Yesterday we ran a piece on the level of people living in poverty under Margaret Thatcher in response to a claim by Guido Fawkes which claimed the poor had "got richer under Thatcher". I dealt with a lot of this yesterday; but here is another graph showing a bit more straightforwardly the growth in relative poverty during the Thatcher years.
Yesterday we ran a piece on the number of people living in poverty under Margaret Thatcher in response to a claim by Guido Fawkes which claimed the poor had “got richer under Thatcher”.
I dealt with a lot of this yesterday; but here is another graph showing a bit more straightforwardly the growth in relative poverty during the Thatcher years.
Source: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/
Percentages are perhaps more helpful, however, because, as Tim Nichols of the Child Poverty Action Group put it, the numbers can be affected by changes in the size of different population groups (there were more pensioners, but fewer children at the end of Thatcher’s time in office). Percentages may therefore make more sense.
For relative poverty, in percentages and after housing costs, the changes from 1979 to 1991 were as follows:
- Whole population: 13%, increased to 24% – an increase by (not of) 85%
- Children: – 14%, increased to 31% – an increase by 121%
- Pensioners: 29%, increased to 36% – an increase by 24%
HT Tim Nichols of the Child Poverty Action Group.
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14 Responses to “Thatcherism saw child poverty grow by 121 per cent”
OldLb
Zero content.
From your pic, you’re quite young.
Take a little time to read this.
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171766_263808.pdf
Is very short. It’s from the ONS.
In particular, look at what they owed on the pensions 2 years ago.
Compare that with the total wealth of the UK.
Ask yourself, can they pay your pension? I presume you do want to retire.
If you’re working for the state, ask the question, who is going to win. 30% of the population that Shelter say – rightly – have only enough money to last 1 month, or a retired civil servant on a comfortable pension, indexed linked etc.
I know who wins.
Similarly, you will be outvoted by the greys. You will have to pay the tax and you won’t get the services.
Gareth Millward
Yawn.
Tim Nichols
Tony G
Yes it is also correct to say as you did that the child poverty rate went up by 16 percentage points. You seem to be chastising me for saying ‘half a dozen carrots’ instead of ‘6 carrots’. Neither is more or less reasonable, it is just the same.
I call out douches
Wow. What a douche
Gareth Millward
I’m honoured. However, having this guy spam the same argument (with no practical solutions) over every post on this site gets tiresome. So, meh. Why not troll the troll?