Gordon Brown: Child poverty in the UK reaching 'obscene levels' | Politics Hub 

The poor "WILL" never have enough. Because the rich "CAN" never have enough.

The UK is steadily slipping into a 3rd world country, and it's terrifying.

The gap between Gordon's focus and that of our current government is simply jawdropping...

A record 3 million food parcels have been handed out in the past year.

Obscene is exactly the right word. These are our future adult citizens, what physical and psychological problems will they carry forward? 😢

And Mr Billionaire Sunak dont give a Toss...

10 million day spent on adult men in hotels so why give this men air time

But there,s money hotels etc for those immigrants ??????????

Talking about shampoo and toothpaste being a luxury item to people in the UK and it almost not being shocking because this kind of thing now has become so normalised, is what is so shocking

Caught on microphone by sky moaning about a racist woman it changed the course of history

Whilst immigrants get free accommodation in our fully booked hotels with personal shefs and cleaners with manned security...

Interesting that since leaving government this guy has devoted his time to poverty home and abroad and the others have been on the speaker circuit cashing in, enough said really

They let afghan asylum in and put them in nice hotel but their own British people are in poverty.

Corporate welfare, anyone? Getting rid of obscene poverty could be easily fixed with the government insider trading that bring millions per politician EVERYWHERE

The poorer are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer we'll said Gordon Brown people in Scotland are struggling

14 years of Tory misrule brought us here and a difficult subject to listen to. Also huge contrast in the quality of political oratory compared to the likes of Sunak.

Britain has the sixth largest economy in the world, with a smaller population than the USA, China or Germany. This really shouldn’t be happening in the twenty-first century in the country that gave birth to the Industrial Revolution. Does anyone at Number 10 have a conscience?

After bankrupting the country and then inviting in the entire third world to stretch resources to breaking point.. all I can say about this man's self awareness is... dumbfounding.

The poor gets poorer and poorer, again and again. The rich gets richer and richer. Harsh reality.

He literally imported millions of poor people

After Rishi Sunak many UK families know where the nearest FOOD BANK IS

Now, that's the type of 'GB' news I could watch and respect all day. A good man.

The Tories really are burning everything to the ground before they're ousted.

Wecould have used some our gold stocks to finance help but some fool. Sold half of it off. at the bottom of the market. Did he hate us soooo much ?? Now we are skint we could have used. that gold now at highest levels. UGH!!

This smacks of hypocrisy. Gordon Brown sounds like he cares in this Sky News interview but it is all very easy to point to the terrible state of Britain today (and I agree, there is a huge amount of suffering and poverty amongst ordinary Britons now and we've sunk to just about a third world state) but what about the damage he caused when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer and Prime Minister.? Yes, I despise the Conservative government for not caring one jot about the British public, throwing away billions of pounds of our money on idiotic and wasteful projects (net zero, for example, or housing illegal migrants in luxury hotels). However, I can remember what Blair and Brown did to our country. They initiated the massive increase in migrants coming into the UK, thus making our housing shortage even worse, increasing the pressure on the struggling NHS and education system, plus diluting our own culture and traditions .In addition, Gordon Brown stole our work pensions that many of us were relying on to avoid poverty in old age. He was also stupid enough to sell much of Britain's gold reserves at a very low price on the market., so impoverishing Britain even more. And does he really care about the ordinary people? Don't forget what he called 65 year old pensioner Gillian Duffy from Rochdale (who was a Labour supporter) when she politely asked him a question about immigration and the economy. Her question was in no means aggressive or challenging and was a fair one, given her circumstances. Thinking the microphone was switched off, Brown expressed rage to his aides saying "Who let this bigoted woman in?" There was no way that Gillian Duffy was a "bigot" but it seems that Brown doesn't like us ordinary people disagreeing with him. He's also a Global ist, and like Tony Blair and most of our politicians, supports such elitist organisations as the W E F and the W H O. who are out to destroy the nation state. There's much more I could say, but this comment is too long already! Basically, do not trust him.

TORIES ARE NOT CALLED LOWER THAN VERMIN FOR NOTHING

But the rich still want to take more money from the poor.

Starmer will do nothing he's said so with his refusal to remove the benefits cap

Biggest mistake this country ever made was putting Cameron / Clegg in instead of this man.

Sold the starving babies gold for a sweet song.

Maybe if Brown hadn't turned the UK into a property profit paradise, we would be living in a more just society.

Gordon helped put the UK into poverty taxed pensions and sold UK gold , but told everyone he was going to do it and the price crashed. Praised the UK banking system and allowed deregulation, banks then crashed. The first food bank opened in the Uk when T bliar was pm, but strange how they will always blame someone else. ?

Probably immigration 😢

And..... The highest level of infant mortality in the developed world !!!! Honestly W.T.F.

It's pretty crazy that this guy has more credibility than Sunak and Starmer combined. I am a Tory too.

The guy who sold gold reserve for peanuts !

He sold the gold. It's his fault.

Poverty is real & conservatives choose to ignore the JRF research, if only they went to see these poor areas where poverty is in plain sight - it’s the role of the gov to see that policies are balanced to reduce poverty levels, but they have failed & have let people down. How is it that working people are destitute & visiting food banks? Clearly the way out of poverty is not employment now is it? Gas lighting & blaming individuals to cover up failed fiscal policies & they are powerless to regulate private corporations such as energy, phone, supermarket chains who insist on greedflation paying CEOs obscene bonuses whilst pushing up inflation… its grotesque in the simplest term

Shame Gordon and his Chum Tony caused this tragedy. Strange how the perpetrators shout the loudest. I support Dr David Starkey and his analysis of this travestry.

