The Uk's living standards are on a massive decline. It is shameful that governments allow families to go without food, water, clothes and essentials to live . There is massive inequality. People are poorer than ever. Governments allow prices to rise and this hits the most poorest and vunerable in society. The government dont care . The government are out of touch . People are sick and tired of broken promises. Welcome to a third world country with massive inequality
You have to admit the problem. It's Western capitalism's fault. This is what western capitalism has brought the UK and US and western countries to, rising poverty rising inequality and rising prices because of the UK's sanctions on Russia. It's the Tories fault too. China doesn't have many of these problems. Why not? Chinese people are prosperous and China is developing fast and China has low inflation. It's because China is Socialist and the govt cares about the peoples lives. Westerners should learn a lot from China's socialist system, it works. Capitalism and Fascism don't work. Marx was right. Labour haven't been in government long, people have to give them more time change doesn't happen overnight after 14 years of the Tories.
We Are in Unchartered Financial Waters! every day we encounter challenges that have become the new standard. Although we previously perceived it as a crisis, we now acknowledge it as the new normal and must adapt accordingly. Given the current economic difficulties that the country is experiencing in 2024, how can we enhance our earnings during this period of adjustment? I cannot let my $680,000 savings vanish after putting in so much effort to accumulate them.
Keeping some gold is usually a wise decision. You would be better off keeping away from equities for a bit or, even better, seeking advice from an expert given the current market conditions and everything that is at risk with the current economy.
You have a very valid point, I started investing on my own and for a long time, the market was really ripping me off. I decided to hire a CFA, even though I was skeptical at first, and I beat the market by more than 9%. I thought it was a fluke until it happened two years in a row, and so I’ve been sticking to investing via an analyst
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I left Cornwall at 18 to look for work looks like nothing has changed,a tourist region with low wages, high house prices,too many second holiday homes.Sad to see nothing has changed!
Britain is poor, it’s the truth. No one wants to talk about it. Funding from the EU pulled, Brexit happened, and the UK doesn’t produce anything. Not only that, the country is too busy going to war with taxpayers money. The average wage in the lowest group of people in the UK is £11,000 annually. In the highest it’s £180,000. London is basically carrying the entire country. I left the UK ten years ago. I never looked back.
@@stevo728822 blah, blah, blah. They were our largest exporter in services. Please do the numbers. We lost our biggest trading partner. You’re too blind worrying about the small fish!
@@stevo728822 now they’re not. The UK has lost funding from the EU, for the most vulnerable parts of society. Do you think Westminster gives a toss about a Welsh community? The EU did, and gave the Welsh Government a substantial amount of funding to support local initiatives. The funding was pulled in 2021 from one of the poorest communities in the UK, and has not returned. Thanks Brexit!
Here here. I’ve been basically out of proper employment for a year now and actually getting someone to even call me back (when they clearly said THEY WOULD) after an interview to give me the result, ‘let alone a freaking trial shift’ has been a nightmare.😩 UC (WITH ‘PIP’) just about covers things but that’s it and STILL need help from parents sometimes to fill in the gaps. I just want to get into work now that I’m a Uni graduate even just over 20+ hours would do but so far NOTHING. a complete nightmare.
@@danielwhyatt3278 Cambly is worth checking out! It is an online method to earn an income. You have a degree and I assume you are a native English speaker so you do fit their criteria.
There are many more single parents and the fathers are absent. Back in the 90s it was one worked and the other went to do the housework. As a team it worked but societal breakdowns and people wanting to see the greener side of relationships has ended many families. It's very sad
@@robertreader6539 The majority of people speaking on here were in a relationship with both partners working ..... years ago rents were affordable to a family on one wage but rents and housing costs have skyrocketed and wages haven't kept up. It isn't about single parent families it is about the fact the average family is struggling due to unaffordable living costs
They’ve been in power for weeks, love, not years. Did you seriously imagine they had some magic wand that was going to fix decades-worth of problems overnight? People really are so naive…
They're too busy letting in worthless third world migrants in order to further suppress GDP per capita and screw over the existing population with the accommodation bill. Ratios are a very difficult concept for the Labour party. Perhaps they just don't believe in them.
