The fuel poverty capital of England: Orchard Park | Cost of living crisis
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- Recent parliamentary research found that the Orchard Park, in Hull, had the highest rate of fuel poverty in England - 29 per cent compared to the national average of 13.5 per cent.
As the political games of Westminster raged this week, PoliticsJOE headed to the estate to ask people about their daily lives, and meet some of the heroes holding the fabric of their local society together.
Reporter: Oli Dugmore
Camera: Oli Johnson
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It's not a rail strike that will bring this government down. If the charities went on strike for a week we'd see the country fall apart. Charities are plugging a million gaps the government can't be bothered to. In many ways charities allow the government to be as bad and uncaring as it is. We're a rich country full of poor people and a country full of compassionate people led by sociopaths. My heart sank when the lady mentioned the Daily Mail. A daily sip of poison.
You are absolutely bang on. It is appalling that this country needs charities in the first place (domestically-operating ones at least) and if it were not for food banks people would be marching on the streets. If of course 1) they had the energy and 2) they were granted legal permission .... mind you, I know first hand that food within prison cells is decent so could be one way to get a meal... before they phase it out.
35 UK food banks when the Tories came into power. 1500 food banks today. Just let that fact sink in.
Well said!
A new lie is circling the media today that there is a poll showing that tories (with Sunak) ratings have gone up above Labour! Tell that lie to the UK majority population that is struggling to eat and heat their homes.... That Poll result only exists in the tory figments of imagination...
its not the charities or the government that provides the £s pal. its all other workers.
snap out of your delusion.
People are so passive --they are so used to being poor they don't seen to realize that the politicians don't care about them. How miserable.
Even worse, it has become a way of life. Not the people's fault though.
at last, a decent comment. they are boiled frogs. they have forgotten what it is to live in a free society and have rights. they have been bullied by corporate council propaganda and are even willing to allow the councils to spy on them with cctv and patrol the towns in copies of police outfits like ghetto police. it will be easy to get them into labour camps.
@@pjl8119 Problem is, if it gets that ingrained, only outside support can uningrain it.
It's partly due to living under a system of monarchy for a thousand years. We are indoctrinated from birth into believing it is the natural order gf things.
That sense of shame works so well for the government - People stay quiet and accept it as their own failure and not the government persecuting them.
The trouble with many struggling Brits is they tend not to link their increasing hardship to the government's long term policy of prosperity for the rich and austerity for the rest. Just so they understand the current situation: "Rishi Sunak, who has presided over the biggest ever increase in millionaire and billionaire wealth... is about to force half of the country into poverty." Gary Stevenson, wealth inequality economist
Rishi Sunak looks presentable in his sharp suit, has a nice winning smile and says he's "honest" and "delivering for the British people": he is *not our friend*, but the friend of millionaires.
Boris was a twat, but as far as tories go he was at least trying to hide his disdain towards the working class. Then we had Liz, who unashamedly admitted her disgust to the working class and did any changes possible to benefit the rich. Now we have Sunak, a sneaky b*stard that thinks he can pull off appearing working class and treating us well, when in reality he’s worse than Boris and Liz combined.
I understand propaganda is extremely powerful, but I’d struggle to forgive any working class people that vote tory. I can at least understand why upper-middle and upper class vote tory because they will selfishly benefit financially(at the detriment of the less well off), but lower middle/working class who vote tory and just brainwashed pure and simple.
Of course they don't link it, the schools are garbage (intentionally) and the media is a propaganda apparatus.
How hard would it really be to teach everyone "don't believe everything you're told, question their motives?" It's not a seriously complicated concept. Everyone in education administration will talk about "critical thinking" but fall over themselves to make sure every book and teacher toe the line.
Well said.
It's the government that is the problem period. Wether they are a socialist or so called Capitalist government, they cause all the issues.
Get rid of big government. Their job is to protect the nation and it's laws. Everybody is responsible for themselves.
If people keep turning to government to solve problems, then it will just get worse. They need to stay out of people's way.
Rishi is just carrying out the Conlot policies - he is scum, but the Conlots' are the scum breeders.
what a slap in the face, to have our third prime minister this year, with no general election, and the man being the richest PM we’ve ever had at a time like this. it is absolutely gut wrenching.
No one elects a prime minister but the party members.
Everyone else votes for the party itself.
Democracy eh? 🥴
J📚 THE UK IS UNDER ARBITRARY OPPRESSION,,
the Conservative Party,
have used a Cruel, and Arbitrary, Usurpation Of Power,
Decided on a Whim,,
in order to replace the People's Votes,,
and place Rishi Sunak as the UK PM,,
A new lie is circling the media today that there is a poll showing that tories (with Sunak) ratings have gone up above Labour! Tell that lie to the UK majority population that is struggling to eat and heat their homes.... That Poll result only exists in the tory figments of imagination...
What are you talking about? It’s hilarious.
