I'm 60 years old, still working and in a well paid job. I take nothing for granted, I could be like any of these people tomorrow. Please everyone when you go shopping, buy something to put into the food bank in your local supermarket if you can. You never know when it might be your turn.
@@D0S81 Ha ha I won't lie, I do look at some of the donations and think 'would they eat this themselves?' Things are bad enough without getting donations you can't eat so I make sure I put in nice stuff.
@@italianstallion9170 If you know anything about how foodbanks work, you'll find supermarkets do put in huge amounts themselves. I used to collect from supermarkets to take to a foodbank.
There’s so many men out there, mid-50s, physically knackered or disabled after a lifetime in a trade, living desperately lonely lives (often childless and single), trying to cling on to an existence in tiny bedsits on Universal Credit. My heart really goes out to them.
Unfortunately, as much as it is painful to call out the obvious . . . voting for the Conservatives all these last couple of decades put them in this predicament. Karma came calling, Brexit expedited that process. Hopefully people can stop voting against their best interests in the future
If someone had told me thirty years ago that the UK would sink so low I would never have believed them. Gone are the days when having a job would at least keep your head above water. I seen an ex-council house going for £950 a month near where I live, how is someone working in a supermarket or any other basic job supposed to afford that? Millions are struggling just for the basics, including people in work, it really isn't something to be proud of. I'm in my fifties and remember my gran telling me about the squalid conditions people lived in when she was young, I hope we aren't heading back to that standard. There will always be an argument about scroungers and lazy people, but to have people going hungry in the fifth (or sixth) largest economy is shameful.
Think yourself lucky that you're in your fifties. I work in a 'professional' job in the NHS - the workplace has recently started offering staff free sanitary products because of destitution. I know of one NHS staff member that lives in a van because they can't afford a place to live. This country is a mess more than people know.
People go hungry in all the richest countries. America. Japan. China. France. Italy. Germany. It is shameful but it's a shameful part of all the richest countries In the world. We need a global solution to it.
I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for.
I feel your pain mate, as a fellow retiree, I’d suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me, I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an expert advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $30k in value stocks and digital assets, Up to 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes.
@@AlilatTiamiyu The crazy part is that those advisors are probably outperforming the market and raising good returns but some are charging fees over fees that drain your portfolio. Is this the case with yours too?
Great isnt referring to the country being Amazing. I cant believe this isnt known. Its just referring to greater Britain - isles not of britain - so n.ireland or isle of skye and so on
This comes from the Roman period. The big island which includes Wales, Scotland and England was known as Great Britain. The small island which includes Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland was known as Little Britain. It was in Latin of couse not English :)
Thats what the MAGA morons in the US do. Most of them don’t even realize that their leaders hand billions in tax breaks to the rich and hand them a couple of hundred in return.
I have been working all my life paying all my taxes and then I got a neurological disease and it has impacted my life for the worst. I see many nasty comments, don’t judge other people without knowing their life circumstances.
The people in the UK who voted for Tory rule deserve the hardship they voted for. The people who voted for Corbin: I'm so sorry for the stupidity of the boomer brain rot.
You could see his pain. I can't speak for women, but, in men, the shame that comes from poverty, not being able to provide for yourself and your family, and the consequent lack of purpose is hard to describe. It makes you ashamed to be alive. The shame leads people to stay indoors in order to avoid having to face people who ask, "how are you? All good?", which leads to loneliness and depression, if not worse.
I think this touches on the root cause of most of the problems in the UK and US today - the hollowing out of the working/middle class over the last 30 years. You've got people living nearly destitute, young people who can't get on the housing ladder, families struggling to pay bills - and they wonder why our Country's are so chaotic and divided..
@@jenniferdavis2110 It's what some Brits do: they try and bundle themselves in with the US to exonerate themselves from the dire state of their own country.
Maybe if you shut down those overseas bases, stopped policing the world, stopped foreign aid, used the money saved on domestic issues only... you never know.
@@jenniferdavis2110 Actually your welfare in the US is a lot worse than in the UK. And poverty is higher in the US than in the UK too. As is homelessness. And without universal healthcare a person can be bankrupt in the US because they got sick when they weren't wealthy enough to pay medical bills.
But surely there is something that he can do to improve his situation? I know he says he’s disabled but he still has a moving body and a functioning brain. Surely there’s a job out there for him.
No wonder so many working people are terrified of losing their jobs. It's also no wonder that so many folks merely subsisting on benefits end up taking their own lives because of grinding poverty (since they have no quality of life.) There are a lot of people who are now employed but were formally subsisting on benefits, and this has left them with PTSD. They live in constant fear of finding themselves back in that stressful situation once again, and rightly so. Believe me, welfare poverty is one of the most depressing experiences known to mankind. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
The most aggravating aspect is that food banks are treated as a normal part of life. It's not normal to be a working person and not be able to afford food. It's just not normal.
I live in what was often referred to as "The Lucky Country"- Australia. Many people here are suffering Mortgage stress and even middle class people with relatively good incomes are visiting food banks because the cost of their mortgage takes a huge chunk of their income. ...... and suggesting they sell up is not practical because they would probably lose money on the sale and end up in a rental queue where there seems to be more people wanting to rent properties than properties available.
@icebergrose8955 we didn't really have food banks in the UK when I was growing up in the 90s- and that's not rose tinted glasses, there's real number facts you can look up. In the years of Tories being in power the number of Trussell trust banks nationwide went from 35 in 2011 to 1,300 in 2019
@@Rumade I was in the UK in the 90s, they weren't a thing. Food banks in New Zealand really took off after the 2008 financial debacle. NZ produces enough food to feed 40 million people. We have 5 million and people struggle to buy milk. Capitalism.
It's expensive to be poor. Poor people don't have access to low interest loans, they can't afford washer machine so they'll have to pay for launderette like this gentleman here. They can't buy in bulk (which is generally cheaper) because they don't have a car, plus supermarkets are often located in middle and upper class areas. It's a sad state of affair really.
Indeed, laundromats get spendy. It works out better if you just wash and then take the clothes home to hang up to dry but that depends on having a dry enough climate. I wash at home with a plunger thing but I have room to have a dedicated place to hang my clothes to dry. Not everyone has that.
What does having a car and buying in bulk got to do with one another? Supermarkets don't offer home delivery? That supermarket location comment is dumb aswell.
@simonseis744 You do realise online orders with supermarkets have a minimum spend... Far in excess of what these ppl have available to spend. If you've never struggled, just keep quiet and listen cause your privilege is showing
Delivery also costs money, online shopping is unreliable, and supermarkets don't offer the ability to buy in bulk, plus a poor person with a small home has no way of storing a bulk of food.@@simonseis744
My sister took legal custody of me when she was twenty one years old and worked in a fast food place. Sometimes I would have to stay with friends family for months at a time because she couldn’t afford me. Those families were friends of ours because I went to school with their kids . Those people we’re heroes. Bought all my gear for sports and everything. They were not well off either. Anyway, what I meant to say is poverty sucks for kids and families.
@@jamesbong4928Germany here. Please explain me your brexit and how Labour was pro brexit. UK better come home to Europe, since the Empire is obsolete in the new globalized world. This 'British freedom' was fine only for capitalism, wasn't it?
But EU made bad decisions too. We should have left you your fishing rights. It's even better for nature, if only the locals take care of the ressources... I suggest we stop eating seafish in the well-fed nations, we have such a meat overproduction, we actually make propane gas from food... we should grow forests instead.
This is madness everything is falling apart and it keeps getting worse. How are people supposed to live a meaningful life with the cost of living out of reach
I live in Italy and I find this report so heartbreaking. I simply cannot imagine how these people get up in the morning knowing what awaits them. The government should be ashamed that a man who has worked all his life has to live on 30 quid a month!
He’s on benefits and hasn’t mentioned what the illness actually is? Judging by most sob stories it’s probably hurt feelings or divorce depression. Why can’t he work? Because it’s harder than waiting to be paid by job centre.
Government has to extort everything they spend from working taxpayers. UK taxpayers are already highly taxed. Keep pushing and the highest earners will leave. They have options.
It sounds like he is only on £30 a month because his rent has shot up. Presumably before that he was struggling, but managing. The problem is that there is no real cheaper alternative out there in terms of rent.
This could happen to any one of us - lose a job, get sick or have a baby as a single Mum and the country turns it's back on you. So sad. Should not happen in the UK.
We have immigrants publicly funded living in 4-5 star hotels. We need to finance our new culturally perfect peaceful arrivals with housing, welfare, NHS, so how can we fund our own. Immigrants take priority over British natives, didn’t you get the memo?
@@jimsim8736 sadly, I did, and it sickens me to the core, what our Political class have done to this Country. As the saying goes, import the third world, become the third world. These animals are quite simply incompatible with first world standards !
We’re all a couple of pay days away from poverty. I’ve worked all my life, lost both parents last year & was out of work while probate was going on (and still going on) I went 6 days without food in February of this year. Used a food bank & cried walking home with the bags of food they gave me.
The world is upside down. I live in the US & it's the save situation. All the sudden, the wealth gap is the size of a galaxy. You either have a $500MM yacht, or you live in a rent or car. Devastating & no solutions in sight. Where is the electwd leadership?😡
Citizens United decision by the republicans on supreme court basically legalized corporate corruption and bribery to politicians, and we’re living the result.
I am in the US, working as a Substitute Teacher. This year, we received a raise that helped, but in the past few years, I could barely make my rent, unless the school schedule allowed 22 work days in the month. I was constantly sick with chronic upper respiratory issue, rashes, and kidney infections when I started subbing, and used summer to get almost well before everything started again with the next school year. Covid helped tremendously as I qualified for unemployment and actually received more than when I was working. It's ridiculous that the US and the UK make it so hard to get help when you're actually working hard to keep from drowning. I didn't use food banks before Covid, the thought never crossed my mind. Now I'm so grateful for them.
They make it very difficult for locals to get benefits, yes, but they're quick to sign blank cheques to F.O.T.B. who haven't paid a penny into the system...
@rayr6278 Actually getting a teaching credential and being a teacher (instead of a substitute teacher) comes with bigger headaches and dealing with parents, administrators, etc. I know quite a few who went through the training and couldn't pass one of the tests after a few tries. I also know several teachers who are burnt out and are either retiring early or looking for something else in the field or another career. Also, California likes people to jump through hoops to become teachers. I looked into it when I first started subbing, and realized I didn't want the burden of student loans without the guarantee of a teaching position to pay it off.
For US society educated people are not wanted. In a Two Party System for centuries ignorant people are essentiell. Hurray Election the Olympic Games of Democracy. Hurray But never translate democracy into english, or whatever mothertongue, it is very dangerous. Nobody must know. You agree? Mother of Democracy yesessssses.
It just doesn't need to be. Both of our countries just don't care. Its more importsnt to keep million and billionaires abuse loopholes to not pay a penny, and simultaneously underpay their staff. their starving every other class of resources to keep someone so wealthy they can never evem spend it.... hope you sort something out bro, I'm not here yet. But I'm just about floating along myself, it's despicable 2 countries as wealthy as ours can forgive themselves for letting this happen. wish you well!
@@Steven-ly9ei The whole reason after World War 2 a socialist government came into power was because people saw the poorest fighting for their country and returning home to homelessness, sickness and poverty, and that something had to be done about it. So the welfare state and the NHS were formed. Now nearly all politicians from both sides of the House are spouting the virtues of Thatcherism/Neoliberalism and happily dismantling what remains of the welfare state and NHS. And most people are so brainwashed by media they support it.
And yet supermarkets throw away millions of tons of food because they rather do that than lower the price because they rather people buy it at full price than reduce it
supermarkets throw away lots of food yet the big super market chain by me has empty shelves and they constantly try shuffle the bit around to make it look fuller with nothing behind..............
@@terencejay8845 its a crime when you have to do this..........shouldn't have to do this at all and foodbanks shouldn't exist we should be thriving not going backwards to stone age.
@@moneymanifestation9505 who are you to judge others? And laugh at them? And mock at them? It is a completely ignorant NPC comment that is both invalidating and somewhat sociopathic... manifest that right up yours!
I work full time (40 hours a week), and earn an “average” salary… And things are really starting to bite. My energy bills have doubled, my food costs have doubled. My rent and council tax have increased, petrol prices to get to and from work have increased, but my salary has not. It just seems to be getting harder and harder.
There is something about Paul's story that really touched me... The way he tries to keep up smiling... But his eyes tell the truth... I wished society did more for the needy. I used to be one of those who believed that hand-outs were bad and that there were only lazy people who took advantage of it. But I changed my mind over the past few years when I came to realize that it doesn't matter if some people take advantage of the system, because what matters in the end is that there is a "safety net" for the people who truly need it.
There's also a bunch of studies that have shown its far more cost effective to house and feed people than it is to pay for the long term consequences of having swathes of society in poverty.
@MyLazySundae To my defense, I didn't believe the needy were lazy, I believed the majority of needy weren't actually needy BUT lazy, wanting to live on the system. But having worked with some charities in the past last years, I can admit to how wrong I was. I've been working with the needy, the truly needy, in France. And boy... Am I glad that there are good "safety nets" here. But it still breaks my heart to see the people who are left alone, helpless.
My wife invites our neighbour's kid around to play with ours, we know for a fact she goes hungry so her kid can have meals but shes always turned down "food help" from us, so we invite her kid to play with ours as an excuse to cook a meal for the both of them (we'll cook something the kid wants but cook too much of it so the mother finishes off what the kid doesnt want), this country is fucked up when a single working mother can't afford to feed themselves.
@@LillyC-j5o He did say something is wrong when a single WORKING mother can't afford to feed herself. So she does have a job. Scoffing at people for being kind makes you look kinda mean.
There’s a lot of people here who are older. I am a minor watching this, and recently I’ve met someone who’s changed my life. He is one of the most amazing people I’ve had the pleasure of taking to, and he lives in poverty. I hate how our world is. The rich greedily ruining lives just to support their own. People at the top of organisations and businesses money crazed. And that’s what it is. A craze. How in the God’s names can people sit there and say they don’t care. It disgusts me. I am from a middle class family, and I am so so lucky and so great full for what I have. Everything I have. And seeing things like this, meeting people like the boy I did, is life changing. I sat and cried whilst watching this. And I’m not ashamed to say that. It’s horrific what some people have to live through. Call me sensitive. Call me whatever. But I’m so so sorry for people who have to live in such conditions. And it breaks me heart to see how so disgracefully little is being done. I’d like the thank the boy I met for making me realise so much about life itself. And I want to try and spread awareness on this subject.
@@paulnicolas172Yeah. My family use I think its calld "Oleo" lots of good food that would be thrown out otherwise. It's good if you can manage to ignore your pride
@@Dryhten1801 hi! Tried to use this app the other day and yeah it’s good and you can also get physical goods as well from people who want to get rid but sometimes with food the people are far from you so depending on what they have it’s hardly worth going that distance especially if your driving and have to pay for petrol to get there egghead closest to me is someone selling small bundle of oranges but they are 3.5 miles from me .
@@Dryhten1801 yeah ! Only thing is though you might have to travel a Good few miles to collect so you’d have to factor that in but it depends upon where you live
This goes on in America also I am 60 years old and live on a fixed income from being disabled The food banks can't handle all of us that are in need of food It's heartbreaking
@@Steve-kj5zt..this also happens in other European EU countries. In Spain people on unemploiment only get 500-600 a month. And not only Spain, also poverty in Germany, France.
Really felt for that bus driver guy... After redundancy from the shipyard I used to survive on £6 a week after rent was paid in the early 1990s.. still recall going to Netto and grabbing all the cheap cans of food they had. Used to just lie in bed just so I didn't have to turn the heater on... all this and I was working as a volunteer computer technician/donation collector at the homeless society (where I could get free out of date sandwiches)... simply no jobs in my hometown at that time... and minimum wage wasn't a thing then so you could be drastically worse off not being on benefits... a vicious circle. I left UK 15 years ago after going to uni and, while I would love to move back, videos like this remind me of the brutal reality of living in the UK.
I think that was minimum wage in the UK back in the 90s but not back in the old days.. other countries are worse than the UK even America is worse than the UK..
I could write the same thing. Early 90s, £5 or £6 a week after rent. Housing benefit not enough so I had to pay a fiver out of my meagre benefits for one room in a street so dodgy the post wouldn't deliver Giros (Darlington). Left 30 years ago and never looked back.
Sadly, relatable. Left to rot as a disabled, estranged, bereaved, unemployed, chronically ill, medically neglected, at risk of homelessness, single, childless, unqualified, non driving, already marginalised adult female who actually wants to work and contribute and not be a benefit claimant. Poverty forced me to quit education and has limited in so many ways that most people just do not have any lived experience of. The disparities around me are unbearable. It’s first of September 2024 and I’m sat here in extreme fear and despair, to say the least. I wouldn’t wish this upon my worst enemies. And the worst thing about all of this is that as a person of colour (who was born and have lived here my entire life contrary to racist beliefs) I am even more penalised for being ‘unemployed’, a claimant and having illnesses. I don’t receive any disability benefits such as PIP. Before you judge me as a ‘scrounger’, I’ll have you know that I’ve not always been a UC claimant and I have worked albeit in very short lived, underpaid, voluntary and mismatched roles including care and customer service. I was also an unpaid carer for a now dead father. I can see this video is from last year but I’ve only viewed it today and would like to say thank you, Channel 4. May destitution end for all.
P.S. I sincerely hope that Paul (and all other hard working or otherwise worthy people who require and deserve the financial support) receives compensation and comfort .
