‘I live off £30 a month’: Nearly 4 million people in UK experienced ‘destitution’ last year
2023 ж. 24 Қаз.
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Destitution - it's a word almost from another age, conjuring visions of desperate, grinding poverty. But it is a fact of life right now , for increasing numbers of people, according to new research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation thinktank.
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In a joint study with Heriot-Watt University, they found that 3.8 million people - a million of them children - experienced destitution last year defined as being unable to meet some of the most basic needs - staying dry, clean, warm and fed.
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How the UK treats it's poor, especially, those with chronic health issues is an absolute disgrace!
Please give me a hand out 'cause I'm sick because I didn't look after myself, boohoo
Like dirt
Please try to understand uk government doesn't have the money, If it was 18th,19th or even 20th century then sure this problem could have been solved by plundering or colonizing
@@simonseis744 Not all medical conditions are easily managed. Many have no known cause and no known cure. Health change is often unpredictable. Drugs can be of little value. At least a 'hand out' from the government should enable an individual(healthy or not) to cover basic needs rather than forcing a person to struggle simply to exist, right?
@@navidbutt-inflammationwiza1983 He’s a sociopath. What do you expect to gain from reasoning with him?
I'm 60 years old, still working and in a well paid job. I take nothing for granted, I could be like any of these people tomorrow. Please everyone when you go shopping, buy something to put into the food bank in your local supermarket if you can. You never know when it might be your turn.
just do us a favour and stop with the kidney beans and tinned tomatoes. we're starving yes, but we do have taste buds. lol.
lol @@D0S81
why can't the supermarkets donate food instead of begging us?
@@D0S81 Ha ha I won't lie, I do look at some of the donations and think 'would they eat this themselves?' Things are bad enough without getting donations you can't eat so I make sure I put in nice stuff.
@@italianstallion9170 If you know anything about how foodbanks work, you'll find supermarkets do put in huge amounts themselves. I used to collect from supermarkets to take to a foodbank.
"Nobody from the government was available to speak to" Says it all, really.
Yeah. It's disgusting.
It's so nice the people of the UK give their taxes to the royal family.
Particularly sickening for people who have worked in supermarkets and know how much food goes to waste.
Supermarkets are doing more now like giving it to food banks and charities, animal food and compost if not
@@paulnicolas172Yeah. My family use I think its calld "Oleo" lots of good food that would be thrown out otherwise. It's good if you can manage to ignore your pride
@@Dryhten1801 hi! Tried to use this app the other day and yeah it’s good and you can also get physical goods as well from people who want to get rid but sometimes with food the people are far from you so depending on what they have it’s hardly worth going that distance especially if your driving and have to pay for petrol to get there egghead closest to me is someone selling small bundle of oranges but they are 3.5 miles from me .
@@Dryhten1801 yeah ! Only thing is though you might have to travel a Good few miles to collect so you’d have to factor that in but it depends upon where you live
@@user-lo6fd8hn8l That's a very new thing. Like pandemic new
There’s so many men out there, mid-50s, physically knackered or disabled after a lifetime in a trade, living desperately lonely lives (often childless and single), trying to cling on to an existence in tiny bedsits on Universal Credit. My heart really goes out to them.
Mid 50's doesn't automatically mean 'knackered'.....................Maybe lazy ?
and your tax money goes to Kiew....
, Some of them due to getting robbed of all they worked for by family court.
@@shauncameron8390 yes, and in the pub or off track playing the horses. They did nothing to prepare for retirement.
Unfortunately, as much as it is painful to call out the obvious . . . voting for the Conservatives all these last couple of decades put them in this predicament. Karma came calling, Brexit expedited that process. Hopefully people can stop voting against their best interests in the future
It amazes me how ANY country can call themselves great when the citizens are living and dying is destitution... just wow.
Great isnt referring to the country being Amazing. I cant believe this isnt known. Its just referring to greater Britain - isles not of britain - so n.ireland or isle of skye and so on
@@leigh7507 Thought it was to distinguish it self from Brittany.
This comes from the Roman period. The big island which includes Wales, Scotland and England was known as Great Britain. The small island which includes Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland was known as Little Britain. It was in Latin of couse not English :)
20,000 elderly people die each year in the UK because they cannot afford to heat their home.
Thats what the MAGA morons in the US do. Most of them don’t even realize that their leaders hand billions in tax breaks to the rich and hand them a couple of hundred in return.
How can the UK afford a monarchy and allow its citizens to starve?
how can the monarchy know their citizens are hurting and not lift a finger.............it seems that the usa and uk are neck and neck in mistreating their most vulnerable.
Especially when Charles gets suitcases with cash from the Arabs.
UK is not a monarchy. It is a Capitalist autocracy, the only way to rise up is capitalism. But the Brits who are used to queen giving handouts have never risen above it. Large population of Brits have no relevant skill and they also dont want to learn. No one can help these people.
The monarchy costs each of us £1.28 a week but brings in millions you ignorant shite.
Good lord. Royal haters are always a laugh.
And the prime minister has recently laughed in Parliament when the home secretary was asked by about millions of UK tax payers money going to Rwanda in a failed attempt to deport migrants . The UK government has failed Britain.
"Its precisely what people knew they were voting for", though.
Everyone get a pension and more than £30 !
That guy held his tears back bless him.
You could see his pain. I can't speak for women, but, in men, the shame that comes from poverty, not being able to provide for yourself and your family, and the consequent lack of purpose is hard to describe. It makes you ashamed to be alive. The shame leads people to stay indoors in order to avoid having to face people who ask, "how are you? All good?", which leads to loneliness and depression, if not worse.
@bigsan98 I think I have to agree. Men do have an instinct to be providers and they enjoy it as their nature is way more competitive than women
Sad he's a good man aswell feel like we need to get a crowd fund going or summat
But he was building a model kit and they are not cheap. Sometimes I don’t know.
@@dottieland7061No, you don't know. So what are you doing by making this comment?
I saw so much pain in this man's eyes when he said only $30 pounds were left over to spend on food etc... i hope his life improves
They've all got great big TVs and most likely mobile phones......
Those are entry level TVs these days. You should educate yourself before writing. @@EvoraGT430
@@EvoraGT430so what are you implying?
But surely there is something that he can do to improve his situation? I know he says he’s disabled but he still has a moving body and a functioning brain. Surely there’s a job out there for him.
£ not $
It’s happening all over the world. I live in Toronto, where over 10% of the entire population (there are 7 million people in the greater Toronto area) relies on food banks to survive. The cost of rent, food, clothing, everything, is astronomical. People are literally forced to choose between paying the rent, or paying for food, but not both. Breaks my heart, and terrifies me, because I have myself live on permanent, long-term disability due to a lifetime of debilitating illness. Why is this happening everywhere, why are the rich getting richer and the middle-class disappearing completely? Both the Canadian government and the UK government are some of the richest in the world, so why are so many of us living in poverty? It infuriates me!
Well guess from where they took all that money. It's from everyone who's not rich lol
It’s planned
@@renarich4942 I actually believe that too
It's happening in Australia too. 😢
That's what the last four years in particular have been about (among other agendas.)
I grew up on a council estate. I went back to school to study GCSE maths at age 33. I am now studying cellular and molecular medicine at university. The only way out of poverty for me was learning a new skill. I live on very little, and most of my meals are snacks, but I was a flight attendant before, and the sad fact is that there is a ceiling for unskilled labour. We will never get ahead. Where do we go from here? In my city, a property listed at 9am is gone by 9:05am because people are so desperate for a place to stay that they will pay the deposit before seeing the place, and the rent is extortionate. I am skipping meds I need or spacing them out so I don't run out, and I shop for food at night for the closing deals. Look after each other y'all. It's hard out here for everyone.
I pray that your situation changes for the better, sister 🙏
Yes, and then when you graduate, you must pay the debt back 😭 money is the root of all evil
I am a fully self funded student. I graduate with zero debt and masters degree. 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs". That verse refers to people who do unscrupulous things to make money. Going back to school to not live in a place where 3 people have been stabbed and killed yards from my doorstep could hardly be considered that. @@gizmomac1520
thank you brother.@@joelabraham7998
Not everryone has a veey good memory or can absorb studying. I have memory block now and severe trauma and ptsd type condition plus physical conditions worsened. I dont have to justify mysrlf have worked double or more hours 7 day weeks for most of my life taken jobs at low salaries and finally ended up homeless with severe covid etc... at 63 my future is not rosy and hope it s all over soon.