The people in this video voted for this omnishambles. It’s really hard to have any kind of empathy for them.
me and my colleagues have had enough off this Tory government 12 tears in power and it will just get worse we are all voting Labour
‘When bankers rob people, they get bailed out. When people rob banks they get jailed.’
Community spirit is perhaps the only thing keeping small Northern towns together. My home town in North Manchester is completely unrecognisable compared to 10 years ago. Tory cuts have been devastating. We need change. We need compassionate politics. We can't afford to wait. GE NOW.
Im amazed that North England hasnt rioted or asked for more localised power. They are worst treated ppl in UK.
I wish u could join Scotland
Lots of love from Glasgow❤️
@@DemonetisedZone most of them imo are anti immigrant, they'd rather die from cold weather than support labour
I'm not sure much would change under Starmer's Labour. They won't win an election anyway, our electorate suck!!
Look at rural parts of Plymouth .. we never had those networks . People just don't care .. it's horrible to get anything done
@@MrSatnavatron I've been to Plymouth last year, nice town.
Who would be reporting on this if you guys didn't? There is a deafening silence in the mainstream around the increasing poverty levels. I really appreciate the work this channel is doing.
The mainstream media are only interested in demonising the poor or making poverty porn tv
The coldest place in Britain is any Tory MP’s heart.
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Fricken ay
The other side is exactly the same.
I say if you don't vote then do not complain.
How to be a poor Brit:
1. Own a phone and a laptop
2. Smoke non-stop
3. Be perpetually drunk
4. Get free food from the foodbank
5. Clog up the doctor's waiting room with a minor ailment
6. Have several pets which you get bored of and have put down
7. Go on holiday to Benidorm
8. Stuff your ugly face with junkfood
9. Be at least 50 pounds overweight
10. Drive around in a mobility scooter
11. Pretend to need a walking stick
12. Hate the Tories because you aren't getting £1000 a week in welfare
People should be told what the Daily Mail is and who owns it.
My daughter took journalism as he BA, her tutors told them to keep in touch unless they worked at The Daily Mail. Its a disgusting piece of paper
The lady, will have been talking about the Hull Daily Mail... hopefully!
Reach PLC.
arabs
Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere? It's not who owns it, it's the shite it spews that should put people off. The reason most people read it is due to bigoted views about the glory days of imperial Britain. We've had two top tier British-Asian ministers happy to deport migrants. It says a lot about the sorry state of our political system.
Believe me the people of orchard park would never vote Tory and they read the Hull daily mail not the national daily mail ! I'm from orchard park . That row of shops was once a full thriving shopping centre with a butchers bakers hairdressers clothes shop greengrocers post office chemist supermarket etc.. basically everything u needed under one roof. So sad to see it now. No one had central heating in their houses on orchard park when I was growing up and indeed our houses were freezing cold in the winter. My sister used to take the floorboards up in her bedroom & stuff old towels & blankets under the floorboards to try & keep some heat in. Me & my sisters were always in each others beds to keep each other warm. It wasn't until after I left home that the council started installing central heating on the estate - something I'd only dreamed of! And now the people in these homes can't afford to put this heating on. It's a disgrace 😡😡
They vote labour and UKIP.
I'm from hull, recognising parts youre showing (probably one of the few understanding everyone interviewed). Happy to see this getting attention. Hull has been repeatedly ignored by the country. I remember in 2008 floods how long it took us to get help
There's no snow on Frome Road.
@@simplesimon5739 I'm not sure what this means
@@joe94c I think it's a reference to Lucy Beumont
I'm here in America and only understood about half of what was said. Those accents were too heavy for me.
@@joe94c if you go into Ferens Art Gallery they have like a book with some unique Hull sayings. But the accent makes it difficult to understand like 'The Perp' (Pope) 'British Home Stairs' (British Home Stores). And slang terms like Tansad which is a baby buggy.
This whole space depresses me terribly. I left the UK in 2001, came back in 2013 and survived 2 years and left again. Came back for a visit in September and didn't recognise the place. What scared me was the inequality now and always. So few "haves" screwing every drop of blood out of the country, helping their mates or anyone who might allow them to profit and the rest who are constantly struggling to keep their heads above water. Breaks my heart.
That's big government and socialism for you. But we never learn.
@@smalltownhomesteadAC what the 10 years of conservative government with rampant deregulation is socialism to you?
Where did you end up living?
@@cherylT321 Canada
I grew up in England then left for America when I was a teenager. With all that I see going on over there, I am so glad my parents decided to move us kids elsewhere!
another issue that needs to be covered is not increasing pay. for 90% of workers incomes have increased by little to nothing due to corporate greed (in not all cases but most)
That's because very few are in a Trade Union
you say corporate greed, but 52% of people work for the state in one form or another. so how can it be corporate greed ?
@@888ssss I think the 52% figure you have is the area in the UK with the highest public sector emplyoment, but on average it is much lower than that. Public sector jobs are also much more highly unionised so people like teachers are more able to fight back against pay cuts than people in the private sector (especially after covid where most people have been taking a real terms paycut.)
