Tell that to the record homeless, the record children in poverty, the record people going to foodbanks.........
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And it is a total lie. Poverty has increased. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/04/uk-government-warned-over-sharp-rise-children-pensioner-poverty-study …
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Extreme poverty (absolute poverty) is different to relative poverty. A single man on £50k a year is in relative poverty compared to
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£50k is not poverty - relative or otherwise. Zero contracts, part time work and below basic hourly rate is poverty wages. Gee whizz where do you get this stuff from. People in this country are starving, freezing to death, no access to shelter or homes. 13k military vets homeless.
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That's how relative poverty works. It's not based on disposable income but as a comparative. That's why absolute poverty is a real measure.
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Don't worry Julia brexit will create far far more poverty and therefore People you can sneer and gloat at
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She’s a 21st century Hattie Jacques but more butch.
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The metric used as benchmark around the world without true weighting for differing costs is around $1-$2 per day (depending in source). It assumes anyone in any country on $1-$2 per day is out of extreme poverty. The whole premise is false and used to make a political point.
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You're right there is something evil about companies charging exorbitant APR for small loans, there is something evil about leaving the homeless to die on the streets and there is something evil in overpricing energy so people are forced to make a choice between heating and food
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So long as we remain in the EU, we will become poorer as a nation, so child poverty isn't likely to improve unless we leave, IN FULL.
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China has raised more people out of poverty than there are people in the whole of Europe. Go Communist dictatorship??!
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Yeah, they often like to ignore that it’s “evil” Capitalism that has lifted billions out of abject poverty. Same people bang on that this time socialism or communism CAN work... Stalin, Hitler, Mao etc couldn’t make these naff ideas work, but this time... So arrogantly ignorant!
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If we didn't have the bouts of socialism in between it would probably be zero now
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Capitalism crashes the economy about once a decade... but we'll ignore that shall we?
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Why? So we can ignore the 100 million deaths caused by socialism?
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Poverty can never be eradicated when the definition is the Labour one of a proportion of average wage.
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