Was I suffering child poverty?

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Could some kind soul explain to me (a simple country bumpkin) and millions of others what exactly are these mystical descriptions: ‘child poverty’ and ‘hard-working families’? (23/10/15).

As a nipper in the 1950s, with devoted parents (thanks, mum!), I had my brother’s hand-me-downs, his out-grown bicycle, make-do-and-mend patched trouser knees, darned socks, home-knitted jumpers, ‘Sunday Best’ was school uniform, and dad’s old watch.

I got 2/0d pocket-money (3d Mars bars) and saved up (or earned an extra 2/6d from my dad, grass-cutting or mixing concrete) for those things I desired.

Was I suffering ‘child poverty’?

And who exactly are these ‘hard-working families’?

It would appear anyone who doesn’t vote Labour is lazy, so how come I, being self-employed earning well below a meaningless ‘living wage’, often off savings, was denied by Labour all these wondrous perks (sorry, ‘free’ state-benefits) that everyone is about to lose?

The fact is (Dim-Lib/Lab politicians take note), any idiot can spend someone else’s money, borrow to the hilt and rely on Britain’s financial services industry to finance their political fantasies (Gordon Brown certainly proved it).

But it takes wisdom to make best use of, and spend only, what one has!

Money doesn’t grow on trees – except in Labour’s Wonderland!

Barry M Jones

Bixley Lane

Beckley

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