7 Million living in poverty
According to a new study millions of people including 4 Million of children in deep poverty.
The main points in this studding are:
- More than 4 million people in the UK are trapped in deep poverty, meaning their income is at least 50% below the official breadline.
- The Social Metrics Commission also said 7 million people, including 2.3 million children, were affected by what it termed persistent poverty.
- “By cutting £40bn a year from our work and pensions budget through cuts and freezes to tax credits and benefits, the government has put progress into reverse,” said Alison Garnham, the chief executive of Child Poverty Action Group.
- It found that of 14.3 million in the UK in poverty, 4.5 million were in deep poverty – a third of all those on the breadline, and 7% of the population.
- A single parent with one child would be on less than £101.50 a week.
- There has been a dramatic rise in child poverty in families with three or more children, up 9% points since 2013-14.
- It also confirms that work is no longer a guarantee of protection against poverty. At the millennium 54% of children in poverty lived in a family where an adult worked. That rose to 73% in 2o17-18. Even in families where all adults work full time, one in six children are in poverty.
- Children of lone parents, and pensioners – have had hardship levels rise since 2013 as a result of austerity measures such as the benefit freeze, reversing earlier downward trends, the commission said.
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- Published: 29 July 2019
We must support StART and this is how
The route to a political solution is to answer the question, “what would we like to happen?” and use the answer to that question as the guide to making it happen.
In terms of housing in Haringey if you asked most people they would state that they would want the provision of truly affordable homes for all residents of the Borough. Who provides the homes is much less of a concern. Most people would probably say that as long as they were truly affordable now and forever they really don’t care who provides them. Given a choice between homes held in Trust by the community itself, the Council or private developers there would most likely be consensus around the first two.
People are tiring of multinationals and their bulldozers and all their unaffordable houses.
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- Published: 10 January 2019
White Helmets Statement on Grenfell
To the London Fire Brigade from the Syrian Civil Defence [White Helmets] in Daraa, Southern Syria:
We were saddened to hear about the loss of souls in the Grenfell Tower fire, including Mohammad al-Haj Ali, a Syrian from our home of Daraa who had fled to London seeking safety from death and destruction.
We appreciate your efforts to search for bodies for days in a row and we feel your pain because this horror is our daily reality. In Daraa, we’re under the heaviest attacks we’ve ever seen in this deadly war. Hundreds of airstrikes have destroyed entire neighbourhoods and fires are everywhere. Just like you, our teams are rushing towards the blazes and we do all we can to rescue the injured.
The past 16 days have seen 88 people killed and nearly 35,000 civilians displaced from their homes.
A civil defence centre was targeted and destroyed, and 5 volunteers were injured in the bombing -- as you know it’s a terrible thing to see your teammates suffer.
You have been so generous to us, donating equipment to our teams when you met with our teammates in London. We’ve received trainings from British experts in search-and-rescue and firefighting. Who knows, we might have been trained by the same people. And who knows we might also be saving the lives of the friends of Mohammad al-Haj Ali here in Daraa.
We feel we have so much in common. We all risk our own lives to save as many lives as possible as fast as possible. Our hearts are with you and we wish we could help you in your search for victims.
We send you strength for your mission and we hope to meet you one day.
The Syria Civil Defence [White Helmets] of Daraa
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- Published: 02 July 2017
Grenfell Tower Residents - You Are Not Alone
“When society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual."
"These words were written by Friedrich Engels in 1845. Over 170 years later, Britain remains a country that murders its poor. When four separate government ministers are warned that Grenfell and other high rises are a serious fire risk, then an inferno isn’t unfortunate. It is inevitable. What happened wasn’t a "terrible tragedy" or some other studio-sofa platitude: it was social murder."
The above statement is from the Grenfell Action Group's (GAG) website from 22nd June 2017, and one we wholeheartedly support.
Also from their website, as we can’t say it any better "the many who lost their lives in this catastrophe were our friends and neighbours. We tried to speak for them in life and we will continue to speak for them now. We share the sense of anger and injustice that has troubled this community for years."
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- Published: 26 June 2017
Rough Sleeping Is Not A Crime
Over the last few months, the police and Home Office have been systematically arresting, detaining and deporting European Economic Area (EEA) national rough sleepers.
In May last year, the Government adopted the legally dubious position that rough-sleeping is an “abuse” of EU Citizens’ right to freedom of movement”. The “abuse of right” law is intended to allow the deportation of EU citizens convicted of crimes, but the Government is using it to crack down on migrant rough sleepers who’ve committed no crime.
Cash-strapped local councils are being bribed to support these actions through access to a new pot of money - the Controlling Migration Fund - available to councils that identify rough sleepers to the Home Office or bully homeless migrants into returning home voluntarily. Over half of the rough-sleepers in London are migrants. This is largely because of unfair laws that restrict migrants’ ability to claim benefits. As such, people who have lived, worked and paid tax in the UK for years can find themselves homeless with no safety net.
Even when councils have a legal duty to house migrants (such as when they have children), they do all they can to wriggle out of it - in one case claiming that a mother and her children had a “network” they could rely on because she was staying with a stranger she’d met at the bus stop.
They end up in a Catch-22 situation - unable to pay their rent, but being faced with arrest and deportation if sleeping rough.
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- Published: 01 May 2017
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