Families Unable To Cope With Cost Of Living Crisis

[lankeela]

yet they have a houseful of kids - one on the BBC news had seven! This morning interviewed on Trussell Trust segment one woman had four and they had bags of food ready for a family of ten. I find myself screaming at the tv then don't have so many ***** kids.

[davebro]

//The front page of a newspaper had the story of nurse who had to eat patient's left over food because she couldn't afford to buy it.//

I think that was in the Mirror - totally unbiased reporting of course (not just a load of bull's excrement!).

[davebro]

and it's better the food gets eaten rather than being thrown away!

[Untitled]

"so who is then?"

very often nobody is... or at least nobody specific.

i know people like to imagine that we all get to where we deserve in life based on how hard we are willing to work but that just isn't reality. the world is chaotic and unpredictable and a lot of people are just very unlucky

[Untitled]

"What utter liberal elite codswallop."

do you give yourself a little reward every time you get "liberal elite" into a sentence?

[naomi24]

Untitled, you’re talking about ‘luck’ again. We’ve had this conversation before.

[ToraToraTora]

untitled: "the world is chaotic and unpredictable and a lot of people are just very unlucky" - ....and very lazy and very entitled, very expectant that they are owed a living by the world.

[ToraToraTora]

I always found that the harder I worked, the more I learned the more skills I acquired, the "luckier" I got.

[Untitled]

good for you tora, i am happy for you.

unfortunately not everybody who works hard gets rewarded as well as you do... and for reasons they cannot control.

"We’ve had this conversation before"

we have... and i will keep making the same point... Some people who consider themselves successful like to imagine that everybody is in full control over their lives... and so therefore they deserve a pat on the back for doing well.

unfortunately that isn't actually true... reality can be extremely cruel and random and nobody is really in charge of their circumstances... some people do in fact need help (in fact most of us will at some point!) and there's no shame in that.

[Meaghan27]

The whole welfare system needs looking at. This morning on the TV a nurse was being interviewed, she admitted working only 16 hours a week to keep her income under the threshold to get universal credit and free childcare. If she worked full time her increased income would be swallowed up in childcare costs, therefore the Taxpayers are paying her not to work. Crazy! this is not what the Welfare system should be about.

[naomi24]

Untitled, even people who are successful hit stumbling blocks. Most if the time they don’t breeze through life either. Far from it.

Thousands of those around, meaghan.

[New Judge]

There is no doubt that large numbers of people have adopted a lifestyle where they have no intention of doing any work. They are not unlucky, they are not genuinely ill, they are not victims of a chaotic world. They are simply feckless.

For years this country has been unable (or indeed unwilling) to distinguish the difference. The result of this is that those genuinely in need of help find it far harder to secure it and receive far less of it than they otherwise might. Unless and until changes are made the sick and lame will continue to be lumped in with the lazy. The latter group seems to be growing and, despite there being the most job vacancies there have been for a very long time, large numbers of people are still without work. It seems many over-50s have recently decided that work is no longer for them so they now join those who are "economically inactive."

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/reasonsforworkersagedover50yearsleavingemploymentsincethestartofthecoronaviruspandemic/wave2#:~:text=One%2Dthird%20(33%25)%20of,and%208%25%2C%20respectively).

Whilst this country has a sizeable chunk of its workforce not working, it will never prosper.

[ToraToraTora]

bang on judge.

[youngmafbog]

//do you give yourself a little reward every time you get "liberal elite" into a sentence?//

Only when I reply to someone who repeats the same old rubbish and thinks they are right all the time and everyone else is wrong. i.e. you.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, very well put Judge.

[Untitled]

"Only when I reply to someone who repeats the same old rubbish and thinks they are right all the time and everyone else is wrong. i.e. you."

as they say... every accusation is a confession

[Untitled]

"Most if the time they don’t breeze through life either. Far from it"

didn't say that. Lots of successful people work extremely hard... it doesn't mean they are not lucky.

i don't understand why you are so determined to take "lucky" as an insult... it's nothing of the sort. but good luck is ultimately what separates the rich from the poor in this country... there but for the grace of god etc..

[naomi24]

Untitled, to those who have made often huge sacrifices and worked all the hours God sends it is an insult. They’re not lucky. They’ve worked - and damned hard. You haven’t a clue - and don’t tell me you have because if you did you wouldn’t say what you’re saying.

[Untitled]

... in other words, what i have written makes you uncomfortable. have a little think about why that is. most of us are not really in control of our circumstances... it is a scary thing to acknowledge but it is true.

if someone has been lucky in life then there's no shame in acknowledging it... it's not a bad thing it's just a fact.

[Untitled]

also worth wondering why somebody might feel so heavily invested in taking a dismissive attitude towards people who are strugglimg

[naomi24]

You’re mistaken, untitled. It doesn’t make me uncomfortable. It makes me sick. You haven’t got a clue.