In Scotland, a thousand children a year are hospitalised because of malnutrition.
We are plagued by some of Europe’s worst indicators of poverty. The highest drug deaths. Nearly the highest alcohol deaths. The highest prison population outside of former Soviet countries. Falling life expectancy. One in four children growing up in poverty and rising. But we do next to nothing about it.
Throughout history, when societies fail there is no-one who suffers more than children and no-one who less deserves to suffer than children. In Scotland we live in between the clash of the almost sociopathic nature of our politics, the truly sociopathic economics that plague us and the brutal, brutal reality of the little frail bodies of children.
Scottish society wilfully chooses for these kids to be in hospital literally starving to death. When we decide not to act we choose it. When the politicians decide not to act, and we accept it, we choose it. When the media reports, then forgets and moves on, we choose it. So ask yourself; what kind of people are we if this is what we choose?