For a "developed" country, this is shocking. Through illness, I live off what the DWP thinks I should get to live off. However, those who do the calculating, have no idea what's happening in the real world. Prices are going up: food, energy, gas, electric etc but the government forgets that benefits do not rise at the same rate! But then again the calculations are done by those who have had a privileged upbringing and have never had to live under the same syress as us!!
YES!!! And no idea what the real costs are for being disabled!! The NHS, and social services all now refuse equipment and necessary items 'because that's what your benefits are for!!' Yet benefits don't even allow me to put my heating on when I have a heart & respiratory condition and am supposed to keep warm and mould free.
Many DWP staff are on minimum wage, some are part time as carers or single parents. Many get less money than the claimants and have to pay to get to work and have clean, presentable clothes
@@jennifersivewright3117 yes. The whole system is corrupt from top to bottom. I've just found out that Dorset County Council is using air b and b to house children in care,then paying a woman who is already a foster carer to a teenager is then being allowed to leave her at night alone while she works for a private foster agency to go and spend the night at another premise looking after another child. Couldn't make this stuff up. And the private firms cream off huge profits with the blessing and for the betterment of those who already have too much.
@@robertedmond6596 I like to know why the royals are even there???To cut ribbons and go to places??? It is a real joke with the poverty in that country.
Benefit bashers need to watch this. This is average life of a disabled person these days. I know what its like to dive in the dumpster for scraps, wear clothing that is falling apart and beg for food at the local food bank. Its hard and I feel immese shame for being disabled. I wish I could do more with my life.
How can you dive in a dumpster if your disabled I'm 56 ache all over my body and I couldn't dive in a pool let alone a dumpster if you are disabled I'm sorry for that and hope life gets easier for you and you get the goverment help you need but I have a suspicion you may be telling pork pies
people who support mass migration need to watch this. able bodied military aged men calling themselves "refugees" cost the government over a billion a year, and get 4 star hotels and meals.
Do not feel shame, govt and the right wing press will try to demonize you but you have nothing to be ashamed for. It is those in govt and the right wing press who have done you wrong.
Especially ones that have worked and payed taxes there whole life it’s sickening . Some pip accessors are bad tho I lost 5-6 points I needed for it because I gave them number of my phone , I can’t use a computer to well but used an iPhone for 10 years nearly so I can give someone my number
I remember living in Canada during the pandemic I had to rent a room for $600.00. literally I had $15.00 a month to live off of but the restaurants offered free food everyday in my neighborhood because they wouldn't allow us to work. I did that for 3 months then moved to a shared house. I ended up paying less and there was plenty of food because everyone put in the pot to buy groceries every week. There was Soo much food that food was never an issue. When life gets hard you just can't do it by yourself.
People who give up in life are people who lose in life, my first experience happens to be a failure but I never gave up cause I knew it was going to work out for me trying continuously, fortunately I'm smiling today by getting involved in investment.. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life too 🙏🙏🙏
We are a 6 figure income couple and had very little saved and not much cash lying around the preverbal". '...don't have $500 for an emergency" that was us. The big thing was debt all kinds of it, cars mortgage (although our home isn't a high price one), student loans for our kids, and of course credit cards. One day we just got sick of being broke and went total scorched earth and became frugal overnight. Paid it all off, it took almost 5 years but now we have no debt and this year our savings rate is 50% on basically the same income that had us perpetually broke.So for us it is mainly staying out of debt and watching our spending, at first it was a real effort to save in our HISA and 401Ks but now it's actually fun watching our money grow. No car or vacation or neighborhood is worth being broke or financially unstable.
you've remind me of what someone once said "The mind is the man, the poor is in it and the rich is it too". This sentence is the secret of most successful investors. I once attended similar and ever since then been waxing strong financially, and i most tell you the truth..investment is the key that can secure your family future.
I grew up in the UK during the 1940's and 50's, the son of a not very well off working class family together with my older sister. Although we had little money we never went without a meal, yet I don't ever recall hearing of food banks in those days. Society is supposed to progress, not go backwards, there's something sadly wrong when people can't afford to put food on the table.
😮I went without in the 60s in Northern Ireland having one poor meal a day or occasionally no meal. There were 3, low-paid adults in the house working full time. Nothing was spent on booze or gambling and we had no car. Our situation was commonplace and there were no charity food handouts or benefits other than a few shillings in Family Allowance. The “good old days” is a myth.
@@karlwalter2242 If you are referring to Paul, there was no complaining. He merely answered the questions that were asked. If his answers made you uncomfortable that is your problem, not his. It was clearly stated that he had to finish work due to ill health. Just because you cannot physically see ill health does not mean it is untrue, nor does it mean it is temporary. You sound very naive. Every person in post Brexit Britain could end up in his exact same position. He is in a worse position than some because his age and his physical health is against him. This could also happen to you at some point in your life. You too will reach the 'invisible age' and you are going to be truly shocked.
Even people with degrees are struggling to find jobs or make enough. The government boasts about all the jobs available and yet so many are still jobless/homeless/near poverty. When everyone from your business owner to your graduate student is struggling, the issue isn’t the citizens or a generation that “doesn’t want to work”. Scariest part is that when the population tries to start organizing and making efforts to help each other, those on power also make it hard, creating 1000 and 1 hoops that you have to jump through. They can’t be arsed to help and then they try and prevent others from helping properly.
Hello, I am disabled and I work, I live in a shared house with other people who work, it’s a beautiful house in a lovely area and I am fine. These people are choosing to not work and then complain about having no money. These men can both work in the jobs I work in and the mother can defer her studies and work full time. They are all choosing to not work and then complain and blame the government.
@@CatherineX-ph3onif you were a man and had my particular health conditions and discrimination you would be turned down and yet are absolutely very much almost totally disabled. Your sweeping generalisation and I'm alright jack attitude is quite repulsive and if you weren't entirely ignorant, I would say you should be thoroughly ashamed. Better to keep quiet than remove all doubt..
I worked hard from 16 to my mid 30's until a health issue I was born with got steadily worse. It's a huge struggle to survive, I eat one meal a day & it's normally a baked potato & beans. My dog eats better than me, before anyone says I shouldn't have a dog if I'm struggling so much I'd like to mention that I suffered with prolonged grief syndrome for 2 yrs. For 2 years I would burst into tears multiple times every day. The NHS wouldn't give me therapy, instead they just filled me with pills which didn't help. I rescued my dog because his past owner who was seriously abusing him was going to put him down (he's only 18 months old & perfectly healthy). He's the one thing in my life that was able to snap me out of my crippling depression. I gave him a home to save him & in return he's been saving me. I'm constantly worried that our government is going to make my life harder as they demonize those of us with long term health issues. I have physical health issues & mental health issues, I'm almost 50 so no amount of benefit cuts will make employers decide to employ me before they employ a healthy person
Anybody who pre-judges you is a fool. Discount their views. I hope your dog helped remove some of your sadness and lessened your pill dependency. You are not alone with unemployment. It's a definite struggle. I had to go to a Communist country just to get some work. All the very best and although times are exceptionally know that people out there understand what you're going through.
Oh you struggling ? How come you can feed that dog of yours then ? Get yourself out of dodge before thinking you can be charitable, towards dogs of all things.
I'm in Canada but have friends from around the world in online mental health forums. One man i knew for years was 59 and living in his car in northern England and working full-time. He had worked his whole life despite psychiatric illness. He was trying to stay hopeful but when his car engine seized he couldn't afford the repairs, lost his job and wound up in the psychiatric ward at hospital. For some reason they didn't get him into housing and he chose to end his life. His sister (who lived hundreds of miles away) let his friends online know about his passing. I don't know how an employed 59 year old homeless man was not able to get help, but here in Canada it's very difficult for working people to get emergency help although the system supports many "lifers" on welfare for decades. Perhaps some funds should be allocated to helping employed people stay employed? I find it very sad that this good man died. Rest in peace, Paul
unfortunately your story happened in my block of flats two months ago, He jumped from 16 floors. Only 31. He hadn`t had his benefits in 12 weeks. i had known he was that hard up ..I`d have given him money/food. But he was a quiet soul and kept himself to himself. This is England.
@@olavwilhelm6843 well yea you turn 18 and leave the nest . My family is scattered all over the country. My Mrs family are scattered all over the world. People don't live and die in one town do they .
@@olavwilhelm6843 Its hard to understand from the outside looking in but people are proud so do not always turn to family when they can, especially those with mental health its often harder for them to feel motivated to tell others about their situation and get help, when you are older you do not want to be a burden.
This administration is putting many families in difficult situations. A lot of people are financially struggling to live, put a roof over their head and put food on the table. Things are getting worse these days, if you don't find means of multiplying your money you might wake up a day to realise you didn't plan well for yourself and family.
That's awesome to hear. I invested 5k in Robin hood about a year ago and it steadily went down, now my portfolio is down to $800. I don't know what to do and i am in between jobs
@@Florencecoxx Understanding your financial needs and making effective decisions is very essential. If I could advise you, you should seek the help of a financial advisor. For the record, working with one has been the best for my finances.
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My grandad was a veteran of WW2, worked his entire life and was extremely proud of what came following the war ie the NHS and the welfare state. In years past I have felt so proud to work in the NHS and live in a country that looks after the sick, disabled and those in poverty. The Conservatives ideologically hate these pillars of our society and have purposefully dismantled them. This country has now got exactly what it voted for. The Conservatives convincing the working class that they represent them will hopefully be remembered as the biggest swindle a UK government has ever played on its people.
I noticed how bad it was under Tony Blairs government. I left the UK in 2005. It has got even worse since. It is heartbreaking the suffering of British people.
The NHS's budget is bigger than its ever been and the tories have continued to throw ever more billions at it. An increase of 400 million per week in real terms since brexit BEFORE covid hit. So the idea that its a shambles because "tories" is just partisan drivel. It needs REFORM and borders need to be controlled so it isn't abused by leeches jetting in from every sh*t hole around the world. Did you know that 7 out of 10 NHS patients on HIV antivirals (very expensive drugs) werent even born here? and it doesn't matter which party is in control, that will NOT happen.
I grew up on a council estate. I went back to school to study GCSE maths at age 33. I am now studying cellular and molecular medicine at university. The only way out of poverty for me was learning a new skill. I live on very little, and most of my meals are snacks, but I was a flight attendant before, and the sad fact is that there is a ceiling for unskilled labour. We will never get ahead. Where do we go from here? In my city, a property listed at 9am is gone by 9:05am because people are so desperate for a place to stay that they will pay the deposit before seeing the place, and the rent is extortionate. I am skipping meds I need or spacing them out so I don't run out, and I shop for food at night for the closing deals. Look after each other y'all. It's hard out here for everyone.
I am a fully self funded student. I graduate with zero debt and masters degree. 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs". That verse refers to people who do unscrupulous things to make money. Going back to school to not live in a place where 3 people have been stabbed and killed yards from my doorstep could hardly be considered that. @@gizmomac1520
Not everryone has a veey good memory or can absorb studying. I have memory block now and severe trauma and ptsd type condition plus physical conditions worsened. I dont have to justify mysrlf have worked double or more hours 7 day weeks for most of my life taken jobs at low salaries and finally ended up homeless with severe covid etc... at 63 my future is not rosy and hope it s all over soon.
This is genuinely heartbreaking. As someone who has experienced living on the edge of homelessness, despite always being employed and, thankfully able to work, I know the daily / nightly stress of counting the (literal) pennies and trying to get from day to day. The toll it takes on the body and mind cannot be understated. IF you survive it, it scars you for life. My heart goes out to the increasing numbers of people who find themselves in this terrible position, there is NO REASON within a civilised society that people cannot and should not be supported, there are enough resources, providing they are not being horded and squandered by the privileged few.
Hello, if you are working full time and living within your means, there is no reason why you should be in insecure accommodation and be at risk of homelessness. You have not been given correct information to help you flourish. I am disabled and work but in low paid work and I am not at risk of homelessness. I rent through well respected estate agents. I live in shared houses with other decent, working people. I pay £600 per month and that includes rent, all bills and council tax. Rightmove and Spare Room are my homeboys. Have you seen Dave Ramsey on TH-cam? I watched him for free on TH-cam last year and his financial advice saved me. I advise anyone to watch Dave Ramsey do his long talks. His radio show is for individual cases in the USA. His Baby Steps financial advice is for everyone. There is no reason why you should be in difficulty if you are in full time work. You have not been given the best information to deal with your finances and living circumstances.
i'm loving you for that comment !!! I am 50 and work 200 hours per month minimum wage and my paki Employers pay me in bits and pieces and usually 2-3 weeks late ! i can't get out 'cause i have no savings to find a "better job" ....i live with anxiety and constant fear of counsil tax and energy bills .... My medicine is David Attenborough to relax and that is just sad cause Therapy in this country is just an NHS joke !!! It's gonna get worse
I find it stupefying that the UK gov would go out of its way to be charitable for foreigners when its poor own citizens get less help. Is there no limit to this madness?
Yes it’s heart breaking that many people are suffering, yet we as a people are ok with all their cuts to benefits while those making these legislation and rules are living in comfort, giving themselves pay rises when they are on a lot of money as it is and using tax payers money to pay for their utilities.
Yet only fans girls make like 10,000 a month, half the girls I went to school with now make about 20k a month and my own family member I’m not gonna mention makes 14k a month
@@PeachesandCream225 guys also pay my bills, does the guy who pays my bills pay his bills? What’s your point here. You’re saying because men give them the money it’s okay ? My boss is a man he pays me money. Doesn’t matter if guys pay girls still make it
Oh that is so hard. I live in Africa and see the same situation here but i didnt realise England was suffering so much. It takes a lot of grace to be honest and humble. A lot of people are trying to move to UK. This message would be a surprise fir them.
Yes I live in Africa top, things are not good here either, but yes, I know a lot of people want to move to the Western countries for greener pastures, not realising the problems they will face there. They think Africa is not good. Every country has its issues and yes, being over 50 it is difficult to find a job, so have to resort to growing a few of my own fruits and vegetables to provide for my family.
😢 we all personally feel we are struggling but there's always others who are worst off. When my bro couldn't work due to his cancer treatment. He got help from macmillian and public money but it wasn't enough. To cover costs. Please help if and when you can. To food and other charities.
There is a local chap near us who has set up a food bank for pet food for people who are struggling. Now, you may think why help animals when humans are going without. However, his reason is that people who are on the margins of society are often living alone. And their dog or cat or bird or whatever, is usually their only company. That little creature is their friend, their companion, their shoulder to cry on when their lack of human company gets too much. Food banks help the humans in desperate need but don't often include pet food. So, I can see a real need for this sort of foodbank. I try and contribute to food banks for both two legged and four legged family members in need.
Queenbeekeeper. What a lovely person that man must be...❤ I am elderly and live alone. When l was diagnosed with cancer , my only companion, friend, and confidant was my old cat. ❤ Thank him for his compassion...he is saving many lonely people who totally depend upon their beloved pets, for companionship during these terrible times...❤
I’ve lived poverty in the 70’s (but not destitution) and unless you’ve experienced it, seen it through the eyes of a hungry, cold, tired child, you couldn’t possibly understand how it can happen and so quickly to anyone. Both working parents one laid off for months resulted in no electricity, no heating, very little food, underwear washed in a sink with hand soap taken from public toilets and toast for most meals. But then, some of those doubting the innocent positions of those claiming destitution will hopefully one day be in a position to understand just that, it’s called karma. We are all here to learn valuable lessons, sometimes those lessons have to be lived.
💯 percent were all here to learn lessons. However we are not living in the dark ages we're talking Victorian Era, Dickensian era. and you would have hoped the world 🌍 has progressed. Sadly 😢it has not.
@@user-ws1cl2eq5wwhich “him” are you referring to - two gentlemen are disabled or would be working as they both had jobs until their health tanked on them - you can’t wish them back to work no matter how hard you try - sorry 30 pounds a month isn’t destitute enough for you
That could easily of been me. I was in the Army for many years. I left the army in my 30s. And I decided, what to do next with my life. A trade, or university to study computers. I went to university. At 55, all my old injuries ganged up on me, my back, my knees, my shoulders. If I had a trade, I would of ended up on the sick, and into poverty like him. With many on here sneering at me, and blaming me, for the fact, that my body had given up on me. As a software dev, I sit down, and work, so I can work till retirement or even longer if i so wish. Funny enough when i picked software over a trade, it never even occurred to me, that 20 years down the line, my body would give up.
@@charlottetaylor4471 Well start my picking a languae to learn. Java orC#, spend a year teaching yourself. . I chose Java. Read up on both, which is the most popular then stick with that. Then find a free online tutorial to teach your self. Also youtube is a wealth of information. What you need is a labtop with at laest 16gb Then when you choose your languae. Pick a IDE integraion Development environment, Read up on that, youttune will show you how to set it up, The net is great anything you need to learn it on there. Then when teaching your self Break it into different lessons From which is browsers, HTML, Backend which is data storage SQL, NonSQL, Middleware, linking the front to the back.
Yeah well done, I did the same in my 30s bumming about in dead end jobs I went to uni and got a degree in IT infrastructure and a degree in teaching. I’ve earned a fortune and am still working online 25 hours a week for £45000 a year. Sitting in a warm office, no stress and loving it. Gives me great pride knowing I’m helping the next generation of IT professionals.
@@charlottetaylor4471I have posted below. software development is a hard slog, and takes quite a while to get up to speed. I would advise looking around for free IT courses there is a company in Birmingham who does this, it is a great way to get your foot on the ladder.
@@charlottetaylor4471 Its a very big field. I would reccomend start with learning to program. I am a java developer, but there are other languages. They are what we call open source, which means its all free. Look for youtube vids, such as introduction to Java, and or any other language.