If someone had told me thirty years ago that the UK would sink so low I would never have believed them. Gone are the days when having a job would at least keep your head above water. I seen an ex-council house going for £950 a month near where I live, how is someone working in a supermarket or any other basic job supposed to afford that? Millions are struggling just for the basics, including people in work, it really isn't something to be proud of. I'm in my fifties and remember my gran telling me about the squalid conditions people lived in when she was young, I hope we aren't heading back to that standard. There will always be an argument about scroungers and lazy people, but to have people going hungry in the fifth (or sixth) largest economy is shameful.
Think yourself lucky that you're in your fifties. I work in a 'professional' job in the NHS - the workplace has recently started offering staff free sanitary products because of destitution. I know of one NHS staff member that lives in a van because they can't afford a place to live. This country is a mess more than people know.
The UK has slipped into a decline since the fall of the British Empire mate
Thatcher sold all the council houses that’s why we are in a mess with homelessness
They're a lot more than that where I live.
People go hungry in all the richest countries. America. Japan. China. France. Italy. Germany. It is shameful but it's a shameful part of all the richest countries In the world. We need a global solution to it.
I have been working all my life paying all my taxes and then I got a neurological disease and it has impacted my life for the worst. I see many nasty comments, don’t judge other people without knowing their life circumstances.
True comment disabilitys can be invisible never judge
How about you stop paying taxes and you will have alot more money?
The people in the UK who voted for Tory rule deserve the hardship they voted for. The people who voted for Corbin: I'm so sorry for the stupidity of the boomer brain rot.
@@Dehydratedpencilwhen did not paying taxes become a choice?!
@@MetalRocksMe. Its always been a choice, its just that you have to deal with the consequences of not paying them
Old age is scary without finances
That could easily of been me. I was in the Army for many years. I left the army in my 30s. And I decided, what to do next with my life. A trade, or university to study computers. I went to university. At 55, all my old injuries ganged up on me, my back, my knees, my shoulders. If I had a trade, I would of ended up on the sick, and into poverty like him. With many on here sneering at me, and blaming me, for the fact, that my body had given up on me. As a software dev, I sit down, and work, so I can work till retirement or even longer if i so wish. Funny enough when i picked software over a trade, it never even occurred to me, that 20 years down the line, my body would give up.
Could you give any advice on how to start in software development please? (For someone not in that field of work at all)
@@charlottetaylor4471 Well start my picking a languae to learn. Java orC#, spend a year teaching yourself. . I chose Java. Read up on both, which is the most popular then stick with that. Then find a free online tutorial to teach your self. Also youtube is a wealth of information. What you need is a labtop with at laest 16gb Then when you choose your languae. Pick a IDE integraion Development environment, Read up on that, youttune will show you how to set it up, The net is great anything you need to learn it on there. Then when teaching your self Break it into different lessons From which is browsers, HTML, Backend which is data storage SQL, NonSQL, Middleware, linking the front to the back.
Yeah well done, I did the same in my 30s bumming about in dead end jobs I went to uni and got a degree in IT infrastructure and a degree in teaching. I’ve earned a fortune and am still working online 25 hours a week for £45000 a year. Sitting in a warm office, no stress and loving it. Gives me great pride knowing I’m helping the next generation of IT professionals.
@@charlottetaylor4471I have posted below. software development is a hard slog, and takes quite a while to get up to speed. I would advise looking around for free IT courses there is a company in Birmingham who does this, it is a great way to get your foot on the ladder.
@@charlottetaylor4471 Its a very big field. I would reccomend start with learning to program. I am a java developer, but there are other languages. They are what we call open source, which means its all free. Look for youtube vids, such as introduction to Java, and or any other language.
It's a sick country that allows its own people to live like this
No such thing as a country.
no, it's late stage capitalism
what about the billions spent on able bodied military age men calling themselves "refugees"? @@moha-tk5gz
yeh but you see it all over the world............so the world is sick
Especially ones that have worked and payed taxes there whole life it’s sickening . Some pip accessors are bad tho I lost 5-6 points I needed for it because I gave them number of my phone , I can’t use a computer to well but used an iPhone for 10 years nearly so I can give someone my number
Absolutely heartbreaking. And what does the Government do? Remove the cap on bankers bonuses. Utterly, utterly sickening
Allowing people to be paid more means more tax revenues to help those in need. And helps uk inc. compete for talent globally.
he gets 1100 dollar a month in benefits plus 200 health surcharge
The gov's theory is that money will 'trickle down' from the bankers to the lowest of the low
@@Dman-mz7fttypical woke lefty nonsense is what it is 😅
Priorities and uncapping bankers bonuses sums up what they care about. This is heartbreaking and like a third world country now.
I've been retired 3 years. About 10 ago I saw impending poverty so I saved and built a tiny trailer house. I live on a farm where I work a couple of hours a day to cover my rent and utilities. I live very comfortably and keep virtually all my pension.Thank goodness I had the foresight.
Is this in UK?
No, you are just lucky that life did not show you that your plans are not what life has planned for you.
Well Done. To survive is everything.
No wonder so many working people are terrified of losing their jobs. It's also no wonder that so many folks merely subsisting on benefits end up taking their own lives because of grinding poverty (since they have no quality of life.) There are a lot of people who are now employed but were formally subsisting on benefits, and this has left them with PTSD. They live in constant fear of finding themselves back in that stressful situation once again, and rightly so. Believe me, welfare poverty is one of the most depressing experiences known to mankind. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
My sister took legal custody of me when she was twenty one years old and worked in a fast food place. Sometimes I would have to stay with friends family for months at a time because she couldn’t afford me. Those families were friends of ours because I went to school with their kids . Those people we’re heroes. Bought all my gear for sports and everything. They were not well off either. Anyway, what I meant to say is poverty sucks for kids and families.
Poverty sucks for everyone😢😢
Point the finger at those who voted tory, and obviously I don't mean the well off, we all know why they voted them in.
@@jamesbong4928Germany here. Please explain me your brexit and how Labour was pro brexit. UK better come home to Europe, since the Empire is obsolete in the new globalized world. This 'British freedom' was fine only for capitalism, wasn't it?
But EU made bad decisions too. We should have left you your fishing rights. It's even better for nature, if only the locals take care of the ressources... I suggest we stop eating seafish in the well-fed nations, we have such a meat overproduction, we actually make propane gas from food... we should grow forests instead.
@@weisemari yes of course, it was moneybags Farage who started the movement to destitution for his own benefit and offshore loot
Country is falling apart because, for some reason, our compatriots are okay with rich people being thieves, scrounges and tax dodgers but refuse to help their fellows. Shame on anyone that voted for the Tories in the past decade. Shame on you all.
I live in Texas and it’s kind of the Same here in America
When has that no been the case? For hundreds of years Britain is whealty and the people are poor. For a couple decades people forgot but it never changed.
@@filipeventura2729 You have a very short memory. Just before this government came in all my local high streets were thriving. Now half the shops are shut, the rest are full of slot machines, and theres a homeless person every 10 feet.
Won every election handly for 12 years got #Brexit passed people who now suffer the most voted tory in labour areas and elected a series of worsening conmen and women as PM , The next election will be interesting in 2025
@@h4rdboiled695 Shorts memory? I literally said thats the norm, even if for a couple decades it dosent see. like it for the middle class. Its a cycle that always ends up with the majority in poverty
20 years ago I used to work in a little well know delicatessen shop in Edinburgh. Every weekend I would be asked to close the shop and throw away dozens of delicious baguettes and croissants, all perfect to eat but not sold fast enough. I was shocked. I took the bundle and walked around Edinburgh to give them away to homeless people sitting in minus 5 degrees on the pavement. Colleagues and boss not interested in the problem. What are supermarkets and cafes doing to help hungry people ??
My cousin worked at Costa coffee and they put hand sanitiser all over their unsold food to stop homeless and other desperate people waiting outside to raid the rubbish . Cafe Nero and Starbucks do that as well apparently. Some managers and staff ignore this though and hand it out at the end of the day to those queueing up outside.
There is an ap p that I used in Portugal and Germany that helps reduce food waste. Businesses with surpluses sign up and you reserve it. Unfortunately you need a credit card, a cell phone or device for the app…. It is called to good to go. They have a mix of foods and one can get it for 25% of the regular price. It’s also available in Britain.
