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Why The United Kingdom Is Shoplifting Its Way Out of Poverty

Adebayo Adeniran
3 min readOct 8, 2023

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Poverty is so rife in the United kingdom today.

Everywhere you look, it is staring at you in the face.

Once before, when foodbanks didn’t exist, it was so easy to ignore the scale of the problem, but in thirteen years of the Conservatives in charge of our affairs, we are forced to reckon with the might of extreme capitalism like never before.

Boarded up shops, council estates reeking of filth and disrepair, Britain in 2023 looks more Dickensian than the late 19th century version depicted by one of the greatest writers ever.

And the unique problem of a developed and wealthy country with its citizens mired in grotesque economic difficulty, has given rise to a new problem: shoplifting.

Shoplifting?

Yes.

In the heads of most white folk in Blighty, shoplifting was the behaviour of Black people; the Romanians, the Kosovans, the Poles; the Pakistani, the Bengalis and the other but not the natives.

But all that has changed.

Confronted by the inability to pay for heating and eating, the natives have been forced to take matters to hand — quite literally —by taking from places which represent extreme capitalism like…

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

Written by Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible

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