Binners – would you describe yourself as left of center in your politics 🙂
Child poverty is an utter disgrace and needs to be addressed, I’m appalled the governments of all colours have failed miserably to address the issue. Didn’t the last lot fail to meet their own targets?
The problem is how do you address it and what definition of poverty do you use. One definition is anyone earning less than 2/3 of the average wage is in poverty. Average wage for a male in the UK in 2012 is £30,790 (according to payscale inc) Now call me a raving Tory but I wouldn’t call £20k a year, or £384 a week poverty.
How to address it is another question but has to start with getting this bloody economy moving and getting people back into work. How you do that, if your not going to rely on growing an already bloated civil service, is serious rapid investment in major infrastructure projects like high speed rail links to the midlands and the North. A new airport in the Thames Estuary and new Power generation, renewable or Nuclear.
Vote for me I’ll upset everybody…..