home this christmas that's the highest it's been for many many years their freight their fates are now rising for the whole population by five percent in the last twelve months they things rarely ever happen last time that happened was in war time and when you begin to get so many incredibly terrible it's estates and you see the very best off bus stop taking more cars they can't take any more it looks like a pick it may not be a pay cut but this is what the peak looks like the last peak was nineteen for taking any woman you got to go on the same kind of thing happened then but you also tend to have a disaster around the time of a peak the obvious one then was the first one. it is a much more benign disaster than the first world war but it's just the kind of thing that makes a country poorer and when you become poor at this kind of extreme situation the only place you can get the money from to keep going is the very rich and that

begins the kind of slide down towards becoming more normal and becoming more equal should say of course those. who disagree is going to make poorer you say there's a myth going around in british public life about who voted for breaks the myth is that it's a working class of dissipated working class votes up and voted leave but only about a quarter to leave out the social class d.n.a. the majority believe it was middle class a.b.c. won the majority was in the south of england working class people much more likely not to vote whereas middle class people particularly older middle class people voted and your typical a voter was a conservative told me he wasn't to h. but wasn't particularly poor living in the south of england who had watched as far as they're concerned and then write a country slowly fall apart and their own children and their grandchildren been unable to buy a home start a family they. everything they've been told to do and yet they were looking at the

mostly future that we promised in the eighty's and the ninety's and they were angry it was not the last industrial jobs of the north at all just a reminder younger viewers before we explore the issues or you go in so clearly a coherent way here you remind readers that back in the seventy's britain was not like this at all it was approaching levels of air quality that are now present in scandinavia but some large countries in year round about nine hundred seventy six britain was the second most equal to sweden the gap between rich and poor where the now is a billion the whole of history the british isles people could start a family in their twenty's you could get a hug we have full employment we'll find employment you know you could actually choose what job you want to not this fake full employment we have now where your sanction to death if you don't take any job you can possibly find you had to resume often and pointing to those employment figures but of course even in mainstream

media than talking about the working poor not even being able to afford houses you claim that the fat right to buy a policy of being able to effect the privatisation of council housing is one explanation of why fewer people now starting the yes initially right to buy was the biggest transfer of wealth that the poor had ever got in britain initially but you bought your council house if you'd lived some years with a discount but then you sold it on to a private landlord and that private landlord then charges a private went in the council went and you suddenly find that the country as a whole is in a much worse situation so the consequences are the opposite of what was that and yeah. not intended they really did want people locked in their houses paying a mortgage being well behaved. very recently over a quarter of all families in. england in chile with children have

a private landlord can be evicted with two months notice this is a quarter of all families in england with kids going to school have no security that they can carry on living in that home never in at any time they can be told you've got two months and you've got to go ok when you claim that injuries amazes me all these announcements about housing and your claiming that the one point two billion pounds is about the price of a long street in chelsea and the rich broader if we are at the peak of inequality and your political parties all begin to step to the left you could imagine getting into a situation in twenty or thirty years time when a right wing government tries to build more social housing than labor and that is exactly what happened twenty or thirty years after the last pic. the matt millen actually managed to build more decent quality free bad big council houses than the ninety five labor government done along the way they look at it would be that big

inequality could mean a rise of the far right and immigration is certainly debated nonstop on our screens in relation to the breaks of debate you appear to correlate lower rates of immigration to britain with falling g.d.p. growth. if you look at immigration over the last century human beings move all around the planet. trying to stop them doesn't work immigration rituals are incredibly ineffective what stops people coming or staying is if there are no jobs they don't come so the poor parts of britain don't have immigrants. but also if you have a more equal society which means fewer jobs of the bottom you get less immigrants on health care you say the worst record cameron may have the worst record of any post-war prime ministers now that the health care. crisis is unbelievable it's the cuts in social has the most devastating half of all those are also two workers. yes

a ton of a half an hour at the frail elderly person's house once a week just to check the handful of the bombs that as those jobs got males in wales and being delivered. and the really odd thing about it is that the biggest effect has been on people in their eighty's and late seventy's and this group will be majority middle class to live that long majority and probably voted conservative in seventy nine and eighty three in eighty seven and the bulk of the premise of the date is at least one hundred twenty five thousand their sport for it has actually elderly people who had swallowed you in their middle age the idea that you vote for the market and laissez faire would never be good and they're the ones dying earlier and dying earlier than people elsewhere in europe and it's not just the poor who are being affected by this this is affecting everybody the in the in from the whole population is now going up five years ago it was just for babies with mums who were from working class now it's everybody and

this is what happens at the peak. there were things i used to complain about five years ago and say this is terrible. elderly women were losing five and a half weeks of life expectancy and i came out said you can't believe this has not been nothing compared to what's happening today just just finally you say you compare the new labor blairite in tory policies to if they were a medical trial they'd be drawn on ethical grounds you compare inequality policies to terrorism since you've got to be mentioning death. well in your thought experiments that at the end of the book in the fourth or in the last section of the book. tries to look back on the day for imagining a hundred years in the future because if you're swept up in it if you're in it now it's very easy to say nothing can change much you know which will hold on to what they've got if you look back at nineteen eighteen and look at just how much. change

so quickly from one hundred years ago you can see that changes are actually normal changes what we should expect what you have to ask is what will people look at in the future the where they're in now and say they didn't realize how in human that was and i'm not really trying to guess the future because you can't do that i mean the examples of countries that are ahead of us in time if you like and they get better results but also their children are happy in the mental health happier and i also get to look at what we're doing now which i suspect will be seen as as ridiculous in the future and at the heights of inequality countries do the most ridiculous things and his well being i mean the big rise in inequality in germany was in the nineteenth thirty's. inequality wise is not necessarily good news they can relate to fascist governments but then they have a kind of bad news is after the peak in normally takes twenty years before you even