I lost my job (through no fault of my own) 3 months before the tories slashed housing benefits to £65 a week when they first came into power. I was privately renting a studio flat for 425 a month, receiving 260 a month housing benefit after the cut, and £204 a month jobseekers allowance. So to make up the 165 shortfall on my rent i used my jobseekers allowance, leaving me with £39 a month remaining to live off. I couldnt pay any bills and food banks werent a thing back then. I survived off 18p aldi noodles, stealing bread from the petrol station up the road and did a few runners in restaurants embarassingly, just to try and have 1 meal a day. Lost 2 stone in weight, mental health was down the toilet and racked up thousands of debts for bills. Used to have to ring for crisis loans to be on hold for ages then to be told i can have £11 when i asked for £20 to get some food. Disgraceful. Surpised i made it through that period of my life. And was meant to be searching for work in the mean time! All this in a top 5 wealthiest nation. Nothing has changed since and my situation was 12 or 13 years ago
If You would live in Germany which lost both wars, wouldn't be possible what You went through in your country. BTW, if You would be an Ukrainian in your country, You wouldn't have a problems either.
As a Mexican national growing up always in poverty I'm familiar with all this. Me and my siblings are grown ups now but we always thought of the UK and USA as rich countries were everybody had a nice life. It seems poverty and inequality are everywhere not just in underdeveloped countries. It's just amazing to learn that some people in UK has worse living conditions than people in Mexico
I see people in poverty here in Peru. But at least in Peru you can live at ambient temperature, you can construct a flimsy shack on the hill to live in, and you can work as a street seller to get something to eat. None of those possibilities are available in Britain.
Il explain exactly what has caused this. Its the housing boom, up until the late 90s you could afford to work a minimum wage job and buy a house. When the media began scare mongering about house prices rising everybody became greedy and started charging more rent and trying to sell their homes for more money. Its still going on today. Il tell you a true story, my father worked as a courier, he didnt make much money but he managed to raise 3 kids and look after my mum on about £250 a week, she never worked. In 1994 he also purchased a tiny 2 bedroom maisonette in West London for £24,000. He had a bad mortgage and I think in total it cost him £40k. That same home is now worth about half a million. He was born at the right time because there is no way he would have been able to do that in this day and age. There really needs to be some sort of rent control like Germany has but the government dont implement this because they get their cut from greedy landlords. We had them in the 60s and 70s but they were then repealed because landlords complained that it caused the recession which isnt even remotely true.
Country is falling apart because, for some reason, our compatriots are okay with rich people being thieves, scrounges and tax dodgers but refuse to help their fellows. Shame on anyone that voted for the Tories in the past decade. Shame on you all.
When has that no been the case? For hundreds of years Britain is whealty and the people are poor. For a couple decades people forgot but it never changed.
@@filipeventura2729 You have a very short memory. Just before this government came in all my local high streets were thriving. Now half the shops are shut, the rest are full of slot machines, and theres a homeless person every 10 feet.
Won every election handly for 12 years got #Brexit passed people who now suffer the most voted tory in labour areas and elected a series of worsening conmen and women as PM , The next election will be interesting in 2025
@@h4rdboiled695 Shorts memory? I literally said thats the norm, even if for a couple decades it dosent see. like it for the middle class. Its a cycle that always ends up with the majority in poverty
how can the monarchy know their citizens are hurting and not lift a finger.............it seems that the usa and uk are neck and neck in mistreating their most vulnerable.
UK is not a monarchy. It is a Capitalist autocracy, the only way to rise up is capitalism. But the Brits who are used to queen giving handouts have never risen above it. Large population of Brits have no relevant skill and they also dont want to learn. No one can help these people.
This is heartbreaking. Watching this from Manhattan NY USA. The UK Goverment is a disgrace. Where is their compassion? There will always be people who take advantage of the welfare system. These people are not those people. For the love of god help them!!
My greatest concern is how to recover from all these economic and global troubles and stay afloat especially with the political power tussle going on in UK.
Such market uncertainties are the reason I don’t base my market judgements and decisions on rumours and here-says, got the best of me 2020 and had me holding worthless position in the market, I had to revamp my entire portfolio through the aid of an advisor, before I started seeing any significant results happens in my portfolio, been using the same advisor and I’ve scaled up $450k within 2 years, whether a bullish or down market, both makes for good profit, it all depends on where you’re looking.
@lowcostfresh2266 Actually, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention this, but I'd recommend looking up Laurel Dell Sroufe because she was a big deal in 2020. She manages my portfolio and serves as both my coach and my manager.
@@TomD226 Thank you for this tip. It was easy to find your coach. Did my due diligence on her before scheduling a phone call with her. She seems proficient considering her résumé.
I left the UK in 2019 for good after nearly 30 years of work! I realised everything I tried to do to benefit my family was futile! I have lived in a flat in my youth where the only heat I had over winter was a candle. So, I found job in Spain, sold our mortgaged house paid off the loan and bought a run down rural house here in Asturias. I do not have a mortgage or rent because I saw into my old age and was frightened, I swore to be as self reliant as possible. The society here seems more gentle, quiet and respectful. I cut wood for our log fire and am always warm here. In the UK you need a lot of things to survive, good warm clothing, proper meals to keep you well, heating, especially in winter, electric lights for long dark winter periods and most of all you need a government that cares about you. The latter will never materialise. I say this, I used to love the UK but now it's really shocking. My sibling miss me, but understand totally why we moved.
I left 7 years ago and will never return ... Cabt believe im saying this but its the absolute truth no matter what billox the media tells you China is the new land of opportunity my life has NEVER been this good if i could change my citizenship to chinese id do it instantly without any hesitation
Ever in opposite way vs yours. Your life = self- sufficient from the ground, but life still need $$$ for future. When aged, you will move from your current to the old root that got MORE network to support your health/ life, unless your body condition still is capable to work.
I feel so sorry for this guy , if I live next door to him I would give him free home cooked food everyday , since I always cooked too much for 2 person's .
@@HumansAreShitFactories You would have to ask her but no longer possible. It was thought to be about respect and hard work. Also interpreted as keeping the plebs in their place with the threat of the workhouse. Seems like we are heading there.
@@davidmcculloch8490 No I won’t have to ask her, I’m asking you. You said it, now own it and tell us what you mean. Or are you another one of these people who try to cast people in a bad light born out of primitive emotional thinking and ego?
@@HumansAreShitFactories Helpful Tip: when you see a reply, read beyond the first line and consider the response. Within in, you will find an explanation. If that's not clear, I have replied in full and I'm not "one of those..." who you would love to stereotype
@@davidmcculloch8490 Helpful tip: don’t make stupid comments that you can’t substantiate and that are born out of ignorance then try to backtrack and claim you’ve already answered.
I remember working at Tesco when I was younger and at the end of the night we would have to throw out multiple large rubbish bags full of bakery goods and if you so much as took a bite from a single donut you'd be fired. That was quite the radicalising moment for me.
Reading this from the "richest country", US (joke) in the world, I totally understand the actions of this man. Governments are eager to brag about their riches, but do the rich give up some of their undeserved perks? NO
Unfortunately for men there’s nothing we can do. Women can just start an only fans and make a little 20k a month, some 18 year old girls are making over 200k a month literally just google I make 200k a month on only fans there’s so many some even make upto 500k
@katjaxxx7353 I'm on the same page. I'll never have a child in this country. If I randomly end up expecting one. I'm moving us all to a better country. Litterally anywhere but the US or the UK. I won't let my kid have the shitty life most of us are forced to live.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxthere is nothing socialist about UK healthcare! It's free for everyone yes to an extent anyway but you are more than welcome to pay as I do for private! Well I get through my job.. it's a safety net for for people and if you need quicker more upmarket services you can pay.. I don't see anything socialist in that!
@@eventhori3on The National Health Service was founded in 1948 by a Labour government as a socialist institution: it is universal, publicly funded and free at the point of delivery. There is plenty socialist in that. You are free to buy healthcare privately, and it is Conservative and Labour policy to force everyone to do that as soon as is politically viable, so that healthcare becomes the preserve of the wealthy as it was before the NHS was created. The expensive, private US model is an utter failure, but it is the one our political parties adore because it will destroy a socialist institution they detest and make the corporate class even wealthier - something you clearly support. The Cuban model, which is almost completely socialist, produces excellent results on much less funding per capita than the US or even here in the UK: "The United States' high health care costs do not yield corresponding health outcomes for its citizens. Conversely, Cuba, with less than a tenth of U.S. expenditures, has attained comparable outcomes on many indicators, particularly life expectancy and infant mortality. This contrast raises the obvious question of how Cuba achieves these outcomes, a problematic question because multiple factors could contribute to the system's success. Regardless, the differences between the two countries' health care systems remain stark. Although Cuban health care providers have less access to technology and supplies, coverage is universal and the system is largely government-run, with the exception of the black market and medical tourism. Conversely, health care in the United States is not universal and consists of a disjointed, yet well-resourced mix of private and public providers and payers. Health system differences between Cuba and the United States likely account for much of Cuba's ability to do more with less." www.rand.org/blog/2017/10/doing-more-with-less-lessons-from-cubas-health-care.html
"Turning the tide on destitution is an urgent moral mission". Yes, 100%. A mission for everyone. It's very sad that so many people are being left behind and struggling financially. One thing we can all do is make the effort to look out for each other, even in small ways. This community focused approach will help people know how to look out for each other practically. I wish this report focused on that rather on just what the government can do.
20 years ago I used to work in a little well know delicatessen shop in Edinburgh. Every weekend I would be asked to close the shop and throw away dozens of delicious baguettes and croissants, all perfect to eat but not sold fast enough. I was shocked. I took the bundle and walked around Edinburgh to give them away to homeless people sitting in minus 5 degrees on the pavement. Colleagues and boss not interested in the problem. What are supermarkets and cafes doing to help hungry people ??
My cousin worked at Costa coffee and they put hand sanitiser all over their unsold food to stop homeless and other desperate people waiting outside to raid the rubbish . Cafe Nero and Starbucks do that as well apparently. Some managers and staff ignore this though and hand it out at the end of the day to those queueing up outside.
There is an ap p that I used in Portugal and Germany that helps reduce food waste. Businesses with surpluses sign up and you reserve it. Unfortunately you need a credit card, a cell phone or device for the app…. It is called to good to go. They have a mix of foods and one can get it for 25% of the regular price. It’s also available in Britain.
Its excellent, have often got 3-5 items for the price of one, and reduces waste! Great if you live with other people or for giving donations @@terriblepainter7675
This can happen to anyone anywhere. I didn't see the dark side of life either before I got a burn out and the world fell apart, suddenly my life went from relatively wealthy to like that of these people in this clip, you think your country have you covered (Sweden in this case, but it's been Denmark too). It's a difficult situation to be in, and the gov. thinks you're perfectly okay while the rest of your body disagrees with you. Get a job they said, friends shun you and you realize when you're in trouble you got noone, and you just don't knock on doors, you're either too ashamed or too afraid to be outed and never get a decent job again. The truth is, it's not that easy to get help, and people tend to shun away from people who are in need (sad reality, but one I've felt too close). As for my story it had a happy ending, I got a job, fixed my life eventually - but it took many years. But when I see this clip, to me it's a grim reminder that I know far too well. And if you're in this situation now and reading this, know that it's not the end, know that there IS light by the end of that tunnel, and that you can get out of it, just don't expect the "friends" you thought you had, or the gov. to come and save you, because you'll wait forever while you wither away. The road out is not easy, but it's important you don't see yourself as a victim (even technically you are, because of our defunct social system), but remember you're valuable, you're worth something, and if you can somehow see that over time, others will see it too, otherwise your situation will only keep beating your down and it becomes an evil circle of hopelessness. Something I've observed over the years when I had problems like this (and I've had it quite a few times in my now long life, yes I'm at the age of the people in the clip), is that a lot of the things stopping us from moving on are other factors that we don't talk about here, and that is mental illness, unwillingness to relocate, self loathing, habits, acceptance of the "new" situation etc. While I'm not a psychologist, I have noticed that one thing that's important is to keep evolving your life, you can look for a job in a different city, smaller town that needs helping hands, yes it means relocating from family and friends, but if you don't have anyone that helps you there, think about if it's worth staying put there. It's not an easy task, I did it 3 times, but each time I did it, success followed. Now the friends I once had has it MUCH worse than me because I chose to relocate to different areas, yes I even left my country a few times, and "new hands and fresh blood" was needed where I went, and a new adventure started. Remember, the only one that can truly make a change is you, but it's not easy, the first step out of that situation is the absolutely hardest, but it's also the most rewarding, remember - you're VALUABLE.
You’re very right. And your perspective and positivity is what makes the difference. Sometimes people only need a small bit of help, guidance, direction. Sometimes just knowing someone is alongside you as you make decisions. Unfortunately I really disagree with C4’s reporting method and all of the media. Your story is an example it can work - we just need the right mindset. I’d say to C4. Get real C4, you’re not helping. That £33 becomes £843. But 6% of the population is huge and needs sorting - is it real? Who’s really helping the people. Educate and explore all avenues rather than ask a few flakey questions. Are they spending wisely? You can rent for 250-300pcm; move if you must. And you shouldn’t be paying £410pcm for utilities & bills during unemployment; half that at most. You need the ‘Hotel Inspector’ to run through the bare min spends with them. The first guy looks genuine. But I wouldn’t want anybody buying me hobby gifts - harsh but real. Then you show a single mum. Skips meals …. but affords buying makeup and hair dye. A much stronger community spirit is needed. But I don’t see that happening until people can genuinely care for their own bare necessities, instead of throw away consumer indulgences - priorities. It’s a culture thing; an attitude in the UK. Fed from the roots. The shame is the imbalance. And the culture that feeds flaunting consumerism. The next generation is feeding heavily off this through media streaming who profit off it. Looking after your own mental state, being in the moment of each day. Being honest to yourself. Whilst making your way. These are much higher up the priority list than consumer goods like flights, beer, pets, fashion, smoking, drugs, cars, hobbies, smart phones & gadgets - none of that matters when you reach true rock bottom.
@annasarina925 FDR called it the new deal, you pay taxes all your life and be a good law abiding citizen, you or your releatives protect the country in wartime, the government has a responibility to supply good jobs or if they cannot decent welfare. If they cannot the government should be removed by the people.
I mean, from your comments you certainly never from the former glorious British empire. These people lived through the time when the British able to extract value from colonies to a former shell of itself. These old people can't compute, coming from extravagance to normalcy. From the video they said there's a lot of immigrants and refugees who use the foodbanks. Certainly they don't complain because it's free food which they barely see food in their home country. They come to Great Britain and work their hardest, just like you they move to better places. I'm sure if Great Britain fall more and more they can just as easily move somewhere else.
Having left the UK 30 years ago, it breaks my heart to see how we are treating people often disabled through their work. It's no better than the Victorian era to be honest and embarrassing to the nation.
@@joelc9439 i had to scan pay as you go cards for $8 of electric in the council estates. Yet to see that in america but damn its expensive here but the income potential for lower classes is higher in my experience. Also never had a steak or even seen a whole one till moving here. Grew up on baked beans and fish fingers. Thought i would like it as an adult but just tastes like shyt
The politicians feel no embarrassment, they continue to lie about how bad the situation really is. Lee Anderson´s 30P comment was the pinnacle of the government´s denials and gaslighting. After WW2 there was widespread poverty, there was a means of escaping then, now it is becoming almost impossible.
Rishi Sunak lives such a privileged life he has no idea how hard life can really be for a lot of people. I see him speaking on tv and all I can think is how far removed from reality he is.
No matter which party is in charge the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. There’s lots that are in full time work but are only one months wage away from this situation.
A revolution, the French really understood that. I was appalled that during Harry and Megan's wedding, the homeless were given a binbag and told to get off the streets for a while near Windsor I think, because they were making everywhere look a mess for the cameras and media.....my God what sort of country does that....
That's old not so lots of poor people get rich and some rich end up poor,you have to get your hole in gear when your like 15 years of age it's a new competitive world can't just sit back and hope for the best
I see things like this and think back to what the prime minister has said. He’s said that he wants to cut down the amount of money these people struggling can get and is telling them to just work harder when some of them are sick and or are working but not getting paid enough. I also remember him talking to a homeless man at a soup kitchen and telling him he needs to essentially get a job when he doesn’t even have an address to give to an employer and in response the man just said “I just want to make it to Christmas”
Yes the drug addict sob story. Garner sympathy from idiots who have no idea. No one has ever or will ever hear my sob story I’ve been too busy busting my guts out to better my position not running to the job centre with my hands out screaming I’ve got such and such. I wish I had time for mental illness and sick. These sob stories would of crumbled at one year or incident that I’ve experienced. It’s laughable now to hear people moaning me, me, me when it affects them.
@@billybigbollox May you never experience genuine mental illness or chronic health problems. May you always be privileged enough to be that smug and callous.
You don't have to be educated to understand 1970: Average yearly wage: £1,204 Average house price: £4,690 The avg house cost 3.89 x the avg yearly salary. 2019: Average yearly wage: £26,208 Average house price: £234,853 The avg house costs 8.96 x the avg yearly salary. Meaning , house price has gone up 9x , while salaries only 4x , of course it will reach stage of it not being affordable. And if we look just on last couple years salary increases by 4% yearly house prices increases 12-18% yearly
The staff at the job centre take pride in seeing people suffering , they like when they have to get your benefits cut if you miss an appointment or any reason they like . Its a massive problem , the universal credit money should be 100% granted without question . Not left to these sad people to decide . Luckily i work and dont need to deal with them
Some do. My Son-in law gave up that job because he got sick of bullying people who were obviously disabled. It really depends on which departments you deal with. There's definitely more than a few staff dealing with PIP who are in the job for community payback.
