In the borough I work in, 54 per cent of kids live in poverty according to the Child Poverty Action Group. Any attacks on welfare, it'll be those children who'll get hit the hardest. The Tories are doing what Tories do – looking after their own privileged class but playing the old divide and rule game with the rest of us so somehow we won't notice.
We've just had a Labour conference where Ed Miliband told us all that he'd keep the public sector pay freeze, make people work longer, carry on with the cuts and try to claim the mantle of a One Nation Tory. Presumerably, we'll get more the same old shit this week from the Tories, with a bit more caviar and champers thrown in, a few more moral lectures for us feckless, workshy scroungers from a group of people who seem to have no morals at all.
H talks about history but I just think that if there's one thing life should've taught us is that you don't get anything without a fight. I'm intending to go to the TUC Future that Works March on Oct 20, not because I think it will change the world or anything. But I just can't sit by, watching women with kids coming to my council building, being thrown out of their homes because housing benefit changes mean they'll have to pay too much to their landlords out of their own pocket, dressed in men's jumpers that they've got from the Salvation Army, queuing up with their kids at the Foodbank. We live in a society where we can sift dust on Mars for signs of water but we've still got kids in large parts of our country going hungry. The whole thing is fucked up.
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