@UCZiXLEdYOb_dGbtC3V0p-Zw it's 16.5%, 52% my arse
@@leonsegade-garcia8915 basically, its no longer my job because the life i was chasing (1950-1990s) has long gone. this new life (2000-2022) is childish garbage. 😆 im certainly not working the next 20 years like i did the last. its now everyman for himself time.
“The richest Prime Minister in history” just hit me.
Great video. You have to love the spirit of the great English Northerner.
A super rich guy is automatically a bad PM.
Next up from you: a super healthy person can't be a doctor.
I say if you don't vote then do not complain.
He is NOT. His wife is rich.
Clark famously said "Lions led by donkeys" as a way to describe the British soldiers plagued by the ineptitude and indifference of their generals during WWI, but the expression fits perfectly the current situation as well. Those monsters in Westminster are taking advantage of the resilience and good heart of the people they're supposed to serve. They grow in power and wealth untroubled, whilst the country is on its knee, and its people are forced to rely on charity to fulfil their most basic needs. It's disheartening, and beyond outrageous.
They want civil unrest, so they can bring in the army. It's an agenda.
@@charlottetaylor4471 Generous of you to appoint them with enough wits and dedication to hatch a plan, albeit a evil one. It's quite clear at this point that they're too inept and lazy for all that. The only agenda they've ever had is to squeeze the country for their own gain.
I wonder if now the saying would be- "Donkeys led by lions," considering that the lions only want to FEED off of the donkeys theyre supposedly leading! Leading them to their death more like
And yet in 2 years the amount of people who will vote for the Tories saying things like "they know how to look after the economy" will be scary high.....
Yes, that’s exactly my worry too
and get their news from the Daily Mail!!!
Tories care about the economy but they don't care about welfare or the lower classes.
@@xraye_ they used to. BREXIT has been a total economic disaster and until we rejoin the single market our economy will not recover.
A woman on the news a few years ago voting tory in a by election, cause they now had eight food banks, they only had two under labour an they need them cause they're a good thing. The cognitive dissonance is astonishing. I bet the good people of hull also voted for brexit, a massive act of sell harm. The Tories have really done a number on us. The UK is an absolute riot.
Im amazed that North England hasnt rioted or asked for more localised power. They are worst treated ppl in UK.
I wish u could join Scotland
Lots of love from Glasgow❤️
From hull myself and 100% agree
Love from Carlisle xx
Why would they ? They voted for this and now they get what they vote for.
The people who are setting up and running food banks are doing a wonderful thing but it makes me angry that they are needed in 2022. And now people are setting up warm banks!
interesting that they have the time, and this is because most of them are middle class buy to let landlords who are exploiting them with rent. - its a nation of dummies 😆
@@888ssss can you cite your sources on the claim that 'most' food bank organisers are landlords? Can you also cite a source showing that their tenants are the people using the food banks?
@@user-fy9fr3bc7v how else can these middle class people spend all day at food banks if they didnt have an income coming it ? try asking them ?
The point is We shouldn't need Food Banks. People working full time and 40+ hours should not be needing help, benefits or struggling for food, Gas or Electricity. Either people aren't being paid enough (true) or people need to learn to budget or give up on cigarettes, alcohol, subscriptions.
@Hans Gruber Food and warm banks should not be needed in a rich country like Britain if they ceased to exist the government would have to do more to support those in need in my opinion any mp that has these banks in their constituency should be thoroughly ashamed
PoliticsJOE, thank you so much for all of your incredible work. You have such a deftness of touch when dealing with people. No ego, no hidden agenda.
The United Kingdom is my home country, and although I left after the Brexit result, I'm still a British Citizen and it breaks my heart to see what is happening to the country I grew up in.
As someone who has lived in hull I can say with a fact the government doesn’t give a toss about the people on orchard park,they’ve gotten poorer year on year an the schools in the area guarantee the kids that come from the estate often don’t leave it,I beelined for university to get away from the cycle that is part of Hull now unfortunately.
Being from Hull can I explain that the lady who was talking about the price of the Daily Mail means the Hull Daily Mail, our local rag not the Tory rag.
The rag where reporting accuracy is optional
@@sahhull Did you know we invented chip spice and patties? Sure it’s been documented in said rag.
Rishi Sunak's net worth is £730 million, I guarantee he isn't suffering through no heat in his home.
I have lived in Hull more than 50 years.I came from the Netherlands.Many years ago Orchard park was classed as the poorest estate in Europe.Nothing has changed has it.The architects who designed these estates don't live there.Bransholme Greatfield estate monnotonous places.If people are scared where is the police in the first place.Get some bobbies on the beat talk to people and stop hiding in your panda cars.The majority of people on these estates are fine it is that small thuggish lot which spoil it for the rest.These fuel bills are off the scale for many whatever you do don't sit in the cold these thugs can't cut all of you have stick together.