@@jackybogues2495 You'd be surprised because most "work coaches" are nasty. Seems like DWP pick these sorts to force people into work even if they're not well.
What's most sickening is that there IS more than enough wealth and resources around, but greed means that they're not distributed according to who needs it, just who wants it just for the sake of it. Add to that how MPs get allowances for second homes and luxury restaurant bills as 'needs of being an MP', it's enough to make anyone lose hope in government and the system.
We are as a nation much to busy giving that wealth away to people who wash up in boats and go straight to the front of the queue. Thank all of the "good" people who think that its our moral duty to look after all comers before looking after our own people.
Ahh I see. You want to steal someone else’s hard earned money and then decide how it’s spent. Sounds such a fair system. I’m sure we’ll have people queuing up to have their money stolen by socialists.
@@lesigh1749that’s a load of shite but congrats for playing right into the governments hands, distract you with the immigrants while they empty your pockets and give it to their pals.
My grandparents were raised in rural Canada during the 1940s and 50s. My grandma was one of 5 kids. her dad made a living selling cream and through the odd construction job. She grew up without running water, with Spam being the closest she got to eating meat during the winter. When she moved to the city at 16 for work, her and a friend got a tenement for $50/month, where they had to share a washroom with an exhibitionist man. Despite the hardships she faced, she was always motivated by the knowledge that if she worked hard, things could only get better. Unlike many other folks in their 80s, my grandma understands that the world is changing. Getting on a one-way bus with nothing but the money in your pocket and the clothes on your back isn't an option anymore because the vast majority of landlords require a credit score, down payment AND proof that your income is 3x higher than rent (and good luck getting a job with raggedy clothes and no ID - i've seen what happens when people try). Even if one works full-time in a skilled trade, there's no guarantee that you'll ever be able to afford your own home. And she gets teary-eyed and angry when she sees that a can of Campbell's soup is $2 off-sale - not because she can't afford it, but because she knows most people my age can't.
Everything I need to do to make money, is impossible. It takes 4$ to take a bus, 300$ to apply for school to get financing, and you need a phone or internet to apply for jobs and receive calls. No job will hire you off email Correspondence, especially if there is only one job and 1000 applicants.
Exactly, fiat currency demands floods of immigration, floods of immigration is the landlord's wet dream, credit scores, bank account contents. They are now allowed to be so invasive that missing a phone bill can see you homeless, while seniors choose between heat and eat, our money is sent to grifting schemes in Ukraine and Israel. While these politicians who invest in the war machines get richer and richer, and those tics at the wef plan more control, more surveillance, and greater poverty for our lives. And then we, stupid as ever, don't hunt down the people responsible, instead we fight one another on the street. These problems come from firstly, fiat currency as the source for creating money, and unchecked over lords who have no fear of us.
Watching this from the US. This is so scary because it can happen to anybody. A workplace injury or other illness is all it takes. Or just not having put all the right pieces in place over a lifetime could end up in a situation where you can't retire, and may not have the health to just keep working. Its all very scary.
@@lordprotector3367 You can die even with insurance. My dr appointments take at least 6 months. I make primary doctor appointment, which is waste of time. That takes 2 months. The primary recommends to see "real" doctor. That appointment is for 6 months later. So people are dying just waiting to see a doctor while paying for unaffordable insurance.
A person like Paul would be homeless in the usa if he didn't qualify for disability. In america, the rich try their best to limit welfare payments even more than what is happening now.
@@KuttyJoe Wow, that's not good. In the UK if you go private you can get to see a specialist the next day, but if you go via the NHS (paid for by taxation) you could wait 2 years to see the exact same doctor.
@@KuttyJoeRemember hearing a US radio ham talking to someone saying it's easier finding a Vet to treat your dog than finding a Doctor to treat you. Terrible.
Back in the nineties I was earning 27K, now you look at jobs advertised and the starting salary is 24K, everyone it seems is earning about the same. Wages have stagnated so much. You have to think well beyond the box to earn good money. It's time to get creative, you can no longer depend on the State, We should all look after each other a lot better.
The older generations are eating their young right now, You'd be shocked at just how little support there is for those under 40. They want us to work for nothing until we die to supplement previous generations pensions.
This is something no one says! I'm a mechanical engineer.. 8 years ago 37.5k 1 year out of university! Now I see same jobs advertised about 35k average! Not moved! But if we add the compound inflation over the past 8 years using the CPI calculator I would be on 56k! Yet jobs are still advertised at 35k! The wages haven't moved and inflation 30% in past 3-4 years! As the Economist said a few days back! If your under 50 and can.... LEAVE!
Im so lucky I never moved to the UK. I feel so sorry and empathy towards the poor not only in UK but the whole world. It is a disgrace the governments cannot even look after their own citizens in respect.
After WW2, the top tax rate was 90%, which helped Britain to rebuild and boom. This reduced to around 70% during the '70's and, from there on, it seems to have been the pastime of every successive Conservative government to see how much they can reduce this rate. This is not just limited to the UK - the USA passed massive tax cuts in 2017 while the minimum wage stayed at $7.50/hr. My country has done similar. The rich will always be rich ...
The governments of the world need poor people willing to work to death for peanuts to feed a child. You can thank right wing governments that support slave wages and slave hours and the companies that lobby for it.
Watching this and realizing am 1 wage packet from being homeless too.. Am 64 today, I sneak into work early so no one can see me limp, need knee replacement but I can be replaced in hours if fired or let go.. Spending Christmas alone as usual, am glad just resting my leg… I have many rescued animals around me so am lucky .🧐
The higher interest rates are forcing many to remortgage. For others it’s repossession. Those behind the scenes are there to snap up the cheap repossessed properties for a bargain which in turn are rented out at an extortionate rate. It’s a disgusting system.
I‘m from New York and recently traveled to London for leisure for the first time. I didn't expect the cost of food and everyday stuff is just as high as that of NY. The problem is I make almost twice as much as my British colleagues who work at the same financial services company as I do but in a different location. With that being said, I honestly don't know how British people survive with that level of salary
The UK gov covers a lot of social services including healthcares with less revenues …this is the issue + they accepted 1-3 million immigrants in the past 20 years…that is making the system crowded …they need to stop mass immigration + deport the unproductive immigrants also, cut costs
Got to bring back council owned cheap local social housing. They have sold most what was left to free market housing association type companies in the last 13 years of fecklessism.
Should have done better at school. I would guess you messed about at school and left with little or no qualifications and have made no effort over the years to improve that situation. I am afraid you reap what you sow in this case. We all have the same opportunities.
Lets not confuse the general rule with the exceptions. This guy is a regular Joe who has worked all his life to 57 with a decent well paid job. He has £0 saved in the bank and does not even own his own small flat. His situation is entirely his fault through the choices he has made. It's a well Known issue with people in the UK today with the celebrity culture we live in. Loaned up to the max, credit card debt to pay for Sky TV Premier League. the latest i-phone and a shiny new Nissan Qashqai in the drive. I am not fooled.@@z0z111
Sad to hear that. :( I have friends coding in C++ and Javascript and maintaining databases. I just code in HTML and a little Javascript for my movies database and my ebooks in my free time. I wish you luck.
The amount of money given by Universal Credit is just not enough. Applying online for jobs is like a lottery, you constantly get ignored and rejected without feedback or anyone to speak to. Your application may even just get discarded by AI before your CV has crossed a single pair of human eyes. Even if you're perfectly qualified or even overqualified. How difficult it is to get a job these days is another national scandal that too few media outlets are talking about. There is no shame, nor should there be, in claiming this benefit. We all pay taxes and National Insurance so that these benefits and public services are our safety net if and when we fall on hard times. Instead of blaming claimants, blame giant corporations who pay no tax despite making billions in profits from the British people and urge the government to come down hard on them so that they can afford to meet the basic needs of people who need it.
@@thebodykeepsthescore2828 I love your user name, but maybe it's an expression? And if not, maybe it's that person's way of expressing their utmost sympathy?
I've been retired 3 years. About 10 ago I saw impending poverty so I saved and built a tiny trailer house. I live on a farm where I work a couple of hours a day to cover my rent and utilities. I live very comfortably and keep virtually all my pension.Thank goodness I had the foresight.
@emmaphilo4049 I emigrated to New Zealand many years ago from the UK. Accommodation costs here are through the roof. I'm immune from such with my simple comfortable lifestyle.
Yes true. Unfortunately I lost my mum this year, I lived with her and was her carer, we were doing ok and could actually save a little, I was on carer's allowance and income support and mum was on top attendance allowance plus her pension, we didn't have to pay rent with it being social housing and because of her having pension credit she didn't pay any council tax either. But she got cancer and didn't last very long and now I'm on universal credit and life is a real struggle now. After everything is paid out I'm left with very little, often eat one meal a day and cannot afford travel costs on buses so I walk miles. I can't wait for this year to be over.
I’m in the same situation. Next door lends me their Wi-Fi. I use so little electricity that my bills went up when they raised the standing charge. £9 used, £18 standing charge. No food bank near me tho. Writing this under a blanket, it’s warmer out than in. Benefits stopped, because PIP payment not resolved for 8months. I read philosophy pdfs to keep alert.
@@MCDONALD6969To stop having public services cut to the bone, stop stagnant wages while the upper crust increase theirs exponentially and stop treating housing like a commodity to the point where its becoming increasingly unavailable.
I'm 60 years old, still working and in a well paid job. I take nothing for granted, I could be like any of these people tomorrow. Please everyone when you go shopping, buy something to put into the food bank in your local supermarket if you can. You never know when it might be your turn.
just do us a favour and stop with the kidney beans and tinned tomatoes. we're starving yes, but we do have taste buds. lol.
lol @@D0S81
why can't the supermarkets donate food instead of begging us?
@@D0S81 Ha ha I won't lie, I do look at some of the donations and think 'would they eat this themselves?' Things are bad enough without getting donations you can't eat so I make sure I put in nice stuff.
@@italianstallion9170 If you know anything about how foodbanks work, you'll find supermarkets do put in huge amounts themselves. I used to collect from supermarkets to take to a foodbank.
There’s so many men out there, mid-50s, physically knackered or disabled after a lifetime in a trade, living desperately lonely lives (often childless and single), trying to cling on to an existence in tiny bedsits on Universal Credit. My heart really goes out to them.
Mid 50's doesn't automatically mean 'knackered'.....................Maybe lazy ?
and your tax money goes to Kiew....
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Some of them due to getting robbed of all they worked for by family court.
@@shauncameron8390 yes, and in the pub or off track playing the horses.
They did nothing to prepare for retirement.
Unfortunately, as much as it is painful to call out the obvious . . . voting for the Conservatives all these last couple of decades put them in this predicament. Karma came calling, Brexit expedited that process. Hopefully people can stop voting against their best interests in the future
If someone had told me thirty years ago that the UK would sink so low I would never have believed them. Gone are the days when having a job would at least keep your head above water. I seen an ex-council house going for £950 a month near where I live, how is someone working in a supermarket or any other basic job supposed to afford that?
Millions are struggling just for the basics, including people in work, it really isn't something to be proud of. I'm in my fifties and remember my gran telling me about the squalid conditions people lived in when she was young, I hope we aren't heading back to that standard.
There will always be an argument about scroungers and lazy people, but to have people going hungry in the fifth (or sixth) largest economy is shameful.
Think yourself lucky that you're in your fifties. I work in a 'professional' job in the NHS - the workplace has recently started offering staff free sanitary products because of destitution. I know of one NHS staff member that lives in a van because they can't afford a place to live. This country is a mess more than people know.
The UK has slipped into a decline since the fall of the British Empire mate
Thatcher sold all the council houses that’s why we are in a mess with homelessness
They're a lot more than that where I live.
People go hungry in all the richest countries. America. Japan. China. France. Italy. Germany. It is shameful but it's a shameful part of all the richest countries In the world. We need a global solution to it.
I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for.
I feel your pain mate, as a fellow retiree, I’d suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me, I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an expert advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $30k in value stocks and digital assets, Up to 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes.
@@AlilatTiamiyu That's actually quite impressive, I could use some Info on your FA, I am looking to make a change on my finances this year as well
@@BotheGhita My advisor is *MARGARET MOLLI ALVEY*
You can look her up online
@@AlilatTiamiyu The crazy part is that those advisors are probably outperforming the market and raising good returns but some are charging fees over fees that drain your portfolio. Is this the case with yours too?
It amazes me how ANY country can call themselves great when the citizens are living and dying is destitution... just wow.
Great isnt referring to the country being Amazing. I cant believe this isnt known. Its just referring to greater Britain - isles not of britain - so n.ireland or isle of skye and so on
@@leigh7507 Thought it was to distinguish it self from Brittany.
This comes from the Roman period. The big island which includes Wales, Scotland and England was known as Great Britain. The small island which includes Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland was known as Little Britain. It was in Latin of couse not English :)
20,000 elderly people die each year in the UK because they cannot afford to heat their home.
Thats what the MAGA morons in the US do. Most of them don’t even realize that their leaders hand billions in tax breaks to the rich and hand them a couple of hundred in return.
I have been working all my life paying all my taxes and then I got a neurological disease and it has impacted my life for the worst. I see many nasty comments, don’t judge other people without knowing their life circumstances.
True comment disabilitys can be invisible never judge
How about you stop paying taxes and you will have alot more money?
The people in the UK who voted for Tory rule deserve the hardship they voted for.
The people who voted for Corbin: I'm so sorry for the stupidity of the boomer brain rot.
@@Dehydratedpencilwhen did not paying taxes become a choice?!
@@MetalRocksMe. Its always been a choice, its just that you have to deal with the consequences of not paying them
That guy held his tears back bless him.
You could see his pain. I can't speak for women, but, in men, the shame that comes from poverty, not being able to provide for yourself and your family, and the consequent lack of purpose is hard to describe. It makes you ashamed to be alive. The shame leads people to stay indoors in order to avoid having to face people who ask, "how are you? All good?", which leads to loneliness and depression, if not worse.
@bigsan98 I think I have to agree. Men do have an instinct to be providers and they enjoy it as their nature is way more competitive than women
Sad he's a good man aswell feel like we need to get a crowd fund going or summat
But he was building a model kit and they are not cheap. Sometimes I don’t know.
@@dottieland7061No, you don't know. So what are you doing by making this comment?
I think this touches on the root cause of most of the problems in the UK and US today - the hollowing out of the working/middle class over the last 30 years. You've got people living nearly destitute, young people who can't get on the housing ladder, families struggling to pay bills - and they wonder why our Country's are so chaotic and divided..
In the U.S.??? I don’t think so… there is Welfare Social Services here.. so what are you talking about?
@@jenniferdavis2110 It's what some Brits do: they try and bundle themselves in with the US to exonerate themselves from the dire state of their own country.
Maybe if you shut down those overseas bases, stopped policing the world, stopped foreign aid, used the money saved on domestic issues only... you never know.
@@jenniferdavis2110 Actually your welfare in the US is a lot worse than in the UK. And poverty is higher in the US than in the UK too. As is homelessness. And without universal healthcare a person can be bankrupt in the US because they got sick when they weren't wealthy enough to pay medical bills.
@@cashewnuttel9054 Since when has the UK been policing the world? Never heard that one before. It's the US that many see as policing the world.
Absolutely heartbreaking. And what does the Government do? Remove the cap on bankers bonuses. Utterly, utterly sickening
Allowing people to be paid more means more tax revenues to help those in need. And helps uk inc. compete for talent globally.
he gets 1100 dollar a month in benefits plus 200 health surcharge
The gov's theory is that money will 'trickle down' from the bankers to the lowest of the low
@@Dman-mz7fttypical woke lefty nonsense is what it is 😅
Priorities and uncapping bankers bonuses sums up what they care about. This is heartbreaking and like a third world country now.
I saw so much pain in this man's eyes when he said only $30 pounds were left over to spend on food etc... i hope his life improves
They've all got great big TVs and most likely mobile phones......
Those are entry level TVs these days. You should educate yourself before writing. @@EvoraGT430
@@EvoraGT430so what are you implying?
But surely there is something that he can do to improve his situation? I know he says he’s disabled but he still has a moving body and a functioning brain. Surely there’s a job out there for him.
£ not $
No wonder so many working people are terrified of losing their jobs. It's also no wonder that so many folks merely subsisting on benefits end up taking their own lives because of grinding poverty (since they have no quality of life.) There are a lot of people who are now employed but were formally subsisting on benefits, and this has left them with PTSD. They live in constant fear of finding themselves back in that stressful situation once again, and rightly so. Believe me, welfare poverty is one of the most depressing experiences known to mankind. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
The most aggravating aspect is that food banks are treated as a normal part of life. It's not normal to be a working person and not be able to afford food. It's just not normal.
40 years of rampant capitalism has brought many western nations to this. Profit is all that matters.
I live in what was often referred to as "The Lucky Country"- Australia. Many people here are suffering Mortgage stress and even middle class people with relatively good incomes are visiting food banks because the cost of their mortgage takes a huge chunk of their income. ...... and suggesting they sell up is not practical because they would probably lose money on the sale and end up in a rental queue where there seems to be more people wanting to rent properties than properties available.
@icebergrose8955 we didn't really have food banks in the UK when I was growing up in the 90s- and that's not rose tinted glasses, there's real number facts you can look up. In the years of Tories being in power the number of Trussell trust banks nationwide went from 35 in 2011 to 1,300 in 2019
@@Rumade I was in the UK in the 90s, they weren't a thing. Food banks in New Zealand really took off after the 2008 financial debacle. NZ produces enough food to feed 40 million people. We have 5 million and people struggle to buy milk. Capitalism.