Its excellent, have often got 3-5 items for the price of one, and reduces waste! Great if you live with other people or for giving donations @@terriblepainter7675
As a Canadian I can't believe the government of Britain would allow this to continue....it's like watching that old movie "Oliver Twist".....when I first saw it in school over 50 years ago....
That s it they ve succeded 100 p cent in turning clock back to Dickens time... workhouses are next. Then rich can get even richer and we re dying off.
Look at your own country
@@Bignfluffy oh yes it on its way.....I just think Britain was a place to see before I pass on....but I'm not so sure now....and getting old is not so great....you may live longer....but what for....to see the government tax you even on your pensions that won't give you enough in the end to live on comfortably....so they can give it away to other countries....run by dictators....how stupid can they be....well I can tell to they are very stupid....
What a disgrace this country has become. Broken beyond repair!
It always has been…. It’s just becomes clear to most when they’re affected.
Hello, I am disabled and I work, I live in a shared house with other people who work, it’s a beautiful house in a lovely area and I am fine. These people are choosing to not work and then complain about having no money. These men can both work in the jobs I work in and the mother can defer her studies and work full time. They are all choosing to not work and then complain and blame the government.
People can vote for change... Sadly they vote for more of the same.
@@CatherineX-ph3onif you were a man and had my particular health conditions and discrimination you would be turned down and yet are absolutely very much almost totally disabled. Your sweeping generalisation and I'm alright jack attitude is quite repulsive and if you weren't entirely ignorant, I would say you should be thoroughly ashamed. Better to keep quiet than remove all doubt..
@@digi3363 vote who exactly, every party ends up being dire these days..most of the nation have lost faith
I live in Italy and I find this report so heartbreaking. I simply cannot imagine how these people get up in the morning knowing what awaits them. The government should be ashamed that a man who has worked all his life has to live on 30 quid a month!
He’s on benefits and hasn’t mentioned what the illness actually is? Judging by most sob stories it’s probably hurt feelings or divorce depression. Why can’t he work? Because it’s harder than waiting to be paid by job centre.
@billybigbollox you do know the benefits are means tested, if there was any possibility of him working the government would not pay him.
Really? Maybe he should've found a better paying job! And not wasted all his money on booze! That would've helped.
Government has to extort everything they spend from working taxpayers. UK taxpayers are already highly taxed. Keep pushing and the highest earners will leave. They have options.
It sounds like he is only on £30 a month because his rent has shot up. Presumably before that he was struggling, but managing. The problem is that there is no real cheaper alternative out there in terms of rent.
The world is upside down. I live in the US & it's the save situation. All the sudden, the wealth gap is the size of a galaxy. You either have a $500MM yacht, or you live in a rent or car. Devastating & no solutions in sight. Where is the electwd leadership?😡
I skip meals on some days and don't have a young one to care for so I can imagine how difficult it must be for others.
I reside in Australia and this news segment made me weep. I grow fruit and vegetables to donate to my local food bank to assist people who struggle with providing their children and themselves with food. Today I purchased two four kilo bags of apples to add to hampers. God bless all the most unfortunate people in their daily struggles.
The guy can do better.
@@gambrydew2059 he could have just blessed them so this didn't happen.
@@gambrydew2059Explain that comment
@gambrydew2059 so could've your parents, but they got you... Have some compassion for others.
@@utv5490 his rent is 3/4 of what he gets on Universal Credit, he should leave and get a cheaper property.
The most aggravating aspect is that food banks are treated as a normal part of life. It's not normal to be a working person and not be able to afford food. It's just not normal.
40 years of rampant capitalism has brought many western nations to this. Profit is all that matters.
I live in what was often referred to as "The Lucky Country"- Australia. Many people here are suffering Mortgage stress and even middle class people with relatively good incomes are visiting food banks because the cost of their mortgage takes a huge chunk of their income. ...... and suggesting they sell up is not practical because they would probably lose money on the sale and end up in a rental queue where there seems to be more people wanting to rent properties than properties available.
@icebergrose8955 we didn't really have food banks in the UK when I was growing up in the 90s- and that's not rose tinted glasses, there's real number facts you can look up. In the years of Tories being in power the number of Trussell trust banks nationwide went from 35 in 2011 to 1,300 in 2019
@@Rumade I was in the UK in the 90s, they weren't a thing. Food banks in New Zealand really took off after the 2008 financial debacle. NZ produces enough food to feed 40 million people. We have 5 million and people struggle to buy milk. Capitalism.
@@icebergrose8955Which country does it better?
Im 52 . Doctor signed me off sick when i reached 33 with a slupped disc and osteoporosis in my spine that he could not explain. I had to go on income support and dismantle my landscaping business . At 44 i slipped another disc when i slipped on a path waliking to the shops . After investigation i discovered at 44 that i was born with a syndrome that was causing my brittle bones. In April this year i failed a pip assessment and whilst in the 3 month appeal had to live off 360 pound a month . Having now won my appeal in October , my other benifit ESA began missing payments that ive contantly had to recover with very lengthy phone calls .. ( all the stress causes more suffering ) I knew they would miss my payment over xmas and they have because thats what they do ! Heartless !! I am living one meal a day since april Wash with cold water
But why go on welfare when you have a slipped disc it is just not necessary. You just need to retrain and get a new job. Lots of people are walking around with slipped disc, it doesn't mean they need to stop working, they just modify their duties or do a different job. Many people have far worse conditions than a slipped disc. This is the problem with UK's attitude with welfare. It is just too easy to be signed off from work, which is creating this underclass of "sick" and lazy people who don't want to work. Then they complain they are not getting enough. The level of entitlement is ridiculous! I know somebody riddled with cancer and continued to work because he enjoyed it and it kept him distracted
@@youtuberme5020 as for your cancer mate , fare play to em , cancer runs deep in my family ... My dad discovered cancer in him at 55 and he retired at 69 . He's still plodding on now at 81 !! I worked at a tyre house when I began to get ill . I left that job because I was physically struggling and occasionally began to spit blood. I tried call centre work. Lasted a year at British gas until they let me go because of my loss of focus . Lasted 18 months at o2 but 9 months of that was on sick money due to formidable pain that led to having my gall bladder removed. The pain worsened . Coffing blood and poo by this time . Not giving in I set up a gardening business which after 3 years of success , I was forced to see a specialist after my top customer refused me work out of sheer worry for my well being .. I'd passed out twice in his garden . The specialist signed me off work permanently for ' one ' slipped disc and osteoporosis of the spine . I didn't claim welfare straight away, I didn't even know there was a welfare for the sick ! I used my savings in the beginning which lasted me two years . Then after seeking help from citizens advice I learnt about sickness benefit. I've gained another slipped disc after tripping over a tree root and discovered this syndrome which as filled in alot of blanks .
@@youtuberme5020I mean, just disregard OPs osteoporosis, brittle bones and constant back pain and just focus on their “slipped disc” To paraphrase: This is the problem with the UK’s attitude with welfare. It’s too easy to put people down, compare people to others, especially when they’ve never experienced misfortune and carry on with their callous and uncaring attitude because they are too self absorbed reading the right wing narrative. Do yourself a favour, instead of getting annoyed with ill people and especially those online - get out more and enjoy your life instead of expressing your bile.
@@youtuberme5020re train with brittle spine syndrome and already slipped discs lol you try it
@youtuberme Put down that copy of the Daily Mail. It's rotting your brain 🧠 you know.
Im so sorry too all that is going through this. Please know you're not alone. we here in the USA are going through the same, my heart is with y'all 😢 im also a very poor single mother 😢 Please we have to try to keep our heads up this has to get better. Thank you, God, for another day! Bless us ❤
You will be blessed..
God has blessed you with a good heart.
This could happen to any one of us - lose a job, get sick or have a baby as a single Mum and the country turns it's back on you. So sad. Should not happen in the UK.
Plenty of resources for the illegal parasites invading our Country though, how does that work ! ? The Tories are toast !
If you’re a woman under 30 you can start an only fans and make a million in about a year. Female privilege you see
We have immigrants publicly funded living in 4-5 star hotels. We need to finance our new culturally perfect peaceful arrivals with housing, welfare, NHS, so how can we fund our own. Immigrants take priority over British natives, didn’t you get the memo?
