I tell you what she can keep her money, what I want is for her to spend just one day in my office, just one day with the public. I do it all day 2-3 days a week 5 in recess. I just ask her for 1 day. I just want them to get it.https://twitter.com/jessphillips/status/1102548312455106561 …
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Might make you a better MP for a start - or at least a compassionate one!
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In my experience, most MPs from all parties are compassionate and far more in touch with this stuff and more knowledgable about how people on the breadline actually live than most of us.
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That's why the current government overwhelmingly voted for cuts to benefits, switching to universal credit, privatising the NHS, bringing in zero hours contracts, and leaving the EU was it, because they understand poverty?!
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Er, just some basic facts: cuts to benefits were a necessity after 2008 crash, principle (not practice) of universal credit now accepted by most MPs of all parties, the NHS isn’t privatised, they didn’t bring in zero hours contracts & Brexit has nothing to do with poverty. Next.
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Go and talk to people on the streets in Castleford or Wakefield and tell me that Brexit has nothing to do with poverty..... it has everything to do with poverty - of pocket and of thought. The necessity of the 2008 crash was to make bankers pay.... haven't seen that happen!
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She meant Govt policy on leaving the EU
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No I didn’t, maybe if you spent less time presuming what people mean and more time actually understanding you’d be a better journalist. Instead you’re a bitter and privileged hack without a clue!
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Literally the question I ask myself whenever I see you on the timeline.
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As you are fully entitled to do.
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And yet, here we are. Without an answer.
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If something needs to serve a purpose to be deemed worthy of your time, it begs the question; why do you put so much time into your career.
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It doesn’t “beg” the question. It “poses” the question. Sorry to quibble.
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Julia, you have just hinted that you could live on the lowest income for a fortnight. That's great. Now prove it. Then write about it. I for one am looking forward to reading the article(s).
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It’s been done many times before but doesn’t prove anything. It’s when children’s shoes need replacing or something breaks that the real crisis kicks in. Two weeks is copable. Millions do it every day.
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"It’s when children’s shoes need replacing or something breaks that the real crisis kicks in" "Millions do it every day." Contradiction?
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Because it's not as easy as you blithely say it is.
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I don't agree with Julia on many things but I do here. Doing it for two weeks is nothing because you *know* it's only two weeks and then you can return to your comfortable life. TV programmes and exercises like this can in no pay recreate what it's really like.
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Exactly my point
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Have you heard of Matthew Parris?
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