@@icebergrose8955Which country does it better?
It's expensive to be poor. Poor people don't have access to low interest loans, they can't afford washer machine so they'll have to pay for launderette like this gentleman here. They can't buy in bulk (which is generally cheaper) because they don't have a car, plus supermarkets are often located in middle and upper class areas. It's a sad state of affair really.
Indeed, laundromats get spendy. It works out better if you just wash and then take the clothes home to hang up to dry but that depends on having a dry enough climate. I wash at home with a plunger thing but I have room to have a dedicated place to hang my clothes to dry. Not everyone has that.
@@alexcarter8807 What do you mean you wash at home with a plunger thing?
What does having a car and buying in bulk got to do with one another? Supermarkets don't offer home delivery? That supermarket location comment is dumb aswell.
@simonseis744 You do realise online orders with supermarkets have a minimum spend... Far in excess of what these ppl have available to spend.
If you've never struggled, just keep quiet and listen cause your privilege is showing
Delivery also costs money, online shopping is unreliable, and supermarkets don't offer the ability to buy in bulk, plus a poor person with a small home has no way of storing a bulk of food.@@simonseis744
My sister took legal custody of me when she was twenty one years old and worked in a fast food place. Sometimes I would have to stay with friends family for months at a time because she couldn’t afford me. Those families were friends of ours because I went to school with their kids . Those people we’re heroes. Bought all my gear for sports and everything. They were not well off either. Anyway, what I meant to say is poverty sucks for kids and families.
Poverty sucks for everyone😢😢
Point the finger at those who voted tory, and obviously I don't mean the well off, we all know why they voted them in.
@@jamesbong4928Germany here. Please explain me your brexit and how Labour was pro brexit. UK better come home to Europe, since the Empire is obsolete in the new globalized world. This 'British freedom' was fine only for capitalism, wasn't it?
But EU made bad decisions too. We should have left you your fishing rights. It's even better for nature, if only the locals take care of the ressources... I suggest we stop eating seafish in the well-fed nations, we have such a meat overproduction, we actually make propane gas from food... we should grow forests instead.
@@weisemari yes of course, it was moneybags Farage who started the movement to destitution for his own benefit and offshore loot
This is madness everything is falling apart and it keeps getting worse. How are people supposed to live a meaningful life with the cost of living out of reach
Move country
I live in Italy and I find this report so heartbreaking. I simply cannot imagine how these people get up in the morning knowing what awaits them. The government should be ashamed that a man who has worked all his life has to live on 30 quid a month!
He’s on benefits and hasn’t mentioned what the illness actually is?
Judging by most sob stories it’s probably hurt feelings or divorce depression.
Why can’t he work? Because it’s harder than waiting to be paid by job centre.
@billybigbollox you do know the benefits are means tested, if there was any possibility of him working the government would not pay him.
Really?
Maybe he should've found a better paying job!
And not wasted all his money on booze!
That would've helped.
Government has to extort everything they spend from working taxpayers. UK taxpayers are already highly taxed. Keep pushing and the highest earners will leave. They have options.
It sounds like he is only on £30 a month because his rent has shot up.
Presumably before that he was struggling, but managing.
The problem is that there is no real cheaper alternative out there in terms of rent.
This could happen to any one of us - lose a job, get sick or have a baby as a single Mum and the country turns it's back on you. So sad. Should not happen in the UK.
Plenty of resources for the illegal parasites invading our Country though, how does that work ! ? The Tories are toast !
If you’re a woman under 30 you can start an only fans and make a million in about a year. Female privilege you see
We have immigrants publicly funded living in 4-5 star hotels.
We need to finance our new culturally perfect peaceful arrivals with housing, welfare, NHS, so how can we fund our own.
Immigrants take priority over British natives, didn’t you get the memo?
@@jimsim8736 sadly, I did, and it sickens me to the core, what our Political class have done to this Country. As the saying goes, import the third world, become the third world. These animals are quite simply incompatible with first world standards !
Well the trick is not to have a baby as a single mum. That's avoidable and shouldn't warrant any benefit payouts.
We’re all a couple of pay days away from poverty. I’ve worked all my life, lost both parents last year & was out of work while probate was going on (and still going on) I went 6 days without food in February of this year. Used a food bank & cried walking home with the bags of food they gave me.
I hope things are getting better for you. ⛅
I hope things improve for you.Please contact your local CAB to check you have all the benefits you are entitled to- if you haven't done already.
I'm so sorry
God bless you 🙏🏼❤️🥰!
❤❤❤Watching this and reading your comment is simply heartbreaking 💔 I’m so sorry 🫶🏻
The world is upside down. I live in the US & it's the save situation. All the sudden, the wealth gap is the size of a galaxy. You either have a $500MM yacht, or you live in a rent or car. Devastating & no solutions in sight. Where is the electwd leadership?😡
Citizens United decision by the republicans on supreme court basically legalized corporate corruption and bribery to politicians, and we’re living the result.
I am in the US, working as a Substitute Teacher. This year, we received a raise that helped, but in the past few years, I could barely make my rent, unless the school schedule allowed 22 work days in the month. I was constantly sick with chronic upper respiratory issue, rashes, and kidney infections when I started subbing, and used summer to get almost well before everything started again with the next school year. Covid helped tremendously as I qualified for unemployment and actually received more than when I was working. It's ridiculous that the US and the UK make it so hard to get help when you're actually working hard to keep from drowning. I didn't use food banks before Covid, the thought never crossed my mind. Now I'm so grateful for them.
They make it very difficult for locals to get benefits, yes, but they're quick to sign blank cheques to F.O.T.B. who haven't paid a penny into the system...
Hopefully you get promote to big teacher an get the govment benefits.
@artmallory
Asylum seekers n the U.K. have to live on £35.95 per week.
@rayr6278 Actually getting a teaching credential and being a teacher (instead of a substitute teacher) comes with bigger headaches and dealing with parents, administrators, etc. I know quite a few who went through the training and couldn't pass one of the tests after a few tries. I also know several teachers who are burnt out and are either retiring early or looking for something else in the field or another career. Also, California likes people to jump through hoops to become teachers. I looked into it when I first started subbing, and realized I didn't want the burden of student loans without the guarantee of a teaching position to pay it off.
For US society educated people are not wanted.
In a Two Party System for centuries ignorant people are essentiell.
Hurray Election the Olympic Games of Democracy. Hurray
But never translate democracy into english, or whatever mothertongue, it is very dangerous. Nobody must know. You agree?
Mother of Democracy yesessssses.
I’m 70 and I’m experiencing the exact same situation here in the USA. Life’s horribly difficult
It just doesn't need to be. Both of our countries just don't care. Its more importsnt to keep million and billionaires abuse loopholes to not pay a penny, and simultaneously underpay their staff.
their starving every other class of resources to keep someone so wealthy they can never evem spend it....
hope you sort something out bro, I'm not here yet. But I'm just about floating along myself, it's despicable 2 countries as wealthy as ours can forgive themselves for letting this happen.
wish you well!
Yep
Still have money to pay your internet bill though, have you?
Give me a break!
If you'd payed attention in school, maybe you'd have earned decent money.
@@Steven-ly9ei The whole reason after World War 2 a socialist government came into power was because people saw the poorest fighting for their country and returning home to homelessness, sickness and poverty, and that something had to be done about it. So the welfare state and the NHS were formed. Now nearly all politicians from both sides of the House are spouting the virtues of Thatcherism/Neoliberalism and happily dismantling what remains of the welfare state and NHS. And most people are so brainwashed by media they support it.
And yet supermarkets throw away millions of tons of food because they rather do that than lower the price because they rather people buy it at full price than reduce it
supermarkets throw away lots of food yet the big super market chain by me has empty shelves and they constantly try shuffle the bit around to make it look fuller with nothing behind..............
I shop late at Lidl and Aldi so I can get the reduced items, so often I end up with Clearance 'own-brands'.
@@terencejay8845 its a crime when you have to do this..........shouldn't have to do this at all and foodbanks shouldn't exist we should be thriving not going backwards to stone age.
That's a good one but very silly
Even worse some supermarkets lock up their dumpsters denying dumpster divers the right to take the food freely.
Sorry, it isnt hardship. It is ABUSE.
It IS abuse
IT is abuse.
No it's not 😂benefits pays plenty
@@moneymanifestation9505 who are you to judge others? And laugh at them? And mock at them? It is a completely ignorant NPC comment that is both invalidating and somewhat sociopathic... manifest that right up yours!
@@johndanskine2209 elder abuse
I work full time (40 hours a week), and earn an “average” salary… And things are really starting to bite. My energy bills have doubled, my food costs have doubled. My rent and council tax have increased, petrol prices to get to and from work have increased, but my salary has not. It just seems to be getting harder and harder.
I'm sure that the large chunk that they government takes out of your earnings would be useful to have.
What’s average in your country?
Salary not increased? I thought a lot of us got a pay rise. I got 8%.
@@SirHargreeves 😞
@@rich7447 Got to pay for all their bombs and foreign aid somehow.
There is something about Paul's story that really touched me... The way he tries to keep up smiling... But his eyes tell the truth...
I wished society did more for the needy. I used to be one of those who believed that hand-outs were bad and that there were only lazy people who took advantage of it. But I changed my mind over the past few years when I came to realize that it doesn't matter if some people take advantage of the system, because what matters in the end is that there is a "safety net" for the people who truly need it.
There's also a bunch of studies that have shown its far more cost effective to house and feed people than it is to pay for the long term consequences of having swathes of society in poverty.
@@django3422 Exactly. I don't think our government cares about the long term consequences of anything
@@JaneAustenAteMyCatmaybe the government thinks it’s better if your dead before you hit the pension age
@@django3422 True, but you know how it is. We've all been young and stupid.
@MyLazySundae To my defense, I didn't believe the needy were lazy, I believed the majority of needy weren't actually needy BUT lazy, wanting to live on the system.
But having worked with some charities in the past last years, I can admit to how wrong I was. I've been working with the needy, the truly needy, in France. And boy... Am I glad that there are good "safety nets" here. But it still breaks my heart to see the people who are left alone, helpless.
My wife invites our neighbour's kid around to play with ours, we know for a fact she goes hungry so her kid can have meals but shes always turned down "food help" from us, so we invite her kid to play with ours as an excuse to cook a meal for the both of them (we'll cook something the kid wants but cook too much of it so the mother finishes off what the kid doesnt want), this country is fucked up when a single working mother can't afford to feed themselves.
Shay dant wan ya fud help bru. Shay wanna job in all ok stuff ya food help mate
Can't believe what u say... Then we are doing much better in India... Honesty has no value..
@@LillyC-j5o He did say something is wrong when a single WORKING mother can't afford to feed herself. So she does have a job. Scoffing at people for being kind makes you look kinda mean.
Keep on blessing her because her children will never forget you. ❤
Good people ye are! 😉
There’s a lot of people here who are older. I am a minor watching this, and recently I’ve met someone who’s changed my life. He is one of the most amazing people I’ve had the pleasure of taking to, and he lives in poverty. I hate how our world is. The rich greedily ruining lives just to support their own. People at the top of organisations and businesses money crazed. And that’s what it is. A craze. How in the God’s names can people sit there and say they don’t care. It disgusts me. I am from a middle class family, and I am so so lucky and so great full for what I have. Everything I have. And seeing things like this, meeting people like the boy I did, is life changing. I sat and cried whilst watching this. And I’m not ashamed to say that. It’s horrific what some people have to live through. Call me sensitive. Call me whatever. But I’m so so sorry for people who have to live in such conditions. And it breaks me heart to see how so disgracefully little is being done. I’d like the thank the boy I met for making me realise so much about life itself. And I want to try and spread awareness on this subject.
Particularly sickening for people who have worked in supermarkets and know how much food goes to waste.
Supermarkets are doing more now like giving it to food banks and charities, animal food and compost if not
@@paulnicolas172Yeah. My family use I think its calld "Oleo" lots of good food that would be thrown out otherwise. It's good if you can manage to ignore your pride
@@Dryhten1801 hi! Tried to use this app the other day and yeah it’s good and you can also get physical goods as well from people who want to get rid but sometimes with food the people are far from you so depending on what they have it’s hardly worth going that distance especially if your driving and have to pay for petrol to get there egghead closest to me is someone selling small bundle of oranges but they are 3.5 miles from me .
@@Dryhten1801 yeah ! Only thing is though you might have to travel a Good few miles to collect so you’d have to factor that in but it depends upon where you live
@@RobMatton-c8g That's a very new thing. Like pandemic new
This goes on in America also I am 60 years old and live on a fixed income from being disabled The food banks can't handle all of us that are in need of food It's heartbreaking
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@@Steve-kj5zt..this also happens in other European EU countries. In Spain people on unemploiment only get 500-600 a month.
And not only Spain, also poverty in Germany, France.
Be grateful you have food banks, my country doesn’t…
Really felt for that bus driver guy... After redundancy from the shipyard I used to survive on £6 a week after rent was paid in the early 1990s.. still recall going to Netto and grabbing all the cheap cans of food they had. Used to just lie in bed just so I didn't have to turn the heater on... all this and I was working as a volunteer computer technician/donation collector at the homeless society (where I could get free out of date sandwiches)... simply no jobs in my hometown at that time... and minimum wage wasn't a thing then so you could be drastically worse off not being on benefits... a vicious circle.
I left UK 15 years ago after going to uni and, while I would love to move back, videos like this remind me of the brutal reality of living in the UK.
I think that was minimum wage in the UK back in the 90s but not back in the old days.. other countries are worse than the UK even America is worse than the UK..
@@joelc9439Exactly, in a sense we've got it rather good, and it's still bad
where did u go?
Netto the og aldi
I could write the same thing. Early 90s, £5 or £6 a week after rent. Housing benefit not enough so I had to pay a fiver out of my meagre benefits for one room in a street so dodgy the post wouldn't deliver Giros (Darlington). Left 30 years ago and never looked back.
Sadly, relatable.
Left to rot as a disabled, estranged, bereaved, unemployed, chronically ill, medically neglected, at risk of homelessness, single, childless, unqualified, non driving, already marginalised adult female who actually wants to work and contribute and not be a benefit claimant.
Poverty forced me to quit education and has limited in so many ways that most people just do not have any lived experience of.
The disparities around me are unbearable.
It’s first of September 2024 and I’m sat here in extreme fear and despair, to say the least.
I wouldn’t wish this upon my worst enemies.
And the worst thing about all of this is that as a person of colour (who was born and have lived here my entire life contrary to racist beliefs) I am even more penalised for being ‘unemployed’, a claimant and having illnesses.
I don’t receive any disability benefits such as PIP.
Before you judge me as a ‘scrounger’, I’ll have you know that I’ve not always been a UC claimant and I have worked albeit in very short lived, underpaid, voluntary and mismatched roles including care and customer service.
I was also an unpaid carer for a now dead father.
I can see this video is from last year but I’ve only viewed it today and would like to say thank you, Channel 4.
May destitution end for all.
P.S. I sincerely hope that Paul (and all other hard working or otherwise worthy people who require and deserve the financial support) receives compensation and comfort .
For a "developed" country, this is shocking. Through illness, I live off what the DWP thinks I should get to live off. However, those who do the calculating, have no idea what's happening in the real world. Prices are going up: food, energy, gas, electric etc but the government forgets that benefits do not rise at the same rate! But then again the calculations are done by those who have had a privileged upbringing and have never had to live under the same syress as us!!
YES!!! And no idea what the real costs are for being disabled!! The NHS, and social services all now refuse equipment and necessary items 'because that's what your benefits are for!!' Yet benefits don't even allow me to put my heating on when I have a heart & respiratory condition and am supposed to keep warm and mould free.
Uk is the 2nd most unequal country in terms of wealth in european area
Many DWP staff are on minimum wage, some are part time as carers or single parents. Many get less money than the claimants and have to pay to get to work and have clean, presentable clothes
@@jennifersivewright3117 yes. The whole system is corrupt from top to bottom. I've just found out that Dorset County Council is using air b and b to house children in care,then paying a woman who is already a foster carer to a teenager is then being allowed to leave her at night alone while she works for a private foster agency to go and spend the night at another premise looking after another child. Couldn't make this stuff up. And the private firms cream off huge profits with the blessing and for the betterment of those who already have too much.
Its nuts !! And the UK is on G7 yeah right !! when you have so much poverty and people are starving 😫
"Nobody from the government was available to speak to" Says it all, really.
Yeah. It's disgusting.
It's so nice the people of the UK give their taxes to the royal family.
@@robertedmond6596 I like to know why the royals are even there???To cut ribbons and go to places??? It is a real joke with the poverty in that country.
They are never available, they are always on holidays 😅
@@dizzman5546 Holidays which are, perhaps, paid for by hedge fund owners, investment bankers and other party donors.
Benefit bashers need to watch this. This is average life of a disabled person these days. I know what its like to dive in the dumpster for scraps, wear clothing that is falling apart and beg for food at the local food bank. Its hard and I feel immese shame for being disabled. I wish I could do more with my life.
We need lower tax for billionares surley. PRIORITIES...
How can you dive in a dumpster if your disabled I'm 56 ache all over my body and I couldn't dive in a pool let alone a dumpster if you are disabled I'm sorry for that and hope life gets easier for you and you get the goverment help you need but I have a suspicion you may be telling pork pies
people who support mass migration need to watch this. able bodied military aged men calling themselves "refugees" cost the government over a billion a year, and get 4 star hotels and meals.
no it isnt, several members of my family have PIP. The guys in this video are WAITING for PIP to be sorted, they will be fine once that is done
Do not feel shame, govt and the right wing press will try to demonize you but you have nothing to be ashamed for. It is those in govt and the right wing press who have done you wrong.