Not just Cornwall is being hit by cost of living crises,The rest of the Country is in for it as well,Cost of living here in Norfolk ant any better really,Whole Country is always screwed up all the time
Here in north Canada my wife and I do not heat the home at night. In the old pioneer days they didn't heat at night. BUT, it is important to keep the mold out by heating at 22 c or 73-75 f in the daytime. The walls will give the home heat at night. Our home only had mold in one room because we closed the door and mold started. Leave the doors open to avoid mold and illness. We even leave a window open at night for off gassing in the home and immune health.5-7 layers of blankets and you sleep great and never have colds and flues.
All these people struggling whilst one of the richest families make multi millions from cornish lands. It's time the people of Cornwall start to demand that the duchy of Cornwall is returned to the people
@@lolly1811we talked about wealth extraction in the billions, this is just the result. Our pound is weaker and so is the economy, fancy well off England is not a thing anymore. A few thousand people have everything that was taken from us.
To be clear Winter Fuel Allowance has been a sticking plaster to avoid: - putting up wages, benefits and pensions; - to avoid ensuring the wealthy pay their fair dues instead of squirelling them away in offshore accounts and tackling corporate tax evasion which are negotiated down - to avoid holding the profiteering energy companies to account not just the billing companies but the whole supply chain. - to avoid energy efficiency measures, holding landlords to account for sub standard accommodation and sky high rents This is not about Winter Fuel Allowance, the sticking plaster, it is about a whole barrage of both Labour and Tory disregard for people. Neither party is about the family, workers, the old. They are about ripping off the majority for the benefit of the few. This news article is your two minutes hate to distract from the much bigger picture of corporate and privileged greed. Until people get on the street and demand change nothing will happen.
Wealthy people in Britain are not getting a bigger share than wealthy people in other nations. You only need to look at the obese feckless tattooed types on the high street to see why everything is going downhill.
Can demand all you want. Labour are importing more and more voters everyday. Communism is 7-8years away in my opinion. It will be a mini China, just watch.
The UK has gone back to the living standards and income levels during the time of Charles Dickens. Wouldn't be shocked if the government brought back the Poor Houses. Royal Family and MPs voted themselves recent income raises and increases to their heating allowances. They are unconcerned about the plight of their loyal subjects, seniors and tax paying working class poor. Outrageous that the citizens allow this inequity to exist and consider it normal.
@The-Great-Brindian I do not live in the UK, am Canadian, so have no voting rights, just my perspective from the outside looking in. If the Brits are too apathetic to advocate for change and equity for themselves, and are willing to settle for the current status quo with its injustices and impoverished living conditions (currently they have the worst among the G7 nations), it is certainly not up to another nationality to shake down their system. We have our own issues with our current tyrant government that we hope to change sometime next year.
American here... I feel so sad for all the UK people suffering. We are almost in the same situation here... all the while both our govts shovel money to the 1%. Disgusting.
People having 5 kids is just selfish and irresponsible.
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Yet 100 years ago it was totally normal. And welfare payments didn't exist. Given the options of infinity migrants or people having a few kids, I know which I'd pick
Actually we are facing a huge fall in population and don't have enough young people working to support the ageing population hence our need for overseas workers. One full time wage earner used to be enough to support a buy a house family but not any more. We need people to have families but we are pricing them out of it.
@@janewayles499 We don't need more people you fool! We need less, for 1 thing to curb climate change, its the only way. One child = 80 years of consumption.
When you produce nothing but make Billions in profit off the backs of Workers, Rents three times higher than the minimum wage in the economy, water, gas, etc. These bring workers into great poverty, make them dependent on food banks and other aid,, Although workers work hard😢😢😢
@@ceooflonelinessinc.267how can having four kids you’re struggling to feed, clothe and house, let alone educate and entertain, be regarded as “fulfilling a dream”? You can’t keep doing the SAME thing but continue to expect a different result, not in any aspect of life.
I agree to an extent but more should be done to make fathers pay. I know a few who make good money 60k+ were previously married to kids mother yet pay nothing for their kids after divorce.
Yes and how many of these people where convinced that Brexit was the way to go Cornwall got massive EU subsidies but they forget about all that Tories where in for 14 years Labour have been back in power 4 months …
It’s the same here in the US - you have people intentionally misinformed who vote against their best interest. Sadly both our parties don’t represent the people, both push an exploitative agenda, and somehow this comes back around to serve the politicians further. Have some compassion for the marginalized, nobody has really ever looked out for them in government.