Don’t mean to make light of this, but does anyone remember Dell Boy saying to Rodney - ‘I’ve been to Hull and back’ 😂 says it all really!
We followed the Norland!
To Hull?
No, Zebrugge! We had to wait for it to turn 'round to follow it back to Hull!
It's fascinating the kinds of weird almost conspiracies Tories will tie them solves around just to not admit it's their economically and politically illiterate policies that lead to this.
Such important work , thank you. Decent, humble people who deserve better. They and their forebears built this country into a great nation only to be trashed by successive scum over the last forty years. Come the revolution I want to see these scumbags rounded up (peacefully) stripped of their loot, and they and their families made to live in these neglected areas they have created.
they sat back and let them close the pubs with the illegal smoking ban, and others thought nothing of profiting from their council house purchase. nobody is innocent.
Really? These people voted for brexit and Bozo Boris and as a result everyone is suffering from these people stupidly.
I’m really sad to see the state of the country 😢
Excellent and moving look at a working class area in a working class town and how the people there are constantly under the cosh. well done to the people helping out and good look to the community and well done to you for a shining a light on their situation
Joe asked "when are things going to move in the opposite direction?". The truth is, they are not. All assets are moving in only one direction and that is from the poorest to the richest. The price of food, fuel and property to rent or to buy is moving in one direction only. Even if Labour gets in, they are so tied to the corporate oligarchy it would not have a significant effect on the direction of travel of the ever more widening gap between rich and poor. This is a problem gone beyond little tweaks. By the end of this winter, everyone will be fully aware of that.
I’m sure that we can all derive some satisfaction in knowing that Rees-Mogg will find this report ‘uplifting’. 😕
I’m all for Food Bankers Bonuses.
@Alex Scarbro If food and warm banks ceased to exist the government would have to do more to support those in need im not knocking them but they are an excuse to turn a blind eye on poverty
The UK, a depressing, horrible place to now live in. A government that hates its people, and people in need from overseas. A government responsible for poverty. It's so so depressing
I first came to Hull 20 years ago. Back then I have never heard of it but beacuse of my then GF now missus living in Hull, I decided to move. The area of Hull is sorrounded by wonderful 'wealthy' villages like Cottingham, Hessle, Anlaby village, West Ella, Willerby and Swanland etc all within one mile or so. I have seen many improvements in Hull in general for the better but as always there are issues with poverty and anti social behaviour. But the biggest issue is self entitlement. Why local people always think they should have this and that, questions why immigrants seems to have more and why jobs are not given to local people - without working or striving for it? If you are willing to work, graft and have ambition, start children early in life and teach them about hard work and acquiring skills needed in the modern economy - things will improve. Hull is very underrated area of Britain, lovely local people and has potential to be better.
Heat or food? That the Uk government allows this continue and the abuse and low wages for nurses and caregivers is an atrocity.
What a great insight to real people who are not living but surviving in today's social poverty. Food banks being utilised by more wage and age range. What triggered me was the 11 yr old you mentioned. How the hell do these kids think they're tough these days. No respect , no discipline and potentially no future as they'll be lost in the system. I know there are plenty of decent kids out there but the ones I've seen terrorising adults just do my head in, pure gang mentality. .......I salute the people in that community who are trying to help others day in and day who are trying to make a difference.
With this much energy poverty in Britain, I can only pray for people there, may god give them strength to sustain through this winter.
Stay song Britain. 💪
Very good. Thanks for such an informative film.
Great interviewing. Thanks lots.
I've just moved from Hull after just short of 2 years there. Orchard Park is joked about by all people in Hull and it's quite sad that with a new Prime Minister with a net of £730mil+, that these places are still so deprived. The amount of crime that occurs in Orchard Park is phenomenal. There has been a massive rise in moped enabled crime, thefts from motor vehicles, burglaries and robberies and there isn't a place for that sort of behaviour anywhere but, they're out there surviving so they will do anything. It's a vicious repetitive cycle.
Cost of living and fuel poverty is a big issues but what people don't talk about is lots of people who can work but don't work and prefer to stay in benefit probably because people don't want to work to low pay and prefer to stay on benefit. There is a lot of job available just people don't want to do them. isn't this the wrong precedent we are setting?. I myself started my career with low pay but grew. There are nurses working on salaries that these ppl aren't ready to work. I think the whole system is wrong where working doesn't benefit if continued it will break.
Many true hard truths there, and this attitude is the source of panic over foreign workers, eastern Europeans and others leaving - suddenly there is much less cheap labour to produce your £1 frozen chicken.
