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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Austerity is always framed as a short term belt-tightening exercise, but poverty actively ruins childhood and leaves millions of people like me, too traumatised by the memory of years of hunger and shame to watch children subjected to the same by the government.
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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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Replying to @DawnHFoster @Normanjam67
Double negative here, like UK. Be positive or be away with you.
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What a stupid position. I should be positive about child poverty to fulfil the whind of some randomer I don’t follow?
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