for an easy, efficient letter-writing service if you want to ask your MP why they voted a certain way or express your disapproval of their representation of your constituency.As you can imagine, this made a lot of people rightly angry, with #ToryScum trending soon after the vote was made public.
But in any attempt to defend themselves, the MPs seem to miss the point. They place blame on parents and imply offering free school meals outside of school time will encourage dependency. But what they're missing, apart from some humanity, is justat any time, it's not a case of parents not working hard enough or becoming 'lazy' if they're shown an ounce of kindness.
The pandemic then has revealed not only that hardship can happen to anyone, but how flawed the system to helping those who experience it is. ‘And the two child limit on benefits has caused huge hardship in families affected. Because of the policy around 60,000 families who have had to claim universal credit for the first time because of Covid-19 are discovering that there is no support for their third or subsequent child if they were born after April 2017 yet those are parents who had a third or subsequent child in better times.’