Quote Originally Posted by joecity View Post
A reality for some folk. The food banks. Take the politics away and you are still left with the shame of it. Not the shame of people who feed themselves from them because none should be attached plus 'respectable' working folk as it were use them. The shame that in the worlds 5/6th biggest economy it should be like this. I wouldn't think its making political capital for the sake of it to highlight a problem.
It is, because it's used to drive agendas.

It's not a direct measure of poverty and in fact some of the main ones used , based on relative incomes are misleading too, as they are treated as difinitive measures and are actually just relative to what you also point out is a generally well off society.

By using these bollox measures attention is taken away from the true drivers of poverty.

Lack of ambition, mental illness, alcohol, drugs, crime, poor education standards , ridiculous house prices in some areas due to investment all being channeled into certain areas, etc...