A letter to the Guardian with signatories from across the country calls for people who have been poor to be consulted in figuring out solutions; [Give poor people a say in policy making]
Holistic political economy wholly endorses this appeal and would go further. The principle of engagement should apply in all areas.
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Letter says; 'When the prime minister and chancellor speak of the need to make tough decisions in the upcoming budget, for people like us, who are struggling against poverty, it is a frightening prospect. We bear the biggest impact of cuts, delays and underinvestment in the services we rely on the most and we cannot afford for things to get worse before they get better.
That’s why this week, Challenge Poverty Week, we will each be writing an open letter to the prime minister to share our experiences of poverty and ask him to recognise that people who have lived in poverty should be listened to and involved when new policies are created. There are many excellent examples in communities across the country of how this has led to positive and tangible lasting change at a local level, but we need national transformation too.
Keir Starmer has said that he believes that every child, every person, deserves to be respected for the contribution they make.
We ask him now to put this into practice, and invite people with lived experience of poverty to contribute to the development of solutions, because we know, perhaps better than many others, that nothing about us, without us, is for us.
Clair Pope Lewes, East Sussex, Saf Stedall Portsmouth, Glory Omoaka Glasgow, Steve Huxford London, Ashleigh May Halifax, West Yorkshire, Tyra Goodwin Cheshire'
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/13/give-poor-people-a-say-in-policymaking
There is a great introduction to this topic on Wikipeadia which is the source for the term industrially formulated chemical substances
Article in the Guardian here https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/25/the-truth-is-hard-to-swallow-but-junk-food-should-come-with-a-warning-can-kill?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The links in the quote I used are as they were in the article as it was published.
The book review in the Guardian here
Details of the book
Ravenous, Henry Dimblby, Profile Books, 2023, ISBN 9781800816527
The full title is Spoon Fed;
The review of the book here
Details of the book
Tim Spectre, Spoon Fed, Jonathan Cape 2020, ISBN978-1787332294