Public services may be poor, due to 15 years of austerity, but the country as a whole is not. It’s just concentrated in the hands of a very wealthy few who are so greedy and antisocial that they’d rather we all starve than they give up even a tiny percentage of their wealth.
Yes it’s a lot easier to donate to charities when you’re not poor yourself
How exactly is Britain poor?
Public services may be poor, due to 15 years of austerity, but the country as a whole is not. It’s just concentrated in the hands of a very wealthy few who are so greedy and antisocial that they’d rather we all starve than they give up even a tiny percentage of their wealth.
People are also poor
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/poverty-child-benefit-cap-labour-uk-b2806175.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11452079/Worse-than-Rwanda-life-prospects-in-Britains-poorest-areas.html
You’re confusing the experience of the average working class person with the purse strings of an entire nation.
Yes, people are poor. People are poor because wages have stagnated while prices and productivity have increased.
The capitalist class however have seen unprecedented wealth increase.
Britain is still among one of the richest countries in the world as a whole, despite its working class being squeezed for all they’re worth.