Poverty And The Common Sense Which No Longer Prevails.

Peter Hyde, Driffield. READING Frank Field’s article about children going hungry during school holidays because of poverty tends to make me cross (The Yorkshire Post, September 15). Poverty is relative and much of it is because families put the possession of the latest big screen TV and the most up-to-date mobile phone or other gadget ahead of the essentials of life. Keeping up with the Joneses has often become more important than food. If we want to know what real poverty was like, we have only to go back to my childhood in the 1930s and ‘40s. Father was a labourer who was on a very low wage and yet we were still fed properly. Although we didn’t have the latest footwear and designer clothes, we always had something to wear, albeit hand-me-downs.

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