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The ugly reality of poverty in Britain.
David Cameron (David Cameron) delivered a program speech at the conservative party conference in Manchester, trying to change the direction of the political wind. He stated that a Central place among the big social problems should animationagent on poverty. Perhaps Cameron realized that the conservatives again seem “nasty” party, and some say that he was right.
Among other things, he said that if the conservatives correctly understand the problem, they should deal with the main causes of poverty and the best path out of poverty is work. “It’s simple, let the adults work… Let it be clear to everyone: if you work hard, want to succeed, want to get to the end of the month more money – your party is in this room”.
But the real poverty is so widely and deeply spread in Britain is that Cameron, regardless of his motives, will not be able to reduce it, until the change mode.
Since the early 1980s, the British economy has doubled. However, the number of people whose standard of living below the poverty line has increased even more than twice. At the same time, Britain overtook the United States.
In accordance with the study of Poverty and social exclusion (Poverty and Social Exclusion, PSE): 33% of all British families live below the poverty line – i.e. they “can’t buy three or more basic necessity – food, clothes for themselves and their children, cannot pay for heating and insurance of the apartment. In the early 1980s, this figure was 14%. This is a 140 percent increase.
Almost 30% of working women earn less than minimum wage. The figures also show that about 50% of the young people of London receive low salaries, while abroad the capital, that number jumps to 58%. Overall, it’s about 6 million hard-working young people. This 19 percent drop in just 4 years.
Declared as the most detailed study of poverty in the history of the United Kingdom, PSE claims that about 18 million Britons live in poor and unsuitable housing conditions, while 12 million are so poor that are unable to participate in basic social activities. Every third citizen could not afford to heat the apartment to an acceptable temperature, and 4 million adults and children are not able to fully eat.
The availability of work will not save the British family from the harsh living conditions. The study concludes that many families who are in dire financial position, have at least one working adult.
The study gives a few illustrative examples: 5.5 million adults are unable to buy necessary clothing; 2.5 million children live in damp homes; 1.5 million children live in poorly heated homes; every fourth adult is not getting enough to get out of poverty; one in five adults forced to borrow to pay for daily expenses.The study believes that by 2020 Britain will be 5 million poor children.
One thing is clear – all attempts of the government to do something for poverty reduction in what have not resulted. Poverty and deprivation are growing. The poor continue to suffer and the gap between rich and poor over the last 30 years has increased significantly.
Statistics show that the main causes of poverty – the high cost of rent, heating and food – and these are the main indicators of poverty.
All governments with teterevkova of the Board follow a political ideology, which led to the sale of more than 4 million municipal houses under the “right to buy”, resulting in 40% of these have donovanosis in the hands of private owners. Under Cameron this scheme sold another 1.3 million homes.
The sale of municipal houses was accompanied by a sharp reduction of housing budgets and the strengthening of the draconian credit control and expenditure of local authorities. As a result, the rent has increased, decreased construction of new homes and reduced repair costs by 19 billion pounds for public housing and 25 billion pounds in private houses. The growth of conservative cuts and financial difficulties intensified privatization, which has become the norm for tenants and local authorities. Conservatives expanded the powers of private owners and liberalized mortgage lending for investment in the purchase of housing for rental (labour continued this policy with the aim of increasing private rental sector and development companies and real estate agencies.
This 30-year-old policy led to the housing crisis, in which buying a home was an impossible dream for millions of ordinary hard-working Britons.The average Deposit to purchase real estate is now 70-41 thousand pounds unless you first purchase the property. 40% of real estate in Britain is now sold for cash rocketboat buyers.
And all British governments continue to support the privatization of public infrastructure.
Rising energy prices after privatization have become the norm for everyone, which led to wild effects on housing and discretionary income. This winter, of course, again it will involve the deaths of thousands of elderly Britons due to corporate deception called “regulated” market, which was invented by John Major (John Major). He, if you remember, has imposed an unexpected tax on energy profits.
In the winter months every seven minutes it dies an elderly British because of too low temperature – it’s called fuel poverty. This 206 corpses every day, or 25000 for the season. For 5 million pensioners heating bills, the biggest nightmare.
In addition, we are faced with the privatization of water. Prices jumped 50% during the first 4 years of the campaign for privatization of water. By 2020 the price of water will increase by 40%.
Food prices are rising every year faster income growth. In 2013 he made the assumption that it will last at least until 2018, but since then the situation has worsened. Meat and fresh fruit and vegetables are rarely on the tables of many Englishmen, because we are now facing “food poverty”. Anglicanized more than 2 million and 3 million Britons are on the verge of it.
A striking 36% of the population of Britain can pay only one bill for heating or washing machine repair, and one in six adults can not feed themselves and their families.
At the end of the XIX-th century, about 25% of the population lived on the verge of or below the poverty line.Studies have shown that about 10% were very poor and could not buy basic necessities, such as food. Since then, little has changed.
“Crisis subsistence minimum” has led to the fact that in 2010-2013 British workers faced the largest decline in real wages among all countries-20 – notes international working organization. And their situation continues to deteriorate. Report of the Ministry for national statistics, compiled in late 2014, found that wages are falling for 6 years, was the lowest for the last 14 years level.
According to the annual report “Monitoring poverty and social exclusion, Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion) for 2014, compiled by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (Joseph Rowntree Foundation) on the basis of research Institute a new policy: the majority of today’s poor live in working, not in unemployed families.
Leading philanthropists and independent experts claim that child poverty has reached the highest levels, fully offset by the effects of the progress of the late 1990s under the government of Tony Blair.
Enver Solomon (Enver Solomon) of the National children’s Bureau said: “over the next 5 years, as the tightening of austerity, we risk the country in which the poverty is so severe that children grow up in parallel worlds, in which rich and poor families live is so different, as if at opposite poles”.
London is the sixth richest city in the world, it provides 20% of the GDP of the United Kingdom, and, nevertheless, there is a huge poverty. 4 in 10 London children live in poverty. In some areas of London, child poverty is 50%. Modern Britain is approaching the position where every third rebenaque to live in poverty.
The reasons for the growth of poverty is both complex and simple. Over the last 30 years corporate profits have increased dramatically, at the same time, the number of poor families has increased by 140% as a result of falling real wages and deteriorating working conditions. Only in the last 15 years property prices in Britain increased by 250%. The cost of private renting has soared over the past decade, and now 2 millionairecasino stand in a queue for municipal housing.
About 40% of British families do not have enough money to maintain a socially acceptable standard of living. Is it any wonder that Britain is the only country Large 7-Ki, faced in this century with the growth of inequality.
Given corporate greed and politics behind the official statements of Cameron serious about reducing poverty over the last few years seem impossibly absurd.
Source: The Ugly Truth About Poverty In Britain, Graham Vanbergen, globalresearch.ca, October 13, 2015.
