UN probes UK poverty amid benefits shake-up
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- Опубликовано: 11 ноя 2018
- Being poor and on benefits in the UK can mean surviving on very little money - now the United Nations rapporteur on poverty has come to the country to investigate just how severe a problem it is.
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The United Nations rapporteur on poverty has, in recent times, reported on extreme poverty in countries including Ghana, China, Mauritania and the USA. At the end of this week, Philip Alston will conclude a 12-day, fact-finding mission to the UK to see for himself what it means to survive on very little money in modern-day Britain. Here at a standing invitation from the government, he is hearing accounts of food banks, benefit delays and low pay. We have been to the north east of England and Essex to meet some of the people for whom making ends meet is a difficult and daily struggle.
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Remember you used to be able to raise an entire family on one salary ? Yeah..... Workers got screwed all over the Western world.
These people aren't working.
Iamtop yeah that was when the forces that be realised they could rake in twice the amount of tax if the woman worked too and all the while the government raise your kids brainwashing as they go.
@Researcher 1) Unless your psychic you don't know who I voted for or what work I do 2) Most of them, especially the ones in the video are not working hence the reason their on universal credits. Sorry for committing the heinous crime of writting facts.
Yep them days gone I’m afraid 😧
See book & film (on You Tube) 'The Shock Doctrine'.
There shouldn't be any working poor
They should not if people took responsibility ie no children outside wedlock, they can afford, buy stupid stuff like drugs etc
@@LolLol-ch7sl Why would you assume the people in this video do drugs?
How about we go for no poor at all ... Just an idea 💡
@@ProjectOverseer give a exemple if a country with no poor !
I'm Triggered And we all exist within your utopian world, eh? Well..REAL LIFE IS NOT LIKE THAT!!
The country with the highest density of global billionaires has 24% national poverty. That alone should sound alarm bells when 80% of them are also employed.
rich font pay taxe in the UK !
@@didierlemoine6771 they do but they avoid the bulk of it by owning companies and shell companies to shift their wealth into tax havens legally.
SemperFiParatus Sadly I learned how they grew so wealthy.
@@didierlemoine6771 which font is that?
it s called monarchy buddy!
We should declare war on poverty not poor people
@Carwyn J. Thomas. Declare war on the freckles and, as I said, fat unmarried single mums.
@@davelong9055 They often have to buy cheap food that is fat laden. They often don;t look after themsleves physically .
Carwyn J. Thomas tell them get a job
Yes but the military industrial complex see no profit in that.
How you will do taht? You 70 years are unable even to make one good quality and working universal NHS?
3 years on and things are even worse now!
Five years on much much worse.
Even if you are full time employed, it has gotten so expensive to live in the UK life became hard for many!
WELL, the UK is full of taxing wankers! Come to the US!
Not for the illegal scroungers arriving via the boats
Millions of people are living in medieval of type poverty in UK. They cannot afford new clothes , shoes and healthy food anymore. The landlords are ripping off the poor tenants and extortionate public transport fares have forced many people into using bicycles for commuting to work. The level of people’s happiness and feeling of security has reached its lowest level and eveyone is worried about the future. Housing prices have gone up so absurdly that owning your own property has become a dream. Everyday the situation is becoming worse and worse and more and more people are falling below poverty line. This situation cannot carry on any more.
"We have to create the wealth" the wealth is already there, trickle down economics does not work, neither does welfare. Welfare should be cut especially for the Royals, the wealthy, corporations and those who take from the system without paying for generations i.e. the aristocracy and the super wealthy.
Thanks for mentioning the Royals; people complain about all sorts of groups, apart from them!
Not to mention the bankers who had to be bailed out by the taxpayer due to their investing in the subprime sector
@Old Scottish Glory I noticed that you have been completely ignored. Easy to understand why...........