The sad reality is that this is replicated in so many parts of the UK. Food banks, warm centres, deprivation and the falling standards of living overall. It is difficult to see the end of this all but we must stay hopeful for the future.
sadly this scenario is repeated all around the uk esp in the traditional working class areas. The working classaround the worldare now under attack from an elite so confident of victory we the working class need to get our act together and fight back because they will not stop untill we are crushed
We weren't of course the 5th richest country in the world - we had the 5th highest GDP. GDP per capita determines how well off individual people are - not total GDP. India took our place in fifth - but it ranks 120th when you spread that out across the entire population. Like Britain India has a small number of very wealthy people but much of its population lives in poverty.
Dear Martin, you are a great person, some of the few who know that the GDP per capita is decisive. The UK, like my country Germany, is postioned somewhere in the 20s.
The richest is Luxembourgh. I really doubt that there are so many food banks.
China's strong economy has also to do with the high number of population. But there are problems in the West as well, but the rural population is used to a modest life.
I am from India.india and indians r extremely enterprising.and we have far bigger issues than little Britain ever had.i am not talking of colonial excesses which drained us.
U have one of the best systems in the world .if you are unable to do well in that environment u have to question ur competence.brexit was wrong unworkable. Insularity recquires austerity u all r incapable of ..if Asians r doing well there with all the discrimination u have to ask urself where u going wrong.looks like complacency to me..y get into the Ukraine war.
@@babaib3513 Why “get into the Ukraine war”? Because morally it is the right thing to do. Because geopolitically it is the right thing to do. The U.K. should not be isolationist and ignore a horrible war of aggressive imperialism on the borders of Europe. The lessons of the 1930s have been learned.
@@bluecanary9417 oh comman they bailec u out against hiltler and Napoleon..that little muddy canal wudnt have helped u.
Go ahead take a stand just don't complain about the consequences high food and heating costs .take it as ur forefathers said on the chin.
Take a bit of trouble and find out what the last two wars were like how it levelled Europe
Ur head in ng for something much worse.
@@babaib3513 As I have already said, appeasers were saying much the same thing about Hitler in the 1930s. For the record, the U.K. owes nothing to Russia in 2022. Zip. Zilch. Squat. Nobody is complaining about the consequences of doing what they feel is right. But you should feel free to amble through life standing for nothing.
so Orchard park is a deprived area Sunak is diverting funding from to send to the affluent Cotswolds , desperate people do desperate things and the poverty is not there fault
Excellent documentary, no patronising of the working class like the BBC / Sky street interviews, just a (hopefully) genuine questioning of them.
The problem is in places like this many read the right wing media, and more then what you would expect vote for the tories. That alone is heartbreaking.
The brainwashed do not deserve sympathy
@@TomNook. I would agree but their choice also affects everyone else.
That woman who said she liked the Daily Mail... but has been priced out of buying it.
That might be the most tradgic thing ive heard in a while.
@@Anon-xd3cf Hull daily mail, its the most popular paper in the city.
Shes reading hull daily mail, my grandad is the same and just calls it daily mail.
Generally speaking, the people of Hull are born friendly.
But I'll never know why the majority voted for Brexit?
Stupidity or hate. Take your pick.
Honestly it's propaganda. I know working class people around Hull who trust the media to a fault. And social media, and bike youtubers. Yet they voted brexit. And some voted tory too
They were told a lot of lies over a good number of years.
Low education levels in Hull. People are kind, but thick.
Because the people that came here from Eastern Europe were unskilled labor anyone could do. So the poorest had to compete with more people with no chance of pay rises because they were being more easily replaced.
Sadly the Aga crowd here in the Cotswolds feel it necessary to go to local parks on a Sunday morning and fell trees for fuel.
At the end of the day sooner or later people are just going to be walking out of shop’s with trolleys full of food and not paying for it!!! It’s getting worse the government needs to sort their acts out and sort this crisis out!! Why has food and energy gone through the roof there’s a reason for it
We should all be happy that being brown is no longer a barrier to becoming U.K. Prime Minster however being overprivileged and disconnected from the electorate's every day lives should be.
why would that make me proud ?
Yes, thank you. It should be about character and not about skin colour.
@@EllaBella-76 I’m sorry you misunderstood my comment.
@@EllaBella-76 Nobody is judging him by his race, ethnicity or skin colour. We're judging him for being a corrupt parasite that leeches the resources from the people of this country to him and his rich mates.
@@EllaBella-76 Don’t be sorry. I’m embarrassed that you and your son have experienced such awful treatment. I’m afraid our government and their tame media are promoting division in society.I know it perhaps doesn’t feel like it to you but I still believe that the majority of us don’t hold these abhorrent views. Please take care. We’re on your side.
All that poverty created by Tories and she reads the Daily Mail? God help us.
Hull's local newspaper is the Hull daily mail, I'm pretty sure she is referring to that.
and by not working.
No,
The Great Reshit
@@888ssss you aren't paying attention are you?
@@cupguin its you who is lacking the attention to whats going on...
