POVERTY in Britain and the poverty of the Brown-fronted Blairing regime that is maintaining poverty in the UK today more brazenly than Brown would ever admit
By © Muhammad Haque
0920 hrs GMT
London Monday 22 December 2008
Talking about ‘child poverty’ by definition excludes discussion of poverty as a whole. That is why the correct term to use is ‘poverty’. Not just ‘child poverty’. So why do the Blaired ‘professionals’ holding the positions on ‘combatting’ ‘poverty’ refuse to use the single word poverty? The answer is to be found in the fact that they are essentially in denial. And in deep ignorance. The half of their dishonest ‘term’ is on many levels misleading. ‘Child’ may sound like the call for care, compassion and delicacy with the fragility of the vulnerable. But this is a confidence trick. Like so many of the terms they use, this [‘child poverty’] is to dress themselves up as a party [with a small p] dedicated to upholding the needs and the rights of the ‘more vulnerable and needy’. The word ‘child’ carries so much instant positive recognition of all things good or at least innocent.…. As different from the whole family.. The neighbourhood. The community. The population... That would be a daunting reality. That one the peddlers of concern on ‘child poverty’ dare not face up to, let alone deal with...
When the entire population is organised in a way that CAUSES poverty, imposes poverty, adds to poverty, it is little wonder that children in it are in poverty.….
By the population I am here referring to that part of the population that is the target of poverty causation, poverty imposition, poverty addition...
The parts that are to be found in the inner cities in the UK.
There are people in poverty in the other parts of the UK populations and conurbation.
But the incidence, the spread, the perpetration and the persistence of poverty in the inner cities areas are so high, frequent and noticeable that a discussion of poverty in Britain today would be done more comprehensively and accurately by looking at the inner cities than by looking at the other areas where poverty also does exist.
Tower Hamlets in the East End of London is of course the London borough that contains most of the features of inner city poverty.…
[To be continued]
