Money Down the Toilet

One of the key components of Wednesdays budget speech, was the aim of eradicating child poverty by the year 2010 in the UK. This sounded a most commendable notion, but I then got to thinking "Why are there so many kids living in so called poverty?" The criteria for being classed as below the poverty line, are kids living in a household that has an income below 60% of the national average. Now I have no doubt there are many families out there holding down jobs, and trying to do the best for their offspring, and I believe every every effort should be made to assist these people. But what about them that don't work? My next door neighbour is a fine example. Doesn't work, drinks White Lightning like its water while his partner takes herself of into town every other day returning with bags full of designer clothing. Yet the four kids they are in care of are barley seen in anything other than their school uniform. It has to be said their uniforms are pretty clean, but that could be down to the fact they are hardly ever at school. Then there is my little lads mate next door. A great kid, who is lucky enough to have an uncle and aunt to care for him, as his smack head mother is only good for churning out kids she can't look after, at the last count eight. So how is throwing piles of money at these kind of people going to stop kids like these falling below the poverty threshold? It isn't, in fact if anything, granting irresponsible people more money in child benefit payments, will surely encourage the feckless to produce yet more kids they are incapable of looking after. From misguided teenagers on council estates who consider babies nothing more than a fashion accessory, to workshy layabouts, to whom a litter of bambinos represents nothing more than a free ride, the money would surely be better spent taking the majority of these unlucky sprites into some form of care. Perhaps we would then see a fall in the numbers of feral kids who callously murder and maim innocent passer byes, on what now seems to be a weekly basis.

Stop The Nonsense