One and a half million people may be pushed into 'destitution' due to cost of living crisis| 5 News
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► Destitution; it's worth reminding ourselves what that means. 'Extremely poor and lacking the means to provide for oneself'. It's a word Charles Dickens used a lot. ANI And today, an organization that tries to predict the possible effects of this current crisis also used it - as it warned us a quarter of a million people - 250 thousand people - will slide into destitution in the months ahead.
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The funny thing is. the government did this to us....
Thatcher to Major to Blair indeed
@@shanjanusman9974 Blair should stay in the panic room of one of his town houses .
And the people who voted for them.
Exactly this was strategic
@Gammons Trout if you say so commrade....
Today, I heated up some franks with some leftover chili beans. A poor man's meal for sure but it tasted so good on this cold day.
We as a family always paid rent, bills first than got food. No point being homeless and not starving. So we live on basic foods.
This is what happens when people are consumed with greed. Bosses/companies chasing bigger bonuses/profit. Some people are never satisfied and can never have enough. The sad state of the country is down to successive governments doing a pitiful job in running it.
🙇
Time to over throw the government
Like generations have preached to their children “money doesn’t grow on trees” for a generation that has grown up now this is unlikely to be the answer parents give their children…….. it’s more likely “no problem I will just max out my credit card”
While feeling bad about families driven into destitution I will ask a serious question. Do people still buy junk foods and convenience foods and otherwise waste their resources on unnecessary items while facing an economic crisis? Just a question. My family voluntarily lives on less and finds ways to not spend our money and stay out of debt. Maybe this is no longer possible in the UK.
Pp
shit is gonna hit the fan in winter
Gonna be a hell of a lot more that 1.5m for a start. More like 10/15m.
And the rest. Our population is around 68 million.
If people got rid of the consumer goods they do not need they would be better off.
this government has no provision for
the poor, and its a warning !
Broken Britain.
.
Broken by the government.
@@Dylanesque Aided and abetted by the people who continually vote for them
@@johnanthonylucock7833 by brain washing them and of course that lasts only up too a point . experiences change people
Their killing the poor by design. Build back better doesn't include the poor !
@@chrishart8548 Well said. People need to wake up.
I’ve been destitute a few times but never needed to visit a food bank!
Wohhhhhh
Praying things get Better for the UK 🏴🇬🇧
YES! The House of Commons wants their voters banned from Buy One-Get One Free offers. Whilst MPs get almost £200 a week to buy food
Well what you going to do about it? In France their bills we up 5% because the government knew raising it to 54% would cause riot's. The UK people are soft you'll continue to be exploited until you stand up and say no more.
@@leot6749 YES! And the people of France still voted for Macron and Europe.
@@johnanthonylucock7833 did they? I happen to blame the 'so called elites choose who wins elections. It's a rigged game imo.
@@leot6749 Yes starting from next October BoJo plans to outlaw Buy one- Get one free. Because a smug-faced hypocrite said it promotes morbid obesity. Just like Jamie Oliver who said sugar should be taxed because of morbid obesity. What happened? Theresa May in her £16,000 trousers was only too happy to oblige
@@johnanthonylucock7833 Did they?
One mp stated "gwt a better Job, or work more in the job you have" what planet is she On? There is no Industry, that pays in this country. Minimum Wage, zero contract jobs, which is " voluntary paid expenses" and no jobs...which pays a decent wage.. would this mp willing to live on 750 a month? Look for a better job for 10.00 extra. 760 a month. Put these people to do this for a year. They soon see things differently!!
That was that “thing” from dwp who said that.
Improve your negative attitude then, that might help. There is no industry that pays in Britain, get serious.
This is because of closing down the shipyards to the textiles industry and we can't do anything now.
Don't forget the pubs that went out of business in 2007 (The Smoking Ban). With the motor industry next (The Climate)
Don't forget the cheeky bastuds around the world who bought coal off Brazil instead of us. So fucji’n what if it was 4 times cheaper.
Bring back industry and bring back smoking in pubs problem solved lol
@@cjm-nd2mn Plus stop giving benefits to illegal immigrants
Woah, the funny thing is that Tories party ignores poverty in the UK, instead sending 8 years worth of weapons production to Ukraine and sanctions Russia and China that used to provide UK with food, heat, frutilizers etc. Johnson doesn't care about UK. In addition we se rise in prices for car petrolium despite the fact that they've decided to tap UK emergency reserves. Imagine what's going to happen when UK runs out of those reserves.
My bill in London, sw7(south ken) went up 3 times!!! Its insane! Food prices are up, all prices are pretty much up.
We must lift sanctions against Russia and China and try to recover the economy. There is clearly no other choice.
quoting Beatles songs
FFS turn off the mainstream media!!!!!!!
