A million children now living in poverty, reveals Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Charity says almost four million people experienced destitution in 2022 due to low incomes, rising cost of living and high levels of debt
There’s no one in the UK in destitution.
Relative poverty, sure, but destitution? Nope.
The organisation defines destitution as when someone cannot afford what they need to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed.
How warm, how fed?
We do have poverty tho, the wife had to buy a reconditioned Aga because they no longer make the oil fired ones and she says Net Zero is “gay”.
Where’s my wife’s regular column in The Guardian, I hear you ask. I wish she had one, it would spare me being told all the latest goss about babies and how hard women with Agas have it.
How warm, how fed?
Whatever Goal Seek says is needed to enable them to write “almost four million people experienced destitution “.
“The total number of migrants who were destitute in 2022, including those with complex needs, was 488,600 households.” I thought these illiterate goat herders we imported (willingly or not) were going to pay our pensions. I guess……not.
No organisation ever disbanded itself when it’s original purpose was achieved. Every one redefines its original purpose to justify its continued existence.
It’s like the bollocky question of “Could you survive on the British Old Age Pension?”
Nobody is asked to survive on it. If it’s your only income you are thereby qualified for various doles and subsidies – pension credit, money for the rent, etc, etc.
Why do people lie by implication? Maybe because they’ve been caught out when lying straightforwardly.
I do like your proof that all this immigration is therefore the cause, moqifen.
Volunteering in a food bank I get to see a wide variety of people. Some are clearly in poverty, others ain’t – not by a long way.
Having said that it’s sometimes far from clear-cut. I can be loading bags into a much better car than I could afford but, as one of the senior staff said, there might only be a couple of pints of petrol in the tank.
Few of the recipients could be described as underweight.
Enough of this altruism: what about Fruitgum or jelly poverty?
The Guardian doesn’t miss the opportunity to capitalise on the report and attribute blame, by enlisting Frances Ryan, its resident ray of sunshine reporter, :
The Tories have created a new poverty – one so deep and vicious it requires Victorian vocabulary
Frances Ryan
How many of these are immigrants essential for our vibrant economy?
John B.
Relatively few immigrants in my experience although we did have one youngish Ukrainian woman and child whose “refugees welcome here” hosts decided to tell her to offski after a few months. She seemed perfectly pleasant and google translate did some sterling work to assist communication.
The overwhelming majority of those receiving support here on the South Coast are white indigenous Brits.
“The total number of migrants who were destitute in 2022, including those with complex needs, was 488,600 households.”
I’d take that as an encouraging number. Is it possible to make it greater without importing any more? It’s the sort of disincentive to immigration you need.
@boganboy – i don’t think immigration is all the cause, but as the cost of housing has gone through the roof and this poverty is measured after housing costs one wonders if importing 7 million from the eu and millions from the world’s shitholes has had any effect on prices?? I’ll guess that the Joseph Rowntree Foundation doesn’t want to go there and spoil it’s lefty credentials. They should have stuck to making sweets, not political posturing.
You’ve may be right, moqifen.
This just reminded me of the way the government was whinging here in Oz about the shortage of housing. And the next article in the news was about them importing another million people.
Is whining about housing just the fashion at present?
The come out with this bollocks every year. I remember once seeing that one of their criteria was being able to buy seven new pairs of trousers a year.
I don’t buy seven new pairs of trousers a decade.
To be fair there probably are people who are destitute, and the main reason they are in this condition is that the all knowing State has completely f*cked up payments of the benefits that they are entitled to. There was a good article in the online Spectator the other day about how HMRC Real Time Income data is being used to calculate benefits but is completely full of errors, so people are getting the wrong payments all the time, either not enough or too much, which is then demanded back resulting in people not having enough again.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-taxmans-dodgy-data/
@ Jim
Yes, there *certainly* are – thousands and thousands of them.
Destitution is when you can only afford the cheap sparkling wine at the supermarket. Roughing it is drinking champers out of a highball glass.