@@jimsim8736 sadly, I did, and it sickens me to the core, what our Political class have done to this Country. As the saying goes, import the third world, become the third world. These animals are quite simply incompatible with first world standards !
Well the trick is not to have a baby as a single mum. That's avoidable and shouldn't warrant any benefit payouts.
I think this touches on the root cause of most of the problems in the UK and US today - the hollowing out of the working/middle class over the last 30 years. You've got people living nearly destitute, young people who can't get on the housing ladder, families struggling to pay bills - and they wonder why our Country's are so chaotic and divided..
In the U.S.??? I don’t think so… there is Welfare Social Services here.. so what are you talking about?
@@jenniferdavis2110 It's what some Brits do: they try and bundle themselves in with the US to exonerate themselves from the dire state of their own country.
Maybe if you shut down those overseas bases, stopped policing the world, stopped foreign aid, used the money saved on domestic issues only... you never know.
@@jenniferdavis2110 Actually your welfare in the US is a lot worse than in the UK. And poverty is higher in the US than in the UK too. As is homelessness. And without universal healthcare a person can be bankrupt in the US because they got sick when they weren't wealthy enough to pay medical bills.
@@cashewnuttel9054 Since when has the UK been policing the world? Never heard that one before. It's the US that many see as policing the world.
I’m now worried about care leavers, kids who have no one. How will we cope with this, I can relate to this and I’m barely 20. Dear.
Horrendous lack of compassion and caring by society and in paticular the government. He and thousands of others deserve help and support.
It's expensive to be poor. Poor people don't have access to low interest loans, they can't afford washer machine so they'll have to pay for launderette like this gentleman here. They can't buy in bulk (which is generally cheaper) because they don't have a car, plus supermarkets are often located in middle and upper class areas. It's a sad state of affair really.
Indeed, laundromats get spendy. It works out better if you just wash and then take the clothes home to hang up to dry but that depends on having a dry enough climate. I wash at home with a plunger thing but I have room to have a dedicated place to hang my clothes to dry. Not everyone has that.
@@alexcarter8807 What do you mean you wash at home with a plunger thing?
What does having a car and buying in bulk got to do with one another? Supermarkets don't offer home delivery? That supermarket location comment is dumb aswell.
@simonseis744 You do realise online orders with supermarkets have a minimum spend... Far in excess of what these ppl have available to spend. If you've never struggled, just keep quiet and listen cause your privilege is showing
Delivery also costs money, online shopping is unreliable, and supermarkets don't offer the ability to buy in bulk, plus a poor person with a small home has no way of storing a bulk of food.@@simonseis744
I am in the US, working as a Substitute Teacher. This year, we received a raise that helped, but in the past few years, I could barely make my rent, unless the school schedule allowed 22 work days in the month. I was constantly sick with chronic upper respiratory issue, rashes, and kidney infections when I started subbing, and used summer to get almost well before everything started again with the next school year. Covid helped tremendously as I qualified for unemployment and actually received more than when I was working. It's ridiculous that the US and the UK make it so hard to get help when you're actually working hard to keep from drowning. I didn't use food banks before Covid, the thought never crossed my mind. Now I'm so grateful for them.
They make it very difficult for locals to get benefits, yes, but they're quick to sign blank cheques to F.O.T.B. who haven't paid a penny into the system...
Hopefully you get promote to big teacher an get the govment benefits.
@artmallory Asylum seekers n the U.K. have to live on £35.95 per week.
@rayr6278 Actually getting a teaching credential and being a teacher (instead of a substitute teacher) comes with bigger headaches and dealing with parents, administrators, etc. I know quite a few who went through the training and couldn't pass one of the tests after a few tries. I also know several teachers who are burnt out and are either retiring early or looking for something else in the field or another career. Also, California likes people to jump through hoops to become teachers. I looked into it when I first started subbing, and realized I didn't want the burden of student loans without the guarantee of a teaching position to pay it off.
For US society educated people are not wanted. In a Two Party System for centuries ignorant people are essentiell. Hurray Election the Olympic Games of Democracy. Hurray But never translate democracy into english, or whatever mothertongue, it is very dangerous. Nobody must know. You agree? Mother of Democracy yesessssses.
This is heartbreaking. Watching this from Manhattan NY USA. The UK Goverment is a disgrace. Where is their compassion? There will always be people who take advantage of the welfare system. These people are not those people. For the love of god help them!!
Even people with degrees are struggling to find jobs or make enough. The government boasts about all the jobs available and yet so many are still jobless/homeless/near poverty. When everyone from your business owner to your graduate student is struggling, the issue isn’t the citizens or a generation that “doesn’t want to work”. Scariest part is that when the population tries to start organizing and making efforts to help each other, those on power also make it hard, creating 1000 and 1 hoops that you have to jump through. They can’t be arsed to help and then they try and prevent others from helping properly.
We’re all a couple of pay days away from poverty. I’ve worked all my life, lost both parents last year & was out of work while probate was going on (and still going on) I went 6 days without food in February of this year. Used a food bank & cried walking home with the bags of food they gave me.
I hope things are getting better for you. ⛅
I hope things improve for you.Please contact your local CAB to check you have all the benefits you are entitled to- if you haven't done already.
I'm so sorry
God bless you 🙏🏼❤️🥰!
❤❤❤Watching this and reading your comment is simply heartbreaking 💔 I’m so sorry 🫶🏻
I’m 70 and I’m experiencing the exact same situation here in the USA. Life’s horribly difficult
It just doesn't need to be. Both of our countries just don't care. Its more importsnt to keep million and billionaires abuse loopholes to not pay a penny, and simultaneously underpay their staff. their starving every other class of resources to keep someone so wealthy they can never evem spend it.... hope you sort something out bro, I'm not here yet. But I'm just about floating along myself, it's despicable 2 countries as wealthy as ours can forgive themselves for letting this happen. wish you well!
Yep
Still have money to pay your internet bill though, have you? Give me a break!
If you'd payed attention in school, maybe you'd have earned decent money.
@@Steven-ly9ei The whole reason after World War 2 a socialist government came into power was because people saw the poorest fighting for their country and returning home to homelessness, sickness and poverty, and that something had to be done about it. So the welfare state and the NHS were formed. Now nearly all politicians from both sides of the House are spouting the virtues of Thatcherism/Neoliberalism and happily dismantling what remains of the welfare state and NHS. And most people are so brainwashed by media they support it.
I lost my job (through no fault of my own) 3 months before the tories slashed housing benefits to £65 a week when they first came into power. I was privately renting a studio flat for 425 a month, receiving 260 a month housing benefit after the cut, and £204 a month jobseekers allowance. So to make up the 165 shortfall on my rent i used my jobseekers allowance, leaving me with £39 a month remaining to live off. I couldnt pay any bills and food banks werent a thing back then. I survived off 18p aldi noodles, stealing bread from the petrol station up the road and did a few runners in restaurants embarassingly, just to try and have 1 meal a day. Lost 2 stone in weight, mental health was down the toilet and racked up thousands of debts for bills. Used to have to ring for crisis loans to be on hold for ages then to be told i can have £11 when i asked for £20 to get some food. Disgraceful. Surpised i made it through that period of my life. And was meant to be searching for work in the mean time! All this in a top 5 wealthiest nation. Nothing has changed since and my situation was 12 or 13 years ago
I work and struggle 30 quid a month to live on is crushing you aren’t even existing.
And yet supermarkets throw away millions of tons of food because they rather do that than lower the price because they rather people buy it at full price than reduce it
supermarkets throw away lots of food yet the big super market chain by me has empty shelves and they constantly try shuffle the bit around to make it look fuller with nothing behind..............
I shop late at Lidl and Aldi so I can get the reduced items, so often I end up with Clearance 'own-brands'.
@@terencejay8845 its a crime when you have to do this..........shouldn't have to do this at all and foodbanks shouldn't exist we should be thriving not going backwards to stone age.
That's a good one but very silly
Even worse some supermarkets lock up their dumpsters denying dumpster divers the right to take the food freely.
I work full time (40 hours a week), and earn an “average” salary… And things are really starting to bite. My energy bills have doubled, my food costs have doubled. My rent and council tax have increased, petrol prices to get to and from work have increased, but my salary has not. It just seems to be getting harder and harder.
I'm sure that the large chunk that they government takes out of your earnings would be useful to have.
What’s average in your country?
