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“Not even a tin of baked beans!” A visitor shows the need for radical reforms.

By Katharine Pindar | Mon 19th November 2018 - 3:15 pm

Ten per cent – TEN PER CENT – of the population of Cumbria are using food banks!

said a fellow church-goer to me in horror, after a Sunday service in a West Cumbrian village church. We were discussing the local bearing of the damning findings by the UN rapporteur Philip Alston, reporting on the effects of austerity policies on Britain today.

After a twelve-day tour of Britain’s towns and cities, Mr Alston, UN expert on extreme poverty and human rights, spoke in stark term about his findings, in London on Friday.

Clearly shocked by what he had found, according to the Independent’s report …

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Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged poverty and universal credit | 57 Comments

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