Posted: Nov 24, 2014 8:25 pm
Strontium Dog wrote:Surely we should keep using both terms.
A term like absolute poverty enables us to separate out those relatively poor people in this country for whom poverty means only being able to afford a budget smartphone, as opposed to the absolute poor who constitute a majority of people on this planet, for whom every day is a struggle to survive.
That way I suppose Cameron and his yellow Tory supporters can pretend there is no poverty in this country and those that complain are just lazy scumbags worried about buying expensive shiny crap. We can ignore the selfishness of the few at the top and ignore the figures showing an increase in child poverty and use of food banks. How typical. How convenient. How Liberal.