Salary not increased? I thought a lot of us got a pay rise. I got 8%.
@@SirHargreeves 😞
@@rich7447 Got to pay for all their bombs and foreign aid somehow.
Without a doubt, the housing crisis is driving poverty and depression. Living in a run down bedsit with sky high rent will rob anyone of their dignity and self esteem so it's no wonder so many people fall further into extreme poverty and illness. There are also a lack of jobs for employable people in their 50's and 60's, especially manual or semi skilled, who prefer to employ younger people. Minimum wage jobs offer zero incentive or offer any opportunity to escape poverty, and yet people are encouraged to take such jobs just to improve the figures. I have worked all my life and will have to work into my late 60's to survive, possibly longer, if I am able, but I still feel sympathy for those who cannot work because of illness or injury. A good 'standard' of living should mean that a person can live well within their means, not struggle, starve and be thrown into eternal shame because their rent is out of control and they cannot afford food or heating. The government is entirely to blame.
Not brittish , but I live in England , and I observed similarities from my country , when it comes to people on benefits ( welfare , you name it ) . Seen lots of people being capable of work , healthy and sturdy , laying on benefits , meanwhile the real people that would need them are finding themselves in struggle .
You're part of the problem
Millions working poor - no benefits - like me are having to pay for 8 million welfare idlers.
We should all be living in a council house with NHS, free education and university, and all the other benefits. The country is easily rich enough. Unfortunately, that's all been swallowed up by billionaires that pay no tax in the UK.
Totally agree. Welfare culture had made people who are well able to work feel entitled to everything for free that hard working people like me pay for through our tax. Help with rent, no council tax, food banks etc etc. It can’t continue and needs to change now!
@@Nikolay061 Or immigrants.
For a "developed" country, this is shocking. Through illness, I live off what the DWP thinks I should get to live off. However, those who do the calculating, have no idea what's happening in the real world. Prices are going up: food, energy, gas, electric etc but the government forgets that benefits do not rise at the same rate! But then again the calculations are done by those who have had a privileged upbringing and have never had to live under the same syress as us!!
YES!!! And no idea what the real costs are for being disabled!! The NHS, and social services all now refuse equipment and necessary items 'because that's what your benefits are for!!' Yet benefits don't even allow me to put my heating on when I have a heart & respiratory condition and am supposed to keep warm and mould free.
Uk is the 2nd most unequal country in terms of wealth in european area
Many DWP staff are on minimum wage, some are part time as carers or single parents. Many get less money than the claimants and have to pay to get to work and have clean, presentable clothes
@@jennifersivewright3117 yes. The whole system is corrupt from top to bottom. I've just found out that Dorset County Council is using air b and b to house children in care,then paying a woman who is already a foster carer to a teenager is then being allowed to leave her at night alone while she works for a private foster agency to go and spend the night at another premise looking after another child. Couldn't make this stuff up. And the private firms cream off huge profits with the blessing and for the betterment of those who already have too much.
Its nuts !! And the UK is on G7 yeah right !! when you have so much poverty and people are starving 😫
I worked hard from 16 to my mid 30's until a health issue I was born with got steadily worse. It's a huge struggle to survive, I eat one meal a day & it's normally a baked potato & beans. My dog eats better than me, before anyone says I shouldn't have a dog if I'm struggling so much I'd like to mention that I suffered with prolonged grief syndrome for 2 yrs. For 2 years I would burst into tears multiple times every day. The NHS wouldn't give me therapy, instead they just filled me with pills which didn't help. I rescued my dog because his past owner who was seriously abusing him was going to put him down (he's only 18 months old & perfectly healthy). He's the one thing in my life that was able to snap me out of my crippling depression. I gave him a home to save him & in return he's been saving me. I'm constantly worried that our government is going to make my life harder as they demonize those of us with long term health issues. I have physical health issues & mental health issues, I'm almost 50 so no amount of benefit cuts will make employers decide to employ me before they employ a healthy person
Anybody who pre-judges you is a fool. Discount their views. I hope your dog helped remove some of your sadness and lessened your pill dependency. You are not alone with unemployment. It's a definite struggle. I had to go to a Communist country just to get some work. All the very best and although times are exceptionally know that people out there understand what you're going through.
F.....k. I have 3 dogs
Oh you struggling ? How come you can feed that dog of yours then ? Get yourself out of dodge before thinking you can be charitable, towards dogs of all things.
No worries.. It's our ethical duty to help our friend cocainesky through thick and thin 😊. We are ready to help him with everything we have..
@@johnstewartBr3X1T .. It's our ethical duty to help our friend cocainesky through thick and thin 😊. #SlavaUkraine.. We have to help them with everything 😊
This is madness everything is falling apart and it keeps getting worse. How are people supposed to live a meaningful life with the cost of living out of reach
Excellent reporting, highlighting the needs of the many people rather than the wants of the few people. Bless all that struggle. ❤ To the People.
My wife invites our neighbour's kid around to play with ours, we know for a fact she goes hungry so her kid can have meals but shes always turned down "food help" from us, so we invite her kid to play with ours as an excuse to cook a meal for the both of them (we'll cook something the kid wants but cook too much of it so the mother finishes off what the kid doesnt want), this country is fucked up when a single working mother can't afford to feed themselves.
Shay dant wan ya fud help bru. Shay wanna job in all ok stuff ya food help mate
Can't believe what u say... Then we are doing much better in India... Honesty has no value..
@@user-su2eo5lv7b He did say something is wrong when a single WORKING mother can't afford to feed herself. So she does have a job. Scoffing at people for being kind makes you look kinda mean.
Keep on blessing her because her children will never forget you. ❤
Good people ye are! 😉
Benefit bashers need to watch this. This is average life of a disabled person these days. I know what its like to dive in the dumpster for scraps, wear clothing that is falling apart and beg for food at the local food bank. Its hard and I feel immese shame for being disabled. I wish I could do more with my life.
We need lower tax for billionares surley. PRIORITIES...
How can you dive in a dumpster if your disabled I'm 56 ache all over my body and I couldn't dive in a pool let alone a dumpster if you are disabled I'm sorry for that and hope life gets easier for you and you get the goverment help you need but I have a suspicion you may be telling pork pies
people who support mass migration need to watch this. able bodied military aged men calling themselves "refugees" cost the government over a billion a year, and get 4 star hotels and meals.
no it isnt, several members of my family have PIP. The guys in this video are WAITING for PIP to be sorted, they will be fine once that is done
Do not feel shame, govt and the right wing press will try to demonize you but you have nothing to be ashamed for. It is those in govt and the right wing press who have done you wrong.
I pray someone there helps you. PRAYERS FROM USA
Really felt for that bus driver guy... After redundancy from the shipyard I used to survive on £6 a week after rent was paid in the early 1990s.. still recall going to Netto and grabbing all the cheap cans of food they had. Used to just lie in bed just so I didn't have to turn the heater on... all this and I was working as a volunteer computer technician/donation collector at the homeless society (where I could get free out of date sandwiches)... simply no jobs in my hometown at that time... and minimum wage wasn't a thing then so you could be drastically worse off not being on benefits... a vicious circle. I left UK 15 years ago after going to uni and, while I would love to move back, videos like this remind me of the brutal reality of living in the UK.
I think that was minimum wage in the UK back in the 90s but not back in the old days.. other countries are worse than the UK even America is worse than the UK..
@@joelc9439Exactly, in a sense we've got it rather good, and it's still bad
where did u go?
Netto the og aldi
I could write the same thing. Early 90s, £5 or £6 a week after rent. Housing benefit not enough so I had to pay a fiver out of my meagre benefits for one room in a street so dodgy the post wouldn't deliver Giros (Darlington). Left 30 years ago and never looked back.
I grew up in the UK during the 1940's and 50's, the son of a not very well off working class family together with my older sister. Although we had little money we never went without a meal, yet I don't ever recall hearing of food banks in those days. Society is supposed to progress, not go backwards, there's something sadly wrong when people can't afford to put food on the table.
😮I went without in the 60s in Northern Ireland having one poor meal a day or occasionally no meal. There were 3, low-paid adults in the house working full time. Nothing was spent on booze or gambling and we had no car. Our situation was commonplace and there were no charity food handouts or benefits other than a few shillings in Family Allowance. The “good old days” is a myth.
This is what happens when all of your elected political parties, even the "conservatives" are left of center.
