Poverty? That’s a bit rich, Nigel

One of the many bugbears of rightwingers is poverty figures. You’ve heard them whine about liberal ignorance whenever reports come out saying millions live on the breadline.

Poverty, they say, is when you have no shoes or gruel, not when you can’t afford a plasma TV and a Happy Meal. And they may have a point.

Or rather they may have had a point. Until the Right’s poster boy for living in the past, Nigel Farage, declared that fighting for Brexit had left him “skint”.

His definition of skint being a £90k salary as an MEP, a five-figure salary as a radio presenter, a shares portfolio, a £4million house in Chelsea and the prospect of a pension from those nasty Europeans worth £73,000 per year.

Never let them decry the concept of poverty again.