Well said. If the wealth is not enough to sustain everyone, maybe rich people could start working to help and spending a little less. We need to make a worldwide strike of a month, and while that, get things free in the great shops, Walmarts and others. One of the problems is that the capitalism is synchronized in stock markets and fluxes of capital at the bank and financial system, but the indignation of people is fragmented and disconnected: now Hungarians are in the streets to fight slave work, but Gilets Jaunes are losing force in the French streets. We are very out of rhythm, we really need a worldwide synchronized, organized and cheerful demonstration to the corporations and their politicians that we, the people, have the power, like an Olympic Games of Citizenry and Ambiental Defence. Waiting for the Progressive Alliance, Diem 25, Sanders and Corbyn all take to the power and not have fear of the radical changes will be needed to save us all.
Sampa/SP (São Paulo/SP), Brasil (Brazil), 25/12/2018 - 18:30
Trickle down doesn't exist. It was made up by anti-Capitalists.
See how that volunteer has a bottle of water with her? That's so that when she visits people at home, she can say no thank you to a cup of tea. Without making the person offering it feel like she pities them. She can say "No thanks I've got my water: and not feel like she's taking their last milk.
Giles watling MP - comments on getting people back into work. what about those disabled workers who have their mobility vehicles taken away? how do they get into work without transport??? these are the people targeted! it's costing more hounding the sick, than to ignore them. why pick on the easy targets?? go where the big money is - TAX EVASION, especially corporate!!
They want to exterminate the disabled, seriously.
I think this is absolutely true ! Well said
because they want tax evasion for the rich. That's what the stand for.
it's just not a safety net from which you can rise as Churchill said. Countless cases of people having their support taken away before they have recovered making them more ill. Not good for productivity.
It’s happening everywhere in the English-speaking world.
A person on minimum wage in the States has to work 16 hours a day, 6 days a week just to pay the rent on a modest 1 bedroom apartment. 63% of people couldn’t find a thousand dollars in an emergency, 50% earn less than thirty thousand dollars a year and hundreds of thousands of working people have to live in their cars, tents, vans etc.
What’s it going to be like in another ten years? Better or worse?
And all the while, the gap between rich and poor will have grown immeasurably bigger than the current obscene level.
And Jeff Bezos will be worth 300 billion dollars by then while many of his fulfilment centre workers will still be on food stamps.
Disgusting.
helmethead72 Good
Shame to this government they should all hang there heads in shame children are going to bed hungry and going to school hungry
They hang their heads alright,when they look at their huge bank balance.
Descendant Travels So having kids should only be the preserve of the rich...that’s what any species is down here on earth,it is to produce the next cycle of life..,rich or poor shouldn’t be a issue to accomplishing this process.
We are the only animal that has money to live.
Just no evidence for that. The children went to school hungry because they chose not to have breakfast or because their parents didn't offer them any.
more like the government should have there heads taken off
I like how he says he’s building ten houses, like that’s going to solve the house crisis 😂
Building ten houses is a greater help than a youtube comment, Shaun.
@@fabrizio483 that was hilarious
@@fabrizio483 I like your way of thinking bro.
Shaun Randall 10 houses, wow! That’ll definitely solve the issue, well done to that guy 👏👏👏👏
10 more houses for migrants to all pile in
Giles Watling MP (Con): "[To address poverty effectively] we have to create the wealth" Yet we're the 6th largest economy in the world?!
Universal Credit needs scrapping immediately, it's a punitive benefit and a total failure!
Completely agree
Of course vote labour they will change it to old system.
There is enough resources in this world that everyone should have healthy food to eat , a safe home and clean clothes to wear . It takes the right kind of leadership, wanting to help humanity and not just make deals that enriches only themselves . Working is not always an option for some people , there are many obstacles , still they should have access to fullfilling basic needs . People all over the world should have leadership that helps all of it's citizens , it just takes a will to help , the resources are already here . The challenges in the real world can be diminished with people of good will in leadership .
