'The Tory Party are plummeting in the polls and doing what they do best – lash out at scapegoats and smear others' - Mike Small
There is a clear need to be vigiliant as the right-wing searches for a new victim of the blame game
Chris Birt, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s associate director for Scotland, said: “It’s heartbreaking to see that families with babies and young children are struggling to make ends meet, with nearly eight in 10 going without essentials such as food, clothes or fuel, and nearly one in 10 having to access a food bank.”
Many of us know this. Only a few days ago, new data revealed that a “staggering” 920,000 households in Scotland are estimated to be suffering from fuel poverty.The Daily Telegraph has created a calculator to help readers work out: “Exactly how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state?” As the disabled rights campaigner and writer Frances Ryan has written: “The Telegraph newsletter today has an online tool to help its readers calculate ‘how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state’ – and the four million people too sick or disabled to work.This is, she explains quite rightly: “A truly shameless bit of journalism that openly relies on fascist ideology that casts disabled people as useless burdens.
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