Robert Booth Too Patrick Butler - Uk Austerity Has Inflicted 'Great Misery' On Citizens, Un Says

Just hollo upwards of all the North Sea crude oil profits Britain squandered on revenue enhancement cuts as well as dole queues as well as then today nosotros are fiat broke agsin  afterwards bailing out the banks. And banks similar RBS deliberately made thousands of minor as well as medium sized businesses bankrupt to boost their profits which farther increased poverty. The One Percent are laughing all the agency to the banking concern spell it's austerity for the balance of us. The whipping man child has to pay!

The United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland regime has inflicted “great misery” on its people alongside “punitive, mean-spirited, as well as oftentimes callous” austerity policies driven yesteryear a political wish to undertake social re-engineering rather than economical necessity, the United Nations poverty envoy has found.

Philip Alston, the UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty as well as human rights, ended a two-week fact-finding mission to the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland alongside a stinging proclamation that levels of tiddler poverty were “not simply a disgrace, but a social calamity as well as an economical disaster”, fifty-fifty though the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland is the world’s 5th largest economy,

About fourteen meg people, a 5th of the population, alive inwards poverty as well as 1.5 meg are destitute, beingness unable to afford basic essentials, he said, citing figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies as well as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. He highlighted predictions that tiddler poverty could ascension yesteryear seven pct points betwixt 2015 as well as 2022, perhaps upwards to a charge per unit of measurement of 40%.

I stimulate got besides seen tremendous resilience, forcefulness as well as generosity, alongside neighbours supporting ane another, councils seeking creative solutions as well as charities stepping inwards to fill upwards holes inwards regime services,” he said.

On nutrient banks, he said: “I was struck yesteryear how much their mobilisation resembled the form of action you lot mightiness hold off for a natural disaster or wellness epidemic.”

The Guardian 

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