UK challenges | Speech

Indledning
Good evening everybody. My name is Mads Peter Soestroem, a member of the debate team at Oxford University.

I have been looking forward to this event and I am thankful for having the opportunity to speak to you about his year’s theme, UK challenges.

I have chosen a topic that is with alarming rate increasing in seriousness over the last decade. My topic is poverty in the UK.

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Uddrag
You would think that it is close to small in number of UK families not being able to live close to standard considered comfort. That it is a rare case of having to choose between which essential you are going to live without today.

Whether it being not warming your house up but having dinner or always shivering a little while having a beast called hunger eating its way through you as you slowly crawl into bed at night dreaming about the cartoon sandwich your eyes ate for lunch.

In 2017, 1.5 million people experienced destitution, meaning they had less than £10 a day after housing costs, or they had to go without at least two essentials such as shelter, food, heat, light, clothing or toiletries during a one-month period .

Individuality in poverty is important, and poverty is most often anonymized to numbers and statistics describing the mass instead of the individual.

There can be a number of factors that is causing and have caused people to end up in poverty. You do not have to be from a certain social group where inheritance and environment play a role in tucking you into poverty’s blanket.