Yeah but the problems are the ones at the top will never give up there power and wealth so it will never happen. They just want to control as long as they are ok we are supposed to act like it's all fine.
@Sign In Like the colonizers , receiving the wealth why others were forced to do all the work .
@@hifi8844exactly 🏴
Thank God there are people like Carole she’s really kind and really wants to help !
This is devastating..
It’s sickeningly easy for a comfortable few to trivialise this serious issue while sat cozily in their arm chairs.
One of the biggest issues in the uk is welfare / benefit system. As much as we think these things are meant in place to help it’s destroying people .
Credit cards , buy now pay latter all all traps to keep you poor .
I am 29 years old I don’t have a credit card nor do I have a dollar of debt . Whatever I don’t have money in my savings account I don’t buy , I don’t drink I don’t smoke .
Some people abuse benefits , use benefits for drugs instead of eating food, instead drinking your benefits a person could pay for a course to help them at employment .
How is it,
1. I work full-time (40+ hours)
2. My missus works part-time (20+) and full-time mum on top of that.
Yet we struggle to meet all the bills (and we're modest creatures) universal credit tops us up! Just think about that! What more can we possibly do yet we're seen by the government as needing help. This system is ridiculous!
Surely the answer is in the wage gap, how can 1 man/women be worth 10 of someone else? Well that's what is reflected in pay.
But no need to worrie if you're lucky enough to be part of other half, the system is working great! 👍👍
Wow, did a thought pass between your ears whilst writing this? Have a think...
I’m entitled to extra pension credit to help with service charges, but after several months of writing back and forth I have given up. They make it so difficult to make a claim and take months to answer. Then they wonder why pensioners don’t claim what they’re entitled to. I will manage with less. It’s less stressful than fighting for my rights 🧐
That was quick. Not so long ago Jaywick *_wasn't_* an example of poverty because the Republicans in the US said it was. Now it *_is_* an example of poverty in the UK because the UN says it is. But if UK poverty is as bad as that, then how is it legitimate for the UK to be spending over £13 billion every year on overseas aid?
Republicans in the US? I think they meant UK republicans....
Wow, the host couldn't get over the fact the UN criticised Britain.
Well it's because it's Britain. A first world nation. The 6th richest in the world. Poverty should almost be nonexistent.
By GDP per capita it's only about 25th richest. Nevertheless, it's a rich country full of poor people.
It's because they think the UN is for poor nations, third world countries, and think it's insulting to be told their wealthy first world nation has issues. They need to remove their heads from their asses. Long gone are the days of Ye British Empire.
No British can take criticism.
@@vksepe When the wealth is stolen, it does not actually benefit the thieves.
Millions more people here paying taxes and still no money left for public services and infrastructure? Something not right here.
We can not have it all our own way, you can't have an open door immigration policy and get rid of poverty. Mass immigration really benefits the big business tycoons as they have a huge ammount of people fighting for such low wage jobs, mass immigration is horrific for the native population especially in the lower level labour market. And also makes house prices a large living joke
modern day slavery, only this time they come freely without chains
Matthew Read ask all the native people around the world slaughtered by british colonialist
Ercan Kilic Why? The British are not slaughtering people now.
The worlds richest billionaires gained 14% profits last year.
What makes me Cringe is all the Powers that be say there's not a problem with immigration,for Christ sake what more is it going to take before they realise, probably when people start dying in droves !!!!!!!!!!
To go to work and still be poor is an embarrassment to the UK in the 21st century. Just goes to show how useless government has been, both Conservative and Labour have failed this country. The quality of life and children’s futures Have been ruined by useless politicians.
What is the EU doing about it? Thought being in the EU meant this would all be banished.
Benefits are sorted by government not the EU duh!
@@ep4360 EUniversal Credit. EU orchestrated poverty for Brexit.
A lot actually was done by the EU. Unlike the UK, EU did invest massively into underdeveloped regions of the UK. That is going to end, unfortunately. Anyway, this is a result of UK policy, not EUs. EU can't fix everything.
