Newsnight footage reappears: Allegra Stratton misrepresenting a Young mother as a benefit scrounger
Channel: Labour Heartlands
Date: 2021-12-08

Stratton is a former journalist who worked as BBC Newsnight’s political editor from 2012 to 2016. A controversial segment has since resurfaced from her time on the show in the wake of the Downing Street video being published.

The incident, which was filmed in May 2012, which started off innocently enough as an investigation into “what it’s like being a working mum struggling to pay rent and housing costs” turned into an interrogation with political editor Allegra Stratton as chief inquisitor and Shanene as one of the irresponsible unemployed who should be living with her child in her mother’s two-bed flat.
Shanene is, in fact, a working mother who pays taxes and can’t make enough from her job at Tower Hamlets Council to house herself and her children. Like many others, she is dependent on the state to support her landlord – there being a decided lack of public housing in these here parts – but you don’t see many of them put through the wringer.

The questions which should have been asked: where is the social housing and where are the decent liveable wages?
https://labourheartlands.com/newsnight-footage-reappears-featuring-allegra-stratton-misrepresenting-a-young-mother-as-benefit-scrounger/

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