Hard Up? Then Get All Your Baby’s Stuff From Charity Shops

Tory MP Andrea Leadsom has told hard-up mums to buy baby goods from charity shops.
She said no one needed new cots, infant car seats or prams.
She said there is a surplus of those items in charity shops.
But studies have shown sleeping on another child’s mattress has been linked with cot death.
And safety experts warn against buying second-hand car seats in case they are faulty.
The Tories want families to rely on charity hand-outs rather than trusting mums to do what’s best.
The comment comes after Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith said children of the poor did not need new clothes and should wear hand-me-downs.
The government has axed the £500 maternity grant designed to help mums buy clothes and equipment needed for a new baby.
The link between cot death and a second-hand mattress previously used by another child was made in a study by the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.
Of the 131 cot deaths looked at, half the babies had slept on used mattresses – which contain urine or vomit leading to bacteria growth.
These filthy rich Tory prats don’t give a damn about ordinary people.