Articulate, principled, intelligent, and even at the end managed to be genuinely funny. Oh, for his like back.

Take some responsibility Gordon. Mass immigration has squeezed out indigenous people. There is no more room in this country.

How about stop giving money away to wars

He sold our gold at the bottom of the market and told everyone in advance he was going to do this. This says everything about his competence

"Nobody is safe until everybody is safe" ..gordon brown...during the covid pandemic!

If only he had been prime minister - he would have sorted all these problems out. Oh! Wait a minute!!

Housing costs are the biggest expense …….house prices tripled from 1997 to 2007. Well done Gordon for addressing this poverty problem, but please take into account what happened under your watch ……..

And yet sunak doesn't talk about this much I wonder why 🤔🤔

The guy eho sold our gold at the bottom of the market and deregulated financial services to the point of half of large banks needing a bail out...

Anyone remember the EXACT moment we were all doomed? Remember Gordon being caught calling the woman a biggot. They just pounced on that one.

Deliberate distortion. Without defining exactly what poverty is makes the debate meaningless. Having worked in the poorest London borough for over 20 years Brown's comments do not ring true. Dickensian type poverty does not exist. Problems that need solving certainly do exist but not wholesale Dickensian poverty by any means.

Tbh, the average person in this country opposes things that would increase productivity.

pity we didnt have a gold reserve to help us out ..

This man was the best pm for the last 25 years

This is what Tories and their voters want. Let's hope it doesn't get worse under Labour

Super-Man Sunak ''We are better off now than ever before, Stick to the plan- It's working'' He said

I find it hard people can't afford shampoo and soap. I don't have money but i go to poudland wher uou can get shampoos and conditioner just as good as the brand names.

Even though gordon brown has one eye he can see way more issues in this country than rishi sunak

tory presenter who respects Cameron is concerned about poverty. She's probably on 200 000k

15 Million immigrants has raised housing costs increasing poverty! Net zero increasing energy costs increasing poverty. So basically Labour policies increasing poverty.

listen to that.....common sense that our government are sorely missing. well said sir

Gordon Brown made a vow to the Scottish people in 2014, when he was in no position to make it, He lied British ministers lie and they wondeer why Scots want out. He may be shocked and ashamed and so he should be. Thanks for nothing Gordy!

I stopped giving to #Foodbanks when I learnt that "workers" get first pick.....AND....Those named as Charity CEOs get to cream off the top 😡

Why are we supposed to listen to someone who failed miserably.

Yeah, hire more security, so stupid. How about take care and pay a correspondent salary to people who likes to live here instead of giving subside to terrorists????

The real face of the World beating UK

Has the PFI debt been paid off yet?

This is the bloke who produced more rules than anyone . SICK.

Come back Gordon' brown ( if only) this ex primi ester actually get s it and cares 😮 I think life was better back when he was in power ! 💪

This is the man who sold all the gold reserves of this country, no wonder the country is in this state.

We need people like him in power.

Mr Brown 👋👋👋👋👋

A decent man compared to our modern politicians.

If there weren’t so many absent fathers this would help

Oh i forgot this. The 50p rise he gave to the pensioners. Yes some of us have memories gordon.

The country would be a better place if Gordon Brown was in power Due to the fact he has a heart, compassion, empathy , intelligence & Experience Unlike the incompetent , callous amateurs we have running the country now !

growing up in the 60s I used to miss meals because my dad went to the pub with the money

Let me guess. Donations will be made to the charity of choice, who will take 90% of the money in “administration costs” including paying consultants to go out and ring the alarm bells for the media.

ahhh yes Gordon Brown... the guy who sold our gold reserves at an all time low, and taxed pension funds massively. Notice he says how he has "observed" poverty and not "experienced" poverty. He is merely campaigning for the labour party.

Just use some of the countries gold reserves. Oh, wait. I forgot Gordon sold half of it off cheap for his rich friends to profit.

Were paying more where is the money going?

No one should have to live like this

The man who 'ended boom and bust' but led us into a recession; the man who sold our gold reserves at eye wateringly low prices, should not be commenting on anything to do with Politics. Worst prime minster we ever had, and that's saying something.

Meanwhile we got Abduls living in 4 star hotels with our tax payer money.

Now they wanting to do something about it? It’s been happening for a long time

right pm in wrong time

UK media and UK RF are busy following PH and M and totally forgot about the needs of their own people. Shame!

Remember he sold gold making us poorer

His mate Blair will make it worse

Brown needs to use whatever influence he has to push Starmer on this, because at the moment he's not far from the Tories....

They all seem equipped with a mobile phone

Ban online gambling now.

As Charles Dicken said, "This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."

There’s always money for chums, sorry, wars

BLAIR!

Shameful, cruel tories ! 300,000 estimated dead due to tory austerity.

If only he hadn't sold our gold reserves on the cheap. Sorry shouldn't mention that.

The corruption of the Tories is mind blowing , the theft through the energy and utilities and financial sector means the elites will face retribution .

So tragic to hear all this.😢

Well, if his buddy Tony hadn't opened the borders, the country might be in a better financial position to do something about it. But if so much of the welfare bill is going to housing migrants, what on earth does he expect? Agreed that little has been done about this in the last 14 years, but Tony's ruination of the constitution and the poltiticisation of the civil service put the boot into any efforts made.

Sunak is 120mil richer.....no coincidence methinks