He seems just a cry baby he can do something to make money but he seems too full if himself to accept a humble job.
@@karlwalter2242 If you are referring to Paul, there was no complaining. He merely answered the questions that were asked. If his answers made you uncomfortable that is your problem, not his. It was clearly stated that he had to finish work due to ill health. Just because you cannot physically see ill health does not mean it is untrue, nor does it mean it is temporary. You sound very naive. Every person in post Brexit Britain could end up in his exact same position. He is in a worse position than some because his age and his physical health is against him. This could also happen to you at some point in your life. You too will reach the 'invisible age' and you are going to be truly shocked.
What you're experiencing is the collapse of an empire. If you're wondering what's next, google what the british did to their colonies. Good luck.
Rent is absolutely ridiculous these days, landlords squeezing every last penny out of the poor!!
lol@@Sassy-Sam
This is heartbreaking 😢
There is something about Paul's story that really touched me... The way he tries to keep up smiling... But his eyes tell the truth... I wished society did more for the needy. I used to be one of those who believed that hand-outs were bad and that there were only lazy people who took advantage of it. But I changed my mind over the past few years when I came to realize that it doesn't matter if some people take advantage of the system, because what matters in the end is that there is a "safety net" for the people who truly need it.
There's also a bunch of studies that have shown its far more cost effective to house and feed people than it is to pay for the long term consequences of having swathes of society in poverty.
@@django3422 Exactly. I don't think our government cares about the long term consequences of anything
@@yippee8570maybe the government thinks it’s better if your dead before you hit the pension age
@@django3422 True, but you know how it is. We've all been young and stupid.
@@MyLazySundae To my defense, I didn't believe the needy were lazy, I believed the majority of needy weren't actually needy BUT lazy, wanting to live on the system. But having worked with some charities in the past last years, I can admit to how wrong I was. I've been working with the needy, the truly needy, in France. And boy... Am I glad that there are good "safety nets" here. But it still breaks my heart to see the people who are left alone, helpless.
I feel so sorry for this guy , if I live next door to him I would give him free home cooked food everyday , since I always cooked too much for 2 person's .
I do that when I cook on a Sundays cook enough for me and the old girl next door she old and struggling bless her
me too
The 2 men in the video probably can also vlaim pip benifits knocking his benifits up from $1000 to $1400
God bless you miss
@stephencotton2694, it's not easy to get pip. I'm on disability and still can't get pip
Life with chronic illness is hard n without job. I am finding my life hard with insomnia n don't know how future is going to be. The crux is one need to take care of health well to survive well in later years.
And yet the government wasted 100s of millions on a funeral for that queen. What a joke.
they waste a lot more on putting up migrants in hotels :)
What about the weddings? Totally wasted money.
I remember living in Canada during the pandemic I had to rent a room for $600.00. literally I had $15.00 a month to live off of but the restaurants offered free food everyday in my neighborhood because they wouldn't allow us to work. I did that for 3 months then moved to a shared house. I ended up paying less and there was plenty of food because everyone put in the pot to buy groceries every week. There was Soo much food that food was never an issue. When life gets hard you just can't do it by yourself.
How old are you? Student loan?
Lies.
People who give up in life are people who lose in life, my first experience happens to be a failure but I never gave up cause I knew it was going to work out for me trying continuously, fortunately I'm smiling today by getting involved in investment.. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life too 🙏🙏🙏
We are a 6 figure income couple and had very little saved and not much cash lying around the preverbal". '...don't have $500 for an emergency" that was us. The big thing was debt all kinds of it, cars mortgage (although our home isn't a high price one), student loans for our kids, and of course credit cards. One day we just got sick of being broke and went total scorched earth and became frugal overnight. Paid it all off, it took almost 5 years but now we have no debt and this year our savings rate is 50% on basically the same income that had us perpetually broke.So for us it is mainly staying out of debt and watching our spending, at first it was a real effort to save in our HISA and 401Ks but now it's actually fun watching our money grow. No car or vacation or neighborhood is worth being broke or financially unstable.
you've remind me of what someone once said "The mind is the man, the poor is in it and the rich is it too". This sentence is the secret of most successful investors. I once attended similar and ever since then been waxing strong financially, and i most tell you the truth..investment is the key that can secure your family future.
This goes on in America also I am 60 years old and live on a fixed income from being disabled The food banks can't handle all of us that are in need of food It's heartbreaking
BREXIT
@@Steve-kj5zt..this also happens in other European EU countries. In Spain people on unemploiment only get 500-600 a month. And not only Spain, also poverty in Germany, France.
Crazy. I feel sorry about this poor people. I am from Czechia, and I could say people here are actually rich. Almost everyone has his own house or flat (and usually one summer apartment - cottage). So it makes the cost of living more affordable. I am in shock whats going on in the UK 😢.
I felt sad listening to this. May God bless🙏
My greatest concern is how to recover from all these economic and global troubles and stay afloat especially with the political power tussle going on in UK.
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@@TomD226 Please pardon me, who guides you on the process of it all?
@lowcostfresh2266 Actually, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention this, but I'd recommend looking up Laurel Dell Sroufe because she was a big deal in 2020. She manages my portfolio and serves as both my coach and my manager.
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Proverty is created by human being. Just think about the primitive races, there were no rich and poor.
This is absolutely heartbreaking.
What a mess we’re in. What’s gone wrong with the system? I grew up in a South Yorkshire mining village in the 60’s and 70’s I can’t remember anything remotely as bad as this.
I'm in Canada but have friends from around the world in online mental health forums. One man i knew for years was 59 and living in his car in northern England and working full-time. He had worked his whole life despite psychiatric illness. He was trying to stay hopeful but when his car engine seized he couldn't afford the repairs, lost his job and wound up in the psychiatric ward at hospital. For some reason they didn't get him into housing and he chose to end his life. His sister (who lived hundreds of miles away) let his friends online know about his passing. I don't know how an employed 59 year old homeless man was not able to get help, but here in Canada it's very difficult for working people to get emergency help although the system supports many "lifers" on welfare for decades. Perhaps some funds should be allocated to helping employed people stay employed? I find it very sad that this good man died. Rest in peace, Paul
unfortunately your story happened in my block of flats two months ago, He jumped from 16 floors. Only 31. He hadn`t had his benefits in 12 weeks. i had known he was that hard up ..I`d have given him money/food. But he was a quiet soul and kept himself to himself. This is England.
@@THEPRK sorry ro hear it.
his sister lived a 100 miles away ???? no help ??? do you see what is disturbing here ???
@@olavwilhelm6843 well yea you turn 18 and leave the nest . My family is scattered all over the country. My Mrs family are scattered all over the world. People don't live and die in one town do they .
@@olavwilhelm6843 Its hard to understand from the outside looking in but people are proud so do not always turn to family when they can, especially those with mental health its often harder for them to feel motivated to tell others about their situation and get help, when you are older you do not want to be a burden.
This is so heartbreaking, it really hurts to see this man living in this way.
Yep. That’s why I didn’t even want to have kids and never had.
Reading this from the "richest country", US (joke) in the world, I totally understand the actions of this man. Governments are eager to brag about their riches, but do the rich give up some of their undeserved perks? NO
Unfortunately for men there’s nothing we can do. Women can just start an only fans and make a little 20k a month, some 18 year old girls are making over 200k a month literally just google I make 200k a month on only fans there’s so many some even make upto 500k
@@rampz975 bro, just go do it yourself. Stop crying about something utterly irrelevant to the conversation 🤣🤣🤣
@katjaxxx7353 I'm on the same page. I'll never have a child in this country. If I randomly end up expecting one. I'm moving us all to a better country. Litterally anywhere but the US or the UK. I won't let my kid have the shitty life most of us are forced to live.
Uk Is In Big Trouble .
Oh. This is heartbreaking.
My grandad was a veteran of WW2, worked his entire life and was extremely proud of what came following the war ie the NHS and the welfare state. In years past I have felt so proud to work in the NHS and live in a country that looks after the sick, disabled and those in poverty. The Conservatives ideologically hate these pillars of our society and have purposefully dismantled them. This country has now got exactly what it voted for. The Conservatives convincing the working class that they represent them will hopefully be remembered as the biggest swindle a UK government has ever played on its people.
