I’d argue those same people were using food banks long before Lizz Truss wormed her way into power. She’s obviously made the situation significantly worse, and it now encompasses a larger section of society…but Cameron’s government is what got us into this mess in the first place.
She’s obviously made the situation significantly worse , and it now encompasses a larger section of society…
That was my only point, disagreeing with @brewery that Truss’s impact didn’t cause much real damage. I absolutely agree that Cameron is at the root of all we see today.
Yeah that is a fair point counter to what I said about Truss and yeah, I also forgot to add austerity to the Cameron list! He still ends up on top in my view.
I guess you could argue the Ukraine war for heating costs and brexit is the ultimate problem for higher interest rates but Truss definitely caused the spike and expanded the issues to make them much worse, much more quickly. I retract the mostly receded point.
Their choice to spread the cost of the financial crisis amongst the whole country and including the vulnerable was the worst decision ever (assuming you care about the British public I guess…), Brexit then helped to keep us down and have nothing left when covid happened. Even the UN envoys on poverty are saying that about austerity being done in a tragic way.
I’d argue those same people were using food banks long before Lizz Truss wormed her way into power. She’s obviously made the situation significantly worse, and it now encompasses a larger section of society…but Cameron’s government is what got us into this mess in the first place.
That was my only point, disagreeing with @brewery that Truss’s impact didn’t cause much real damage. I absolutely agree that Cameron is at the root of all we see today.
Yeah that is a fair point counter to what I said about Truss and yeah, I also forgot to add austerity to the Cameron list! He still ends up on top in my view.
I guess you could argue the Ukraine war for heating costs and brexit is the ultimate problem for higher interest rates but Truss definitely caused the spike and expanded the issues to make them much worse, much more quickly. I retract the mostly receded point.
Their choice to spread the cost of the financial crisis amongst the whole country and including the vulnerable was the worst decision ever (assuming you care about the British public I guess…), Brexit then helped to keep us down and have nothing left when covid happened. Even the UN envoys on poverty are saying that about austerity being done in a tragic way.