Riflections on modern Britain

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What happened to  Great Britain?  We are in 2018, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, considered the fifth world economy and we have poor people who use food banks to survive. It is absurd. The food banks should not exist. There are more than 100 billionaires in this country. In 2017, the market for the sales of yachts has increased by 14% by the estimates of Berthon sales division.
In London, in in the same year, an apartment was sold for about £90 million in a charming area of the city between Hyde Park and Harrods not far from the Bulgari Hotel. This type of property is provided with SPA, valet parking and landscaped garden. These are very few examples of the richness of a country that still houses one of the most important financial centres in the world and where models of great hospitality and organisation were given with the recent Olympics of 2012.
Is this the contradiction of modern capitalism? In 2009/10, 41,000 were the people to use the service provided by the Trussell Trust, considered to be the most extensive food bank network in Britain.
7 years later (2016/17) the number of people who used the food banks became 1.2 million.
What is happening to this country? Are these the consequences of the period of austerity that began in 2010? When are we going to see the end of the tunnel? People are tired, desperate and children are suffering in silence. It would be better to admit that mistakes were committed.
In 2010 the Conservative Party at the annual conference announced that the introduction of universal credits would have guaranteed simplicity and fairness to the country's social system.  This data cannot confirm what has been said in that Conference. There are examples of universal credits that have been reduced or that in some cases have been delayed, forcing many people to have a life of deprivation and social exclusion. We would prefer to see this nonsense to end very soon, please.

Giuseppe Loporchio 

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