You are making me laugh.

I'm very happy for people to help the feckless if that makes them feel better. Some people find themselves in dire straits for no fault of their own and that is unfortunate.
I certainly won't spend my short life constantly worrying about complete strangers and no ghosts of Christmas will change that. If I do help people out who cross my path, I won't be crowing about it on here.

Virtue signalling makes me puke.

Again you say it, you have no sympathy for those who don't help themselves. You are talking about small children for whom you have no sympathy, funnily enough not in a position to help themselves.

If Britain is so wealthy why are children in Britain going hungry? Perhaps because many people take the same view as you, feck em they don't deserve helping.

I have presumed nothing and I know nothing of your circumstances since we used to play together in the Rec.

What I have commented upon are your posts, bleak as Oldham on a Tuesday night. You show no love and no empathy on these boards, I do hope you show it elsewhere but you have never indicated that you do.

7% of people in the UK are in deep poverty. 4.5m including 1.3m children. 3.9m children live in poverty and a total of 14.4m people,10.7m of whom are white. So not some kind of imported underclass. But half of those live in a family with someone that is disabled.

The Covid 19 pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on those people already in poverty compared to everyone else.

Historically 72,000 children a year are looked after by local authorities.

I blame the children who chose to be born into a family where someone then went on to become disabled

I also blame footballers for not feeding 1.3million children, what were they thinking?

All figures from the Social Metrics Commission.

Edited by Mapletree (24 Oct 2020 9.53am)

A few reflections on this issue:
(1) It is a fundamental responsibility of any parent to feed their children.
(2) Nobody in this country is so poor that they cant afford to give their kids beans on toast for lunch (back in the thirties my grandfather was unemployed, the family was seriously poor, but my Nan still fed her kids).
(3) The more the government takes responsibility for us, the less likely we are to take responsibility for ourselves and our dependents.
(4) The government is spending eye-watering amounts of money, the cost of which is going to blight the lives of younger generations for decades to come.
(5) Whenever government starts funding some new area of provision, it is almost impossible ever to claw it back again. That's why state spending just gets bigger and bigger.
It's the easiest thing in the world to say government should spend more to solve this or that problem. No politician ever lost votes by promising more hand-outs. The really brave and grown-up thing is to recognise that we can't and shouldn't expect government to solve every problem in our lives.

The number of children admitted to hospital with malnutrition was almost 2,500 in the first six months of 2020, double the number over the same period last year

And you and Marcus Rashford think it's the governments fault. Nothing to do with unfit parents, who won't pass on the benefits to their children anyway. Not one caring parent would allow their child to become malnourished. These numbers you produce are very likely correct, but the chidrens parents are more likely to sell on the vouchers at half price so they can have a packet of fags or a drink. Or maybe drugs even...?

The solution isn't to throw more money at it. The problem is far deeper than that. You seem to think every problem is a simple fix for the government if they spend more.