A new report suggests the U.K. is at risk of dividing into two starkly different societies due to the lasting impact of Covid lockdowns. The Mail has the story.
The U.K. is in danger of becoming a “two nation” state not seen since the Victorian era after Covid lockdowns had a “catastrophic effect” on the country’s social fabric, a new report has claimed.
There is a widening gap between those who are comfortable and an “underclass” which is disproportionately affected by mental health issues and poverty, according to an inquiry by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).
Some 13.4 million people in Britain lead lives marred by family fragility, stagnant wages, poor housing, chronic ill-health and crime, the centre says.
The report, ‘Two Nations: The State Of Poverty In The U.K.’, argues that the most disadvantaged are no better off than 15 years ago, the time of the financial crash, and cites evidence that for many the jump from welfare into work is not worth it.
The CSJ study finds that, especially for the least well off, the pandemic saw the gap between the so-called ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ blown wide open.
The report says that during lockdown, calls to a domestic abuse helpline rose 700%.
Mental ill health issues in young people went from one in nine to one in six and nearly a quarter amongst the oldest children.
More kids were serially missing school, with severe absence jumping 134%.
1.2 million more people went on working-age benefits, 86% more people sought help for addictions and prisoners were locked up for 22.5 hours per day.
“There is a growing gap between those who can get by and those stuck at the bottom,” the reports concluded on the findings.
Six in 10 of the general public say that their area has a good quality of life, but this drops to less than two in five of the most deprived.
Twenty years ago, just one in nine children were assessed as having a clinically recognisable mental health problem. That figure is now one in five, rising to nearly one in four for those aged 17-19.
If trends continue, the report argues that by 2030 over one in four five to 15 year-olds, which may be as many as 2.3 million children, could have a mental disorder.
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Blame the parents or the teachers?
Why not both? But that’s merely retail sin. The real wholesale sin is from the government and lockdown zealots in high places.
Government policy has been a loit to blame. Unlimited immigration has held down wages at the bottom end and somewhat also in the middle while lockdown desroyed work motivation, self esteem and social contact.
Wow, who could’ve seen that coming? Oh yeah, only every single lockdown sceptic in the world!
I find it difficult to accept that a quarter of an age cohort have a ‘mental disorder’. If it’s that common, it’s normal. What is lacking is teaching people how to cope with what they are.
Have you been in a school recently? My teacher daughters (both have left the profession) call schools ‘child abuse’. They are nothing like the schools of your memory.
Yes as a comfortable and healthy retired teacher who went to a working class primary school myself, I find it harrowing to witness the current state of our children. The children in the school I went to will now have an entirely different social and physical situation…many from broken families, eating junk food, subjected to constant emf’s from wifi and phones, computer games and (anti)social media, lack of exercise, multiple vaccines and other toxic medication…. The latest media furore in Scotland about international pisa scores only blurrs the issue for schools here in Scotland.We need a much more wholistic review of child attainment rather than a memory test of 3 subjects that glorifies the hot-housing schools of SE Asia and has little relevance here. Surely what matters most is that youngsters end up sane and healthy enough to cope with the stresses and challenges of adulthood.
Been a 2 nation state for the last 3.5 years.
20% of us who can see what is actually happening, 20% who just love it and the remainder leaning towards the latter after being bombarded with fear porn.
“If you ever wondered how and why millions of ordinary decent citizens just stood and watched as Germany descended into Fascism – you know now”.
We’re in WW3 and 80% don’t realise or care.
Just carry on polishing your new (electric even) 4 x 4’s while you dream of your next foreign holiday. Oh, and don’t forget to jab yourself and your kids.
We clearly need a lot more government intervention….
And higher taxes. For the sake of the children.
Don’t worry, limitless amounts of immigration will sort it out, then we’ll all be on Blair’s digital ID/CBDC blanket surveillance system and we’ll be fined if we’re poor or depressed.
“prisoners were locked up for 22.5 hours per day”
And law-abiding citizens were locked up for 23 hours a day. Remember? You were allowed out for maximum one hour’s exercise a day? Never forget what they did to us.
Oh dear …..I didn’t seem to get that message ….. so I didn’t do that. I went out several times a day for as long as I liked. It was a shame that there weren’t many places open to visit, but where there’s a Will there’s a way.
I discovered that a nearby The Range store was open because it has an Iceland concession in store. It’s amazing how “essential” a bag of prawns can be and how time-consuming and entertaining it was wandering around the whole store and interacting with other people who were buying “essentials” before finally, an hour later, reaching the checkout with said bag of prawns
Never obey stupid rules!
Helped along by the state’s promulgation of gender ideology in primary schools, along with the pushing of puberty blockers to ensure that the damage can’t be undone when the lab rats eventually escape the centres for brainwashing.
More than two:
a. There’s the laptop, chattering, governing class – arrogant, insulated and patronising, paid for by (b) and (c) below
b. Then the struggling middle class, trying to run a business or make a living in the private sector – taxed to oblivion and with the cards being increasingly stacked against them
c. Then the demonised working class, who are seeing their livelihoods and standard of living being deliberately dismantled by the laptop/chattering/governing class
d. Then the poor immigrant class – cheap foreign labour for Big Business and given a lifetime of “free” everything, paid for by (b) and (c) above
and finally, the British welfare-dependent underclass …… created by (a) above and demonised by them for refusing to compete with (d) above for insecure, minimum wage jobs with awful working conditions
Covid didn’t cause any of this; Government policy did. They wrecked the economy and ruined millions of lives over a disease they already knew had low mortality rates.
I’m sure Whitty/Vallance would be quick to say that this sorry state of affairs was caused by the virus, not the lockdowns.
The Great Reset is coming into play.
BBC this morning banging on about Tucker Carlson and his new subscription service. As you’d guess they were using the ‘far right’ and ‘conspiracy theory’ mantra. They mentioned Jan 6th but I recall Tucker exposing much of that as a psyop.