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I see Twitter today is full of right wing twats looking up the price of plain rice and chopped tomatoes to try an prove that the only reason children go hungry is parents being think and lazy. Because that is what Tories think of people on the breadline.
In the eyes of the Tories anyone unemployed and living week to week deserves to be there because they don't work hard enough. If you are poor you deserve nothing but the very basics. No treats, nothing to raise the spirits. If it's not baseline survival then it's an indulgence
They assume that the poor are already subsisting on gruel and cheap pasta and when it transpires that poor parents try to aspire to something more than that their response is that they're financially irresponsible for not just eating gruel and cheap pasta
Then you get self-righteous wankers like Jamie Oliver lecturing poor households for buying cheap, easy to make food when they could be making healthy meals with all the time that they don't have. Being a poor parent to multiple kids, especially it you are single, is exhausting.
Many parents in these households are working low paying jobs with long hours that mean they still need help to support their families. When they get home they aren't putting their feet up they are feeding and looking after their kids. They'll barely get an hour to themselves.
I grew up in a single parent household with my Mum on child and housing benefit. We were a full time job. As kids you don't understand that but as an adult I know that she worked hard to raise three kids on a very low income and she did an amazing job.
And, yes, there were nights when we had pasta and chopped tomatoes for tea but she also made sure we had some treats to look forward to when she could. I'll swing before I let some prick who has never has to struggle a day in their lives lecture low income families.
Any politician who looks at a families struggling to make ends meet and thinks "Well, they clearly aren't good with money" are astronomically out of touch. Fuck anyone who thinks they are superior to them because they make more money.
