Indledning
Good morning Oxford, good morning fellow debaters. My name is Frederik Juul, and I am a student from Trinity College at Oxford University.
I appreciate that I have been chosen to give a speech on poverty in the United Kingdom this morning.
I will begin by asking you a question and if your answer is yes, please raise your hand: Have you and your family ever been in a situation where you feared that you would not get anything to eat that day?
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Poverty in the United Kingdom
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Uddrag
The United Kingdom is the fifth-largest economy in the world, yet food banks are handing out 14 million meals every single year.
Our fellow countrymen should not have to rely on NGOs and food banks to get a hot meal or a piece of clothes for their children.
Many people believe that poverty is something that you can easily escape by working hard and saving money.
That is, however, not the case. It is more complicated than just that. Many families living in poverty are hard-working people from working-class families.
They work 40 hours every week and even then, do not have the means to care for their family and even themselves properly.
Some of these families have less than £10 a day to spend after housing costs. It is utterly embarrassing that we have not been able to see these problems
not been able to see that our countrymen are living in worse living conditions than some third world countries, and not been able to stop that from happening.
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