I jst read that the income of Russia increased not decreased due to the high oil prices. Also they started to build new pipelines toward Asia. What the west especially Europe did is punched its own testicles. the high prices are partly COVID but these would decrease in time, most of the cause of the high oil price is the war in Ukraine and the attitude of West toward it, the sanctions will not weaken Russia or maybe they will, a little bit but by that time 3-4-5 years, they will have supply toward Asia and by that time most of people of Europe will be in deep poverty due to the politics of the EU. Their leader parties will be voted off. The so called 'price for freedom' will backfire because the people will not tolerate it for years for a free Ukraine. They may for some months but as soon as they feel it in their guts and cannot feed their children beleive me they will not give a crap about Ukraine.
I wonder what your attitude will be if Russia attacks Britain ...!!! get down of your high horse..!!
overtime not being taxable would be nice one family member only ?
You’ll be poor and you’ll be happy
this is the beginning of the end for the tory government
Yes-right on the money. "in the year 2030 you will own nothing and you will be happy". Most commentators who still think its the fault of the evil Tories-fail to realise that the likes of Starmer and Johnson are signed up to the Great Reset as are any politicians, technocrats and influencers who use Klaus Schwab's mantra of "Build Back Better"
@@cosmicmusicreynolds3266 That's what you think. The people who believed their lies before voted for them, and will keep on doing it. We have a fight on our hands.
No maybe it's happening right now,and 1.5 million what part of space did they pluck that rubbish from.
We have each other , it's a time to pull together and take care of each other xxxx
Interest rates have been held way to low for too long, plus quantitative easing, the chickens have come home to roost. This and successive governments have turned the UK into a credit and debt driven service and consumer driven economy when we needed investment in science, technology, high tech manufacturing and boosting our export markets. In fact this recession is just a continuation of the 2008 slump which was temporarily paused by this short-termism fiscal manipulation. Poor people are just going to be poorer now, like Eastern European countries were 10-15 years ago, they will have to bus out to other countries around Europe to work in the fields and on farms. Government can’t just print money (any more), if governments could then there would be no poverty anywhere in the world, people will need to re-adjust to the UK’s predicament.
The financial industries need to do more as they caused alot if this, sadly there isn't any opposition to the conservatives. Which means the poor will have to take on this burden.
@@TheJoker-um9tp Government policy has been to support the financial industry and service industry at the expense of everything else, their voters and benefactors. The whole economy has been based on credit, debt, shopping and leasure for over 30 years. All the CV19 support Richy Sunak gave was to support shareholder returns, not individuals or small businesses. Engineering and science has been run into the ground and undervalued for years, massive skills shortages.
Management/shareholders in the financial industry will just cream as much money as they can out of their companies as quick as possible then sack all their employees or get government bailouts.
The country is about to fall on it's ass to reset and many people who've become accustomed to government hand outs are going to find it extremely hard. This will not be fair on people who can't work in the fields in Poland and Romania picking fruit and veg, like the disabled people or pensioners.
Working families, I feel for - those on benefits, don't feel sorry for.
Wow!!! Everyone's paying the price.
Thank god for food banks
donations
I buy store brand for some items too. I do not mind store items for things like eye drops, aspirin, or paper towels.
were ok but when we want to earna little more money to pay bills we get penalized sucks
Destitution. Poor and lacking the means to provide for yourself. I started off being disadvantaged. Then I was poor. Destitution. I don't have any savings
Back to Victorian Times!!
If you give everyone on Universal Credit £250 plus an extra £25 a week then we are going to have the situation where income tax will have to go up and people who work hard and don't claim will have to find even more for these people.
Also how many people who go to Fairbanks have really nice cars? Perhaps budgeting help would be better than keeping on throwing money at them.
Jesus Christ ...
Nah, they will just borrow the money for 10 years to disconnect people from the true costs, like they do with everything else and we will end up paying for it first with inflation, then again through interest on the debt and then by finally paying off little bits of the debt overtime and pay more in taxes than we would if they funded it by taxes all along.
Oh my god why !
"People who pay their own way, work hard, look at me I'm not a "scrounger" what do people like you want ? A certificate or achievement or something?
The fact of the matter is everyone is in the same boat. Everyone is struggling, stop comparing. You also need to go back to school to understand how tax actually works and where it really goes.
2022 and people still have that "my HARD EARNED TAXES KEEP BENEFIT SCROUNGERS ALIVE"
Um, no.
Idiot.
Would it be better to have no car and get tesco shopping on line. Or own a car and drive too lidl?
I don't really think he has an opinion on it.
As long as the MP's get their payrise.
The cost of living is just overpriced rent, and decadence.
