.@PrincesTrust do fantastic work helping young people into employment. Brexit should be a catalyst for Government to create a new offer to young people - very good to discuss this today. #Brexit
“The reality is that a real politics of enjoyment is communal... rooted in intermediate institutions and our common life, practices and civic habits that are collective but not provided by the state.”
Read @CapelLofft on the radical politics of enjoyment.
https://t.co/pvgCBAVWRZ
Speaking in the @UKHouseofLords last night, Baroness Philippa Stroud presented the @SocMetricsComm findings, challenged @DWP to adopt the #NewPovertyMeasure as the official metric and called on the Government to put tackling poverty back into the heart of policy.
Incorrect actually;
1. Austerity most hit poor (eg through local govt and benefit cuts).
2. Tax cuts have benefitted above average earners.
3. QE has been gift to those who already have assets.
4. Weak house building policies and high immigration have priced poor into insecurity