Let's stop equating money with success and the lack of it with failure, says PollyVernon
making The Sunday Times’ Rich List while 77-year-old Elsie, who can’t afford to heat her home, rides the bus to keep warm, can we endure before… What? Revolution, or weary resignation, engulfs us?
Though maybe that’s the piffling side-concern of a woman who isn’t having to choose between heating and eating, who hasn’t been told by MP Rachel Maclean she just needs to get a better job to shore up future finances, or that, should she be forced to shoplift to feed her family, new police recommendations propose leniency in prosecutions, so fine.
I heard a report into the cost of living crisis on the radio recently in which the reporter referred to spiralling numbers of people ‘admitting’ to. This was a compassionate item on the pity of new poverty, yet the use of ‘admitting’ felt gross: like debt is a crime, as opposed to an inevitability for people who once chugged along OK, but are now so suddenly and horribly reduced – by factors far beyond their control – they’re staring food banks square in the eye.
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