It is horrific that a country is vilified by the UN. Worse so when it is your own.<\/p>\n
I would argue it is not entirely the truth that “UK austerity has inflicted ‘great misery’ on citizens, UN says”. It is the Tory government and those who gave them the mandate.<\/p>\n
Not all of us believe that it is a political choice to be poor.<\/p>\n
People fall into poverty via many routes – and some I am sure come from much better circumstances originally – possibly even such that they would have voted Tory.<\/p>\n
As a nation we should be ashamed that we have let this happen.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/nov\/16\/uk-austerity-has-inflicted-great-misery-on-citizens-un-says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is horrific that a country is vilified by the UN. Worse so when it is your own. I would argue it is not entirely the truth that “UK austerity has inflicted ‘great misery’ on citizens, UN says”. It is the Tory government and those who gave them the mandate. Not all of us believe … Continue reading “I am ashamed to be British – not because of Brexit, for a change”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}