@@NotesNNotes Throughout history these people have been making the wealth The people at the top treat them poorly and they love it Thank you sir Can I have a little more please 💥
They don't help anyone, so-called "foreign aid" is only a way to get large government contracts like an investment but the tabloids have taught you to always turn against the foreigner and the poor rather than the rich who evade taxes worth a lot lot lot more
Greetings from Lalor, Australia! My ancestors were Cornish (12% of my DNA). In Australia, we are facing the same cost of living crisis. The food charities, Food Bank and Second Bite, are always busy.
People are poor because we are taxed on tax on tax on tax. Your employer is taxed so they pay you less. Your wage is taxed. You then buy petrol to get to work and a third is tax. You jump in your car which is dearer than ever cause it's taxed and the car company is taxed into oblivion. Then your food is taxed and you pay council tax too. If in Scotland you even have to pay a quarterly tax for owning a house. For OWNING a house. If you get 2000 a month probably only about 600 of it is truly yours. Where's all the tax going? I work in the system and see who gets the money. New arrivals from the third world and polish and Romanians. Trust me. I see it every day. £37,011 in benefits while we are working for an average wage of 25000 in Scotland. We are being scammed
@@donna25871 I'm not full of grievance. I live a very happy life actually. How sad that you read that from my comment. I think that's what you call projecting. Here's hoping one day you learn to enjoy your life like I do.
Stop lying and educate yourself! No EU country arrival gets anything apart from those who came before Brexit. They get UC like a British national if they have settled status, that's all. It's your government and the billionaires behind it that is stealing and bankrupting the economy.
I ended up homeless on street in cornwall for 7 months with my dog i used to sleep at redruth train station sometimes hector cat keeping me company before he passed away , i had to go to scotland to get housed , i miss portreath so much x i was always at that church in Camborne for food sonetimes clothes aswel and toiletries
Im sorry for the way you had to struggle and hope you are ok now ..the little cat was there for you. I personaly prefere the company of animals to most humans.Bless you dear man
@sarahann530 I am not a failure I have a terminal tumor and lost my job I worked at heartlands in pool and in port Isaac where I was BORN in cornwall , if you leave cornwall over 5 years for WORK you lose your local connection if not lived where you were raised for 5 years so you really shouldn't make assumptions I am dying , I hope you look at how you judge people and stop being a horrible person , I now have a large home and my own business and fighting my tumor and I now have rightside paralysis, the only failure is how you were raised to be so horrible
The old saying you can only trust yourself is correct. No one and no government will rescue us in tough times. We must exercise personal responsibility.
Wages two thirds of the national average, a seasonal economy, and a massive shortage of affordable housing… And since Brexshit, no European subsidy to compensate. 🤷♂️
I'm from there and it's all true, i've left now. But everyone there makes out they live in the best place in the world to overcompensate for how bad and desperate a place it is
You mean our money that was stolen in the form of addional taxes to pay for the EU which they paid a much smaller amount back taking their cut to pay their outrageous salaries, pensions and benefits which they pay no tax on.
Cornwall is one of the poorest economic regions in Europe. Zero hours sandwich making in the summer? Outrageous. Some folk can't afford sun tan lotion let alone the staggering cost of holiday rentals. Own a holiday cottage in Cornwall ( or any where else desirable)?. You are directly responsible for the lack of housing and derelict village communities. At least 25% of housing stock in Cornwall is 2nd homes and then there are the air b&b's. How is this ever going to get better?
Remind me how importing vast amounts of unskilled labour is supposed to make this better?
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Think of it as a tax. By limiting supply and increasing demand, price go up! Effectively forcing people to pay more than they otherwise would. 20% tax on £1 is 20p. 20% tax on £2 is 40p. By giving you to pay more, more tax revenue is generated. It's all one big scam
Because it keeps inflation down by addressing Britains labour shortages.
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@@jeremiahpoole6526 I never understand that arguement. What I think You're saying is pursuit of infinite growth on finite land with finite resources. Across the world populations want to shrink naturally but we're not allowing for it to happen, for the ridiculous pursuit of infinite growth. Why?
What's so unbearable, Tomtroy? That you don’t have a Bugatti Veyron parked outside your mansion in remote Yorkshire? Or is it just the fact that you seem to be on a mission to contribute absolutely nothing useful to the economy?
