Real poverty

THE Joseph Rowntree Foundation claims millions of people in Britain are living in absolute poverty, having less than £247 a week after paying their housing costs.

This should be put into perspective. An example of what I would call absolute poverty is the conditions experienced by those affected by Cyclone Idai in Mozambique: no food, no shelter and no possessions except what they could carry as they fled from the floods. JAMES WIGNALL, accrington, Lancs.