Very touching, so to say! I thought England was a rich country...but, if what you say is true then God help those kids.

Of course there are poor people in Britain, just like any other country in the world. There are plenty of poor people and children in the US as well. There are poor people all over Europe as well. What’s the root cause?

In the UK it’s probably both immigrants and working class people that suffer the most. It is only natural that recent legal/illegal immigrants end up in the lower income groups. It takes time to adjust.

Lower working class people in the UK on the other hand lack the social mobility that an education should give them. I see both a cultural and class based problem. Children growing up in that environment have no hope.

@Andrew
A sane comment at long last from you!

I recomend typing into your search engines social separatism and reading updated articles on how different financial variables effect and will contine to impact people in given social standings. A recent hard statistic I learned was only a 6% likelihood exists that next generation childern will exceed the wealth and social standing of that their parents have. Even talking into account factors of education, drive, skill, and pure luck itself. Hard to ponder that, although its seems to ring of some truth.