Old age is scary without finances
Old age is scary with money
Cheer up you old sausages 😂
And government spending our money via taxation.
It's a disgrace this country is
They get thousands in benefits every single month 😂
It's a sick country that allows its own people to live like this
No such thing as a country.
no, it's late stage capitalism
what about the billions spent on able bodied military age men calling themselves "refugees"? @@moha-tk5gz
yeh but you see it all over the world............so the world is sick
Especially ones that have worked and payed taxes there whole life it’s sickening . Some pip accessors are bad tho I lost 5-6 points I needed for it because I gave them number of my phone , I can’t use a computer to well but used an iPhone for 10 years nearly so I can give someone my number
I remember living in Canada during the pandemic I had to rent a room for $600.00. literally I had $15.00 a month to live off of but the restaurants offered free food everyday in my neighborhood because they wouldn't allow us to work. I did that for 3 months then moved to a shared house.
I ended up paying less and there was plenty of food because everyone put in the pot to buy groceries every week.
There was Soo much food that food was never an issue.
When life gets hard you just can't do it by yourself.
How old are you? Student loan?
Lies.
People who give up in life are people who lose in life, my first experience happens to be a failure but I never gave up cause I knew it was going to work out for me trying continuously, fortunately I'm smiling today by getting involved in investment.. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life too 🙏🙏🙏
We are a 6 figure income couple and had very little saved and not much cash lying around the preverbal". '...don't have $500 for an emergency" that was us. The big thing was debt all kinds of it, cars mortgage (although our home isn't a high price one), student loans for our kids, and of course credit cards.
One day we just got sick of being broke and went total scorched earth and became frugal overnight. Paid it all off, it took almost 5 years but now we have no debt and this year our savings rate is 50% on basically the same income that had us perpetually broke.So for us it is mainly staying out of debt and watching our spending, at first it was a real effort to save in our HISA and 401Ks but now it's actually fun watching our money grow. No car or vacation or neighborhood is worth being broke or financially unstable.
you've remind me of what someone once said "The mind is the man, the poor is in it and the rich is it too". This sentence is the secret of most successful investors. I once attended similar and ever since then been waxing strong financially, and i most tell you the truth..investment is the key that can secure your family future.
I grew up in the UK during the 1940's and 50's, the son of a not very well off working class family together with my older sister. Although we had little money we never went without a meal, yet I don't ever recall hearing of food banks in those days. Society is supposed to progress, not go backwards, there's something sadly wrong when people can't afford to put food on the table.
😮I went without in the 60s in Northern Ireland having one poor meal a day or occasionally no meal. There were 3, low-paid adults in the house working full time. Nothing was spent on booze or gambling and we had no car. Our situation was commonplace and there were no charity food handouts or benefits other than a few shillings in Family Allowance. The “good old days” is a myth.
This is what happens when all of your elected political parties, even the "conservatives" are left of center.
He seems just a cry baby he can do something to make money but he seems too full if himself to accept a humble job.
@@karlwalter2242
If you are referring to Paul, there was no complaining. He merely answered the questions that were asked. If his answers made you uncomfortable that is your problem, not his.
It was clearly stated that he had to finish work due to ill health. Just because you cannot physically see ill health does not mean it is untrue, nor does it mean it is temporary.
You sound very naive.
Every person in post Brexit Britain could end up in his exact same position. He is in a worse position than some because his age and his physical health is against him. This could also happen to you at some point in your life. You too will reach the 'invisible age' and you are going to be truly shocked.
What you're experiencing is the collapse of an empire. If you're wondering what's next, google what the british did to their colonies. Good luck.
Even people with degrees are struggling to find jobs or make enough. The government boasts about all the jobs available and yet so many are still jobless/homeless/near poverty. When everyone from your business owner to your graduate student is struggling, the issue isn’t the citizens or a generation that “doesn’t want to work”. Scariest part is that when the population tries to start organizing and making efforts to help each other, those on power also make it hard, creating 1000 and 1 hoops that you have to jump through. They can’t be arsed to help and then they try and prevent others from helping properly.
What a disgrace this country has become. Broken beyond repair!
It always has been…. It’s just becomes clear to most when they’re affected.
Hello, I am disabled and I work, I live in a shared house with other people who work, it’s a beautiful house in a lovely area and I am fine.
These people are choosing to not work and then complain about having no money.
These men can both work in the jobs I work in and the mother can defer her studies and work full time. They are all choosing to not work and then complain and blame the government.
People can vote for change... Sadly they vote for more of the same.
@@CatherineX-ph3onif you were a man and had my particular health conditions and discrimination you would be turned down and yet are absolutely very much almost totally disabled.
Your sweeping generalisation and I'm alright jack attitude is quite repulsive and if you weren't entirely ignorant, I would say you should be thoroughly ashamed. Better to keep quiet than remove all doubt..
@@digi3363 vote who exactly, every party ends up being dire these days..most of the nation have lost faith
I worked hard from 16 to my mid 30's until a health issue I was born with got steadily worse.
It's a huge struggle to survive, I eat one meal a day & it's normally a baked potato & beans.
My dog eats better than me, before anyone says I shouldn't have a dog if I'm struggling so much I'd like to mention that I suffered with prolonged grief syndrome for 2 yrs. For 2 years I would burst into tears multiple times every day.
The NHS wouldn't give me therapy, instead they just filled me with pills which didn't help.
I rescued my dog because his past owner who was seriously abusing him was going to put him down (he's only 18 months old & perfectly healthy).
He's the one thing in my life that was able to snap me out of my crippling depression.
I gave him a home to save him & in return he's been saving me.
I'm constantly worried that our government is going to make my life harder as they demonize those of us with long term health issues.
I have physical health issues & mental health issues, I'm almost 50 so no amount of benefit cuts will make employers decide to employ me before they employ a healthy person
Anybody who pre-judges you is a fool. Discount their views. I hope your dog helped remove some of your sadness and lessened your pill dependency.
You are not alone with unemployment. It's a definite struggle. I had to go to a Communist country just to get some work. All the very best and although times are exceptionally know that people out there understand what you're going through.
F.....k. I have 3 dogs
Oh you struggling ? How come you can feed that dog of yours then ? Get yourself out of dodge before thinking you can be charitable, towards dogs of all things.
No worries.. It's our ethical duty to help our friend cocainesky through thick and thin 😊. We are ready to help him with everything we have..
@@nobody_8_1 .. It's our ethical duty to help our friend cocainesky through thick and thin 😊. #SlavaUkraine.. We have to help them with everything 😊
I'm in Canada but have friends from around the world in online mental health forums. One man i knew for years was 59 and living in his car in northern England and working full-time. He had worked his whole life despite psychiatric illness. He was trying to stay hopeful but when his car engine seized he couldn't afford the repairs, lost his job and wound up in the psychiatric ward at hospital. For some reason they didn't get him into housing and he chose to end his life. His sister (who lived hundreds of miles away) let his friends online know about his passing. I don't know how an employed 59 year old homeless man was not able to get help, but here in Canada it's very difficult for working people to get emergency help although the system supports many "lifers" on welfare for decades. Perhaps some funds should be allocated to helping employed people stay employed? I find it very sad that this good man died. Rest in peace, Paul
unfortunately your story happened in my block of flats two months ago, He jumped from 16 floors. Only 31. He hadn`t had his benefits in 12 weeks. i had known he was that hard up ..I`d have given him money/food. But he was a quiet soul and kept himself to himself. This is England.
@@THEPRK sorry ro hear it.
his sister lived a 100 miles away ???? no help ??? do you see what is disturbing here ???
@@olavwilhelm6843 well yea you turn 18 and leave the nest . My family is scattered all over the country. My Mrs family are scattered all over the world.
People don't live and die in one town do they .
@@olavwilhelm6843 Its hard to understand from the outside looking in but people are proud so do not always turn to family when they can, especially those with mental health its often harder for them to feel motivated to tell others about their situation and get help, when you are older you do not want to be a burden.
This administration is putting many families in difficult situations. A lot of people are financially struggling to live, put a roof over their head and put food on the table. Things are getting worse these days, if you don't find means of multiplying your money you might wake up a day to realise you didn't plan well for yourself and family.
That's awesome to hear. I invested 5k in Robin hood about a year ago and it steadily went down, now my portfolio is down to $800. I don't know what to do and i am in between jobs
@@Florencecoxx Understanding your financial needs and making effective decisions is very essential. If I could advise you, you should seek the help of a financial advisor. For the record, working with one has been the best for my finances.
I’m Glad i stumbled on this. Please, if its not too much of a hassle for you, can you drop the details of the expertise that assisted you and how to get in touch.
@@Florencecoxx I get guidance from *Susan Tori Davis* Most likely, the internet should have her basic info..
Wow I can't believe you guys are discussing about Susan Tori Davis, I once met her at a conference in California 2019.
My grandad was a veteran of WW2, worked his entire life and was extremely proud of what came following the war ie the NHS and the welfare state. In years past I have felt so proud to work in the NHS and live in a country that looks after the sick, disabled and those in poverty. The Conservatives ideologically hate these pillars of our society and have purposefully dismantled them. This country has now got exactly what it voted for. The Conservatives convincing the working class that they represent them will hopefully be remembered as the biggest swindle a UK government has ever played on its people.
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It's not just the tories it's labour too, they're all the same you need to start voting for non mainstream parties
@@CaptainGrimes1 you know you are so right
I noticed how bad it was under Tony Blairs government. I left the UK in 2005. It has got even worse since. It is heartbreaking the suffering of
British people.
The NHS's budget is bigger than its ever been and the tories have continued to throw ever more billions at it. An increase of 400 million per week in real terms since brexit BEFORE covid hit. So the idea that its a shambles because "tories" is just partisan drivel. It needs REFORM and borders need to be controlled so it isn't abused by leeches jetting in from every sh*t hole around the world. Did you know that 7 out of 10 NHS patients on HIV antivirals (very expensive drugs) werent even born here? and it doesn't matter which party is in control, that will NOT happen.
I grew up on a council estate. I went back to school to study GCSE maths at age 33. I am now studying cellular and molecular medicine at university. The only way out of poverty for me was learning a new skill. I live on very little, and most of my meals are snacks, but I was a flight attendant before, and the sad fact is that there is a ceiling for unskilled labour. We will never get ahead. Where do we go from here? In my city, a property listed at 9am is gone by 9:05am because people are so desperate for a place to stay that they will pay the deposit before seeing the place, and the rent is extortionate. I am skipping meds I need or spacing them out so I don't run out, and I shop for food at night for the closing deals. Look after each other y'all. It's hard out here for everyone.
I pray that your situation changes for the better, sister 🙏
Yes, and then when you graduate, you must pay the debt back 😭 money is the root of all evil
I am a fully self funded student. I graduate with zero debt and masters degree. 1 Timothy 6:10 "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs". That verse refers to people who do unscrupulous things to make money. Going back to school to not live in a place where 3 people have been stabbed and killed yards from my doorstep could hardly be considered that. @@gizmomac1520
thank you brother.@@joelabraham7998
Not everryone has a veey good memory or can absorb studying. I have memory block now and severe trauma and ptsd type condition plus physical conditions worsened. I dont have to justify mysrlf have worked double or more hours 7 day weeks for most of my life taken jobs at low salaries and finally ended up homeless with severe covid etc... at 63 my future is not rosy and hope it s all over soon.
This is genuinely heartbreaking. As someone who has experienced living on the edge of homelessness, despite always being employed and, thankfully able to work, I know the daily / nightly stress of counting the (literal) pennies and trying to get from day to day. The toll it takes on the body and mind cannot be understated. IF you survive it, it scars you for life. My heart goes out to the increasing numbers of people who find themselves in this terrible position, there is NO REASON within a civilised society that people cannot and should not be supported, there are enough resources, providing they are not being horded and squandered by the privileged few.
Hello, if you are working full time and living within your means, there is no reason why you should be in insecure accommodation and be at risk of homelessness.
You have not been given correct information to help you flourish.
I am disabled and work but in low paid work and I am not at risk of homelessness.
I rent through well respected estate agents. I live in shared houses with other decent, working people. I pay £600 per month and that includes rent, all bills and council tax. Rightmove and Spare Room are my homeboys.
Have you seen Dave Ramsey on TH-cam? I watched him for free on TH-cam last year and his financial advice saved me. I advise anyone to watch Dave Ramsey do his long talks. His radio show is for individual cases in the USA. His Baby Steps financial advice is for everyone.
There is no reason why you should be in difficulty if you are in full time work. You have not been given the best information to deal with your finances and living circumstances.
i'm loving you for that comment !!! I am 50 and work 200 hours per month minimum wage and my paki Employers pay me in bits and pieces and usually 2-3 weeks late ! i can't get out 'cause i have no savings to find a "better job" ....i live with anxiety and constant fear of counsil tax and energy bills .... My medicine is David Attenborough to relax and that is just sad cause Therapy in this country is just an NHS joke !!! It's gonna get worse
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Just make a bogus asylum claim everything is free
same, there seems to be a new members club, shocking skint Britain..
I find it stupefying that the UK gov would go out of its way to be charitable for foreigners when its poor own citizens get less help. Is there no limit to this madness?
I would comment on this, but now the good old UK government is starting to crimalise freedom of speech on common sense 😅😅
Because they need cheap foreign labour, so people on low pay are willing to keep working for less. Capitalism in a nutshell.
Yes it’s heart breaking that many people are suffering, yet we as a people are ok with all their cuts to benefits while those making these legislation and rules are living in comfort, giving themselves pay rises when they are on a lot of money as it is and using tax payers money to pay for their utilities.
People keep on voting for it, so they must think it's OK 😢
Yet only fans girls make like 10,000 a month, half the girls I went to school with now make about 20k a month and my own family member I’m not gonna mention makes 14k a month
because they keep spending money on dingeys and immigrants in 5 star hotels instead of helping British folks
@@Sco16161so? Guys pay for it
@@PeachesandCream225 guys also pay my bills, does the guy who pays my bills pay his bills? What’s your point here. You’re saying because men give them the money it’s okay ? My boss is a man he pays me money. Doesn’t matter if guys pay girls still make it
Oh that is so hard. I live in Africa and see the same situation here but i didnt realise England was suffering so much. It takes a lot of grace to be honest and humble. A lot of people are trying to move to UK. This message would be a surprise fir them.
Yes I live in Africa top, things are not good here either, but yes, I know a lot of people want to move to the Western countries for greener pastures, not realising the problems they will face there. They think Africa is not good. Every country
has its issues and yes, being over 50 it is difficult to find a job, so have to resort to growing a few of my own fruits and vegetables to provide for my family.
A lot of people might be moving to the UK because the UK is still better than other countries.. the UK is even better than the US in many ways..
😢 we all personally feel we are struggling but there's always others who are worst off. When my bro couldn't work due to his cancer treatment. He got help from macmillian and public money but it wasn't enough. To cover costs. Please help if and when you can. To food and other charities.
There is a local chap near us who has set up a food bank for pet food for people who are struggling. Now, you may think why help animals when humans are going without. However, his reason is that people who are on the margins of society are often living alone. And their dog or cat or bird or whatever, is usually their only company. That little creature is their friend, their companion, their shoulder to cry on when their lack of human company gets too much. Food banks help the humans in desperate need but don't often include pet food. So, I can see a real need for this sort of foodbank. I try and contribute to food banks for both two legged and four legged family members in need.
Queenbeekeeper.
What a lovely person that man must be...❤
I am elderly and live alone.
When l was diagnosed with cancer , my only companion, friend, and confidant was my old cat. ❤
Thank him for his compassion...he is saving many lonely people who totally depend upon their beloved pets, for companionship during these terrible times...❤
I’ve lived poverty in the 70’s (but not destitution) and unless you’ve experienced it, seen it through the eyes of a hungry, cold, tired child, you couldn’t possibly understand how it can happen and so quickly to anyone. Both working parents one laid off for months resulted in no electricity, no heating, very little food, underwear washed in a sink with hand soap taken from public toilets and toast for most meals. But then, some of those doubting the innocent positions of those claiming destitution will hopefully one day be in a position to understand just that, it’s called karma. We are all here to learn valuable lessons, sometimes those lessons have to be lived.
💯 percent were all here to learn lessons. However we are not living in the dark ages we're talking Victorian Era, Dickensian era. and you would have hoped the world 🌍 has progressed. Sadly 😢it has not.
not true at all
Oh my god, this is not poverty. More than half the world live on less than $1 a day. Need to get him out picking fruit or working in a call centre.
@@user-ws1cl2eq5wYes, but they live in huts made of mud and grass and don't pay taxes and bills. YOU CAN'T LIVE WITH $1 PER DAY IN THE MODERN WORLD!
@@user-ws1cl2eq5wwhich “him” are you referring to - two gentlemen are disabled or would be working as they both had jobs until their health tanked on them - you can’t wish them back to work no matter how hard you try - sorry 30 pounds a month isn’t destitute enough for you
That could easily of been me. I was in the Army for many years. I left the army in my 30s. And I decided, what to do next with my life. A trade, or university to study computers. I went to university.
At 55, all my old injuries ganged up on me, my back, my knees, my shoulders.
If I had a trade, I would of ended up on the sick, and into poverty like him.
With many on here sneering at me, and blaming me, for the fact, that my body had given up on me.
As a software dev, I sit down, and work, so I can work till retirement or even longer if i so wish.
Funny enough when i picked software over a trade, it never even occurred to me, that 20 years down the line, my body would give up.
Could you give any advice on how to start in software development please? (For someone not in that field of work at all)
@@charlottetaylor4471 Well start my picking a languae to learn.
