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The British government has replaced £30 food vouchers with this, intended for a child for three days to a week. This is economic violence against the working classes’ children and theft (someone is keeping that £30) It is worse than insulting. It is a deliberate slap in the face.
This comes after the government called UNICEF’s intent to feed children in Britain political theatre. It follows a decade of grinding austerity and privatisation, which has seen poor communities devastated. Children have watched their present be sold, let alone the future.
Before the pandemic over 30% of children in Britain - around 4.2 million - were living in poverty. Since then, the speed of proletarianisation and dispossession has picked up pace considerably. Those living in poverty have felt it become more acute, shortages more common.
To have this, in that context, is disgusting beyond measure. Tory donors having directly profited from this assault on children’s livelihoods is corruption on an intolerable scale. And on the other side of the room is a man who bowed to every demand of these people.
Labour has only aided the creation of this context, even under Corbyn, as its councillors slashed through services to balance the books unanimously. Its failures to challenge any of the Johnson government’s despicable and nakedly corrupt practice is consistent, not alien.
This cannot be allowed to go on. With no party willing to give even a passing voice to those being assaulted, it has fallen to celebrities to get the bourgeois press to take notice of this at all. We need a real workers movement and a communist left outside of labour now.
So, some places this is contracted, others it's more regionally strained from what I can gather. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-55628428
