It’s dangerous to accept the status quo – the same old, broken ideas that condemn people to hardship
Here’s a secret about modern Britain. For all the thousands of words spouted by pundits and the endless melodrama of Westminster, how we live is governed by a remarkably small set of rules from which the country rarely diverges. We might call it political Groundhog Day, where the same old, broken ideas are accepted as gospel by politicians and the public is forced to relive the fallout over and over again.
Take the most basic job for any government: whether the average citizen can make ends meet. A record 2.5m food parcels have been given out by the Trussell Trust during the last year, as one in eight workers languish in poverty. An entire generation of young people have almost no chance of affording a secure home, while deprived infants are left to die in mouldy and crumbling homes. We are told this is just how a modern economy works, as if this state of affairs is entirely normal in one of the richest nations on Earth.
