Figures released by the New Policy Institute show an increase in the number of children living in severe poverty since 2005.
It is clear that Labour has failed to tackle child poverty with its over-complex tax and benefit tricks.
We Lib Dems will invest more in education to give every child a fair start and break the link between poverty and low grades.
As for the Tories', they have huge gaping holes in their policies on poverty.
A hodge-podge of tax cuts for millionaires and tax bribes for marriage would do nothing to tackle severe poverty when most of these families are not even in work, let alone in a position to inherit more than £1m from their relatives.
Showing posts with label child poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label child poverty. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Tories' amnesia over their dire record on poverty
David Cameron’s speech on Tory ideas to tackle poverty should make interesting reading!
When they were last in power they stood idly by as child poverty doubled. Why should anyone believe that they are now the right people to abolish it?
The reason unemployment has risen so rapidly in the UK is not because folk have suddenly become workshy, but because the jobs are not there.
Tory plans for benefit reform will not do anything to change that.
Blaming unemployed people for not finding work will be cold comfort to many facing Christmas on the breadline.
The priority must be to invest in creating new jobs that will bring lasting benefit to Britain and help the country out of recession.
When they were last in power they stood idly by as child poverty doubled. Why should anyone believe that they are now the right people to abolish it?
The reason unemployment has risen so rapidly in the UK is not because folk have suddenly become workshy, but because the jobs are not there.
Tory plans for benefit reform will not do anything to change that.
Blaming unemployed people for not finding work will be cold comfort to many facing Christmas on the breadline.
The priority must be to invest in creating new jobs that will bring lasting benefit to Britain and help the country out of recession.
Friday, 8 May 2009
Britain's income gap widest since the 1960s
Britain under Labour is a more unequal society than at any time since modern records began in the early 1960s.
The incomes of the poor fell and those of the rich rose in the three years after the 2005 general election.
Remember this is Labour we're talking about not the Tories, we expect inequalities to rise under the Tories (and they do), but Labour?
They seem to have abandoned their commitment to halve child poverty by 2010. It's outrageous that so many children continue to miss out on the basic necessities most take for granted. For those left to languish in the misery that poverty inflicts is a tragedy.
Their promise to make Britain a fairer place, where income doesn't affect a child's life chances, rings hollow. In 2001, Gordon Brown referred to child poverty as a 'scar on Britain's soul'.
It's taking a hell of a long time to heal!
The incomes of the poor fell and those of the rich rose in the three years after the 2005 general election.
Remember this is Labour we're talking about not the Tories, we expect inequalities to rise under the Tories (and they do), but Labour?
They seem to have abandoned their commitment to halve child poverty by 2010. It's outrageous that so many children continue to miss out on the basic necessities most take for granted. For those left to languish in the misery that poverty inflicts is a tragedy.
Their promise to make Britain a fairer place, where income doesn't affect a child's life chances, rings hollow. In 2001, Gordon Brown referred to child poverty as a 'scar on Britain's soul'.
It's taking a hell of a long time to heal!
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