Month: May 2019

Nearly 5,000 children in West Dunbartonshire are living in poverty and a similar number of poor people are regularly running out of cash and receiving advice on how to handle their money.

Community Party councillor Jim Bollan said: “The Council calls the areas that are left uncut ‘SNP Biodiversity Meadows’.”
Róisín Áine Kelly said: “Everywhere is left a mess, yet the gardens at the Municipal Buildings remain pristine.

The United Nations expert whose warning of deepening poverty in Britain was this week dismissed as “barely believable” by ministers, has said the government’s denial is as worrying as the poverty itself.

Poverty was as natural to us as great wealth and power were to the aristocracy of that age. Like his father and grandfather before him, my dad, Albert, eked out a meagre existence as a miner, working hundreds of feet below the surface, smashing the rock face with a pick axe, searching for coal.