Look at the poverty in UK, they have min pay, free health care, social welfare and..

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Look at the poverty in UK, they have min pay, free health care, social welfare and social housing, so this is basically the dream land of our opposition, then why are UK in poverty? They have what the opposition said that will solve all the social problems in singapore?

Money for social welfare and free health care does not fall from the trees, it have to come the taxes and borrowing.

You just shift a problem from one place to another. In the end, you make everything worse for the poor.

Due to high taxes, food, living cost and transportation are very high and the poor in UK struggle to survive, and not everyone are entitle to social welfare.

Can any of the opposition come and explain how social welfare failed in UK and if it fail there, how is it going to work in singapore.
Or you guys just buying votes from the poor. If that is the case, which i think it is, stay silent, i understand. Vote buying is good way to
win power.
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Poverty in Britain: share your stories
The rich may be getting richer again, but the poor are getting poorer too. We'd like to explore the ways life is getting harder for people across the UK.



Research from the London School of Economics has shown that poverty increased sharply in parts of London and Outer London over the past decade. Inequality also grew, which is in part because the rich got richer – but it's also because the income and earnings of the poorest Londoners became markedly worse. The report only covers the period up to 2010 but researchers anticipate that benefit reforms since then could "markedly accentuate" these changes. This will be the next phase of their research.

Though the report focused on London, the kind of hardship that forces people to rely on food banks appears to have increased across the UK. The Red Cross is about to launch a campaign to help families in Britain, for the first time in 70 years. Volunteers will ask supermarket shoppers to donate food, to be distributed to the most needy, through the charity FareShare. Comment is free would like you to help document how poverty is making itself felt where you live. Perhaps the price of living has gone up and your income hasn't or you are out of work and struggling to make ends meet. You may have had to move out of your home to find cheaper accommodation. We would like you to share your stories.


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