In the winter time my parents would bundle me and my brother together in bed, because it got so cold that ice would form on the insides of our windows and we couldn't afford to turn the heating on. They could afford to have me when I was born. When I was five, they couldn't.

That's how life works sometimes. And I suppose all of these people I see crying out for more sensible parents, with more forethought, could shift their goalposts from "You shouldn't have kids if you can't afford them" to "You shouldn't if you don't have an 18 year financial plan"

But maybe not, because that second one sounds an awful lot like nonsense. And, given the pandemic, it can only be that nonsense that they're urging us to believe. The blame rests on the most vulnerable for their inability to predict the future. Job done. Problem solved.

But how, exactly? When you grandly announce that the problem is foolish parents, what does that actually do about the hungry children? Even if you are right, is rightness the correct litmus test to be using on this one? Little me, shivering in bed, could use a little pragmatism.

But let's be honest. All of this is a distraction. The reason so many of us feel so appalled is because we legitimately cannot believe that someone would want children to go hungry. And that's probably our greatest failing in trying to understand this.

Because that's exactly what they want. It's why the goalposts will shift with every conversation - why the narrative of 'party politics' is saturating this thing. This is about punishing people, but they're not allowed to say that out loud yet.

It's about punishing those who have less, because if having more isn't a moral virtue, as neoliberalism tells us, then those that have more might just be monstrous. And when seeing your own unadulterated image is horrifying, you destroy anything that might reflect it.

That's why this feels like it doesn't make sense. It's not about children or families. It's about people who need to believe themselves to be 'good' while still spending £8 million of our money on eating luxuries and not wanting to spend £5 million on feeding thousands.

They need us to be less-than-humans guilty of our own suffering, due to our moral failings, because if we're not then what must they be?