el collado kid

Shirley you know who's gullible my old red he was in gullible's travels

Red Eric

Steady on, old chap.

Mention of such seditious works might bring on another apoplexy.

stevenglish1

and it's by design too. They get to shirk their responsibility and get decent charitable people to take up the slack, it's the same reason they get away with paying nurses, teachers and other "vocational" roles a pittance. It's like a game of brinkmanship where the loser is the one that cares more and actually has ethics. Let's face it neither of our governments is clambering to help the needy out.
We in Australia are being urged to breed so we have the numbers to rebuild post covid, but my gut feeling is that they want to keep the balance of power out of the hands of the workers. Cheers for this thread Lion, you've gone and triggered me 🤣🤣

scrubbedexpat091

I am surprised to hear teachers and nurses are not paid well in the UK, both are paid fairly well in Canada, but I don't know what the educational requirements are in the UK, both teachers and nurses in Canada have university degrees (well for RN's, LPN's in BC only need a 2 year diploma and are paid less since they have less education.) but even a practical nurse makes pretty decent money.

stevenglish1

my wife is a fully diploma qualified pre school educational leader (1 step down from teacher) and she's on a touch over minimum wage, getting her degree would get her a 2 dollar pay rise. She'd get more for stacking shelves. Our government uses our conscience as a stick to beat us with, and that's how they get away with turning their back on those living in poverty. It makes me so wild, you can probably tell haha

scrubbedexpat091

Looks like its $49,131 to $92,978 depending on where the teacher is in their career.

Now support staff like educational assistants and early childhood education wages there can really suck, but its not too bad for actual certified teachers, the starting is a tiny bit low I guess, but overall doesn't seem bad.

KJMW

The usual claptrap from the left about 'hungry' children' The problem in Britain is children and obesity. People here haven't a clue!

stevenglish1

ah you're one of those. I've seen a fat kid so poverty doesn't exist, you're right some people haven't got a clue

Red Eric

What has it got to do with "the left"?

Do you think nobody else has any concerns about child poverty?

KJMW

Absolutely spot on, some just don't have a clue! In fact most get their 'facts' from the press and then bang on about something they know nothing about.I wonder how many hungry and starving kids they have seen in London? Not having a clue is the nicest thing to say about those sort of people!

Red Eric

Which facts about the Unicef funds and Jacob Rees-Mogg's comments and the responses would you say have been misreported?

stevenglish1

I was being sarcastic, let's just be clear on that. I would say that the person who thinks poverty doesn't exist because they saw a fat kid is the one that needs to learn more.

Lion in Winter

Sorry about that

But yeah, it is wrong and it isn't inevitable and it isn't an accident. And it's an embarrassment. The post-WWII government of a bankrupted, broken UK did better than this.

BristolUK

May I remind you of something you posted the other day?

Dreamy

And of course, obese children living in poverty are probably malnourished too.

Someone (BristolUK perhaps?) posted a list of a food allowance from a food bank. I had been going to run it through a nutritional analysis program, but it was a bit meaningless as there weren't weights/amounts given. But just looking at it you could see that it was deficient in minerals, vitamins and probably protein, as well as unsaturated fats.