@@janskacel9480 Absolutely true!
They cannot help you now, can they? Although they have in the past.
I have only just started getting something from UC to top up my low wage after a year of being messed about. They are still messing me about like it's some kind of sick game. No money, no gas and mounting debts. After working for 37 years I expected more
This was 3 years ago and nothing has changed. If you are on benefit there is nothing for dental work, the hairdresser, winter clothing or age appropriate clothing or glasses etc. The standard allowance of 324 pounds per calendar month is just not enough and more so when gas and electric, council tax and water takes more than 50% of your receipts leaving less than 30 pounds per week to buy your shopping and personal items if you are a lady pre menopause. The UK should be ashamed. No real jobs, no skills development and they have so many reports telling them what is needed for the population to thrive.
500+k migrants from India Africa China will fix things ok
How is it possible that in the UK there is still poverty when taxpayers were forced to give up £94 billion towards social security in 2018-19?
A UN delegation with representatives from Zimbabwe, Syria, Venezuela and Bangladesh is going to come to Britain to tell us where we're going wrong.
Don't worry. After Brexit we'll all be poor!
We will see the biggest exodus of professionals never seen before. Leaving a burnt of shell of poor people killing eachother. Brutal facts, but still facts.
@@LabRat6619 yeah right....and then you woke up with with a wet leg.
After Brexit we will sort out own benefits system, instead of allowing the EU to put us on the same path to dire poverty as they did with Greece and other european countries.
888Caz..., so the EU regulates our benefit system, is it 🙈🙉🙊.... effing imbecile!!!
Don't worry - the oxbridge ruling morons and the British aristocracy wil be much, much more richer . And without the European Court of Human Rights to "disturb us" -WHAT a paradise it will be!
Thatcher killed the system in the 80s and at the same time Reagan did the same in the USA. Countries like Germany (where I live) and most Scandinavian countries went their own way with more success. Of course also here you will find poverty, but not as amazingly bad as in GB or the USA.
You are right. Thatcher did kill the system. I live in south Wales where we used to have loads of working coal mines and because of Thatcher and the conservative government the mines closed, the men had no work, the areas were in poverty. People are starving because they get sanctioned for months sometimes, how can anyone live like that?
Absent fathers, having children they cannot afford, poor diets, obsessions with celebrity status and social media, buying things they cannot afford, borrowing money they cannot repay, ( inability to do simple maths.) poor priorities for whatever money they do have, and short term thinking...I’m in my sixties, and did not have children, because I knew I could not afford them, on what I was earning at the time. I did not assume it was someone else’s responsibility to fund my lifestyle...and I’m still living day to day.
She certainly seems to feed herself, maybe with fast food, and she has a pretty little dog to look after. I don't pity her too much.
I think that it is right that the UN investigate poverty in the uk because living in, or even entering the Uk is globally considered a privilege. People should not suffer hunger and their politicians should not be happy about their performance . It is adopting wages less then nothing and supporting the zero contract that shape the social and economic situations nowadays .
Im claiming Universal Credit and after my rent was paid I had £85 left for the whole month. As I was forced to take advances which I'm still paying back monthly, whilst waiting for the benefit to be processed and paid, there was nothing DWP could do to help me to survive the month! I've had to beg and borrow from family & friends. My kids didnt get xmas presents this year.....how can this be right?
Vote labour and labour will bring back the old system.
Hi Susie. Are you doing okay now or is it even worse with the cost of living crisis? I’m sorry you’ve struggled so much. Sending a hug from Australia 🤗
Why does she have dogs?
I was one of six with a single mother struggling here in Australia and our only pets were hens and guinea pigs as they were cheaper to keep.
I have recording from a recent DWP PIP assessment that shows how much information and evidence was left out about my worsening ill health and symptoms! So much was ignored by either the independent assessor or the DWP decision maker, I have had my payments reduced! It seems to me the DWP, DO NOT want to ''make sure you are getting the help you need''.