Global marxism 2000-2022 = Modern women are corrupted and self centred, the men are untrustworthy, deceitful and anti social. im being spied on by cctv, policed for personal opinions, coerced into mass medical experiments, stolen from by fake interest rates and the housing is basically a buy to let extortion racket that has been illegally funded by taxation. 😅
im just waiting for the announcement of a NEW digital currency which the richer, wiser men can produce from their asses at no cost, and buy slavery per hour off the plebs..
Old Man in red jacket should'nt have said he's fortunate with his pensions and savings - he will be targeted by the desperate.
I was thinking that myself. Fingers crossed he's not.
Yes Hull has problems but these problems are now nationwide. Some areas are even worse off than Hull! Here in Scotland it is generally colder - it has 9 more days of frost, 12 more days of rain and is 1.4°C colder on average during winter than further south in England. Although energy companies export surplus energy to England, electricity customers in Scotland like Wales pay the highest electricity tariffs and standing charges in the UK. Unlike many foreign or English based suppliers of energy to the UK grid who are often charged a low or zero connection charge, Scottish based companies have to pay high tariffs just to add their supply to the grid. Peterhead based companies, I believe, pay about £15 million just to be allowed to add their renewable energy to the grid. The poorest 10 percent in Scotland now spend almost a third of their energy payments on merely connecting to the energy system because Standing Charges here are 50% higher than in most parts of England.
Edit: Since the government introduced the price caps everyone is currently paying the same standing charges and prices per kWh nationwide - so great now everyone is now being ripped off equally at last 😒 but it still costs more to heat a space if you live in a colder part of the country obviously.
I checked my supplier and they apply the same charge everywhere. This factually wrong on so many level. I have lived in fuel poverty for years in Glasgow. Absolutely we have more days below zero. That is why I have campaigned for cold weather payments to be based on each day we have subzero temperatures, rather a week in which every day has been below zero. Prior to the crisis last year was lucky to get a weather payment every five years. Scottish based companies are ripping us off more. Many add Scottish when there really based in England. What we need is not loony nationalism on this subject. We need a Nationalised Utility Sector. Where all surplus heats the poor homes!
Straight to the point, concise and well said. 👍
Very well presented. Thank you for your story. I will keep you and your people in my prayers luv. Stay strong.
🙏🕊️❤️🕊️🙏🗺️
Levelling up, more like slash and burn
Things are rough, here in Canada too. We don't have councils that house people though. Seniors and the weaker ones will get sick if they're forced to do without heat. Then you'll have people with pneumonia and fever, still with not enough heat. This spells more respiratory illnesses which spread through the whole community. I don't see this ending well.
Thanks for the insight. There are other comments on here from Canada and the USA saying "glad I'm not in the UK", but I'm pretty sure poverty, homelessness, crime and drug addiction are ever increasing problems in countries all over the world.
Woman who volunteers in a food bank, criticises postal workers for going on strike for pay increase so they can avoid going to her food bank, likes to read the Daily Mail. Working class people unwitting cheerleaders for the elite and their own subjugation. Makes me cry.
Anybody else noticed Sunak's wife is chewing gum with an open mouth in the clip of her meeting the King...class
At the mercy of the Bankers, Insurance Brokers, Debt Collectors and last but not least the Media...
Heartbreaking. The first thing that needs to be done urgently is to decouple the price of electricity from the price of gas. Secondly, the Government of the UK needs to stop hiding the facts. I am not too sure about the situation in England or elsewhere in the UK but I do know that in Scotland currently, 95% of our electricity comes from renewables with less than 5% from other sources such as gas. Weirdly it costs more to heat homes in Scotland because extra energy goes into the National Grid and they don't do renewables.
Insane that we need warm banks in this country
This video made me cry...although I live near Beverley I've never forgotten about all the friends I have who live on Orchard Park estate. Good honest and friendly people who...just like me are struggling to make ends meet. Absolute respects to them. Long live the community spirit. High 5s all round.
🧡 Brilliant community 🧡
If you have any space, even just a veranda, try and grow some food. Just stick to the basics, spinach, potatoes, onions, garlic. Just try and grow the basics of a simple meal. I have started to do this with little space. Every little helps. You can even regrow some foods from scraps like leeks, celery, spring onions. Wishing you all the very best.
We can't afford heating and electricity it's making me extremely Angry 😡 heat or eat. Everything is shrinking in size too,but price getting higher.
I’m from hull and orchard park really is bad. At one point buses refused to drive down there after 7pm. It’s almost a forgotten estate. And what’s worse, the goverment are flatting their houses and making most homeless because they’re not building council houses to replace them. These people living in hostels and mouldy flats it’s awful! They’re building new shiner houses and trying to make it more desirable.
This goverment honestly make me sick to the pit of my stomach.
Down to earth conservative voters.....
You said something really important at about 0:30-50 but I had to replay it four times to take it in. Tip: make pauses after the commas and make longer pauses at the end after you say stuff like that, and dont play music over your words.
Listen to how Winston Churchill orates , better still listen to online critics discussing Churchills oratory skills.
