More than One in Three Children in Poverty as UK Deprivation Hits Record High

THE GUARDIAN: Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century

More than one in three children and a quarter of adults are living in poverty in the UK as deprivation levels rise to the highest in the 21st century, according to a landmark report.

The study by the Social Metrics Commission (SMC), which uses measures recently adopted by the UK government, found the cost of living crisis had plunged 2 million more people into severe hardship since 2019.

In total, more than 16 million people are defined as living in poverty, or 24% of the UK population – the highest since comparable records began in 2000.

Children accounted for the biggest rise of any social group falling into poverty, the report found, with an extra 260,000 on the breadline since before the Covid pandemic, meaning a record 36%, or 5.2 million children, were in deprivation. » | Josh Halliday, North of England editor | Monday, November 18, 2024

Truly, without any exaggeration, this is a NATIONAL DISGRACE! How could this once proud nation allow itself to sink to such depths? The ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ is clearly the land of neither HOPE nor GLORY! What a bloody farce that song is! The one that is sung so proudly on the ‘Last Night of the Proms’! This pathetic country is the land of hope and glory only for the HAVES. For the HAVE-NOTs it is a land of HOPELESSNESS and one BEREFT of GLORY!

It all started with the woman the Soviets called the “Iron Lady”, who believed that relative wealth/poverty mattered not a jot. Listen to the cr** here.

We can thank fourteen years of Tory rule and mismanagement for this sad state of affairs. Alas, this Labour administration under the seemingly heartless Starmer is little better. This country is now not only becoming ever poorer, it is also becoming increasingly heartless.

Brought up to be proud to be British, can I now honestly say that I am proud to be British? Certainly not! The country is on its uppers and the country’s values and morals are at rock bottom. A country that cannot look after its children or its elderly doesn’t deserve to survive! — © Mark Alexander