All poverty is a choice by the state inflicted on the vulnerable. Not only pensioners but the disabled, children and generally low income. This is a country where kids are taking empty lunchboxes to school and pretending to eat because their parents can’t afford to feed them and they’re embarrassed to let their classmates know. Where disabled people literally starve to death after having their benefits cut while those in charge live in luxury. Where surgery patients have to pay for their own bandages despite the NHS supposedly being “free at the point of delivery.” All this in the world’s sixth largest economy.