'We have been conditioned to be ashamed of being poor!' James O'Brien hits out at the right-wing 'demonisation' of those suffering as Britain's cost-of-living crisis intensifies. mrjamesob
Right-wing politicians and media are "conditioning" Britons to be embarrassed by poverty, according to James O'Brien. .Right-wing politicians and media are "conditioning" Britons to be embarrassed by poverty, according to James O'Brien.
A new survey from the Food Foundation revealed two million UK adults have gone without food for at least a day over the last month."Part of the condition has been the demonisation, and the othering, of the struggling."He continued: "Norman Tebbit's line that you just get on your bike if you can't find work.
"I think it's made us all ashamed of being poor and that's why the numbers are so stunning because it will include people who never in a month of Sundays thought they would need help or go without food."The Food Foundation survey found one-in-seven British adults, amounting to 7.3 million people, are food insecure.
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