UK austerity has inflicted 'great misery' on citizens, UN says

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UK austerity has inflicted 'great misery' on citizens, UN says

Although the provision of social security to those in need is a public service and a vital anchor to prevent people being pulled into poverty, the policies put in place since 2010 are usually discussed under the rubric of austerity. But this framing leads the inquiry in the wrong direction. In the area of poverty-related policy, the evidence points to the conclusion that the driving force has not been economic but rather a commitment to achieving radical social re-engineering. Successive governments have brought revolutionary change in both the system for delivering minimum levels of fairness and social justice to the British people, and especially in the values underpinning it. Key elements of the post-war Beveridge social contract are being overturned. In the process, some good outcomes have certainly been achieved, but great misery has also been inflicted unnecessarily, especially on the working poor, on single mothers struggling against mighty odds, on people with disabilities who are already marginalized, and on millions of children who are being locked into a cycle of poverty from which most will have great difficulty escaping.

 

[CreativeB]

True and sad

 

[SilverbladeTE]

170,000 people have died unnecessarily during the prior Tory government's reign of Austerity terror
that's more than the Hiroshima bomb killed

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NO MERCY,
THERE SHOULD BE NO MERCY