Why should one contribute to society and economy in the first place? Nobody chose to be brought into this world and be forced to fit in society and suffer in this scam system?@The-Great-Brindian
Exactly. Labour can skin middle earners like myself who live within their means (childless, work 6 days a week) to clothe everyone else but once we're crippled, watch the economy start to tank. Maybe some people need to start taking responsibility for their own actions
The words Brexit (trade barrier, weakening Pound increasing cost of imports), Ukraine war funding and sanctions on Russian energy into Europe (driving up gas and electricity prices for the entire continent including UK) not mentioned here? Is this supposed to be called reporting or journalism? How can this "cost of living" be discussed here without asking or trying to identify the CAUSES of it? Is Brexit now a swear word that no mainstream TV channel is allowed to mention? These people in aggregate voted ENTHUSIASTICALLY for Brexit and now they have nothing to say on it or acknowledge what they have done to THEMSELVES?
If a sovereign nation needs an economic bloc of countries for economic prosperity, I would say the failure isn't leaving the bloc but rather the internal politics and economic affairs of that country.
exactly. people always cry and curse government, a governemnt which is dependant on a worldwide economic situation. but what do people do to help themselves, except cry, complaing and point to the government? nothing or make 5 children.
I refused to have a second child with my wife upon learning that it costs one hundred thousand dollars to raise a child. So she filed for divorce and is currently pregnant by her new fiance.
So what happens this winter when people don't put on their heat? All the moisture feeds the mold, the mold grows out of control, people get sick, especially the children, the NHS gets overwhelmed, things just get better and better because now Britain has taken back total control, just in time to lose toal control. Very sad. The british people deserve better from their government. Don't expect to get it.😢
Even with the heating on my house gets mould in the windows. You have to clean them regularly to keep it at bay. But I can't stand the adverts that just tell you to wrap up and use a hot water bottle. That is not the solution. It's totally irresponsible. This has been going on for years now, it's a disgrace.
Yes especially in Cornwall. I'm fortunate enough to have been able to install external wall insulation and have a new heating system. The damp here still needs to be managed a lot. In Cornwall, opening the windows doesn't do it cos it's so damp here. Before I could afford to make the improvements, the walls were wet with damp and condensation
@@Sara-xc9xo I'm sorry to hear that. At least you do have some tools in your battle against this problem. I've been to Britain a few times, but not since the 80's. While I found it damp, I don't recall people having this problem to this extent. Again, I don't live there, so perhaps I'm wrong. Anyway, I wish success in keeping warm and dry.
Its sad to hear these elderly people say they had great expectations from this new govt...With all due respect dont people learn anything about life and that all govts are criminal organisations?
We need a government who will stop the super rich hoovering up all the assets and pushing up the prices of housing. Rents are through the roof. If 50% of your income goes on housing then what's left over is taken by all the other bills and food and you feel like you are working for nothing.
My country is warm and cooling when it rains - a cup of tea or coffee cost $1.54 euro From SE Asia It depends on what you eat and at where - the difference in prices are great
3:30 Here's another idea. Let's introduce a cap on the number of children you can have. Instead of what you perceive as what's fair for you, let's do what's fair for society. Why are people out here having loads of kids they cannot pay for??? it's infuriating!
Do you support increasing the quotas on migrants to compensate lower birth rates? Minus immigration our population would have shrunk almost 17,000 last year. Meaning there’s more and more old people year on year that become economically inactive and require care. Strain on the NHS is ever increasing and public services will become increasingly underfunded and staffed due to lost tax revenues. Really we should be encouraging more people to have children, provide support to allow parents to return to work sooner, be economically active and ensure they have incomes fit to support a family.
@@GlasPthalocyanine they are saying that having 5 children you cant afford is selfish and irresponsible. Perhaps the mother in question didn't know where babies came from!
Agree, always annoys me when they refer to it as the ' current cost of living crisis ' It's how it is, it's here for good, those extra painful food prices recently are baked in, nothing is going down, it never does
Im sad to say if you haven't brought and payed off a house and have a pension by your 65 then you've probably made some bad decisions in your past...im a working class stiff who has worked my adult life working minimum wage job's and two on occasion and have managed to achieve it..the world is a cold hard place for folks who haven't done the smart things!!!.❤️🇬🇧
You're missing the fact that people move around to where the work is. That's not just minimum wage, btw. Anyone in the Forces, or the Police, Doctors, Nurses, Building contractors.... Sure, I bought a house in the 80s and then had the privilege of being able to afford to live in it for 30+ years. Not everyone is in that position. And how can I pass on the benefits to kids who have had to find work in other parts of the UK?
