School leaders said that as well as hunger they were now trying to mitigate exhaustion, with increasing numbers of children living in homes without enough beds or unable to sleep because they were cold. They warned that “desperate” poverty was driving problems with behaviour, persistent absence and mental health.

The head of a primary school in a deprived area in north-west England, speaking anonymously to avoid identifying vulnerable children, said: “We have a child who we put in the shower a couple of times a week.” He described the family’s bathroom as “disgusting” and said they couldn’t afford to buy cleaning products.

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    And again: FUCK YOU Tories!

    The first thing my GF and I did after the Brexit vote was to get married asap, knowing what a landslide of shit is going to hit her, just so she could live anywhere within the EU.

    Congrats, terf island, you ran your economy against the wall, you kick basic human rights with your feet, you discriminate against the most vulnerable minorities, spew hate and propaganda, act against each and every principle of democracy…

    sarcastically slow claps

    FUCK YALL, and hopefully each and every one responsible will get tossed into jail for good.

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      Yeah I mean I just went to Florida for a funeral, just got back and the UK is a shithole in comparison.

      IN COMPARISON TO FUCKING FLORIDA!!!

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    Horrifying how far our country has sunk. We are supposed to one of the 10 wealthiest countries in the world, yet this is how an increasing number of our people are living.

    To say the country has been mismanaged would be the greatest of understatements. Change can not come soon enough, and it also must be sustained for as long as possible. One term of government will not be enough, the rot that taken hold could take a generation or more to truly fix.

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      30 years ago, France, Germany and Italy were about as wealthy as one another. Now, Italy is markedly poorer. That is the direction they’ve taken the UK, and it’s probably too late to fix that.

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    We desperately need a government that will make this country radically change direction. The last 14 years of Tory government have truly made the rot set in. The future looks bleak with the way things have been and the way things are going.