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Topical.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lon...arents-are-too-poor-to-feed-them-8423346.html
Thousands of London children are going to school hungry because their parents are too poor to afford breakfast.
A harrowing investigation reveals today that scores of children have even passed out in class due to lack of food.
It's vengeance time.Look at the date. Your story is 9 years old.
Child poverty is a worry wherever it rears its head. There are children living in poverty under the Tory government, but since your story "broke" about 109 years ago, much has been done in British schools and wider society to address this: breakfast clubs in school, the increase in the minimum wage, the introduction of the living wage etc. Yes child poverty is sickening and no the Tory government, like many other governments around the world, doesn't go far enough in addressing it. I personally believe in the the extension of free school meals for poorer families and of course, the low wage economy needs to be addressed. Your thoughts?
Now to Russia, where I once saw a harrowing documentary about Moscow's street kids - homeless having been turfed out of their homes by poor parents, alcoholic parents and parents who just didn't give a s*it about them. Yes that was on TV several years ago, but since your own article is from 2012, I thought I'd throw it in.
Note: the once reputable Evening Standard has long fallen into disrepute since being taken over in 2009 (so 3 years before your article) by Evgeni Lebedev, a Russian oligarch. Wonder if this influenced your choice of ancient article, by any chance?
Topical.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lon...arents-are-too-poor-to-feed-them-8423346.html
Thousands of London children are going to school hungry because their parents are too poor to afford breakfast.
A harrowing investigation reveals today that scores of children have even passed out in class due to lack of food.
How is this topical?
Because RV started a thread on the problem in Russia.
I though the same problems affecting children in the West should get equal attention.
Says the guy who made a whataboutism thread right here.3 posts in and we get 'whataboutism'. Who'd have thought :roll:
Because RV started a thread on the problem in Russia.
I though the same problems affecting children in the West should get equal attention.
breakfast no, lunch yes.They don't offer breakfast for the kids like they do here in the states?
Russian kids largely even go without school lunch.They're not even remotely rationally comparable in scope and degree.
Nice fail.
It's vengeance time.
Took him nearly 7 hours to retaliate.
To: https://www.debatepolitics.com/europe/345180-lunchless-russian-schoolchildren-fainting-hunger.html#post1069597967
...and there we have the essence of your qualities as a poster.Topical.
Things have got worse not better, and the funny thing is, I suspect that many of the right on bleeding heart liberals want to pretend this problem doesn't exist in the UK.
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-forced-to-collect-food-for-hungry-pupils-warns-un-adviser/
The costs of austerity in the UK have fallen “disproportionately” on children, leaving them hungry at school and forcing teachers to collect food and send it home with their pupils, according to a United Nations poverty expert.
Professor Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, recently spent two weeks in the UK. He visited a primary school, several community groups, a food bank and other public services.
In his damning report, Alston warned that children are “showing up at school with empty stomachs, and schools are collecting food on an ad hoc basis and sending it home because teachers know that their students will otherwise go hungry”.
You are lying.Yes, it was a 2012 story, but let me update you with a report from the UN rapporteur on extreme child poverty.
Things have got worse not better,
I suggest that you take your suspicions and shove them into the dishonesty pot where the rest of your stuff resides.and the funny thing is, I suspect that many of the right on bleeding heart liberals want to pretend this problem doesn't exist in the UK.
Look at the date. Your story is 9 years old.
Child poverty is a worry wherever it rears its head. There are children living in poverty under the Tory government, but since your story "broke" about 109 years ago, much has been done in British schools and wider society to address this: breakfast clubs in school, the increase in the minimum wage, the introduction of the living wage etc. Yes child poverty is sickening and no the Tory government, like many other governments around the world, doesn't go far enough in addressing it. I personally believe in the the extension of free school meals for poorer families and of course, the low wage economy needs to be addressed. Your thoughts?
Now to Russia, where I once saw a harrowing documentary about Moscow's street kids - homeless having been turfed out of their homes by poor parents, alcoholic parents and parents who just didn't give a s*it about them. Yes that was on TV several years ago, but since your own article is from 2012, I thought I'd throw it in.
Note: the once reputable Evening Standard has long fallen into disrepute since being taken over in 2009 (so 3 years before your article) by Evgeni Lebedev, a Russian oligarch. Wonder if this influenced your choice of ancient article, by any chance?
I think if we are honest it is a problem all over the world and should try to desist from from using it as a stick with which to beat this or that nation and focus on the reality that it is the result of an extremely unfair socio-economic global system being played out in the majority of countries around the world.
Indeed. A worldwide phenomenon:
https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/child-hunger-fact
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04...-children-suffer-from-food-insecurity/9653532
https://blogs.mediapart.fr/alberteins/blog/110918/un-francais-sur-cinq-ne-mange-pas-sa-faim
Capitalism and policies of austerity are failing poorer families. Corrupt systems are failing poorer families. The UK has its faults. France has its faults. All nations have their failings. Useless pretending Russia is a paradise when it's a hellhole.
Topical.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lon...arents-are-too-poor-to-feed-them-8423346.html
Thousands of London children are going to school hungry because their parents are too poor to afford breakfast.
A harrowing investigation reveals today that scores of children have even passed out in class due to lack of food.
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The UK has huge problems with not just child poverty but adult poverty, widespread use of food banks, mass inequality and huge social division. It's a disgraceful advert for globalisation.
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