'The recent cold snap has us all – some much more than others – dreaming of anything other than a white Christmas' | DavidLinden ✍️
IT is Christmas day and a family gathers around a table for their dinner. They are wearing woolly jumpers, hats, and gloves but they find that they are still freezing, shivering next to each other.
For all our progress since the Victorian times, we seem to be going backwards and at an alarming rate. I’m pretty sure that many of those experiencing acute hardship right now would not have believed this time last year that this fate awaited them. Last year, the economic waters didn’t seem quite so choppy.
The recent cold snap has us all – some much more than others – dreaming of anything other than a white Christmas., making it even more outrageous that an estimated 6.7 million households are now living in fuel poverty.ScotlandLet me tell you, I spent the start of the week working in London and thought it was cold there but returning to Glasgow where temperatures had dipped to -10C was a shock to my system.
They are hoping that we all blame these external factors and think that this is just one bad winter – there’s nothing that can be done.I know that it is hard to keep up with the comings and goings in Downing Street, with its revolving door of Prime Ministers and Chancellors, but each one has failed to take responsibility. In some cases, all they’ve done is make things much, much worse.
This charity is to be sincerely commended, but it also represents a failure of the state to support the poor.
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