Thats quite sad isnt it
It will cost $60k MONTH US dollars to live in California. $720 k year
california is expensive..there's hope
Destitution - Unnecessary suffering living in an incompetent, uncaring Conservative Regime.
Finally 🙌 bring on the recession already. Paupers must learn their place
Im assuming your being sarcastic lol. Theres alot to be said for teaching budgeting in schools tho.
@@rog3833 why I didn’t see you complaining when QE was being done. Paupers must pay for borrowing what isn’t theirs. There is a price to be paid for Quantitative Easing and you are paying it!
why them?
What about pensioners
it will only get worse if we listen to the news
Well then do something about it
Yah, by the Grace of God, and food pantries, I'm there but still getting by. ( and I'm in the U.S.)
There's no may about it
Yep and still surviving on the low paid salary.
Government should think about poor family and help them
Doesn't the government already give Universal Credit and other help
'crisis situation in the economy' me: really??????
Really? The tax payers already provide for them. They can also provide for themselves or at least try
Loads 4 Ukraine
is she skimming?
A lot of this you can blame on the green fanatics. Cheap energy is the base of a strong economy.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! SHEEP
The rich get richer ,The poor get poorer
Always the way, unless we make a stand nothing will change.
Then become one of the rich ones
You can double ⏩ that figure
Who gives a shit? The Government are fine, the King is fine.
this blokes skimming
Oh, stop talking Bullshit! I’m not wealthy at all, but I pay my bills, you just have to make changes and sacrifices. Stop expecting the government to bail you out, this is not a socialist state. You want to see poverty, go to Malaysia where families live under bridges and live on a bowl of watery noodles a day. Jeez my grandmother lost her husband and raised 4 kids during and after the war with nothing, she didn’t spend all her time moaning and demanding handouts! Go around the world and explain your version of poverty and you’ll be laughed at.
This is good satire.
Shut up...... I earn £2000 a month.
My rent is £850
Gas & elec £200
Car insurance £70
Water £54
Council tax £175
Diesel £250
Phone bill £45
Broadband £50
Prescriptions £100
Food £200
I am at 98% of my income. I dont eat out and I dont have any luxuaries. Prices are rising again in October for energy and fuel is going up as is everything else..... can you explain how this is manageable????
@@jamesknitworth5591 if you earn £2000 then presumably your at work so how is your gas/electric £200 a month. If your work from home then how is your diesel £250 a month?
@@Sbee11234 I work 20 miles away from home so I do around 50 miles a day in total.
My bills are what they are because of how expensive it is per unit. My usage is not even that high, but my bills have TRIPLED.
Why are you questioning MY finances? Why do I need to lie? Are you not aware of the price increases??? What do I gain by lying about my figues on a youtube comment????
@@jamesknitworth5591 I do apologise, not everyone works close to home so I completely disregarded the fact that you may work further away. Yes I am aware of the prise hike, I’ve completely cut down my usage. Only put on the heating when it’s absolutely freezing. We’re ok right now cuz of the hot weather but it worries me what I’ll do come winter when it’s going up again October.
words of Doom are certainly the call of the day , , , no one with super sized boats will be around to rescue u
The US and NATO should have done EVERYTHING to not let the RUSSIA 🇷🇺- UKRAINE 🇺🇦 WAR happen.
THE US AND EUROPE CANNOT AFFORD THESE MILITARY EXPENDITURES AT A TIME WHEN THE PEOPLE IN THESE COUNTRIES (CONTINENT) ARE IN NEED
What were they supposed to do and why is it the United States responsibility to stop that war
They are sending Aid how many other countries are doing this
@@debbieframpton3857 the US encouraged this war, the fact that goes back 20 years probably means nothing to you..
They were preparing this Ukro idiots for this war for years
@@aktarhussain4437 bollocks what's your country doing to help nothing
@@techstyle123 Boris was probably the most vocal supporter of Ukraine, the US and I mean the Arms manufacturers are only interested in making money..
The same us who profited from “Helping” Europe in WW2 as we are seeing now..
No worries, got hopes and dreams to feed on from the benefits of brexit.
BREXIT UPLANDS !!!
Rubbish. No one is struggling. There's a thing called benefits huge payouts to sit on the dole
Great news for the liberal's.
Brexit is completely to blame for this
Yes I blame Brexit for global warming, the war in the Ukraine, white privilege, colonial oppression, mansplaining, Covid, gender dysphoria, rampant homophobia, Islamophobia-the more you think about it the more you realise that Brexit was a blunder of epic proportions. Its some consolation to know that we still shackled to the EU in all but name..
Don't forget the Russians
NO! The blame lies with The EU groupies like Kenneth Clarke
I blame the govt because like you know they implemented the policies and are to blame.
@Don't make me laugh It's all thanks to Ted Heath
It's not real tho