1838: Oliver Twist asked for more. 1904: Over 100,000 school children did in London alone. 1965: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) formed. 1997: UK had the highest rate of child poverty in the industrialised world 1999: UK PM Blair ‘Our historic aim will be for ours to be the first generation to end child poverty forever, and it will take a generation. It is a twenty-year mission, but I believe it can be done.’ 2018-19 CPAG estimate 4.2 million children in poverty. 2020: Premier League soccer player Rashford tweets he does not 'agree with another sticking plaster method..'.
'The Socialist objective is not a society where everything comes right in the end, because kind old gentlemen give away turkeys. What are we aiming at, if not a society in which ‘charity’ would be unnecessary? We want a world where Scrooge, with his dividends, and Tiny Tim, with his tuberculous leg, would both be unthinkable' (George Orwell, Tribune, 20 December 1943. Published under the name ‘John Freeman’).
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And in the UK:
1838: Oliver Twist asked for more.
1904: Over 100,000 school children did in London alone.
1965: Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) formed.
1997: UK had the highest rate of child poverty in the industrialised world
1999: UK PM Blair ‘Our historic aim will be for ours to be the first generation to end child poverty forever, and it will take a generation. It is a twenty-year mission, but I believe it can be done.’
2018-19 CPAG estimate 4.2 million children in poverty.
2020: Premier League soccer player Rashford tweets he does not 'agree with another sticking plaster method..'.
'The Socialist objective is not a society where everything comes right in the end, because kind old gentlemen give away turkeys. What are we aiming at, if not a society in which ‘charity’ would be unnecessary? We want a world where Scrooge, with his dividends, and Tiny Tim, with his tuberculous leg, would both be unthinkable' (George Orwell, Tribune, 20 December 1943. Published under the name ‘John Freeman’).
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