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Have things really gone up that much? I live in Yorkshire, my gas and electric is £125 per month, which has been £58 per month since the government intervened. I’m spending around £30 extra per week on food and fuel. Wouldn’t call it a crisis. Just seem to be constantly beating ourselves up.
If you are on Universal Credit, a rise of £30 a week is massive when you're living on less than £80 a week after rent.
£30 extra a week in costs for alot of people is a ‘game changer’Plus don’t forget Everything else is escalating in costs plus the wages are not rising.😯it’s all proportionate to what you earn.And alot work v hard doing more than one job but still are just existing.People Are very resourceful with their resources!!! but lot of people enjoy a simple life in these areas,
but we need investment to enhance these communities,Encouraging local businesses to thrive,Youth Clubs with role models as these are the next generation some of these Degenerates growing up now with no inspiration,role models or skill base,They should encourage sport as local thugs may turnaround if they have something to do and aim for more proactive policing as you don’t see them hardly so to restore respect and the hard working ethic we grew up with.
Greetings from Ireland....☘🇮🇪☘
My wife and I just spent 6 weeks in the UK. It was our first visit in 3 years. There is no question that the country had slid dramatically in the last 3 years. Shabby,run down,dirty,and a lot of homeless. We are both of English ancestry and always felt that the UK was a sort of second home. After this last visit we are in no rush to return. Too disheartening to see a once great country sliding into a cesspool.
Sadly I agree, my family and I would fly to UK from States for a month of sightseeing and vacation, will never return as it’s too sad to see the beautiful historic country I grew up in collapse in poverty and chaos. The government are thieves and criminals .
We are funding the luxurious stay of too many immigrants.
Lost a lot of hope lately but the lovely people in this video have reinstated some of it, or at least given a reason to have it
That woman who can't afford to buy and read The Daily Fail anymore, doesn't know how much better off she is.
The local HULL DAILY MAIL! NOT, repeat NOT the Tory rag!!!
@@hellecopter100 clarified that did she? Timestamp?
What's happening with the Enough is Enough movement? I hope it hasn't lost its steam.
What a great report on northern life
Charity is why we still smile! Unless you walk in our shoes you will never know.
I suppose that’s the one blessed silver lining out of this fiasco is that woman can’t afford to buy the Daily Mail any more.
Exactly, some of the things she was saying did my nut in. I've heard it so often from northern working class tories who grew up poor, all I ever hear is the sound of a ladder being pulled up
That was one of the saddest things ive heard recently.
Imagine being that poor and continuing to pay good money for a propaganda rag full of bullshit that makes you keep voting against your own interests...then you are priced out of even accessing it.
In the 70's.... Mum used to buy the Hull Daily Mail to light the fire with.
I wish they would stop calling people with mortgages "Home owners" they are not, they simply have a huge debt.
Are pellet stoves legal in Britain? This isn't a fix for heating costs BUT for the price of a winter of heating oil or propane you can install a gravity fed pellet stove. Barely any smoke. No electricity needed. You can vent them out a window with a little ingenuity.
I had a feeling that woman was a Daily Mail reader (All those hand outs)
Probably Hull Daily Mail but sadly many people are like this. Maybe there should have been handouts in the old days dear.
My heating still not gone on yet.
Heat the person not the Room
It's not winter yet.
If your gas meter reads in m3, each full digit before the decimal is about £3~... chuck it in for an hour and see what it costs, when we drop below 10c consistently day and night that's when you'll feel it in your wallet
Hats off to so many of the people in this video, they are the people who keep your country going.
Devastated that the Dailly Mail has gone up so much.
When people think you're just lucky to have a job that is when you know you are struggling.
I'm a retired firefighter who fought for a decent pay rise, decent terms and conditions and a proper service for the community I served - I was one of those lucky ones to have a job, I was the enemy within.
When teachers and nurses are turning up at the food bank isn't it time to ask what the f**k is going on what has gone so wrong?
Last years hero's, this year lucky to have a job
It's so sad that you have to have youth groups like St Mikes picking up the slack and just being the friendly face the compassionate kind companion there for those in need when the government can't even be arsed to lift a finger. we (The UK) are 6 richest country in the world was the fifth richest but we fallen behind India. yet it is feels like in some parts of this country is heading to a third world it's quite sad to put it politely.
Its so horrible, the Uk people deserves better
It really does make me wonder what the real plan us for us peasants!
They want an economy like China. Where a few extra percentage points of productivity is squeezed out of the population by force, at the expense of their wellbeing. When we could have an economy more like Switzerland, where productivity is high because people are happy and healthy with a good work/life balance.
They want you dead.
@4x4Fella I'm surprised. People still aren't getting a clue while the examples are out in the open.
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the bit about the daily mail... classic!
I live just a couple of hundred feet outside the Hull Boundary, in the east riding thankfully. I did live within Hull for many years and it was pretty dismal.
I don't say that to put people from Hull down, most of my friends live in Hull. If someone abroad asks me where im from i say "HULL" which is almost always responded to with the question "is that near Grimsby? " I have no explanation for this.
