David Cameron banned from redefining Child Poverty

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/government-loses-vote-to-keep-child-poverty-numbers-secret-a6833156.html

Alright. The Tories tried it. They really did.

They wanted to redefine child poverty - which is, households with children being in poverty - so that the measuremeant scale no longer included wages and earnings.

I... what?

That's not how poverty works. Poverty is defined as lack of sufficient money to get on in life. People end up choosing between heating or eating - in Britain - because of this kind of thing. It's literally all about money and...

The Government, the Tory, Right Wing, Capitalistic set of wankers who call themselves the Government... 

... wanted to take money out of it.

That's not half of it, by the way. The vote was really more about whether or not the government would be made to report statistics related to child poverty to Parliament, and therefore the public.

Naturally, they were looking for a way to sweep the fact that there are now parents whose children frequently go hungry, whose children will almost undoubtedly never be able to afford university now that the tories are placing cuts on student loans for the impoverished and less fortunate in society, whose children will also pretty much inevitably get bullied for their sad state of life by the more fortunate kids, whose children are going to be potentially hundreds of times more likely to develop depression, and other disorders and sicknesses of the mind because of the way everything in life seems to be stacked against them and how hopeless it all seems, whose children are going to be sad because our government likes to line its own fucking pockets, under the rug.

They want to sweep it all under the rug.

Sigh.

Classic Tory, sadly. The NHS, the disabled, and the muslims aren't enough in the way of targets.

So they start trying to financially abuse the poor children of England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland too.

I'll admit, Davy Cameron is more than a little lucky he's unlikely to ever come face to face with me, because I'm honestly unsure as to whether or not I would be able to resist the urge to spit on him, and kick his knees in.

Bastard.

But I suppose I shouldn't be too downhearted. We all knew they'd try, but we weren't so sure about how the rest of Parliament would react, and it seems they've reacted appropriately - almost undoubtedly due to the overwhelmingly positive presence of our very own Jeremy Corbyn, at least in part.

His initials are J.C. for a good reason, eh?

No, really though. Part of me is managing to be a little proud of at least some of Parliament. Even if the House of Lords is a questionable institution at best, and even if many of the people there serve themselves more than anything else, it seems that even the less scrupulous ones do still have standards.

Perhaps optimism still has a place in the world.

Good night, all ye who read this. I should also mention that the lot of you should feel free to share these posts to facebook, or comment. I'd love to interact with you all a bit more.

~ Baxster Brand