If Channel 4 is interested in looking into this let me know..You can have the recording for free!
One thing we simple cannot ignore. The U.K has the the Number ONE richest city in the WHOLE of Northern Europe and at the same time it has the poorest NINE out of Ten, honestly just think about that, out of all of the Northern European countries we have the top nine worse off areas while having the richest. There is enough money to go around we just need more distribution and to stop companies who don't pay there fair share - Amazon, Google, Caffe Nero, Vodafone, Gap, Waterstones, EE, Boots, Apple, McDonald’s, Vision Express, Starbucks, THOMAS COOK, They all pay little to none Tax into the U.K Economy and make Millions and some cases Billions of profit here.
There is enough to go around just need a Policy in place and someone who isn't in the pocket to actually start making a difference in the country or the people of the U.K Will continue in this disaster.
These people are so entitled. I shouldn't be deprived of tea or milk or whatever food I want but I'm not going to work for it... oh and by the way I don't see why I should work again. When you don't have a job whether it is because you are lazy or because of bad decisions or because of medical, you have to accept that things are going to change and you will have to give up certain luxuries and most everything today that you think is a necessity is actually a luxury. And if you are on benefits and you are still breeding you automatically be cut off
It's unconscionable for these deeply impoverished people to have children without the means to properly feed them. The fact that they refuse to find work to support their families is sickening. Then they want more benefits income just to sit around, smoke, and gossip with their uneducated friends all day. WTH
Boris Johnson and his team just don't get it! Working families are struggling to cope with 2 or more children because they have lost their job, accident, death in the family etc. Scrap the 2 child tax credit cap and increase to 4 children cap. Sort universal credit.
"Every nation gets the government it deserves." Joesph de Maistre
Good point. Maybe that is what it is; repaying times for all the evil this country had done all over the world!
In the U.S. we have the best economy that money can buy. Politicians are bought off, and the rich donate so much
money to candidates, congressmen, senators that the average citizen has no chance of representation. It's a little
better at the local level, but not much.
'I'm a supervisor and the people turning up for the interviews lately are, dirty. thin, hungry and totally desperate it breaks my heart the uk is a third world country now.
The UN is neither use nor ornament. Unless of cause it's allowing illegal immigrants to enter other people's countries. In December, Theresa May will sign the UN Migration Pact: the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. This means the UK will not have full power to decide who comes into our country. The US, Austria, Poland and Hungary have refused to sign. The UK should do the same.
it's absolutely disgusting to see that people who are working have to use food banks and other charities to survive in Britain in 2018 and this has been going on for years.This government and the government before are to busy giving monies and other types of aid to other countries and immigrants to bother with the British working class people and non working people who are no different from immigrants except they are white !!!!!!!!!
The globalised world economy means 3rd world poverty in the UK. The square mile of London is a private city state , totally independent of this country and pays zero tax . Parliament is in their pocket . We have been thrown to the wolves. UC is actually a warcrime not a reform of the Benefits system. People have a right to defend themselves against starvation
Actually, the numbers are, probably, at least two fold higher. And actually the EU provide some guarantees until now. Nothing will work in this country, and deep changes must be implemented.
Equality was not mentioned once in this entire report. The fact the majority of assets are owned by a smaller and smaller number of people every year is why every country is facing these exact same issues. Economic Power, Politics and the manner in which governments and their idea factories (NGO, Think Tanks, Policy Institutes) measure and divide responsibilities (tax/regulations) and success is in complete imbalance. If the 'systems' we look to saw a greater value in people (and families) and governments actually seriously looked to items such as safety nets and infrastructure with an eye on ensuring equality was something taken seriously there would be much less poverty and stories of individual and community successes than we currently have in the world.