@@GlasPthalocyanine yes , if there's no work or opportunities we're you are then move to we're they are.. I've had to move to other countries chasing work and have had to do without to pay the mortgage and rates etc..the excuse that houses we're cheaper back when is not going to fly..well the houses have increased in value so have the wages and the biggest increase in prices are in the major cities..not everyone can afford to live in the city so move to we're their cheaper!!!.❤️🇬🇧
@@janewayles499 in 1991 my mortgage rate was 15.5% . We earned less than a teacher then and now . Our monthly income was 1,400 . We both had to pay poll tax . I paid all my wage in child care so I could keep my job for when she was older , no generation had it easier . Sorry for sounding harsh but compared to most people teachers are hardly hard done to . ( not talking about myself . ) I’m not rich and was brought up on a council estate with my widowed parent . At 18 I got 34 pound a week ,for full time , my rent was 21 a week , I paid poll tax , friends gave me clothes , I only got to eat if I was at work . Folk are spoiled today and generation after generation struggled . Just seems to me some could help them selves more
We've been enduring massively overpriced housing for far too long. Our big chance to see systemic change was in 2019 & instead the people voted for Boris the clown. Game over / nail in coffin.
"I think they should change the 2 child benefit cap, that would really help" Or just don't have more than 2 kids, how's that for an idea? I swear these parents act like getting pregnant is some mysterious accident they have no control over... Use protection, don't have kids your can't afford. It's literally that simple.
Just cause we aren't in gaza don't mean people aren't suffering I feel for the people of gaza and the west bank and Lebanon but that doesn't mean I can't feel for the people around cornwall I live here and I see it every day.
5 kids and a single mom, if the kids have the same dad and he is still alive. Unless there was some abuse she needs to apologise and go back to him and make it work. The only losers are the 5 kids and they did not ask to be here.
The cost of living crisis is made up! The reason for the rise is greed. Take a look around. 1. Banks: There's less branches, less branch workers, less overheads but interest rates go up? 2. Energy: Up and down the country we see more and more wind farms, more renewable energy more competition but the prices keep going up? 3. Food: Food portions are getting smaller but more expensive look how big things were 20-30 years ago at a fraction of the price. But now we get less for a stupidly high price. Just the 3 examples are huge because they affect every single one of us. They are squeezing everything they can out of us for one reason. GREED. Untill company's are boycotted like Cadbury, BP and shell, withdraw your money from banks. The so called cost of living crisis will continue to get worse.
Aren't you missing the massive elephant in the room? The Plandemic? The ongoing proxy war of Ukraine vs Russia? Both are the tools used to make us poorer and to push through the Fourth Industrial Revolution. How can you have access to the internet and just ignore this. Or did you not know?
@@milsub59 They sold half of the gold reserves at US $282.40 per ounce. The price is now at over $2500.00 an ounce. It will be north of 3000.00 in a few years no doubt.
I reckon retail of either fresh produce or regionally/nationally grown fresh produce would be a good thing to subsidise or exempt from taxes. the latter option would simultaneously make healthy eating more affordable, support local farming and decrease dependency on food imports, and potentially decrease the carbon footprint of people's diets through shorter transport routes (it certainly would if you compare regional for far overseas fresh produce; comparing to processed foods seems difficult). of course it doesn't fit with the austerity plan of the current british government, but I would think that this could be a very widely popular policy too. say it's for kids and for farmers and for the environment/climate. heck, I even think older people already buy more fresh produce and would appreciate it even without being told to. that kinda seems like all of the important electoral bases covered. emphasise climate and maybe benefits of national farming regulations over imported produce (pesticides and aorker exploitation) for progressives, emphasize that it lends itself to a more traditional lifestyle and more traditional cuisine for conservatives. I'd say do it for retail of all nationally produced fruit and vegetables, maybe some dry staples like flour, and come up with some sustainability criteria to add a selection of fish, meat and dairy products worth supporting.
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There is no tax on fresh fruit or veg or meat. Only some processed food is taxed like ice-cream, and hot food and drinks consumed on the premises are taxed. The problem is the carbon taxes added to haulage companies and levies on farmers.
The system works if you work on your personal development. However, it is long slow and hard. It is also parental responsibility because my daughter is doing well and has had her university education paid for.
This isn't just an issue with Cornwall but most seaside areas. Only jobs on offer are minimum wage with no progression, rent is high in the south, and the government doesn't so much to revitalise these places. Its no wonder most young people leave.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY SHAMEFUL!!!!! But it's not any better here in America either. I like how Corporate America loves to brag about how successful they are but won't pay a decent wage. 🤬
Rubbish when house prices are 6 to 8 times incomes and we have the most expensive fuel bills in Europe managing on wages that have not increased in 10 years is impossible. Learn some Economics!
