When the England football team plays its first World Cup game tonight, thousands of young fans living in poverty will watch a group of men whose average earnings per week are around £150,000 play in an arena built by poverty wages and in a country with massive inequalities between rich and poor. 

Not only that but most of those England players have constructed elaborate tax-dodging schemes which means that they have cheated the Exchequer of money that could be used to reduce poverty.

In May, the Save the Children charity predicted that there will be five million children living in poverty by 2020 — the year when child poverty is meant to end according to The Child Poverty Act.