>>Record Poverty
Firstly not true, as discussed above.
Secondly forty percent of the population will ALWAYS live in poverty, as defined
fullfact.org/economy/poverty-uk-guide-facts-and-figures/
"A household is in relative poverty (also called relative low income) if its income is below 60% of the median household income.
The median is the number 'in the middle' of a set—so half of all households earn more than the median income household, and half earn less."
So Bobby, even if the poor are given ten times as much as currently, forty percent of the population will still be living in poverty. When the poor all have satellite TV and flat screen TVs it's an odd measure of poverty.
Food banks are a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Of course people will spend more money on other items if they know they can get their food as a free top-up. Food banks encourage fecklessness. I have no doubt that some people do live in desperate poverty, but just observing that lots of people like having free food is not a way of measuring this.
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