Poverty is not inevitable; it’s man made
Earlier this year, a supermarket security guard accused a young woman of stealing nappies. She was carrying a child, a beautiful little girl with blue eyes and auburn curls. People stopped and stared. I rushed up and said she was with me, that she had put the nappies into her bag because she couldn’t carry a child and a wire basket.
To be human is to care, to try to understand those on the fringes of society. Some are women and men who do jobs for desperately low wages. Others, like this mum, do what they can to get essentials. Yes, I know about career shoplifters. But some do this because they must.
Yet Keir Starmer’s winning manifesto mentioned the word “inequality” only once. And Chancellor Rachel Reeves is threatening more welfare cuts. Continuity politics. Is that what they think we voted for?
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