Given that far more Scottish areas used to up there in the past are there any lessons that rUK can take from Scotland’s approach to reducing poverty, or at least not letting it rise as high?
Or is it more a case of stuff just getting far shitter south of the border while Scotland stands still.
If anyone is able to make it to the list without getting bounced back to the top of it because of ads, you have far more patience than I.
Can we have a list of the 100 richest areas where kids get a Merc for their 18th birthday?
What do you mean that doesn’t sell papers?
The list, for those who’re interested. Glasgow’s in at 26th:
1) Newham
2) Manchester
3) Middlesbrough
4) Leicester
5) Nottingham
6) Brent
7) Newcastle upon Tyne
8) Southwark
9) Kingston upon Hull
10) Luton
11) Barking and Dagenham
12) Salford
13) Coventry
14) Slough
15) Ealing
16) Tower Hamlets
17) Liverpool
18) Birmingham
19) Westminster
20) Wolverhampton
21) Blackburn with Darwen
22) Hounslow
23) Haringey
24) Camden
25) Rochdale
26) Glasgow City
27) Sandwell
28) Oldham
29) Hackney
30) Blackpool
That Glasgow is now 26th should reflect progress, but it will also reflect the worsening conditions for many people across the UK. The Channel 4 Dispatches programme *Growing Up Poor: Britain’s Breadline Kids* is from 2019, before the pandemic and the cost of living crisis, did not focus on people from these areas, but it depicted some of what it’s like to live in these conditions. At that time, a third of children were growing up in poverty and [commentary across the press said it was a wake up call](https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmjpw9/dispatches-growing-up-poor-kids-food-banks).
> Across all age groups, around 3.8million people experienced destitution in 2022, the charity said. The number of children was 1.04 million, up from 362,000 in 2017.
The result of entirely avoidable, amoral and cruel policy choices.
Only the child payment from the Government prevents Scottish towns and cities featuring far more prominently..
Have they tried doing what the English middle classes do which is not have kids they don’t think they can afford?
If we allow poor people to breed whilst taxing the childless middle classes to pay for other people’s poverty kids – we’ll just end up with an idiocracy.
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Very grim statistics and stories from this.
Given that far more Scottish areas used to up there in the past are there any lessons that rUK can take from Scotland’s approach to reducing poverty, or at least not letting it rise as high?
Or is it more a case of stuff just getting far shitter south of the border while Scotland stands still.
If anyone is able to make it to the list without getting bounced back to the top of it because of ads, you have far more patience than I.
Can we have a list of the 100 richest areas where kids get a Merc for their 18th birthday?
What do you mean that doesn’t sell papers?
The list, for those who’re interested. Glasgow’s in at 26th:
1) Newham
2) Manchester
3) Middlesbrough
4) Leicester
5) Nottingham
6) Brent
7) Newcastle upon Tyne
8) Southwark
9) Kingston upon Hull
10) Luton
11) Barking and Dagenham
12) Salford
13) Coventry
14) Slough
15) Ealing
16) Tower Hamlets
17) Liverpool
18) Birmingham
19) Westminster
20) Wolverhampton
21) Blackburn with Darwen
22) Hounslow
23) Haringey
24) Camden
25) Rochdale
26) Glasgow City
27) Sandwell
28) Oldham
29) Hackney
30) Blackpool
That Glasgow is now 26th should reflect progress, but it will also reflect the worsening conditions for many people across the UK. The Channel 4 Dispatches programme *Growing Up Poor: Britain’s Breadline Kids* is from 2019, before the pandemic and the cost of living crisis, did not focus on people from these areas, but it depicted some of what it’s like to live in these conditions. At that time, a third of children were growing up in poverty and [commentary across the press said it was a wake up call](https://www.vice.com/en/article/zmjpw9/dispatches-growing-up-poor-kids-food-banks).
> Across all age groups, around 3.8million people experienced destitution in 2022, the charity said. The number of children was 1.04 million, up from 362,000 in 2017.
The result of entirely avoidable, amoral and cruel policy choices.
Only the child payment from the Government prevents Scottish towns and cities featuring far more prominently..
Have they tried doing what the English middle classes do which is not have kids they don’t think they can afford?
If we allow poor people to breed whilst taxing the childless middle classes to pay for other people’s poverty kids – we’ll just end up with an idiocracy.