The UK in 2019: Dickensian levels of poverty, malnutrition, scurvy and rickets

Politics and Insights

As the number of #WorklessHouseholds falls to a record low more families are experiencing the benefits of work, with children more likely to do better in school and more likely to be in work when they’re older pic.twitter.com/n0lLFgExp8

— Department for Work and Pensions (@DWPgovuk) March 7, 2019

 Tories and their tall stories

The government have claimed over the last few successive years that the numbers of people in work has reached ‘record levels’. The Conservatives claim that work has ‘many benefits’. One of those claims, for example, is that “work is a health outcome”. So we should reasonably expect that the general health of the population has improved since around 2015, when the claimed employment ‘boom’ began, if the government’s claim were true.

However, that hascertainly not happened. In factpublic health  has generallyhas got worse.  In 2014, the government tried to claim that a…

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