👏👏👏
It's not just the tories it's labour too, they're all the same you need to start voting for non mainstream parties
@@CaptainGrimes1 you know you are so right
I noticed how bad it was under Tony Blairs government. I left the UK in 2005. It has got even worse since. It is heartbreaking the suffering of British people.
The NHS's budget is bigger than its ever been and the tories have continued to throw ever more billions at it. An increase of 400 million per week in real terms since brexit BEFORE covid hit. So the idea that its a shambles because "tories" is just partisan drivel. It needs REFORM and borders need to be controlled so it isn't abused by leeches jetting in from every sh*t hole around the world. Did you know that 7 out of 10 NHS patients on HIV antivirals (very expensive drugs) werent even born here? and it doesn't matter which party is in control, that will NOT happen.
Thatcher wanted to take us back to Victorian values. Her party obviously knew what she meant: many now experience Victorian poverty.
What are the ‘Victorian values’ she wanted to take us back to?
@@HumansAreShitFactories You would have to ask her but no longer possible. It was thought to be about respect and hard work. Also interpreted as keeping the plebs in their place with the threat of the workhouse. Seems like we are heading there.
@@davidmcculloch8490 No I won’t have to ask her, I’m asking you. You said it, now own it and tell us what you mean. Or are you another one of these people who try to cast people in a bad light born out of primitive emotional thinking and ego?
@@HumansAreShitFactories Helpful Tip: when you see a reply, read beyond the first line and consider the response. Within in, you will find an explanation. If that's not clear, I have replied in full and I'm not "one of those..." who you would love to stereotype
@@davidmcculloch8490 Helpful tip: don’t make stupid comments that you can’t substantiate and that are born out of ignorance then try to backtrack and claim you’ve already answered.
Life sucks! Which is why more and more of our homeless are turning to suicide. I can't blame them really. My mate had a decent job, a car and pretty much his life looked from the outside that he was living the dream. 2 weeks later he hung himself from his loft. Not to ever again see the light of day or feel the breeze from the wind grace his face. He was 26. If he felt that way and he had everything. I dread to think what those who are on the streets tend to think. I reckon suicide must be a very intrusive yet everlasting thought that lingers for those who suffer the unfortunate circumstances of being homeless. You just never know when people have went beyond breaking point and trust me everyone has a breaking point. I don't care who you are. You will break if the right tension and force is applied to you. That is just a simple fact of the matter. It may just be that last straw that broke the old camel's back.
I know that my opinion can be misunderstood,but i talk by my own personal experience as a Working Immigrant in the UK for 13 years,and believe it or not never asked for a single Benefit( not even Tax Credits),because ive always worked,first doing those Shitty jobs that no one wants to do it ( Garbage,Recycling,Sewers,etc)but must have be done,12 hours shifts with 1 day of a week,earning the minimum wage. Ive done it for almost 2 years without complaining,until i found a job that was perfect for my professional skills.I stayed there for 11 years,it was no walk in the park,but the wages were according with my qualifications,with some Company benefits,etc. All of this to say that during those 13 years,ive seen loads but loads of people with perfect health,no problems with the "law" whatsoever,with families but they Didin't want to Work. In the town were i was working and living,there was lots of jobs in offer,most where factory jobs but when you have a familie ( or not), you want a decent place to live with electrics,central heating,the essencial to have Dignity and self esteem,you have to Work like the majorety of "US" do. But no,those people choose to be on benefits,with many children as possible,living in a Council flat or estate in "terrible" conditions, specialy for the children,but even them all the money they could "suck" from the System was for Beer, Cigarrets,the Latest Samsung model and PlayStation games for the kids. Spending much of the day in the Pub, Complaining abaut the "Foreigners" taking their jobs... Always the same BS argument to do Nothing,because they are too Lazy to have a job. That's the Reality, do you like it or not. There are always jobs available,like the ones i mention, the same ones i have exepienced in person just to get by but with my Dignity Intact. There is no shame having to Work in Garbage Disposal or in Garbage Recycling,its a job,ok not a good one but at least your income is much better than living like Leeches of Society. The thing is,those people are Lazy,dont have Dignity and Self Esteem whatsoever. And as always the Guilty ones for Their shitty lifes,are the "Foreigners"... Get Real you Lazy people.
Yes it’s heart breaking that many people are suffering, yet we as a people are ok with all their cuts to benefits while those making these legislation and rules are living in comfort, giving themselves pay rises when they are on a lot of money as it is and using tax payers money to pay for their utilities.
People keep on voting for it, so they must think it's OK 😢
Yet only fans girls make like 10,000 a month, half the girls I went to school with now make about 20k a month and my own family member I’m not gonna mention makes 14k a month
because they keep spending money on dingeys and immigrants in 5 star hotels instead of helping British folks
@@rampz975so? Guys pay for it
@@PeachesandCream225 guys also pay my bills, does the guy who pays my bills pay his bills? What’s your point here. You’re saying because men give them the money it’s okay ? My boss is a man he pays me money. Doesn’t matter if guys pay girls still make it
Rishi Sunak lives such a privileged life he has no idea how hard life can really be for a lot of people. I see him speaking on tv and all I can think is how far removed from reality he is.
@@icouldbewrongicouldberight By whom?
I'm glad I'm not.the only one who thinks that!
What? You actually waste your time watching him
Sorry to hear, mate. 😔
This is heartbreaking
I met an ex soldier who became homeless after being sanctioned for being late for a DWP appointment ,and then died on the streets.
so sad.
and this is why when people see the ex soldier and others like him you know why people shy away from joining up for the army.
After ruining lives in middle east and Afghanistan he got the same medicine back home. Karma is real.
Where did all his salary go to?
Nobody should die without taking tory garbage with them.
I’ve lived poverty in the 70’s (but not destitution) and unless you’ve experienced it, seen it through the eyes of a hungry, cold, tired child, you couldn’t possibly understand how it can happen and so quickly to anyone. Both working parents one laid off for months resulted in no electricity, no heating, very little food, underwear washed in a sink with hand soap taken from public toilets and toast for most meals. But then, some of those doubting the innocent positions of those claiming destitution will hopefully one day be in a position to understand just that, it’s called karma. We are all here to learn valuable lessons, sometimes those lessons have to be lived.
💯 percent were all here to learn lessons. However we are not living in the dark ages we're talking Victorian Era, Dickensian era. and you would have hoped the world 🌍 has progressed. Sadly 😢it has not.
not true at all
Oh my god, this is not poverty. More than half the world live on less than $1 a day. Need to get him out picking fruit or working in a call centre.
@@user-ws1cl2eq5wYes, but they live in huts made of mud and grass and don't pay taxes and bills. YOU CAN'T LIVE WITH $1 PER DAY IN THE MODERN WORLD!
@@user-ws1cl2eq5wwhich “him” are you referring to - two gentlemen are disabled or would be working as they both had jobs until their health tanked on them - you can’t wish them back to work no matter how hard you try - sorry 30 pounds a month isn’t destitute enough for you
Isn't rent covered on Universal Credit ? 15 years ago when I lost my job in England, my social housing rent was fully paid as I was on what was then called Job Seekers Allowance. Maybe he is in arrears for rent and had to spend the money on other things ? The problem is when benefits are paid it is usually directly to the client, maybe this should change ?
This is heartbreaking.
When I complain about my lot in life, I want to remember Paul and ask for blessings for him and others.
And after that: join a socialist party.
Yeah let's be communist so we can be even poorer 😂😂 no thank you
@@matthewsill748 Would you prefer the UK's health care system (quite socialist) or the American model (mostly capitalist)?
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxthere is nothing socialist about UK healthcare! It's free for everyone yes to an extent anyway but you are more than welcome to pay as I do for private! Well I get through my job.. it's a safety net for for people and if you need quicker more upmarket services you can pay.. I don't see anything socialist in that!
