Third-World Britain – over 25% of parents struggling to feed kids during school holidays

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s the UK today)

Here’s a remarkable statistic which seems to have largely gone unnoticed.

A few days ago, Tesco released a press release to coincide with their food collection drive this week which included a survey on food poverty in the UK.

Amazingly, according to the survey, more than a quarter of parents in the UK say they can’t provide food for all the meals their children need during the school holidays.

And almost half of 18-24 year-olds (44%) say they’ve experienced some form of food poverty in the last six months.

While these statistics are astonishing – shocking even – I can’t say I’m much surprised at how these facts have gone largely unreported in the mainstream media.

Welcome to third-world Britain.

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The Tesco press release with the statistics I’ve mentioned can be found here:

One in five parents struggling to feed their children

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