Part 291. Another damning report.

Hardship, poverty and destitution should have no place in an affluent society, yet it looms large in Britain.  The Joseph Rowntree Foundation published today another damning report: The impact of hardship on primary schools and primary and community healthcare.

It is an indictment of the political process that it enables this situation to exist and continue and also of a wider malaise in society.  Faith and secular organisations have united to campaign against poverty, sadly with little impact on politicians, media and society.  Read the election proposals and propaganda coming through your letterbox.  How much is devoted to the subjects of poverty and destitution? Very little I surmise.  The reality is as identified  by JK Galbraith many years ago: we have the means but lack the will to effect change.