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Recent Graduate from Bristol University (Bsc Politics). Volunteer and Part -Time writer

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Few are aware that this Christmas past, when most of us were enjoying our extensive festive indulgences, a chronic shortage of affordable housing left 83,000 homeless British children in temporary accommodation. Over 33% of these children cannot go to school due to appalling disruption in their lives and are twice as likely to suffer poor health. In describing the appalling disruption and emotional distress that children suffered, Adam Simpson, the director of the charity Shelter, described the euphemistic term “temporary accommodation” as a “terrible parody”

Paradoxically many artists have tried in vain to keep such traditions alive; scornfully discrediting “the system” while developing increasingly reactionary and self interested justifications for its perpetuity. In delighting in the virtually unrestricted opportunities for the creation of wealth, many rappers criticism of the status quo reeks of dishonesty. The result is a frustrating paradox; an attempt to idealise and identify with the poor yet a ritualised debasement and ridicule of those who either fail to accumulate wealth or simply do not sufficiently value such endeavours

Why the BBC is right to engage and scrutinise the British National Party, who have benefitted enormously from most attempts to marganalise their viewpoints.