I can’t watch Dispatches because it reminds me of growing up cold and hungry. Thatcher & Major demonised & starved single mothers, and we’ve gone backwards, watching four million kids being traumatised by poverty.pic.twitter.com/k5ToedKvp0
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As soon as New Labour were elected they cut benefits for single mothers. Pathetic pandering to the right.https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/lone-parents-benefit-cut-what-makes-harriet-harman-tick-1286412.html …
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I’m sorry you had to go through that. The Tories actively victimise children. They must be stopped.
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Well said. Fans of austerity are all big and brave with other people's kids. This programme should have been compulsory viewing for them.
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Waspi here. Mum used hot water bottles wrapped in towels to warm our beds and supplemented the few blankets with coats. I don't recall going hungry, but I do recall many meals of bread and jam or sugar or dripping and offal, lots of offal. I bet she went hungry. Bevan was right.
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