[The Weeping Angel]

In a shocking twist.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Will Kemi leave it there or will she suggest that the FCA have been got at? I suppose it depends which way Twitter goes.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Child Poverty strategy published today.

Let's see how much coverage this gets from people who have told us for years that they care about this stuff. I suspect it'll get a lot of "we wouldn't have child poverty if Starmer taxed the rich/ joined the EU" and the like.

[Abernathy]

Child Poverty strategy published today.

Let's see how much coverage this gets from people who have told us for years that they care about this stuff. I suspect it'll get a lot of "we wouldn't have child poverty if Starmer taxed the rich/ joined the EU" and the like.

AKA "Let's look after our own".

[Tubby Isaacs]

There'll be that, but I'm talking about people who have professed to care about poverty. Reaction will likely be the same as the reaction to other things they've said they care about- industrial policy, workers rights, the minimum wage, renters rights, green investment, increasing unemployment benefit, more free school meals, recognizing Palestine.. Some will ignore, some will talk about the "real issues". The real issues are anything else they don't like about the government. Fewer jury trials, that's one of the real issues. Striking resident doctors. Anything.

[The Weeping Angel]

A good article on the child poverty strategy here.

https://labourlist.org/2025/12/tories-s ... d-poverty/

Did you hear the words of the leader of the opposition? She said Labour’s budget was a budget for ‘Benefit Street’. It was a flashback returning us to a decade ago. The Tory front bench on the hunt for any opportunity to pour scorn on people they believed were beneath them and ordinary humans being denigrated on the television.

Nothing has changed for the Tories in the 10 years since George Osborne proudly horrified us with his scroungers versus strivers rhetoric. They still think that pouring scorn on those poorer than themselves helps them politically.

But something changed for the rest of us. From then to now, the Tories in office increased child poverty by about one million.