Kinder in England „leben in fast dickensischer Ebene der Armut“
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/08/children-england-living-almost-dickensian-levels-poverty
Von acrimoniousone
Kinder in England „leben in fast dickensischer Ebene der Armut“
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/08/children-england-living-almost-dickensian-levels-poverty
Von acrimoniousone
25 Kommentare
Current poverty levels, and the reality of modern poverty, are absolutely nowhere near Dickensian levels. Such needless hyperbole does the Children’s Commissioners‘ argument no favours whatsoever.
What about OAPs though? Are they still able to go on two cruises a year and have the thermostat at 23c all winter?
It’s amazing that this level of poverty is being exacerbated by the policies of a Labour government.
When i see a boy selling matches individually to help his parents feed his family a quater piece of stale bread each a day while living in one room with three other families of 14 and they all have typhoid fever ill believe you in the mean time its a bit of a streach
Hmm , interesting trade off is it not ? Pensioners (who’ve objectively had the best of everything to date) vs children (who will objectively get screwed more as the years go by). Where do we invest ?
The government is on target for every child into poverty by 2030 I have never known a government more dedicated to achieving poverty for its people.
I haven’t seen data for other utilities, but real electricity bills (adjusted for inflation, that is) have been getting worse for decades
Isn’t this a scene from the last season of The Wire?
„Show me more of the dickensian aspect“..
What’s the TV show where a writer makes up a fake serial killer? Where the editor is a complete tool, that constantly says „dickensian“
Every time I hear that word used, I see that editor saying it because it’s coming from the mouth of another tool
„The commissioner’s report, based on the experiences of 128 children aged between six and 18 across the country between January and March this year, noted a range of concerns including lack of access to quality, healthy food, and living in cramped and poor conditions.“
Hmmm…sample size 128 children. Clearly accurate…
There’s no doubt some families are seriously struggling but some things on that list applied to my childhood and we were nowhere near poor, just living in a big old house with a father who was crap at DIY and refused to hire anybody else to do any work.
Poor kids.
Britain isn’t that rich though – we need to stop yelling about how loaded it is. A few very rich people doesn’t cancel out the fact that we have an unproductive and rapidly aging population and a LOT of debt.
As a country we either – look to seriously improve productivity, raise taxes for everyone (I mean everyone from lowest earning to highest, like France or Scandinavia) or seriously cut spending.
I know people who yell about how bad x is, but refuse to earn over 12k a year as they don’t want to pay any tax. We don’t have a magic money tree and we can’t keep borrowing money.
It’s clear that the UK is doing brilliantly at reducing poverty, when self-interested parties are having to roll out nonsense like “Dickensian level of poverty”
> Are there no prisons? And the Union workhouses?Are they still in operation? The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?
I volunteered in a school and the deprivation is real. A girl sloping down a hall wearing shoes two sizes too big for her. The older generations are so selfish. They’ve allowed this to happen with their greed, me, me, me Thatcher attitudes.
I’m working in a particularly rough area on social housing at the moment.
Honestly a lot of people have no idea how rough it is for some people. Immediately obvious mental health issues are rife, everyone is in poor health, employment rate is shocking. The houses stink, they’re damp and mouldy and dirty, everything in the houses is broken or old, the streets are filthy. Everyone just seems to have given up.
It’s especially grim seeing the kids and the elderly around there.
Controversial but maybe don’t have kids if you can’t afford it?
Quite annoyed when i see the salaries of professional football players in these deprived areas, the majority sending thoughts and prayers rather than taking a wage holiday to do more good. It’s not like they need all of the £50,000 a week do they.
https://imgur.com/xmkiJI7
Definitely the migrants fault and VAT on private schools is barbaric ffs
Who would have thought that opening the border to unskilled labour from the third world would lead to a reduction in living standards for English children?
Shocked, shocked I am.
Bottom line is don’t have kids until you are financially stable. Too many young women still having a child to get a free house. You can’t educate stupid.
Have the parents tried not buying so many Avacados and costa /s
Comments in here…
My god 😅 you guys all think corbyn would have been a great pm dont you lmao.
I want to know how come there are so few of you in real life but you all congregate on reddit.
Is it a known get together for certain political leanings?
The hate for elderly in here is borderline sick.
I totally believe this. No sarcasm. I grew up poor as fuck and nowadays it’s actually somehow worse. Benefits you used to be able to live on, barely, but you could. You simply cannot look after anyone with 400 quid a month. 100 is electric alone. 90+ for council tax, 30+ for internet and that’s over half the money for the month gone already. It’s utterly not possible. Not hard, just factually you cannot stretch really 150 quid for a month. And that’s not even mentioning having a child in the mix. Cost of living has at least doubled, things like universal credit have maybe gone up 20-50 quid over 20 years. It’s nowhere near enough lol
Given everyone get housing and food for free, and given money for clothing, etc, how is it possible to live in „almost Dickensian levels of poverty“?
The hell does anyone expect.
The UK is a failing country in a miserable economic situation. What was the statistic – delete London and we’re poor as a shit-poor US state.
We have had no effective government for decades and at some point something has to give, and it will give at the expense of the poorest.
Pretending ludicrous two-party, first-past-the-post politics can fix this is fantasy.