General election joining me now is the founder of the big issue crossbenchers lord bird who is proposing the creation of a new body to curb the excesses of capitalism on bird welcome back to going underground so whats governments response to your proposal for a poverty prevention unit well when i spoke to her previous to the election just before a few days before she announced it. She liked the idea of looking at this how you could make all departments passed through the prism of how does this relate to prevention she like the idea of it are made the point to save or making it the most units never really car use so theyre bureaucratic n. G. O. S here i mean that is one of those form filling in an order and we know damn well that every every government minister and their departments are told clearly a lot. You know chasing the greyhounds chasing the rabbit of their department and then you know in the slightest bit interested in working across party and across government so you really go
I mean that is quite a form filling in and all that and we know damn well that every every government minister and their departments are told clearly like you know chasing the greyhounds chasing the rabbit of their department and then you know in the slightest bit interested in working across party and across government so you really got to get these people and bang their Heads Together thats why you need a union but when you as a crossbenchers work in the as a lord byron as d. W. B. Under secretary states and employment is at an all time high in rejecting your proposal it sounded to me like in the house of lords so a poverty prevention unit at a time when weve never had it so good when it comes to employment. Well it seems to be the what do you make of a response as a as the government well i you know you know people have to make responses you then have to move on and and do what im carrying on with the concept of what im calling a Prevention Alliance which is across both houses acros
Is privatizing. All the civil coming up in todays going underground so the lives of hundreds of thousands of british children in tory britain are apparently under threat according to antipoverty charity the Trussell Trust as u. K. Children lose access to Free School Meals during the Summer Holidays years of blairite labor and tory austerity have been put into sharp relief in one of the richest countries in the world meanwhile record rises in homelessness have accompanied the transfer of wealth from social services to defacto taxpayer benefits for the city of london some believe that all it would have taken for engineer liberal leader Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister of britain right now instead of theresa may propped up by a party linked to far right paramilitaries would have been of the lethal Grenfell Tower inferno had happened before and not after junes u. K. General election joining me now is the founder of the big issue crossbenchers lord bird who is proposing the creation of a
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