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Hot on the heels of this latest Tory govt shambles is a UN report by Philip Alston slamming in to the Tories fiscal policy against the poor and accusing the Toerags of choosing to make the poorest people in Britain effectively poorer while funding tax cuts for the wealthy. Of course, a lotta this group of people are their supporters, their backers! As Alston succinctly put it - even their Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hammond could "easily have spared the poor" but chose not to". The report reveals that 14M people, a fifth of the UK population, live in poverty and 1.5M are destitute. His current extrapolation predicts child poverty rising by 7% up to 2022 poss up to a rate of 40%! Alston also praising the Scot govt and their £125M attempt to mitigate the worst aspects of austerity but encouraging the Scot govt to do more in publicising the Scot Welfare Fund.