It isn't cost of living its cost of greed. Also saying people can't manage money is pretty stupid, if you don't have enough in the first place it makes managing pretty damn hard eh.
@@ScottishRoyal1 The trick is to match your lifestyle to your income. If you want more things you need to earn more, not borrow it. That’s where people don’t manage things well.
‘When the labour government came in, we had great expectations for improvement’ 😂 I thought old people were wiser and knew voting tories or labour would do nothing!
The issues lay in the south east/London and it having its free reign with the rest of the country. Unfortunately its own CoL issues are spilling out to the provences and making life objectively worse for the natives.
Born in Newlyn [west], I would love to return but can't afford the property. If I could afford to I would ensure that my property went to a local person/couple at a price they could afford, I don't want my wealthy greedy offspring making money off the backs of hard working locals struggling to make a living and not affording a decent place to live. Too many people are causing property prices to rise beyond the reach of the locals, sheer greed by mostly second home owners but also people inheriting property from their parents/relatives.
We had to move north to buy a house, just to get on the property ladder. It’s paid off though and next year we’ll be able to move back to Cornwall and own. People are having to do all sorts of things to survive now and it’s a shame that locals have to move to other areas to buy a house or for cheaper living expenses.
Believe me there is not as much money in London as you think. Most people struggle there and the wealthier people in London are leaving the UK as taxes increase. London like the rest of the UK is toast.
@saveandinvestwithgiorgiolo8375 I know. That's where the money is though. In comparison to a small village in the north of the uk. In London a young girl from a small English village would be FAR more likely to meet a rich husband who will pay for everything... In London.
@@DakotaFord592 Understand but you are talking about a minority. Honestly take a trip to most of London (not Westminster or Kensington and Chelsea) and you will run straight back to the village!!!!
The questions not asked: how many of these people voted for Brexit and supported Ukraine and sanctions on Russia which cut off cheap energy to Europe? Or voted for Thatcher in the 1980s that led to the destruction of UK industry and especially favoured London over the North. But Channel 4 refuses to ask the question. Instead everything is the problem of the Labour government that has been in for a few months?!
@@stevenhenry5267 So all these people were asked in a referendum before supporting Ukraine with funding as well as sanctioning cheap Russian energy into Europe? The population and electorate here are stunning world leaders in hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance. The cost of living crisis has been driven by COVID, sanctions on Russia, effective sanctions on China and also Brexit increasing costs of imports in addition to the weaker Pound making all commodity imports more expensive as they are denominated in USD. Nobody here on Channel 4 addresses the CAUSES of the poverty crisis, just the same platitudes. Arrogance and cognitive dissonance of the population that refuse to address that THEY themselves caused their own problems by EAGERLY running after their BEAUTIFUL Brexit, Thatcherism/Trussism ideology (so-called trickle-down economics, LOL!) and then cheerleading Ukraine against the nuclear superpower Russia. Welcome to the new assisted dying era. If you want to support Ukraine and sanction Russia there will be a heavy price to pay for it, so pay it and be happy with your decision. Join the dots and wise up if you want to survive.
Kindness, generosity & compassion are core values of Christianity…. And critical to British life. Food banks developed to help a small group of struggling Brits. Sadly these volunteer services will soon disappear as British society declines and decays…. WHY? EVERY aspect of British life is in crisis & chaos including: energy, NHS, education, aged care, transport, homelessness, housing, food, child care, schools, etc etc As immigration chaos, youth crime, street crime, record Domestic Violence, stabbings etc increase to record levels…. it is very clear Britain is a “broken” nation with many areas best described as “third world”. Sadly the worst is yet to come as the population grows at unprecedented rates! So sad…. So tragic…. So preventable.
#RiseUp Fifth richest country in the world. Your head of state is over here atm. On your coin..😮 Despicable.
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London city itself (a small business centre) generates something like 50% of UK's wealth. If we didn't include it because nobody receives any of that money, the UK is in reality a poor country.
Which street are you talking about? The West End is the world's number 1 hedge fund capital and a top 2 media centre. The Square Mile is the world's centre for commodities trading. Canary Wharf is a top 5 global banking centre. Silicon Roundabout is the centre of global fintech and London is a top 10 global tech start-up ecosystem and number 1 in Europe. It's been consistently a top 2 most powerful city economy in the world, changing places with New York, for the last 500 years.