When is enough actually enough. GDP, you're having a laugh. Profit over people and a fidicuary obligation to shareholders over communities in which companies operate needs to be addressed. But no, let's blame the 2008 crash, caused by whom and what again? And how many people went to gaol for those predatory profit making practices...well yeah we see the problem. Money speaks louder to power than people.
You can't feed a family on minimum wage let alone poxy universal credit,as a single parent myself i am sick of this suffering of our children
True.. should be a living wage paid to all workers
The effects of voting conservative smh... they'd take us back to the Victorian era if they could
@superfuresh How can they get a job when the government shut down the economy. Go get an education
It riles me up when I see most of these people on benefits who haven't worked for ages(not all but a good percentage) who live in council houses and get free payment but still expect "help".. but a guy who works have to arrange for house, lay rent... Get over it..these people are so used to free things and demands that they are entitled to freebies..
The UN have been here a few rimes since 2010, and when the reports were published, our gov just dismissed them out of hand. During the cons last gov during the 80s they removed housing benefit for those in work, along with the poll tax, our family were tossed into deep poverty. No heating little food clothes rotting etc. Electric cut off regularly. No food banks back then, no one to help. Even social services didn't help and I had a baby sleeping in a damp flat with thick mold all over the walls, and I just kept getting one infection after another. We all had chillblanes all over our hands and feet. I'm glad that there are at least food banks nowadays. We were the hidden poor back then. Im really sick now, and I wonder how many like me would be able to walk to the foodbanks? so many must have died.
Is he thick or what you can't stand on your own two feet when jobs don't pay enough to come off benefits and benefits supplement wages because people aren't earning mega bucks because of low pay! Wake up man!
Shameful. Many people have a low sense of social responsibility. They don't want to pay adequate taxes towards decent welfare support. Also, some employers should be made to conduct business in a healthy and fair way for everyone.
Even after colonising and stealing the world you still have nothing. but all i see everyday in the news is a smiling and neverending partying loyal family! really crime never pays.
I'm confused because I live next to 2 families on benefits who are totally able bodied and seem to live very well. 3 teenage kids. Constantly entertaining and redoing the garden, decorating, having hair done, buying cars .... You name it. Obviously can afford food because they've all gained a lot of weight over the last year. Yet when I was made redundant I got next to nothing because I own my own home and have always worked. Plus I don't know how to play the system. Really makes me sick when I leave for work and they lollop around at home all day. Must be screwing system somehow. Can't work it out ? No poverty I can see about benefits here. In fact it looks very appealing.
Come to my town, people here are starving, even while working, I was on UC until recently and let me say I was still having to go the food bank every two weeks, electricity cut off, gas cut off, days without any proper meals, I became dangerously underweight at one point.
Now I've gotten a place at the musical academy in Edinburgh, I'll be 150 worse off every month so it's going to be even worse.
Saying that though, I live alone and don't have kids so I don't know how child benefits work on UC
Look these types are nothing but a cancer on society. I thought Universal credit would have done a better job at fixing these problems but obviously not! I live in Australia and am always shocked by the entitlement of these scum bags! I am truly sorry you didn't get the hep you very much deserved. What on EARTH is the point of working if you're living Ike that on the taxpayer purse?! OUTRAGEOUS!!!
@@TheWaveGoodbye-Music I'm glad you are ok now. It must have been awful. But near me these people only get all this because of the kids the breed. On their own I'm sure it would be the same for them and once the kids grow up that's when the shock to their system will happen I'm sure. At least of not it won't be fair on us in the world who try.
@@grazutissmith9647 I know but as I just said to the previous guy it's the kids who are the little money spinners. They have to grow up one day and most probably make little money spinners of their own. They will come unstuck at this point or as I said, won't be fair if they don't. Will almost be a reward for not trying in life all that time. Who knows 🤷
@@nickyh7693 Unless the government starts SERIOUSLY coming down n on all these welfare PARACITES . It's just going to get a whole lot worse. A lot of people need a good shake up!
we're all just stuck in a recurring nightmare aren't we?aaah england!it used to be mind blowing didn't it?
