Return to Dickensian poverty?

[B00]

Following on from the link provided by DrFilth in a previous thread...

http://www.telegraph....tired-and-hungry.html

How is this allowed to happen in this day and age?

There's a paragraph that claims a 6th former (16/17- right?) hasn't eaten for 3 days!

Surely even the poorest family could cobble 40p together to buy a reduced loaf from a supermarket?

[naomi24]

Steve, //While the bone idle rich get obscenly richer the plebs are made poorer at their expence. //

Just out of interest, who do you consider to be the 'bone idle rich'? What is 'rich'?

[DrFilth]

i think some people have read a report or two in the papers and think all the rest on benefits have a jolly good time

what do you do when they stop your benefit payments and you have to borrow a mobile from a neighbour to phone them up

press option 1 option 2 option 1 and so on

when you do get to speak to someone they don't want to know , your money will be in your account within 3 days

1 week later still no money , you have to beg to get someone to lend you a phone

back to option 1 option 2 etc

your money will be in your account within the next few days


how would you pay your gas, leccy , community charge and food etc on £20 a week

after 11 months and only after a solicitor got involved did this person get some money

[venator]

I wonder how many of these families are without a big telly?

[DrFilth]

the person i am talking about above venator has an old small portable and i think that was given to her

[DrFilth]

can you give any more info on that EDDIE5 as there are a couple near me who pay daft prices for their power because of these prepay meters

[ummmm]

Does it matter what size telly someone has? I have a 42inch telly....if I fell on hard times...my telly would remain 42inch.

[jackthehat]

You should sell it, buy something smaller and spend the difference on gruel.......

[ummmm]

Like in Japan? Where you're not entitled to benefits until you've sold everything you own....

[jackthehat]

Yes.........how much do you think you'd get for your boys? ;o)

[ummmm]

Not much....Did you get my email? I might fetch a tad more for O :-)

[jackthehat]

He's lovely........and I can see that the upkeep of a wardrobe like that may be quite expensive...so it'll be a win-win situation. :o)

[Ankou]

42 inch? bloody luxury.

"we used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky"

try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.

[ummmm]

He is....he doesn't know I have them pics :-) They will come out if he ever gets married :-)

Ankou...did they have shoes though? That's what it all comes down to...those with shoes...those without shoes.

My Dad used to sell mushrooms he was so poor...

[ladybirder]

"grasping shareholders" Steve. Do you mean me? I have a few shares here and there to subsidise my pension. Or my children whose pension funds will be invested in shares no doubt? Or all the thousands of ordinary people in this country who pay into pension funds that have to be invested somewhere? And I don't remember ever having "carte blanch to impose whatever charges they like & nobody steps in their way, but many sufer. "
Sorry but I don't understand your answer.

[sandyRoe]

It was a sad and bad day when they closed the last of the workhouses.

[ladybirder]

Steve I also meant to add I am certainly not filthy rich, nearer to dirt poor even though I do own a few shares.