Increase in child poverty

A government report has revealed that child poverty has risen again, for the second year running, threatening the governments pledge to half child poverty by 2010.

The number of children living in poverty rose by 100,00 in 2006, and pensioner poverty rose by 300,000 since 1998.

The number of children and pensioners living in poverty increases, once living expenses such as rent and mortgages are deducted.

The government described the rise as 'disappointing,' while a spokesperson from Help The Aged told the BBC, 'This is a disgrace. We are watching more and more pensioners fall further and further below the poverty line.'

What is so difficult to believe and hard to accept is the idea that people have to live in these conditions when they live in one of the richest and affluent countries in the world.

Why is it that Britian likes to cast judgement and interfere in other countries problems, when its own people are suffering.

When is Britain going to stop thinking about its rich and concentrate more on its poor.