UNICEF will feed children in the UK for the first time in their 70 year history!!!! I will say nothing more.
Nicholas Beard ● 1698d8 Comments
£400 a week not much after rent, food, wifi, mobile phone bill, school uniforms, etc.
Nicholas Beard ● 1683d
Sovereign nation or not the UN could intervene, and WTO will set the taxes for us. The IMF could show concern. Other sovereign nations have had interventions I suspect.
Nicholas Beard ● 1697d
Do they not realise we are now a sovereign nation and it's our English right to let our children go hungry without the medaling of these foreign unelected agencies?
Paul Scullion ● 1697d
I watched an interview on SKY with a lady from UNICEF and I was not at all convinced that this was not a political stunt by them as she could not explain why funds/donations were being diverted from far more needy cases abroad
Paul Fisher ● 1697d
The thing I don't understand though is why are they in poverty.A single parent in Brentford with two children is entitled to around £400 a week in benefits (source: https://www.entitledto.co.uk/ ).Are they struggling to claim? Is rent taking up all their benefits (oh but we can't build any more flats or house here can we)?Or is this some sort of "relative poverty" thing where they just receive less than others so they're poor?I worry this might put people off donating to UNICEF, I always assumed the money was meant to go to children struggling to live - literally starving - on a few pounds a day in countries suffering from war or famine.
Trevor Lockie ● 1697d
Yes they would. I also wonder what they would say about the 4 million children living in poverty in the UK.
A certain politician would beg to differ ...
Anne England ● 1698d
Agree - words would be superfluous.
Vanessa Smith ● 1698d