special rapporteur you all know that you operate assessor the british government said about a philip alston's report on britain that the un's own data shows the u.k. is one of the happiest places in the world to live contradicting it seem to be all tools report and as regards methodology is used by special reporters like yourself this is a barely believable documentation of britain based on a tiny period of time spent here paints a completely inaccurate picture of our approach to tackling poverty what do you make of this tiny period of time that the government not only the british government any government from a pin on you when you criticize their policies on extreme poverty. i will rule is to be mediator between the scientific community the civil society the n.g.o.s and and finally governments and we are simply there to present governments with a mirror of what their country looks like and the impacts of the policy choices they made and of course many problems are easier to ignore than to address. is really to draw attention of governments to the lunch box in their policies to parts of the

will you be looking at that i know your brief is the entire world but obviously operated as a philip alston claim that britain was in the grip of ideological in his aeration of people look i think one major problem is indeed the way we look at poverty all too often and particularly in in in the anglo food world we speak about antipoverty strategies as welfare policies that are bailing out people people who are not well qualified for the job market people who made the wrong choices in life who have not been able to seize the opportunities presented to them and we must change this course in reality polity is a societal issue not an individual responsibility and really poverty is the price we pay for us being unable to build an inclusive society that value people whatever their background is and i think that is a discourse about poverty that is extremely problematic that's blames them and she seems then for the situation in 3 in which they find themselves but we so often hear about this ideal of meritocracy both labor and tory politicians here in britain talk about it that requires a certain a