Java orC#, spend a year teaching yourself.
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I chose Java.
Read up on both, which is the most popular then stick with that.
Then find a free online tutorial to teach your self.
Also youtube is a wealth of information.
What you need is a labtop with at laest 16gb
Then when you choose your languae.
Pick a IDE integraion Development environment,
Read up on that, youttune will show you how to set it up,
The net is great anything you need to learn it on there.
Then when teaching your self
Break it into different lessons
From which is browsers, HTML,
Backend which is data storage SQL, NonSQL,
Middleware, linking the front to the back.
Yeah well done, I did the same in my 30s bumming about in dead end jobs I went to uni and got a degree in IT infrastructure and a degree in teaching. I’ve earned a fortune and am still working online 25 hours a week for £45000 a year. Sitting in a warm office, no stress and loving it. Gives me great pride knowing I’m helping the next generation of IT professionals.
@@charlottetaylor4471I have posted below. software development is a hard slog, and takes quite a while to get up to speed. I would advise looking around for free IT courses there is a company in Birmingham who does this, it is a great way to get your foot on the ladder.
@@charlottetaylor4471 Its a very big field. I would reccomend start with learning to program.
I am a java developer, but there are other languages.
They are what we call open source, which means its all free.
Look for youtube vids, such as introduction to Java, and or any other language.
I lost my job (through no fault of my own) 3 months before the tories slashed housing benefits to £65 a week when they first came into power. I was privately renting a studio flat for 425 a month, receiving 260 a month housing benefit after the cut, and £204 a month jobseekers allowance. So to make up the 165 shortfall on my rent i used my jobseekers allowance, leaving me with £39 a month remaining to live off. I couldnt pay any bills and food banks werent a thing back then.
I survived off 18p aldi noodles, stealing bread from the petrol station up the road and did a few runners in restaurants embarassingly, just to try and have 1 meal a day. Lost 2 stone in weight, mental health was down the toilet and racked up thousands of debts for bills.
Used to have to ring for crisis loans to be on hold for ages then to be told i can have £11 when i asked for £20 to get some food. Disgraceful.
Surpised i made it through that period of my life. And was meant to be searching for work in the mean time!
All this in a top 5 wealthiest nation. Nothing has changed since and my situation was 12 or 13 years ago
If You would live in Germany which lost both wars, wouldn't be possible what You went through in your country. BTW, if You would be an Ukrainian in your country, You wouldn't have a problems either.
you lost weight stealing and running , ,
As a Mexican national growing up always in poverty I'm familiar with all this. Me and my siblings are grown ups now but we always thought of the UK and USA as rich countries were everybody had a nice life. It seems poverty and inequality are everywhere not just in underdeveloped countries. It's just amazing to learn that some people in UK has worse living conditions than people in Mexico
I see people in poverty here in Peru. But at least in Peru you can live at ambient temperature, you can construct a flimsy shack on the hill to live in, and you can work as a street seller to get something to eat. None of those possibilities are available in Britain.
Hardship is on a big increase in both countries. Not in Scandinavia or the EU counties, though. Odd.
Too busy paying for "asylum seekers"
They pay for them to go to college but I have to work.
Il explain exactly what has caused this. Its the housing boom, up until the late 90s you could afford to work a minimum wage job and buy a house. When the media began scare mongering about house prices rising everybody became greedy and started charging more rent and trying to sell their homes for more money. Its still going on today. Il tell you a true story, my father worked as a courier, he didnt make much money but he managed to raise 3 kids and look after my mum on about £250 a week, she never worked. In 1994 he also purchased a tiny 2 bedroom maisonette in West London for £24,000. He had a bad mortgage and I think in total it cost him £40k. That same home is now worth about half a million. He was born at the right time because there is no way he would have been able to do that in this day and age. There really needs to be some sort of rent control like Germany has but the government dont implement this because they get their cut from greedy landlords. We had them in the 60s and 70s but they were then repealed because landlords complained that it caused the recession which isnt even remotely true.
@@garryferrington811 don't kid yourself we are getting there .. fast.
Country is falling apart because, for some reason, our compatriots are okay with rich people being thieves, scrounges and tax dodgers but refuse to help their fellows.
Shame on anyone that voted for the Tories in the past decade. Shame on you all.
I live in Texas and it’s kind of the Same here in America
When has that no been the case? For hundreds of years Britain is whealty and the people are poor. For a couple decades people forgot but it never changed.
@@filipeventura2729 You have a very short memory. Just before this government came in all my local high streets were thriving. Now half the shops are shut, the rest are full of slot machines, and theres a homeless person every 10 feet.
Won every election handly for 12 years got #Brexit passed people who now suffer the most voted tory in labour areas and elected a series of worsening conmen and women as PM , The next election will be interesting in 2025
@@h4rdboiled695 Shorts memory? I literally said thats the norm, even if for a couple decades it dosent see. like it for the middle class. Its a cycle that always ends up with the majority in poverty
How can the UK afford a monarchy and allow its citizens to starve?
how can the monarchy know their citizens are hurting and not lift a finger.............it seems that the usa and uk are neck and neck in mistreating their most vulnerable.
Especially when Charles gets suitcases with cash from the Arabs.
UK is not a monarchy. It is a Capitalist autocracy, the only way to rise up is capitalism. But the Brits who are used to queen giving handouts have never risen above it. Large population of Brits have no relevant skill and they also dont want to learn. No one can help these people.
The monarchy costs each of us £1.28 a week but brings in millions you ignorant shite.
Good lord. Royal haters are always a laugh.
This is heartbreaking. Watching this from Manhattan NY USA. The UK Goverment is a disgrace. Where is their compassion? There will always be people who take advantage of the welfare system. These people are not those people. For the love of god help them!!
What an absolute shambles the UK has become. The amount of older people the aged pension will no longer be around in 20 years, let that sink in
"The amount of older people the aged pension will no longer be around in 20 years"
meaning?
@@SomeKidFromBritainuse your brain kid
My greatest concern is how to recover from all these economic and global troubles and stay afloat especially with the political power tussle going on in UK.
Such market uncertainties are the reason I don’t base my market judgements and decisions on rumours and here-says, got the best of me 2020 and had me holding worthless position in the market, I had to revamp my entire portfolio through the aid of an advisor, before I started seeing any significant results happens in my portfolio, been using the same advisor and I’ve scaled up $450k within 2 years, whether a bullish or down market, both makes for good profit, it all depends on where you’re looking.
@@TomD226 Please pardon me, who guides you on the process of it all?
@lowcostfresh2266 Actually, I'm not sure if I'm allowed to mention this, but I'd recommend looking up Laurel Dell Sroufe because she was a big deal in 2020. She manages my portfolio and serves as both my coach and my manager.
@@TomD226 Thank you for this tip. It was easy to find your coach. Did my due diligence on her before scheduling a phone call with her. She seems proficient considering her résumé.
Proverty is created by human being. Just think about the primitive races, there were no rich and poor.
I left the UK in 2019 for good after nearly 30 years of work! I realised everything I tried to do to benefit my family was futile! I have lived in a flat in my youth where the only heat I had over winter was a candle. So, I found job in Spain, sold our mortgaged house paid off the loan and bought a run down rural house here in Asturias. I do not have a mortgage or rent because I saw into my old age and was frightened, I swore to be as self reliant as possible. The society here seems more gentle, quiet and respectful. I cut wood for our log fire and am always warm here. In the UK you need a lot of things to survive, good warm clothing, proper meals to keep you well, heating, especially in winter, electric lights for long dark winter periods and most of all you need a government that cares about you. The latter will never materialise. I say this, I used to love the UK but now it's really shocking. My sibling miss me, but understand totally why we moved.
Asturias is beautiful!
I wish you all the best!
A candle for heating, you were lucky. My family used to sit around a glow-worm
I left 7 years ago and will never return ... Cabt believe im saying this but its the absolute truth no matter what billox the media tells you China is the new land of opportunity my life has NEVER been this good if i could change my citizenship to chinese id do it instantly without any hesitation
Ever in opposite way vs yours.
Your life = self- sufficient from the ground, but life still need $$$ for future.
When aged, you will move from your current to the old root that got MORE network to support your health/ life, unless your body condition still is capable to work.
We all find our paths, for many Spaniards that will be the UK, for you its Spain - it used to all be a lot easier to make that change.
At one point in my life (about 12 years ago) I lived off $110 a month after rent. Roughly $27 a week. Trust and believe, it's horrible.
I feel so sorry for this guy , if I live next door to him I would give him free home cooked food everyday , since I always cooked too much for 2 person's .
I do that when I cook on a Sundays cook enough for me and the old girl next door she old and struggling bless her
me too
The 2 men in the video probably can also vlaim pip benifits knocking his benifits up from $1000 to $1400
God bless you miss
@stephencotton2694, it's not easy to get pip. I'm on disability and still can't get pip
Thatcher wanted to take us back to Victorian values. Her party obviously knew what she meant: many now experience Victorian poverty.
What are the ‘Victorian values’ she wanted to take us back to?
@@HumansAreShitFactories You would have to ask her but no longer possible. It was thought to be about respect and hard work. Also interpreted as keeping the plebs in their place with the threat of the workhouse. Seems like we are heading there.
@@davidmcculloch8490 No I won’t have to ask her, I’m asking you. You said it, now own it and tell us what you mean. Or are you another one of these people who try to cast people in a bad light born out of primitive emotional thinking and ego?
@@HumansAreShitFactories Helpful Tip: when you see a reply, read beyond the first line and consider the response. Within in, you will find an explanation. If that's not clear, I have replied in full and I'm not "one of those..." who you would love to stereotype
@@davidmcculloch8490 Helpful tip: don’t make stupid comments that you can’t substantiate and that are born out of ignorance then try to backtrack and claim you’ve already answered.
I met an ex soldier who became homeless after being sanctioned for being late for a DWP appointment ,and then died on the streets.
so sad.
and this is why when people see the ex soldier and others like him you know why people shy away from joining up for the army.
After ruining lives in middle east and Afghanistan he got the same medicine back home. Karma is real.
Where did all his salary go to?
Nobody should die without taking tory garbage with them.
I remember working at Tesco when I was younger and at the end of the night we would have to throw out multiple large rubbish bags full of bakery goods and if you so much as took a bite from a single donut you'd be fired.
That was quite the radicalising moment for me.
That is infuriating 😡
This is so heartbreaking, it really hurts to see this man living in this way.
Yep. That’s why I didn’t even want to have kids and never had.
Reading this from the "richest country", US (joke) in the world, I totally understand the actions of this man. Governments are eager to brag about their riches, but do the rich give up some of their undeserved perks? NO
Unfortunately for men there’s nothing we can do. Women can just start an only fans and make a little 20k a month, some 18 year old girls are making over 200k a month literally just google I make 200k a month on only fans there’s so many some even make upto 500k
@@Sco16161 bro, just go do it yourself. Stop crying about something utterly irrelevant to the conversation 🤣🤣🤣
@katjaxxx7353 I'm on the same page. I'll never have a child in this country. If I randomly end up expecting one. I'm moving us all to a better country. Litterally anywhere but the US or the UK. I won't let my kid have the shitty life most of us are forced to live.
When I complain about my lot in life, I want to remember Paul and ask for blessings for him and others.
And after that: join a socialist party.
Yeah let's be communist so we can be even poorer 😂😂 no thank you
@@matthewsill748 Would you prefer the UK's health care system (quite socialist) or the American model (mostly capitalist)?
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxthere is nothing socialist about UK healthcare! It's free for everyone yes to an extent anyway but you are more than welcome to pay as I do for private! Well I get through my job.. it's a safety net for for people and if you need quicker more upmarket services you can pay.. I don't see anything socialist in that!
@@eventhori3on The National Health Service was founded in 1948 by a Labour government as a socialist institution: it is universal, publicly funded and free at the point of delivery. There is plenty socialist in that. You are free to buy healthcare privately, and it is Conservative and Labour policy to force everyone to do that as soon as is politically viable, so that healthcare becomes the preserve of the wealthy as it was before the NHS was created. The expensive, private US model is an utter failure, but it is the one our political parties adore because it will destroy a socialist institution they detest and make the corporate class even wealthier - something you clearly support. The Cuban model, which is almost completely socialist, produces excellent results on much less funding per capita than the US or even here in the UK:
"The United States' high health care costs do not yield corresponding health outcomes for its citizens. Conversely, Cuba, with less than a tenth of U.S. expenditures, has attained comparable outcomes on many indicators, particularly life expectancy and infant mortality.
This contrast raises the obvious question of how Cuba achieves these outcomes, a problematic question because multiple factors could contribute to the system's success. Regardless, the differences between the two countries' health care systems remain stark. Although Cuban health care providers have less access to technology and supplies, coverage is universal and the system is largely government-run, with the exception of the black market and medical tourism. Conversely, health care in the United States is not universal and consists of a disjointed, yet well-resourced mix of private and public providers and payers. Health system differences between Cuba and the United States likely account for much of Cuba's ability to do more with less."
www.rand.org/blog/2017/10/doing-more-with-less-lessons-from-cubas-health-care.html
"Turning the tide on destitution is an urgent moral mission". Yes, 100%. A mission for everyone. It's very sad that so many people are being left behind and struggling financially. One thing we can all do is make the effort to look out for each other, even in small ways. This community focused approach will help people know how to look out for each other practically. I wish this report focused on that rather on just what the government can do.
Yes indeed. Successive governments and other corporations deliberately cause this destitution because their greed and psychopathy know no bounds!
Yes, even paring up to share the rent, electric,food. Two is always better than one just think how 3 would do splitting the bills.
This is absolutely heartbreaking. Unacceptable in the world's 6th largest economy.
20 years ago I used to work in a little well know delicatessen shop in Edinburgh. Every weekend I would be asked to close the shop and throw away dozens of delicious baguettes and croissants, all perfect to eat but not sold fast enough. I was shocked. I took the bundle and walked around Edinburgh to give them away to homeless people sitting in minus 5 degrees on the pavement. Colleagues and boss not interested in the problem. What are supermarkets and cafes doing to help hungry people ??
My cousin worked at Costa coffee and they put hand sanitiser all over their unsold food to stop homeless and other desperate people waiting outside to raid the rubbish . Cafe Nero and Starbucks do that as well apparently. Some managers and staff ignore this though and hand it out at the end of the day to those queueing up outside.
There is an ap p that I used in Portugal and Germany that helps reduce food waste. Businesses with surpluses sign up and you reserve it. Unfortunately you need a credit card, a cell phone or device for the app…. It is called to good to go. They have a mix of foods and one can get it for 25% of the regular price. It’s also available in Britain.
Its excellent, have often got 3-5 items for the price of one, and reduces waste! Great if you live with other people or for giving donations @@terriblepainter7675
Lot of help in my city in New Zealand.
giving food away does nothing for the profit margins ..
This can happen to anyone anywhere. I didn't see the dark side of life either before I got a burn out and the world fell apart, suddenly my life went from relatively wealthy to like that of these people in this clip, you think your country have you covered (Sweden in this case, but it's been Denmark too). It's a difficult situation to be in, and the gov. thinks you're perfectly okay while the rest of your body disagrees with you. Get a job they said, friends shun you and you realize when you're in trouble you got noone, and you just don't knock on doors, you're either too ashamed or too afraid to be outed and never get a decent job again. The truth is, it's not that easy to get help, and people tend to shun away from people who are in need (sad reality, but one I've felt too close).
As for my story it had a happy ending, I got a job, fixed my life eventually - but it took many years. But when I see this clip, to me it's a grim reminder that I know far too well. And if you're in this situation now and reading this, know that it's not the end, know that there IS light by the end of that tunnel, and that you can get out of it, just don't expect the "friends" you thought you had, or the gov. to come and save you, because you'll wait forever while you wither away.
The road out is not easy, but it's important you don't see yourself as a victim (even technically you are, because of our defunct social system), but remember you're valuable, you're worth something, and if you can somehow see that over time, others will see it too, otherwise your situation will only keep beating your down and it becomes an evil circle of hopelessness.
Something I've observed over the years when I had problems like this (and I've had it quite a few times in my now long life, yes I'm at the age of the people in the clip), is that a lot of the things stopping us from moving on are other factors that we don't talk about here, and that is mental illness, unwillingness to relocate, self loathing, habits, acceptance of the "new" situation etc. While I'm not a psychologist, I have noticed that one thing that's important is to keep evolving your life, you can look for a job in a different city, smaller town that needs helping hands, yes it means relocating from family and friends, but if you don't have anyone that helps you there, think about if it's worth staying put there. It's not an easy task, I did it 3 times, but each time I did it, success followed. Now the friends I once had has it MUCH worse than me because I chose to relocate to different areas, yes I even left my country a few times, and "new hands and fresh blood" was needed where I went, and a new adventure started. Remember, the only one that can truly make a change is you, but it's not easy, the first step out of that situation is the absolutely hardest, but it's also the most rewarding, remember - you're VALUABLE.
@annasarina925 Stop victim blaming. It's disgusting.
Thank you for your post. It’s inspirational.
You’re very right. And your perspective and positivity is what makes the difference.
Sometimes people only need a small bit of help, guidance, direction. Sometimes just knowing someone is alongside you as you make decisions.
Unfortunately I really disagree with C4’s reporting method and all of the media. Your story is an example it can work - we just need the right mindset.
I’d say to C4. Get real C4, you’re not helping. That £33 becomes £843. But 6% of the population is huge and needs sorting - is it real?
Who’s really helping the people. Educate and explore all avenues rather than ask a few flakey questions. Are they spending wisely? You can rent for 250-300pcm; move if you must. And you shouldn’t be paying £410pcm for utilities & bills during unemployment; half that at most. You need the ‘Hotel Inspector’ to run through the bare min spends with them.
