Does being fat make you poor?
Nu-Labour are are always harping on about their commitment to tackling the social evil that is “child poverty”. Well that’s all well and good in principle, but in my opinion child poverty doesn’t really exist and therefore doesn’t need to be tackled. What does need to be tackled is educating the largely imbecilic parents (mainly single mothers), who haven’t the foggiest idea how to raise a child or a family, in what is quite a simple task bearing in mind the large amount of taxpayers money that is already being thrown at them.
According to leftist propaganda website End Child Poverty, 3.8 million children are currently living in poverty in the UK. This is a blatant lie. It is entirely conceivable that 3.8 million children are suffering because their parent(s) - if they are lucky enough to have two! - spend their Income Support and Child Tax Credit on McDonald’s meals, White Lightning, cigarettes and Lotto tickets. This doesn’t, in my eyes, constitute a problem that is the fault of society that taxpayers should subsidise.
I calculated last night - after cooking a fish pie that would have easily fed four people instead of the two greedy gits that ate it! - that it is entirely feasible to feed your average nuclear family with very healthy food on the Income Support and Child Tax Credits given to an average non-working woman with two randomly fathered kids. Fish is cheap. Meat can be bought cheaply and vegetables cost pennies. Jamie Oliver and Sainsbury’s “Feed Your Family For A Fiver” campaign is fantastic because it is achievable and can easily be done.
But what do the government do? Do they support educating these people in nutrition and cooking? No, they throw money at them to try and win votes. An extra £5 was added to Income Support payments for kids in April. That means that single mum Chantelle can afford an extra twenty Mayfair every week. She’s hardly gonna waste the bonus cash on healthy food for little Britney is she?
When will this appallingly incompetent government realise that throwing money at problems doesn’t solve them? The money that some families get on benefits is outrageous and way beyond Beveridge’s original ideas of welfare. You can give some people a grand a week and their kids will still eat Rustlers and wear Kappa.
If there is so much child poverty then why are the government still telling us that most kids are fat?
It’s either one or the other and frankly I think it’s all a load of bollocks.
There is no child poverty, only ignorance.
See you soon…
May 20th, 2008 at 01:24 pm
Quote: According to leftist propaganda website End Child Poverty, 3.8 million children are currently living in poverty in the UK.
If you decide, as the government has, that poverty is any household on less than 60% of average wage then it’s easy to find 3.8 million kids. And best of all they will never reduce so your/their career in welfare is assured.
May 21st, 2008 at 08:40 pm
I agree Rust. We live on one wage that isn’t even 14K a year. Yes we get tax credits but there are 3 kids, a mortgage and plenty of bills. We don’t claim poverty and we all eat well because I shop sensibly and don’t buy rubbish.