Today's poverty stats from the DWP are horrendous.
4.3 million children in relative poverty - the highest ever
3.6 million children in absolute poverty - up 300k
2.2 million children living in "food insecure" households
820k children living in households that use foodbanks
Keir Starmer is really dangerous. He’ll win in 2025 and refuse to spend any more on public services so they will descend into chaos. In 2029 the Tories will be back saying privatisation is the only answer. And it will happen. It’s as if that’s what Starmer wants.
Nothing that I can really divulge at the moment about the Covid-19 Inquiry but...
Here are a few of my personal observations and opinions thus far.
1/ I think we can safely say the British government never really had a plan to try and save people’s lives in a pandemic.
2/…
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