Very sad. And very typical.I wonder if the PM watches this. I may send it to him.
This has nothing to do with brexit. We get taxed to the eyeballs in this country. Tax should be lowered for single working people.
Whichever channel made Benefits Street, they should be ashamed of themselves. Nastiness personified.
The 8 richest people in the world hold 50% of global wealth. This monopoly effect has dire effects that proves took big to fail causes total failure and contributes to inflation.
Working for the government. I was just as well off unemployed as I was working and nothing has changed.
Tories Britain for U!
Dave Long stfu!!
I have seen every government for decades and I can honestly tell you they are all selfserving bastard's
My mum has ran a food bank and drop in centre for years now. Even during Blair’s Labour Government, so they have always been there.
Well at least we had a royal wedding only cost £30 000 000 million im sure the poor are happy going to food banks good deal
If this women is so poor she can't feed her own kids, why does she have 2 dogs? I know they probably eat canned dog food from the food bank, they have no pet insurance and will be given up to a rescue centre soon as they get sick, but isn't this a prime example that British poverty isn't quite the same as the developing world.
@@NA597 Not if you can't feed your own children.
I think we can lay the blame for this on the labour party. They were the ones who bankrupted the country after all
@Ryuko Chan! Well, either there was a crises or there wasn't! If there was, then that explains why the country was left with so much debt after the last labour government - Which explains why the UK is still spending £39 billion a year on paying off just the interest on what the country now owes (thats more than the housing and environment budget combined, or just over a quarter of total spending on the NHS). Which explains why the issue is not caused by the tories.
@Ryuko Chan! Actually I agree with you. It would've happened no matter who was in power. But you have to admit it is dishonest of labour supporters to talk about spending cuts without acknowledging the very real reasons why they are a thing. And that is what labour do.
Let’s keep importing more poor people👍 we don’t seem to have enough of our own.
Get rid of the private banking cartel
And they only point out poverty in Asia and Africa...
Exactly
What pisses me off is the fact that people are going to foodbanks whilst government is buying f35's and cruise missiles.
Yet they say the public has the vote.
The public keeps voting in the same w*nkers - pardon my french.
Poverty is caused by man. In the UK is caused by the Tory government. UK has the highest tax rate in euro. In the Last two years Tory have add extra hardship on the poor by creating Bed room tax and zero hour contract.
The food banks are not there for the poor working class though if your working they don’t want to know people work full time and haven’t got any money left after bills what about them families it’s all who’s on benefits and are not working
ABSOLUTELY! This opinion isn't going to be popular but l think WORKING people on minimum incomes should be the first one's in line. Why is it that those that can least afford it are the ones having the most kids. And reliant on those that work for a living.
and we send millions to pakistan to sort the pot holes out wtf ! you dont feed the neighbours kids while your own are starving the government needs a shake up infact it needs removing and replacing with one that cares about its own people
Dean Prthero the millions you're sending over to pakistan does not even reach the poor people of pakistan. The corrupt government in pakistan keeps the lot and your government is fully aware of whats going on.
my point isnt what its used for its sending the taxes we pay abroad
The truth is to bring up a family you need first to be financially stable,not reliant on benefits ie the tax payer funding your family,these people have no one but there selves to blame,I LONG FOR THE DAY THE WELFARE SYSTEM IS CUT OFF TO THESE PEOPLE SAVING THE TAX PAYER A HUGE SUM WHICH COULD THEN BE SPENT ON THE NHS.
Love it
There are very many circumstances in which people may start out financially stable but fall from that position. Let's hope you never have to experience any of them. * It's themselves not there selves.
Poor & vulnerable
have to taxes ,they R watched & penalised of their rights
It must be all the money we give the EU & keeping the useless UN going
So in the West end of new castle it feeds 42000 people..incredible amounts of people. I thought the U.K was doing relatively O.K, like Germany & Holland etc.?