notice things getting better it's not a sudden ivana you know it is just you're no longer seeing the rich taking more and more but you don't suddenly see life improve for everybody it's the bad news is it's a very slow process going down the slope again president i don't thank you. after the break. food banks for kids as children in the u.k. begin their summer holidays we speak to n.g.o.s feeding britain about why nearly half a million emergency food parcels went to children last year and homicide rates higher than new york a reformed gang member how to hold seemingly spiraling increases in knife crime rate for the mud on the streets of england and wales well the simple coming up in today's going on the ground. trumps imitation to putin to visit the white house is postponed putting turns

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boom. boom . welcome back in the first half we heard from oxford professor danny dorling about inequality leading to the earlier hundred thirty thousand children being homeless last christmas but how have british children now on summer holiday been affected by years of austerity brought on by bailing out the city of london's bank because joining me now is rodeo she is the national director of the group feeding britain rosie thanks for coming on the show so nothing more welcome to durham and summer holidays but your organization telling a different story that summer is not going to be fun for maybe millions in britain millions of children so course the summer holiday should be a really positive time it should be

a time that children in their families look back on with very happy memories but unfortunately for a lot of children in the u.k. that isn't the case the school holidays can be a time that's but a lot of pressure on families financially children who get their free school meals during the term time suddenly that support falls away and families are faced finding anywhere between thirty and forty pounds a week extra they didn't have to before so it can be a time of real hardship and worry for families as well but the good news is that lots of community groups around the country supporting children running activity sessions and meals and last week the government announced that they are funding two million pounds this summer to support those clubs which is a really positive move two million pounds across england and wales across the united kingdom steering abounds across england and it's a pilot faces the price of a one bedroom flat in central and we could always we are always asking for more but it's a really positive start in the first time there has been national government funding for holiday provision and it's a pilot program so they'll be looking at what comes out of the summer what can we learn about the evidence and what works and hopefully using that as the basis for

larger scale funding in the future and when do we clear its core feeding britain you just mentioned lifeline we're talking about the fact that children would start of if you will or a.b. organization was not able to help them this. some orders we certainly see families in very difficult situations families obviously under financial pressure what we see a lot of the time is parents skipping meals themselves to make sure their children's are fed which is obviously a desperate situation to be in but it's not just about the food millions of children this is. it's a huge problem the all party parliamentary group on hunger last year estimated that there are three million children in the u.k. at risk of hunger during the school holiday so these are big numbers and we're really seeing a spike during the school holidays one of our projects in the northeast started recently and saw double the number of children turning up on the first day of provision and they expected i was talking to a food bank in cornwall recently where the feedback manager there in the on the

first day of the school holidays provided food for eight hundred meals now last year in the whole six week summer holiday they provided three thousand meals so they're seeing a really worrying spike and they're really concerned about the situation for the families they work with this and the shadow education minister a little book claims that these problems are due to a direct will there are a direct result of the removal of early intervention services so it was the downgrading of sure stored. on the coalface do your people actually see that i mean is i was there telling you or is it just it's always been like this well there's always been poverty but i think when you look at food once you start to look into the causes underlying it it's not just about food it's giving someone a meal isn't the solution we have to look at why someone ended up in that situation in the first place and a lot of the reasons why people are finding themselves in hardship are to do with problems of the benefits system so either incorrect payments incorrect calculations benefit delays or a lot of for a lot of families they're in work with their own insecure contracts or low incomes

and they're really struggling to make ends meet so there is a bigger picture there and it's feeding britain as well as trying to support families in the near future we're also trying to look at how do we solve some of those underlying causes by working with the politicians to try and bring about legislation to change the i was a universal credit. driesum is new policies since you've been prime minister punishing people sanctions against people in benefit to encourage them into work is that helping well unfortunately we're seeing a lot of people affected by universal credit and sanctions coming to emergency food projects it is one of the quite significant drivers of proving doing well i think what we're calling for is ways to improve that system some of the very practical concrete changes that could be changed around universal concept credit sanctions to make it work better so one of the things for example we're calling for a yellow card system and sanctions so for a first offense or a first issue someone's issued a warning rather than being sanctioned straightaway because if you cut of someone's

benefits straight away it really does put that family into a lot of high office he would make good and he would have to have a few. breaks. into his hands the whole of britain is. giving its post policy responsibility to says food banks like the ones you are members are involved in they're not. dramatic of poverty they are symptomatic of cash flow problems as i say i think there is a bigger picture here that we really need to be looking at i mean the food banks are run by community volunteers it's it's a community response to a need that's grown it's poverty or aids or poverty to me it's absolutely poverty the reason but that someone finds themselves stuck into food for food is because the pressure on the household income has reached such an extent that they've had to seek emergency assistance so to support those people yes they need good quality food and dignified way but we also need to look at why they're ending up in a situation and look at this is stomach issues and i think those are issues for

politicians feeding britain was established by a cross party group of politicians i think this is bigger than party politics it's about looking at those root causes and saying what can we do in a very practical sense to make sure that families don't end up in this situation and i know you have to be bipartisan or on the issue as of n.g.o.s but right now jacob riis morg who is the favorite to replace to resume the reason that he ever wanted to do that clearly saying and you're saying three million children the food banks are uplifting the world.