Cornwall should invest in tidal electricity production, that coastline can be put to so much use.. The UK does nothing to invest in the future, and it's catching up to us
Inflation is not 2% that's total fabrication. It's 2% compounded on all costs. Who is paying 2p on a £1 product or service? more like 20p to 30p so on ten of the above the figure is £2, to £3 passed on to the consumer, and this is happening on everything, absolutely everything, you buy constantly. The budget has just been declared, and the way it's gone, everything is going to go up massively. So another large round of price increases imminent.
As teachers, they didn't understand what a variable rate mortgage is? Only working part time? Really???!!!!! 🤯I'm a teacher and I teach full time and work a second part time job and also a side hustle to stay afloat. I didn't have kids either even though I wanted to. Reality is sad but it is what it is and I recognized that when I decided to make teaching my career. Day off? What's that 😂
Living in Cornwall is hard , but people voted labour, what did they expect to happen, I can see VAT and fuel going up to under their watch to. They have already split the country.
This is a real UK. The government and politicians claim that UK is the"rich" country, with "strong" economy, they should be ashamed,. It is a disgrace that Brits are suffering, having no support, and means to live with dignity.
The more I see of living conditions in Britain, the more I question its so-called ‘rich country’ status! Appalling.
The same could be said of the USA and most other countries, just depends where you point your camera and what narrative you want to push.
@@DavidJarrold-e7j they could point the camera towards Scandinavia, let the Brits see that all is not doom and gloom.
They don't often make documentaries about the life and times of London bankers.
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Same complaints in the USA, Canada, Australia.
The Uk's living standards are on a massive decline. It is shameful that governments allow families to go without food, water, clothes and essentials to live . There is massive inequality. People are poorer than ever. Governments allow prices to rise and this hits the most poorest and vunerable in society. The government dont care . The government are out of touch . People are sick and tired of broken promises. Welcome to a third world country with massive inequality
Go tell that to the globalists who control governmental policy and the politicians the masses vote for....
totally agree .
No matter who you vote for they are all liars nothing ever gets better only worse no matter who's in charge
You have to admit the problem. It's Western capitalism's fault. This is what western capitalism has brought the UK and US and western countries to, rising poverty rising inequality and rising prices because of the UK's sanctions on Russia. It's the Tories fault too. China doesn't have many of these problems. Why not? Chinese people are prosperous and China is developing fast and China has low inflation. It's because China is Socialist and the govt cares about the peoples lives. Westerners should learn a lot from China's socialist system, it works. Capitalism and Fascism don't work. Marx was right. Labour haven't been in government long, people have to give them more time change doesn't happen overnight after 14 years of the Tories.
This is just the beginning. The 21st century is the era of greed and debt and absolutely no rich people getting commupence.
as a polisch man working in uk for 20 years i must say this country is going down toilet ...goverment is disaster....is time for me to go home lads
You need a good plumber!
@papadajnia268 I don't blame you, I hear Poland is really nice
@SkyandMilo_9 is very safe
@SkyandMilo_9 If Poland was nice why are so many of them in the UK. They are like roaches.
Clearing up the Tories mess as usual.
‘To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all’ - Oscar Wilde
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5 kids, on benefits and still complaining , seriously?
freeloaders on the taxpayers money. gross.
As one man said, “You can’t eat the view”.
I left Cornwall at 18 to look for work looks like nothing has changed,a tourist region with low wages, high house prices,too many second holiday homes.Sad to see nothing has changed!
Britain is poor, it’s the truth. No one wants to talk about it. Funding from the EU pulled, Brexit happened, and the UK doesn’t produce anything. Not only that, the country is too busy going to war with taxpayers money. The average wage in the lowest group of people in the UK is £11,000 annually. In the highest it’s £180,000. London is basically carrying the entire country. I left the UK ten years ago. I never looked back.
Don't blame you at all
The UK was a net payer into the EU.
The only thing the UK produces now is taxes, fines, bureaucracy and activists.
@@stevo728822 blah, blah, blah. They were our largest exporter in services. Please do the numbers. We lost our biggest trading partner. You’re too blind worrying about the small fish!
@@stevo728822 now they’re not. The UK has lost funding from the EU, for the most vulnerable parts of society. Do you think Westminster gives a toss about a Welsh community? The EU did, and gave the Welsh Government a substantial amount of funding to support local initiatives. The funding was pulled in 2021 from one of the poorest communities in the UK, and has not returned. Thanks Brexit!
