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'Dark times like 1930s': New ABC Welby says parts of UK poor as 80 years ago

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:13
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'These dark times are like the 1930s': New Archbishop of Canterbury says some parts of Britain are as poor as they were 80 years ago
The Right Reverend Justin Welby 'shocked' that children go without food
'This was something I had thought would have been eradicated by now'
Embarrassing intervention for David Cameron's government

By Steve Doughty
THE MAIL ONLINE
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/
January 30, 2013

The new Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday claimed that parts of Britain are in some ways as badly off today as they were in the 1930s.

In an intervention that would have embarrassed David Cameron, the Right Reverend Justin Welby said: 'Whether we go into a triple-dip [recession] or not, whatever does happen, it's going to go on being pretty dark economically.'

In a farewell service as the outgoing Bishop of Durham, he said: 'Children are going without sufficient food which I found particularly shocking and distressing.< ![CDATA[

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