Yet another UN report has criticised austerity in the UK. This report said that Tory ministers are in denial about the problem. The Tory ministers in question responded by saying:
Poverty? What poverty?
#marr
Kwasi Kwarteng just denied that poverty was a problem in U.K., proving what UN rapporteur said about Ministers being in denial.#SocialistSunday#GeneralElectionNow— MM (@2SpencerRoad) November 18, 2018
Marr-velous
Andrew Marr interviewed Kwasi Kwarteng about the issue, and he – you guessed it – denied the problem. Marr didn’t interrogate further, as he needed more time to talk over Shami Chakrabarti:
It’s Andrew Marr’s job to put politicians through the wringer, no matter what their political stripe. I support that. But I just don’t understand why Dominic Raab is getting handled with kid gloves, while Shami Chakrabarti got treated like this? pic.twitter.com/Tn41LN0It2
— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) November 18, 2018
When journalists later asked Theresa May, she repeated the party line:
Poverty? What poverty?
In response, someone shouted:
It’s behind you! Behind you! BE-FUCKING-HIND YOU!
May didn’t fall for it, though. Tory politics have been a pantomime for decades, so she knows how it works.
Unseen and unheard
Some Tories are worried that simply ignoring poverty might not be enough. As such, they’ve proposed:
- Draping a big tarpaulin over the North.
- Setting up fake foodbanks with inescapable labyrinths inside them.
- Instructing the media to never give a proper platform to people affected by austerity.
As you may have noticed, the Tories are well along the way with that third option. Obviously, you might see a poor person interviewed every so often when one of their loved ones is austerity’d to death, but that’s just for colour. The majority of news is driven by well-off types who think of poor people as zoo animals we need to manage better.
That’s why the Tories get away with:
Poverty? What poverty?
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