I'm thankful because Hull City Council are criminally underfunded and incompetent and the services within the boundaries are utterly appalling. Particularly mental health and social services. Housing is very poor, Hull based mental health services regularly kill people by turning them away. Hull Royal Infirmary is on the verge of collapse. Other services such as refuse collection hang by a thread. Always seems to be plenty of money for roadworks and police overtime on a weekend when they all go in town for a scrap which is the only time you see them.
I'm afraid whatever Hull had to be proud of in the past has been ripped away by successive governments. It's the wind bleached carcass of a town picked clean by carrion.
😞 Indeed. Have you watched episodes of ‘A+E After Dark’ on Channel 5? It presents the work done by the staff at Hull Royal Infirmary. Every time I watch one episode I wonder how those dedicated doctors and nurses manage. Seeing security men patrolling A+E and dealing with abusive, violent people is almost more than I can watch. Yet I want to believe that the people of Hull are decent and caring 😢!
The East Riding is as bad as Hull I’ve lived in both
@@Tricky181 I guess it depends where you are in the east riding as there are lots of parish councils etc. but although there are serious issues in the east riding and the local authority is still corrupt, services are not quite as stretched. Then again we pay a lot more council tax too. I should have stated that this was "from my own experience" I have to access a number of services and it has been much easier to do since I returned to the east riding. I have, however taken east riding council to court over housing repairs so I am no fan.
@@sirmeowthelibrarycat my sister worked in A&E there for many years however in the end she was practically running the dept - In the absence of any competent senior doctors. (All the consultants care about are their private patients). She quit because they wouldn't pay her in line with her qualifications or the work she was doing, took a job with a medical software company and now lives in a 6 bedroom house .
My other half moved in with me (in East Hull)
She is partially sighted... Our aweful Hull council offer her more help than she ever got living under the East Riding Council.
When i needed food bank help i was only allowed to get the vouchers twice and both the liskeard cornwall job centre were rude and the local mp was rude too. They made you feel like a scrounger.
What a tragedy in the UK, a rich country with so many suffering!!
I’m planning to set up giving to Trussel Trust in my payslip before the tax gets taken off. That way something like £8 comes out of my wages but the charity gets £10.
I've been buying a few things every week, saving it up then taking it to the local food bank in Hull. Chatting to the volunteer there, they said they've seen a big rise just this year in use.
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Slimline electrical equipments are always very nice but when the ordinary stuff for the regular people gets “ slim lined” then it is time to reconsider the blueprints .
As an American, I'm still trying to understand how the UK provides food subsidies, like SNAP. I volunteer with a food bank in the US. We have problems getting enough food, relying on local businesses for donations. Our clients also get SNAP benefits which are foodstamps. They get more a month for food than I could ever spend. So I do wonder what people are buying that keeps them so poor. And videos of the poor in England seem to include ladies with fancy artificial nails, hair color, televisions, and all the mod cons. I know what real poverty looks like and I'm not seeing it.
Those three things you mention can be had very cheaply, in the case of nails and hair you could do both for about £10. TVs are also cheap and are something that poor people in America also have (alongside massive cars). If millions of people on this country not being able to feed themselves regularly is not poor enough for you, how poor would you like them to be before they claim that title? The UK does not provide food stamps.
@ams1897 I have worked in the area of food insecurity for decades. Poor choices have a lot to do with it. My family lived well through the Great Depression and wartime by making hard choices. By growing food, raising chickens, and being extremely frugal.
I gave up television and chose a lifestyle that does not cost a lot so I can donate my time and money. Through all this I am trying to understand how to actally help people feed themselves through good times and bad times. That 10 pounds spent on artificial nails could feed one person for a month if they realized where they have been putting their money with nothing but poverty and poor health to show for it. When the UK rationed food during WWII the population was the healthiest it had ever been. People can ration themselves if they choose. I do. If I drag myself out to one more food giveaway in the cold and Ms Longredclaws turns her nose up at plain oatmeal that you have to cook I will quit trying to help at all.
i'm in absolute despair because people outright refuse to acknowledge that we simply experiencing the consequences of capitalism. Grown adults talking about baseless hope and just carrying on. What's the fucking point, honestly?
Linking maximum with minimum wage (e.g. 20x), and taxing those with huge accumulated wealth (usually stored offshore) will completely change things.
That’s the biggest issue for me, the less well off always paying the price for greedy morally corrupt governments mistakes, it’s a bloody disgrace. The rich get richer, while everyone else gets screwed over.
Really good piece
He nearly burst into flames when she said she liked the daily Mail.
These people tell it how it is and I think many others can relate with them. The UK needs to understand that's it's not just the South East and that the system for many has failed them.
Those people running voluntary services are adding something that they know is vital, they form a literal life line. All the politics and in-fighting fails to deliver
Come to my flat...it's more colder than the artic