FARAGE MASK SLIPS
NOTHING gives grotesque inequality a royal seal of approval so much as a lucky baby born seventh in line to a throne in a country where one in every three children lives below the breadline.
Britain would be a much better, more decent land if deferential Tory politicians falling over themselves to send best wishes and gifts to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex showed a fraction of that interest in upwards of four million kids they abandon to despair.
Rising child poverty, pathetic wages and cruel benefit cuts are forecast to increase the child poverty ratio to 37% in a few years – a permanent stain on Theresa May’s Government, which has reversed falls in the Labour era.
The Tories’ flagship assaults on welfare have left more families unable to make ends meet, including those in work – destroying Tory propaganda that the poor are worthless layabouts.
Research for England’s children’s commissioner found that nearly half of low-income families were short
I TRUST Tory MP Johnny Mercer held a postal ballot and gave Theresa May 14 days notice of his Westminster industrial action. To do otherwise would be hypocritical. changed an average £3,441 a year by benefits caps, freezes, the two-child limit and a Universal Credit fatwa – and the blame is the Government’s.
We are not born equal as long as the great-grandson of a hereditary monarch worth £370million is guaranteed a privileged future while the hopes, dreams and aspirations of a third are crushed the moment they enter the world thanks to toxic Tory austerity choices.
Labour and Jeremy Corbyn understand that accepting child poverty is as much a choice by the Tories as the fight to improve life for the held-behind was the ambition – not always successful – of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair.
May and whoever succeeds her will Party on Good Morning Britain. The reactionary’s jovial, beery bonhomie is an act by a hardline Brextremist professional politician pulling the wool over people’s eyes.
One who saw through him is the landlord of the George and Dragon near the wriggler’s home in Kent.
He has banned Farage after accusing him of quickly walking away from a head-on car crash.
Licensee Patrick Tranter’s TEMPER Farage claim Farage, a passenger in the other car, didn’t bother to check the publican’s toddler son was OK is disputed by the question dodger.
What is certain is the pub landlord’s view of the city slicker: “Man of the people? My arse.” Quite. WE know exactly why temper tantrum Brexit con artist Nigel Farage does not want to stand on his record – because it is indefensible.
From having advocated NHS privatisation and rubbishing climate change, to boasting we would leave Europe with a good deal before pretending no deal would be fine, this touchy, Right-whinge Thatcherite twister is terrified of the truth.
His Donald Trump meltdown on the BBC yesterday looked orchestrated to avoid answering legitimate questions.
I had a foretaste of Farage’s mask slipping last week when the deceitful demagogue moaned to me after I had criticised him and his “Newkip” Brexit never fix the problem because protecting the privileges of the few over the many is in the Tories’ DNA. Those super-rich multi-millionaires and billionaires vowing to take their wealth out of Britain if Corbyn wins power include tycoons who scream that a £10 hourly minimum wage for the plebs would be disastrous.
The Conservative Party is forever the well-funded Westminster wing of obscene wealth – 47 of the UK’s 50 wealthiest political donors bankroll the Tories. My belief in democracy and fairness fuel my republicanism – because every child should matter.
Rising child poverty... is a permanent stain on this government