The United Kingdom - a nice place to visit, but don’t bring your kids!
http://underclassrising.net/ | 05.05.2009 14:26
As we’ve mentioned many times before, despite claims of social mobility and the lie that we’re now somehow all middle class, childhood poverty remains the best predictor of lifelong socio-economic circumstances. The life expectancy of a child born in Calton in Glasgow, Scotland is 28 years less than that of a child born a few miles away in Lenzie. 28 years! That’s not inequality, it’s fucking manslaughter!
All the evidence shows that More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better; ( http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article5859108.ece )both in economic and environmenta ( l http://www.compassonline.org.uk/news/item.asp?n=3348) terms (eco-toffs take note!). But the UK remains committed to serving the interests of the middle (voting/parasitic) class at the expense of the majority of the population.
Likewise our low position in the Child Wellbeing table should be seen as a form of institutionalised child abuse. If, as Ghandi said, ‘poverty is the worst form of violence’ then how should we feel about 1/3rd of UK children living in poverty?
Given how comparatively wealthy the UK is as a country, our child poverty rate is not just ‘unacceptably high’, as UNICEF describes the situation, it is downright criminal. There is much talk of ’social justice’ in alternative political circles, but where are the militant anti-child-poverty campaigns?
C’mon anarchists - surely this is something worth fighting for!
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Class politics in everday life.
06.05.2009 04:33
D@n
lol
06.05.2009 16:24
Don't try and blame the rest of society for the problems of the underclass, if the workshy and feckless got off their arses like the rest of us they wouldn't need you telling us how disadvantaged they are.
And don't tell me I'm wrong, i've seen enough of the people you're talking about and where their priorities lie, and it certainly aint their kids.
Bob