The first guy looks genuine. But I wouldn’t want anybody buying me hobby gifts - harsh but real.
Then you show a single mum. Skips meals …. but affords buying makeup and hair dye.
A much stronger community spirit is needed. But I don’t see that happening until people can genuinely care for their own bare necessities, instead of throw away consumer indulgences - priorities. It’s a culture thing; an attitude in the UK. Fed from the roots.
The shame is the imbalance. And the culture that feeds flaunting consumerism. The next generation is feeding heavily off this through media streaming who profit off it.
Looking after your own mental state, being in the moment of each day. Being honest to yourself. Whilst making your way. These are much higher up the priority list than consumer goods like flights, beer, pets, fashion, smoking, drugs, cars, hobbies, smart phones & gadgets - none of that matters when you reach true rock bottom.
@annasarina925 FDR called it the new deal, you pay taxes all your life and be a good law abiding citizen, you or your releatives protect the country in wartime, the government has a responibility to supply good jobs or if they cannot decent welfare. If they cannot the government should be removed by the people.
I mean, from your comments you certainly never from the former glorious British empire. These people lived through the time when the British able to extract value from colonies to a former shell of itself. These old people can't compute, coming from extravagance to normalcy.
From the video they said there's a lot of immigrants and refugees who use the foodbanks. Certainly they don't complain because it's free food which they barely see food in their home country. They come to Great Britain and work their hardest, just like you they move to better places. I'm sure if Great Britain fall more and more they can just as easily move somewhere else.
Having left the UK 30 years ago, it breaks my heart to see how we are treating people often disabled through their work. It's no better than the Victorian era to be honest and embarrassing to the nation.
Just out of curiosity, which country did you move to?
left 15 years ago myself
It's not just the UK.. even in the US.. in fact the US is worse because the minimum wage is worse, even the health care system is worse.
@@joelc9439 i had to scan pay as you go cards for $8 of electric in the council estates. Yet to see that in america but damn its expensive here but the income potential for lower classes is higher in my experience. Also never had a steak or even seen a whole one till moving here. Grew up on baked beans and fish fingers. Thought i would like it as an adult but just tastes like shyt
The politicians feel no embarrassment, they continue to lie about how bad
the situation really is. Lee Anderson´s 30P comment was the pinnacle of
the government´s denials and gaslighting.
After WW2 there was widespread poverty, there was a means of escaping
then, now it is becoming almost impossible.
No one should go to bed hungry. Never imagined this would happen in the UK.
Rishi Sunak lives such a privileged life he has no idea how hard life can really be for a lot of people.
I see him speaking on tv and all I can think is how far removed from reality he is.
@@icouldbewrongicouldberight By whom?
I'm glad I'm not.the only one who thinks that!
What? You actually waste your time watching him
He doesn't care.
No matter which party is in charge the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. There’s lots that are in full time work but are only one months wage away from this situation.
Which is why the rich cannot be allowed to continue to exist. The French understood this.
You are so right
A revolution, the French really understood that. I was appalled that during Harry and Megan's wedding, the homeless were given a binbag and told to get off the streets for a while near Windsor I think, because they were making everywhere look a mess for the cameras and media.....my God what sort of country does that....
That's old not so lots of poor people get rich and some rich end up poor,you have to get your hole in gear when your like 15 years of age it's a new competitive world can't just sit back and hope for the best
I see things like this and think back to what the prime minister has said. He’s said that he wants to cut down the amount of money these people struggling can get and is telling them to just work harder when some of them are sick and or are working but not getting paid enough. I also remember him talking to a homeless man at a soup kitchen and telling him he needs to essentially get a job when he doesn’t even have an address to give to an employer and in response the man just said “I just want to make it to Christmas”
Yes the drug addict sob story. Garner sympathy from idiots who have no idea.
No one has ever or will ever hear my sob story I’ve been too busy busting my guts out to better my position not running to the job centre with my hands out screaming I’ve got such and such.
I wish I had time for mental illness and sick. These sob stories would of crumbled at one year or incident that I’ve experienced.
It’s laughable now to hear people moaning me, me, me when it affects them.
@billybigbollox You have a job? What if you werent able to work ?
You sound kinda unhinged to be honest.
@billybigbollox cool story bro
@@billybigbollox May you never experience genuine mental illness or chronic health problems. May you always be privileged enough to be that smug and callous.
You don't have to be educated to understand
1970:
Average yearly wage: £1,204
Average house price: £4,690
The avg house cost 3.89 x the avg yearly salary.
2019:
Average yearly wage: £26,208
Average house price: £234,853
The avg house costs 8.96 x the avg yearly salary.
Meaning , house price has gone up 9x , while salaries only 4x , of course it will reach stage of it not being affordable.
And if we look just on last couple years
salary increases by 4% yearly
house prices increases 12-18% yearly
The staff at the job centre take pride in seeing people suffering , they like when they have to get your benefits cut if you miss an appointment or any reason they like . Its a massive problem , the universal credit money should be 100% granted without question . Not left to these sad people to decide . Luckily i work and dont need to deal with them
Some do. My Son-in law gave up that job because he got sick of bullying people who were obviously disabled. It really depends on which departments you deal with. There's definitely more than a few staff dealing with PIP who are in the job for community payback.
They take pride in people suffering. I doubt they are all like that
@@jackybogues2495 You'd be surprised because most "work coaches" are nasty. Seems like DWP pick these sorts to force people into work even if they're not well.
What's most sickening is that there IS more than enough wealth and resources around, but greed means that they're not distributed according to who needs it, just who wants it just for the sake of it. Add to that how MPs get allowances for second homes and luxury restaurant bills as 'needs of being an MP', it's enough to make anyone lose hope in government and the system.
You don’t think these jokers go into politics to serve the people do you? Wouldn’t that be a novel idea.
We are as a nation much to busy giving that wealth away to people who wash up in boats and go straight to the front of the queue. Thank all of the "good" people who think that its our moral duty to look after all comers before looking after our own people.
Ahh I see. You want to steal someone else’s hard earned money and then decide how it’s spent. Sounds such a fair system. I’m sure we’ll have people queuing up to have their money stolen by socialists.
@@lesigh1749that’s a load of shite but congrats for playing right into the governments hands, distract you with the immigrants while they empty your pockets and give it to their pals.
My grandparents were raised in rural Canada during the 1940s and 50s. My grandma was one of 5 kids. her dad made a living selling cream and through the odd construction job. She grew up without running water, with Spam being the closest she got to eating meat during the winter. When she moved to the city at 16 for work, her and a friend got a tenement for $50/month, where they had to share a washroom with an exhibitionist man. Despite the hardships she faced, she was always motivated by the knowledge that if she worked hard, things could only get better.
Unlike many other folks in their 80s, my grandma understands that the world is changing. Getting on a one-way bus with nothing but the money in your pocket and the clothes on your back isn't an option anymore because the vast majority of landlords require a credit score, down payment AND proof that your income is 3x higher than rent (and good luck getting a job with raggedy clothes and no ID - i've seen what happens when people try). Even if one works full-time in a skilled trade, there's no guarantee that you'll ever be able to afford your own home. And she gets teary-eyed and angry when she sees that a can of Campbell's soup is $2 off-sale - not because she can't afford it, but because she knows most people my age can't.
horrible!
Everything I need to do to make money, is impossible. It takes 4$ to take a bus, 300$ to apply for school to get financing, and you need a phone or internet to apply for jobs and receive calls. No job will hire you off email Correspondence, especially if there is only one job and 1000 applicants.
Exactly, fiat currency demands floods of immigration, floods of immigration is the landlord's wet dream, credit scores, bank account contents. They are now allowed to be so invasive that missing a phone bill can see you homeless, while seniors choose between heat and eat, our money is sent to grifting schemes in Ukraine and Israel. While these politicians who invest in the war machines get richer and richer, and those tics at the wef plan more control, more surveillance, and greater poverty for our lives. And then we, stupid as ever, don't hunt down the people responsible, instead we fight one another on the street.
These problems come from firstly, fiat currency as the source for creating money, and unchecked over lords who have no fear of us.
this is 2023 not 19 nothing
@@valerie-e9i Yeah, 19nothing didn't have thousands and thousands of people living on the streets .
Excellent reporting, highlighting the needs of the many people rather than the wants of the few people.
Bless all that struggle.
❤ To the People.
Watching this from the US. This is so scary because it can happen to anybody. A workplace injury or other illness is all it takes. Or just not having put all the right pieces in place over a lifetime could end up in a situation where you can't retire, and may not have the health to just keep working. Its all very scary.
Must be even more scary being destitute in the USA. If you get sick, and don't have insurance you could die.
@@lordprotector3367 You can die even with insurance. My dr appointments take at least 6 months. I make primary doctor appointment, which is waste of time. That takes 2 months. The primary recommends to see "real" doctor. That appointment is for 6 months later. So people are dying just waiting to see a doctor while paying for unaffordable insurance.
A person like Paul would be homeless in the usa if he didn't qualify for disability.
In america, the rich try their best to limit welfare payments even more than what is happening now.
@@KuttyJoe Wow, that's not good. In the UK if you go private you can get to see a specialist the next day, but if you go via the NHS (paid for by taxation) you could wait 2 years to see the exact same doctor.
@@KuttyJoeRemember hearing a US radio ham talking to someone saying it's easier finding a Vet to treat your dog than finding a Doctor to treat you. Terrible.
Back in the nineties I was earning 27K, now you look at jobs advertised and the starting salary is 24K, everyone it seems is earning about the same. Wages have stagnated so much. You have to think well beyond the box to earn good money. It's time to get creative, you can no longer depend on the State, We should all look after each other a lot better.
The older generations are eating their young right now, You'd be shocked at just how little support there is for those under 40. They want us to work for nothing until we die to supplement previous generations pensions.
bro, there's like hundreds of people applying for jobs that only has 21k annual salary
This is something no one says! I'm a mechanical engineer.. 8 years ago 37.5k 1 year out of university! Now I see same jobs advertised about 35k average! Not moved! But if we add the compound inflation over the past 8 years using the CPI calculator I would be on 56k! Yet jobs are still advertised at 35k! The wages haven't moved and inflation 30% in past 3-4 years! As the Economist said a few days back! If your under 50 and can.... LEAVE!
almost as if it's about supply and demand, you let millions of people in this is what you get
I did leave, I am currently sitting in the Middle East on my half-term break.@@eventhori3on
Im so lucky I never moved to the UK. I feel so sorry and empathy towards the poor not only in UK but the whole world. It is a disgrace the governments cannot even look after their own citizens in respect.
After WW2, the top tax rate was 90%, which helped Britain to rebuild and boom. This reduced to around 70% during the '70's and, from there on, it seems to have been the pastime of every successive Conservative government to see how much they can reduce this rate. This is not just limited to the UK - the USA passed massive tax cuts in 2017 while the minimum wage stayed at $7.50/hr. My country has done similar. The rich will always be rich ...
The governments of the world need poor people willing to work to death for peanuts to feed a child. You can thank right wing governments that support slave wages and slave hours and the companies that lobby for it.
Meanwhile they gotten money for war though.
@@jacknguyen5677 They can just print more money and cause more and more inflation.
@@offthedeepend3996 the lady at the food bank said people came over for toilet paper, not food. She was mystified by it, me too.
Watching this and realizing am 1 wage packet from being homeless too..
Am 64 today, I sneak into work early so no one can see me limp, need knee replacement but I can be replaced in hours if fired or let go..
Spending Christmas alone as usual, am glad just resting my leg…
I have many rescued animals around me so am lucky .🧐
The higher interest rates are forcing many to remortgage. For others it’s repossession. Those behind the scenes are there to snap up the cheap repossessed properties for a bargain which in turn are rented out at an extortionate rate. It’s a disgusting system.
I‘m from New York and recently traveled to London for leisure for the first time. I didn't expect the cost of food and everyday stuff is just as high as that of NY. The problem is I make almost twice as much as my British colleagues who work at the same financial services company as I do but in a different location. With that being said, I honestly don't know how British people survive with that level of salary
Rent cost in NY though??
Smaller houses, smaller cars, smaller tv sets, smaller fridges, smaller meals, smaller drinks, etc
£30 a month.
So sad.
However there is always money for Wars.
UK has committed £4.6 billion to Ukraine.
I think uk government pays for more social services like healthcare
The UK gov covers a lot of social services including healthcares with less revenues …this is the issue + they accepted 1-3 million immigrants in the past 20 years…that is making the system crowded …they need to stop mass immigration + deport the unproductive immigrants also, cut costs
Retirement only works if you own your house sadly for a lot of people. And with a population that is getting older it isn't gonna get better....
Got to bring back council owned cheap local social housing. They have sold most what was left to free market housing association type companies in the last 13 years of fecklessism.
@@huwzebediahthomas9193That started decades ago, not in 2010.
Labour and Conservative governments have supported the current system.
@huwzebediahthomas9193 started in the eighties.
es with no mortgage or rent to pay.
The despair in his eyes…it hurts.
This level of poverty is soul destroying. I remember living in the UK on benefits and the way you feel like an outcast in a society awash with cash
Did you want even more free money?
@@SirHargreevesWhat a bellend
A society awash with cash?🤔
Should have done better at school. I would guess you messed about at school and left with little or no qualifications and have made no effort over the years to improve that situation. I am afraid you reap what you sow in this case. We all have the same opportunities.
Lets not confuse the general rule with the exceptions. This guy is a regular Joe who has worked all his life to 57 with a decent well paid job. He has £0 saved in the bank and does not even own his own small flat. His situation is entirely his fault through the choices he has made. It's a well Known issue with people in the UK today with the celebrity culture we live in. Loaned up to the max, credit card debt to pay for Sky TV Premier League. the latest i-phone and a shiny new Nissan Qashqai in the drive. I am not fooled.@@z0z111
I have less than 30 pounds / month .. after 30+ years as a coder I was hit by a stroke in my brain .. game over!
Sad to hear that. :( I have friends coding in C++ and Javascript and maintaining databases. I just code in HTML and a little Javascript for my movies database and my ebooks in my free time. I wish you luck.
The amount of money given by Universal Credit is just not enough. Applying online for jobs is like a lottery, you constantly get ignored and rejected without feedback or anyone to speak to. Your application may even just get discarded by AI before your CV has crossed a single pair of human eyes. Even if you're perfectly qualified or even overqualified. How difficult it is to get a job these days is another national scandal that too few media outlets are talking about. There is no shame, nor should there be, in claiming this benefit. We all pay taxes and National Insurance so that these benefits and public services are our safety net if and when we fall on hard times. Instead of blaming claimants, blame giant corporations who pay no tax despite making billions in profits from the British people and urge the government to come down hard on them so that they can afford to meet the basic needs of people who need it.
Then there is Sunk the tax dodger and is 5 homes, links to Russia, multi billion wealth.... and a lot more than that...
I don't live in the UK but it's hard all over I'm in Texas I have a job and it's still hard so head up keep the faith ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Working class men treated so badly in the UK. It breaks my heart.
Tory or Labour they are both a disgrace.....
Time for a new party in this country
Hack! This won't change when the red half of the uniparty take over.@@teampeace5571
it is everybody not just the old its teenagers young parents grandparents everybody
Really heartbreaking 💔 I pray he gets the support he needs
Nothing fails harder than prayers!
@@thebodykeepsthescore2828 I love your user name, but maybe it's an expression? And if not, maybe it's that person's way of expressing their utmost sympathy?
I've been retired 3 years. About 10 ago I saw impending poverty so I saved and built a tiny trailer house. I live on a farm where I work a couple of hours a day to cover my rent and utilities. I live very comfortably and keep virtually all my pension.Thank goodness I had the foresight.
Is this in UK?
No, you are just lucky that life did not show you that your plans are not what life has planned for you.
Well Done. To survive is everything.
Are you from the UK or are you American
@emmaphilo4049 I emigrated to New Zealand many years ago from the UK. Accommodation costs here are through the roof. I'm immune from such with my simple comfortable lifestyle.
Thank goodness that lady has her mum. Some people have no one
Yes true. Unfortunately I lost my mum this year, I lived with her and was her carer, we were doing ok and could actually save a little, I was on carer's allowance and income support and mum was on top attendance allowance plus her pension, we didn't have to pay rent with it being social housing and because of her having pension credit she didn't pay any council tax either. But she got cancer and didn't last very long and now I'm on universal credit and life is a real struggle now. After everything is paid out I'm left with very little, often eat one meal a day and cannot afford travel costs on buses so I walk miles. I can't wait for this year to be over.
I’m in the same situation. Next door lends me their Wi-Fi. I use so little electricity that my bills went up when they raised the standing charge. £9 used, £18 standing charge. No food bank near me tho. Writing this under a blanket, it’s warmer out than in. Benefits stopped, because PIP payment not resolved for 8months. I read philosophy pdfs to keep alert.
Please keep holding on. The Universe has a way of making it right for us eventually. Virtual hugs to you, friend.
Take care if yourself mate, go online and search for charities.
Get a job
It's not that simple.
@@guyverjay1289 When my husband was made redundant I got 5 part time jobs cleaning toilets. Kept my family together for 13 months.
Thank you for highlighting these people's stories C4, we need to keep shouting about these issues otherwise we will forever be ignored.
We working class are getting ignored since decades
@@katjaxxx7353how? What do you mean ignored? What do you want?
@@MCDONALD6969To stop having public services cut to the bone, stop stagnant wages while the upper crust increase theirs exponentially and stop treating housing like a commodity to the point where its becoming increasingly unavailable.