Is Austerity Something We Will Have To Live With Always?

[Bobbisox1]

The term AUSTERITY was brought in and used by David Cameron telling everyone that "we're in it together"
I wonder when we're going to break free of that mantra? If ever

[Patsy33]

Austerity is over!..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-45733098/theresa-may-people-need-to-know-austerity-is-over

[Bobbisox1]

Patsy, I wouldn't believe either Mrs May or the BBC if they were swearing on the nearest bible

[Patsy33]

Unbelievable, isn't it?!
I agree with you Bobbisox...

[fiction-factory]

Yes, if otherrs followed suit it might bring rents down in London. But it's a silly discussion as nurses - or anyone else earning under £30000- would be foolish to take a room costing nearly £20000 (most of their net salary- but if they did require such a standard of accommodation they should move and have enough to live on.
Anyway, is this about austerity or london rents?

[Deskdiary]

A very quick Zoopla search found a number of flats in Kennington (about a 15 minute walk to St Thomas's) at £775pcm - £9,300pa, so £10k less than Calicogirl's number.

[sherrardk]

From the Trussell Trust’s website - Between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2019, the Trussell Trust’s food bank network distributed 1.6 million three-day emergency food supplies to people in crisis, a 19% increase on the previous year. More than half a million of these went to children.

In the last five years, food bank use in our network has increased by 73%.

[Calicogirl]

It's not MY number DD, it's the official figures I found by googling. Good grief.

[10ClarionSt]

Nope. There is/never was austerity. The vast majority of people in this country have a computer/laptop/
i-pad, mobile phone, car, wide screen tv, foreign holiday, gymn/charity subscription. Whenever there is a major disaster somewhere, charity donations from this country always reach record levels. People in this country are absolutely loaded. And the govt knows it.

[Deskdiary]

How about this one in Brockley at £775pcm.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/52154067?search_identifier=37d17bda3b650fe0e5ab3d841cad3606

About 4 miles from St Thomas's.

Get a train from New Cross and pretty much every London hospital is on your doorstep.

£20k a year is nonsense.

[Deskdiary]

Good grief indeed Calicogirl.

I've just shown you that affordable rents are available.

[fiction-factory]

I think that is mainly due to Universal Credit changes (delays in first payment) though, sherrardk, (as well as increased awareness of foodbanks being available) rather than to low pay for teachers and nurses and austerity measures

[Rockrose]

Really clarion you don’t think there has been austerity so why as a government employee have I not rectangles pay rise in 10 years and why am I actually earning less by 300 a month than I was?

[10ClarionSt]

RR; refer to my earlier answer.

[Rockrose]

Yeah whatever clarion

[sherrardk]

I posted on page 2 about how easy it is to fall through the cracks, it’s just we choose not to believe that this is happening. Complacency is rife, to most people it’s a case of ‘I’m all right Jack’.

[Bobbisox1]

^^^^ I so agree with you Sherr

[bainbrig]

In the words of the old song

“We may be in the same boat, But it’s us that’s got the oars.”

[tonyav]

"we're in it together"

Mmmmmm but some are more 'in it together' than others.

[retrocop]

///Really clarion you don’t think there has been austerity so why as a government employee have I not rectangles pay rise in 10 years and why am I actually earning less by 300 a month than I was?//

You are hardly on the breadline or appear to be affected by austerity if you can invest in equine pastimes and all the extra expenses it entails.
That would be a luxury serious hard up people could only think about.
If £300 per month deduction from wages affected my lifestyle that much then horse riding would be the first to go. Just saying.