Childhood poverty in the UK

Official government statistics show that one child in five (2.6 million children) lives in poverty (See BBC Article: Children's commissioners warn on child poverty).

Where do these children come from?  The answer is shockingly simple.  According to the House of Commons. Work and Pensions Committee: Child Poverty in the UK 25% of children in the UK lived in homes with a single parent in 2003 and according to the Office of National Statistics 25.1% of children in the UK were born to immigrants (See Births in England and Wales by parents’ country of birth, 2010).

I do not have the figures for the UK but according to the House of Commons article quoted above, in Denmark  immigrant's children have six times the poverty rate of non-immigrant's children.  This means that if only 10% of the indigenous population are subject to child poverty at least half of the child poverty in the UK would be due to immigration if we followed the Danish proportions. Most of the remaining 10% would be due to family breakdown. This child poverty is costing everyone a fortune.

What is fascinating about the discussion of Child Poverty (see the BBC article) is that it is couched entirely in terms of how much extra the tax payer should donate and how the Government is failing the poor and needy.  There is no mention of immigration and family breakdown.

We are not being governed badly, it is worse than that.  We can never get our heads above water if our social services and best efforts are being drowned by the free movement of labour. We can never have happy children if there are no efforts to ensure happy marriages.  Worst of all we cannot have a working democracy when journalists are so ignorant and Machiavellian and hide the truth from the people.

Incidentally, if you are anti-immigration you have a democratic tool, just never vote Labour again, Labour set up the current mass migration in 1997 - just look at the migration graphs.


The graph above shows the scale of UK immigration. (See Office of National Statistics Figures. Notice how Labour doubled the migration rate as their first policy initiative in 1997 and also the epic scale of UK immigration which accounts for 30% of all EU population growth - equal to the population of Birmingham every 4 years and comparable to the peak immigration rates in the history of the USA).

See

Illiteracy in England

Immigration, house prices and boom economics

The London riots and the mediocracy

Is the pro-immigration lobby racist..?

The predicted population of the UK

Further reading:

Regional characteristics of foreign-born people living in the United Kingdom http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/regional-trends/regional-trends/no--43--2011-edition/regional-characteristics-of-foreign-born-people-living-in-the-united-kingdom.pdf