Back on his hobby horse as the coalition’s poverty tsar, Frank Fields previous sentiments that “to cut poverty, we must cut welfare” is repeated now with scientific evidence that allows him to point to children who will grow up to be on the dole.

What hog wash, like the tsar (Russia) he needs to be taken to a Field and SHOT! The nonsense that this so called socialists is coming out with, should have barred him from holding any position in the Labour party as he has definitely found his home with the conservatives. But hey when he first started out in politics it was as a fully paid up member of the conservative party.

Now let’s look at what he has stated in the article;

“Mr Field insists that income is not the main factor in inter-generational poverty”

So we have an underclass because they were paid too much and an upper class that have been taxed too much because of poor parents. A brilliant deduction and on queue for a seat in the Lords….

“The poverty that parents endure is all too often visited on their children”

How many parents would wish this on their children so let’s start by paying people a liveable wage, instead of telling people to take part time work, at part time wages which needs supplementing by benefits to keep a roof over their children’s heads and food in their stomachs.


Child benefit should be frozen, says Frank Field

Child benefit and child tax credits would be frozen and the money switched to improving the life chances of disadvantaged children before they start school, under plans being considered by the Government.

In a report today, Frank Field, the Labour MP and the Government's anti-poverty tsar, recommends a change away from boosting the incomes of poor families. Instead, his inquiry proposes improving public services and breaking the cycle to "prevent poor children from becoming poor adults".

Mr Field insists that income is not the main factor in inter-generational poverty. He said: "I have increasingly come to view poverty as a much more subtle enemy than purely lack of money, and I have similarly become increasingly concerned about how the poverty that parents endure is all too often visited on their children, to the degree that they continue to be poor as they enter adulthood."

Source; Independent