The uk has the top 10 poorest areas in Europe! Our country is an embarrassment on many levels. Unfortunately most poor people voted for brexit and middle class remainers and Londoners will have little sympathy
Britain is like the the Victorian era all over again whens the work house going to be reinstated ❤️
The UN probes poverty in Britain, the British government will take no notice because they are in Denial the politicians noses are stuck that far up each other's arses to notice anything!!!!!!!
I wonder if they'd do this for the Appalachian region in the U.S. The poverty is so bad there, it's like a third world country.
Five years on much much worse now, nothing changed.
All single parent families...… so where are the fathers contributing to their child upkeep? Why should I as a high rate tax payer pay for their kids??
You don't, you pay for the tories mate and the royals .. Read abit more on the percentage of tax money and where it goes
Let's not forget the Torys refused to accept EU money for food banks.
When we leave and get our money back, there will be no poverty in Uk
Yay! someone is looking into it :)
The poor have been treated like this since the Victorian era.
Like what exactly!!!????
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Where are all the Russian trolls denouncing socialism?
So the politician is also an actor. That explains it all. They all are merely actors .
This is shameful, and shouldn't be happening. x
...but then the government says get behind Britain.This isn’t a country I am proud of
The rich and the poor. Human history from the beginning of humanity.
There's plenty of wealth but it is not being fairly distributed. Waffle! the few still with the much and the many still with the dregs. Truly a government of for the few not the many.
My husband left me with 4 young children left the country so no mai l got a job l work 12 hour nights 6 nights a week we never went hungry because l cooked and baked my children are all grown now all in great jobs 2 went to uni some people just expect people to look after them no pride l can look back with pride at my family all dine without claiming a penny Jackie O and 66 years of age and still working
When was this? My mother was able to do the same for me and my brother but now we've all left home.
Now single mothers I know who are even in work are struggling to make ends meet, same as those on UC as well.
Something systematically broke when the economy took a nose dive in 08 and just kept going even till now
@@TheWaveGoodbye-Music YES IT WAS HARD MOST OF IT WAS THE THATCHER TIME POLL TAX THE LOT MANY SLEEPLESS NIGHTS BUT WE MADE IT MADE SURE ALL GOT SOLID EDUCATION AND IT PAID OFF ALL IN GREAT JOBS I STILL WORK BECAUSE I WANT TO AND NOW HAVE A LITTLE BIT FOR MYSELF JACKIE
Times are not the same now, also i am 100% sure you had family support in relation to childcare. What about those who don’t
Where is the father(s) of her kids??!! She needs to get money from him to buy food for her kids!!! Don't have kids you cannot provide for, with a loser, or outside of wedlock, and many poor would not find themselves in dire situations!!!
Ashamed of this British government
@@davelong9055 Please be so kind as not to stereotype all claimants. You do not know their backstories and most of us are only an accident or serious illness away from the merciless state.
Where are all these people who live in poverty ? I was brought up on what was once described as " the worst council estate in Europe ". My mother still lives there. I visit her every day and use the local shop regularly. I have stood behined people in the que who are able to spend 40.00 pounds on scratchcards. Heaven help you if you go past the school at finishing time. You are blocked by all the SUVs and BMWs and Mercedies picking the kids up from school . Why don't I ever see any of this " poverty " ? I do not deny that some poverty exists but it is NOTHING LIKE the poverty that existed 30 , 40 or 50 years ago. Just checkout " poverty in St Annes" in Nottingham here on you tube. If you want to see poverty THAT IS POVERTY !! and it was filmed in the early seventies .
All the spare money went on extra teachers in schools for non speaking English kids also the cost of housing immigrants , Let's not forget the NHS & the free healthcare for immigrants too.
All that money could have gone to the indigenous poor, Charity begins at home for those who have given there blood, sweat & tears for this country.