A lot of poverty in this country is caused by ignorance and lack of money management skills in the afflicted families.
Exactly this....
I work in a second hand shop selling electricals and we do pawning etc...
The ones who are always pawning the kids consoles and living day by day, tenner here and there are always and i mean ALWAYS dirty toothless druggies and drinkers, smokers.... if you gave them a thousand pounds to sort themselves out i bet not one would pay debts and buy leccy, gas, kids clothes! they would just buy smack and fags and booze.
The genuine decent people who pawn things, always come back on time.... dont argue and actually dress with pride, even if its clothes from charity shops.
Throwing money at scum will not suddenly make them change and take pride in how they live.
I too have seen chavs trying to sell food they just got from a food bank, these kind of people have zero morals and will do anything for that next fix.
And while i am quite liberal and easy going the one thing i think that is destroying young lads and even girls now is weed. It turns people into utter dreg heads who barely even stir from bed, and if they do its only to find more weed!
No matter how well thought out the plan a goverment implements to raise living standards you will always be scuppered by the low life scum that seem to latch on to any and all scams going.
If we could wave a magic wand and make everyone a good decent law abiding citizen with morals and a good attitude to life, the whole system would work better and you would see less crime and better communities within months...... sadly that magic wand does not exist.