@@eventhori3on The National Health Service was founded in 1948 by a Labour government as a socialist institution: it is universal, publicly funded and free at the point of delivery. There is plenty socialist in that. You are free to buy healthcare privately, and it is Conservative and Labour policy to force everyone to do that as soon as is politically viable, so that healthcare becomes the preserve of the wealthy as it was before the NHS was created. The expensive, private US model is an utter failure, but it is the one our political parties adore because it will destroy a socialist institution they detest and make the corporate class even wealthier - something you clearly support. The Cuban model, which is almost completely socialist, produces excellent results on much less funding per capita than the US or even here in the UK: "The United States' high health care costs do not yield corresponding health outcomes for its citizens. Conversely, Cuba, with less than a tenth of U.S. expenditures, has attained comparable outcomes on many indicators, particularly life expectancy and infant mortality. This contrast raises the obvious question of how Cuba achieves these outcomes, a problematic question because multiple factors could contribute to the system's success. Regardless, the differences between the two countries' health care systems remain stark. Although Cuban health care providers have less access to technology and supplies, coverage is universal and the system is largely government-run, with the exception of the black market and medical tourism. Conversely, health care in the United States is not universal and consists of a disjointed, yet well-resourced mix of private and public providers and payers. Health system differences between Cuba and the United States likely account for much of Cuba's ability to do more with less." www.rand.org/blog/2017/10/doing-more-with-less-lessons-from-cubas-health-care.html
This is genuinely heartbreaking. As someone who has experienced living on the edge of homelessness, despite always being employed and, thankfully able to work, I know the daily / nightly stress of counting the (literal) pennies and trying to get from day to day. The toll it takes on the body and mind cannot be understated. IF you survive it, it scars you for life. My heart goes out to the increasing numbers of people who find themselves in this terrible position, there is NO REASON within a civilised society that people cannot and should not be supported, there are enough resources, providing they are not being horded and squandered by the privileged few.
Hello, if you are working full time and living within your means, there is no reason why you should be in insecure accommodation and be at risk of homelessness. You have not been given correct information to help you flourish. I am disabled and work but in low paid work and I am not at risk of homelessness. I rent through well respected estate agents. I live in shared houses with other decent, working people. I pay £600 per month and that includes rent, all bills and council tax. Rightmove and Spare Room are my homeboys. Have you seen Dave Ramsey on KZhead? I watched him for free on KZhead last year and his financial advice saved me. I advise anyone to watch Dave Ramsey do his long talks. His radio show is for individual cases in the USA. His Baby Steps financial advice is for everyone. There is no reason why you should be in difficulty if you are in full time work. You have not been given the best information to deal with your finances and living circumstances.
i'm loving you for that comment !!! I am 50 and work 200 hours per month minimum wage and my paki Employers pay me in bits and pieces and usually 2-3 weeks late ! i can't get out 'cause i have no savings to find a "better job" ....i live with anxiety and constant fear of counsil tax and energy bills .... My medicine is David Attenborough to relax and that is just sad cause Therapy in this country is just an NHS joke !!! It's gonna get worse
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Just make a bogus asylum claim everything is free
same, there seems to be a new members club, shocking skint Britain..
So unacceptable, yet the general public doesn't seem to care. People need to wake up because this could very well be their future.
It fills me with so much sadness I want to cry watching it
What an absolute shambles the UK has become. The amount of older people the aged pension will no longer be around in 20 years, let that sink in
"The amount of older people the aged pension will no longer be around in 20 years" meaning?
@@SomeKidFromBritainuse your brain kid
As a Mexican national growing up always in poverty I'm familiar with all this. Me and my siblings are grown ups now but we always thought of the UK and USA as rich countries were everybody had a nice life. It seems poverty and inequality are everywhere not just in underdeveloped countries. It's just amazing to learn that some people in UK has worse living conditions than people in Mexico
I see people in poverty here in Peru. But at least in Peru you can live at ambient temperature, you can construct a flimsy shack on the hill to live in, and you can work as a street seller to get something to eat. None of those possibilities are available in Britain.
Hardship is on a big increase in both countries. Not in Scandinavia or the EU counties, though. Odd.
Too busy paying for "asylum seekers" They pay for them to go to college but I have to work.
@rapidrhinos2254 imagine annexing half of Mexico and expect Mexicans not to be in there.
Il explain exactly what has caused this. Its the housing boom, up until the late 90s you could afford to work a minimum wage job and buy a house. When the media began scare mongering about house prices rising everybody became greedy and started charging more rent and trying to sell their homes for more money. Its still going on today. Il tell you a true story, my father worked as a courier, he didnt make much money but he managed to raise 3 kids and look after my mum on about £250 a week, she never worked. In 1994 he also purchased a tiny 2 bedroom maisonette in West London for £24,000. He had a bad mortgage and I think in total it cost him £40k. That same home is now worth about half a million. He was born at the right time because there is no way he would have been able to do that in this day and age. There really needs to be some sort of rent control like Germany has but the government dont implement this because they get their cut from greedy landlords. We had them in the 60s and 70s but they were then repealed because landlords complained that it caused the recession which isnt even remotely true.
I should have had PIP years ago but given I struggle with anxiety and OCD I just cannot go through the stress of the process so I have not applied. Every day is a struggle
Managing money is different from accumulating wealth, and the lack of investment education in schools may explain why people struggle to maintain their financial gains. I personally benefited from the market crisis as I embrace challenging times while others tend to avoid them. Well, at least my advisor does too, jokingly...
I agree with you and I believe that Professionals are currently dominating the market since they have access to both the necessary strategy for making money in this industry and exclusive insider market information.
I keep wondering how people earn money in financial markets, i tried trading bitcoin on my own made a huge loss and now I'm scared of investing more.
Personally, I would always advise getting a professional help so they can steer you through the choppy market.
I’m Glad i stumbled on this. Please, if its not too much of a hassle for you, can you drop the details of the expertise that assisted you and how to get in touch with him.?
@@Florencecoxx I get guidance from *Mr Gary Mason Brooks* . Most likely, the internet should have his basic info..
Having left the UK 30 years ago, it breaks my heart to see how we are treating people often disabled through their work. It's no better than the Victorian era to be honest and embarrassing to the nation.
Just out of curiosity, which country did you move to?
left 15 years ago myself
It's not just the UK.. even in the US.. in fact the US is worse because the minimum wage is worse, even the health care system is worse.
@@joelc9439 i had to scan pay as you go cards for $8 of electric in the council estates. Yet to see that in america but damn its expensive here but the income potential for lower classes is higher in my experience. Also never had a steak or even seen a whole one till moving here. Grew up on baked beans and fish fingers. Thought i would like it as an adult but just tastes like shyt
The politicians feel no embarrassment, they continue to lie about how bad the situation really is. Lee Anderson´s 30P comment was the pinnacle of the government´s denials and gaslighting. After WW2 there was widespread poverty, there was a means of escaping then, now it is becoming almost impossible.
I tried looking for a gofundme for Paul and couldn't find one. It makes me angry and sad to see a working man having to live like this in his time of need. The welfare state should be his insurance but it's failed him. I've worked at the DWP and there are thousands that abuse the system and get generous payouts and yet genuine blokes like the men on here have been let down. This piece made me want to do something so I made a donation to the Trussel Trust who run the UKs largest food bank network. Not flexing just want to encourage any people on here that are able to help to also make a donation to this wonderful charity
It is called the tax system....Maybe if Amazon paid their taxes that might make a difference.
bet they all find the money for a pack of fags every day though
@@themsmloveswar3985, more like government spending.
he's lazy
Also, Depher is doing great work helping folk out. Worth donating if you can afford it.
Life of these people gives us hope and motivation. As I live in India every month I give double of his amount left in charity approx 67pounds. And I am highly grateful for all I have got and I should never take things for granted in life. It's highly important that one must have financial knowledge and discipline because one can end to this life if we aren't careful with money when one has got it. My prayers are for him God gives him strength and he should have faith to have good life in future.
Your actually preaching facts people in England are self destructive rather watch love island and east Enders than good financial discipline
Wishing you plenty more gratitude health wealth and abundance
@@Dulzothegreatmusic thanks
This is absolutely heartbreaking. Unacceptable in the world's 6th largest economy.
Working class men treated so badly in the UK. It breaks my heart.
Tory or Labour they are both a disgrace..... Time for a new party in this country
Hack! This won't change when the red half of the uniparty take over.@@teampeace5571
Politicians living and working in London are completely sheltered from what's happening around the UK. Particularly in the depressed north or in many of these dying coastal towns. Most politicians would prefer to give billions in subsidies to rich oil companies than help people like Paul.
Politicians have been captured by corporations and enjoy the spoils of captivity.
Exactly, Sadiq Khan with that god awful ULEZ expansion explains much of it, as he is chauffeured about in bullet proof cars (didn't Johnson ride a bike to work as a comparison) whining about improving a tiny fraction of air quality while we all know its to squeeze money out of the poor.