to subscribe to the “be poor but happy” mantra that our corpulent politicians espouse. Poverty is tough and in the 21st century, it’s unacceptable that anyone, particularly children, are hungry and cold. Wearing charity shop clothing and eating homemade soup created from a handful of lentils and damaged vegetables loses any middle class pretentions when they’re the only options to ensure a family are clothed and fed