Seenthelighttorbay
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Don't buy it all you like, I'm supporting families in this kind of situation, OK so they have shoes but they don't fit and have holes in, or are in flip flops in the winter.Sorry I don't buy it. I've lived in around deprivation for pretty much all my adult life. Ranging back to when Tony Blair was elected right through to todays shit show. I've had alcoholic neighbours, drug addicted neighbours, neighbours that have squashed 8/ 9 people into a two bedroom box room house. I've had kick offs in the street because their kids were scaling my end wall one step away from a head injury. I've seen people working their backsides off for low wages trying to do the right thing. I've also seen people skimming the benefits system for what they could. I've lived in areas with high immigration settlers, and let me tell you, they work their socks off.
I've been a single parent with little support working both a full time & then a part time job in a pub at the weekend, paying a babysitter for me to do that because the tips were to good to say no to. I've not swiped at the self checkout, I've ducked and dived over lots of bills. I've been in situations where it's been bread or Tampons at the end of the month.
But in all that time, seeing all that life and all those different families which so many issues, I've never seen a kid walking the streets without shoes like a Victorian orphan. So if that really is the situation in Torbay, the UN need alerting to the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Southwest England.
Who says I work in Torbay? Although it has some of the highest area of deprivation in the country.
Guess that's why I work with the families I do and you don't. You would be judging straight away and they would pick up on it. In the 30 odd years I've supported families you would be horrified by what we see. Remove your blinkers as to what is going on in this country there are massive areas of deprivation. Also some of those with working parents who don't receive benefits of any kind are in massive hardship currently. Working all hours and still not making ends meet. And guess what kids clothes and shoes get worn out and grown out of.
How lovely to live in your world.