To those people who still say "Just get a job"
Shut up.
Here here. I’ve been basically out of proper employment for a year now and actually getting someone to even call me back (when they clearly said THEY WOULD) after an interview to give me the result, ‘let alone a freaking trial shift’ has been a nightmare.😩 UC (WITH ‘PIP’) just about covers things but that’s it and STILL need help from parents sometimes to fill in the gaps. I just want to get into work now that I’m a Uni graduate even just over 20+ hours would do but so far NOTHING. a complete nightmare.
@@danielwhyatt3278 Cambly is worth checking out! It is an online method to earn an income. You have a degree and I assume you are a native English speaker so you do fit their criteria.
There are many more single parents and the fathers are absent. Back in the 90s it was one worked and the other went to do the housework. As a team it worked but societal breakdowns and people wanting to see the greener side of relationships has ended many families. It's very sad
@@robertreader6539
The majority of people speaking on here were in a relationship with both partners working ..... years ago rents were affordable to a family on one wage but rents and housing costs have skyrocketed and wages haven't kept up.
It isn't about single parent families it is about the fact the average family is struggling due to unaffordable living costs
@danielwhyatt3278 Join the American military, while you're waiting for the economy to get better.
Wages stay low and prices rise everyday. It is criminal. We are still waiting for labour to do the right thing . There is massive inequality
They’ve been in power for weeks, love, not years. Did you seriously imagine they had some magic wand that was going to fix decades-worth of problems overnight? People really are so naive…
They're too busy letting in worthless third world migrants in order to further suppress GDP per capita and screw over the existing population with the accommodation bill. Ratios are a very difficult concept for the Labour party. Perhaps they just don't believe in them.
That's the problem. Your reliance on the Gov to fix things. Instead learn a high value skill, be industrious, and earn more. It's the only way.
@@NotfromDateline There's no easy solution for chronic overpopulation.
@@dukeofvoid6483 was waiting for someone to hit the 🎯
Not just Cornwall is being hit by cost of living crises,The rest of the Country is in for it as well,Cost of living here in Norfolk ant any better really,Whole Country is always screwed up all the time
Pay rates aren't going up but prices in the shops are every week .The UK feels poorer and looks run down everywhere I look!
Doesnot look , rather IS .
Here in north Canada my wife and I do not heat the home at night. In the old pioneer days they didn't heat at night. BUT, it is important to keep the mold out by heating at 22 c or 73-75 f in the daytime. The walls will give the home heat at night. Our home only had mold in one room because we closed the door and mold started. Leave the doors open to avoid mold and illness. We even leave a window open at night for off gassing in the home and immune health.5-7 layers of blankets and you sleep great and never have colds and flues.
Sounds real life and sensible.
All these people struggling whilst one of the richest families make multi millions from cornish lands. It's time the people of Cornwall start to demand that the duchy of Cornwall is returned to the people
That didn't end well last time they marched on London...
Sadly there's no way out of this, the decline in living standards is here to stay.
Stop giving money away to
And stop giving millions of OUR MONEY to illegals foreign aid and fake climate nonsense and we will have more money .
Thats a bit depressing
@@lolly1811we talked about wealth extraction in the billions, this is just the result. Our pound is weaker and so is the economy, fancy well off England is not a thing anymore. A few thousand people have everything that was taken from us.
Yes there is. STOP pumping out units you cannot afford.
@@lolly1811This is just the beginning
To be clear Winter Fuel Allowance has been a sticking plaster to avoid:
- putting up wages, benefits and pensions;
- to avoid ensuring the wealthy pay their fair dues instead of squirelling them away in offshore accounts and tackling corporate tax evasion which are negotiated down
- to avoid holding the profiteering energy companies to account not just the billing companies but the whole supply chain.
- to avoid energy efficiency measures, holding landlords to account for sub standard accommodation and sky high rents
This is not about Winter Fuel Allowance, the sticking plaster, it is about a whole barrage of both Labour and Tory disregard for people.
Neither party is about the family, workers, the old. They are about ripping off the majority for the benefit of the few.
This news article is your two minutes hate to distract from the much bigger picture of corporate and privileged greed.
Until people get on the street and demand change nothing will happen.
Wealthy people in Britain are not getting a bigger share than wealthy people in other nations. You only need to look at the obese feckless tattooed types on the high street to see why everything is going downhill.
Can demand all you want. Labour are importing more and more voters everyday. Communism is 7-8years away in my opinion. It will be a mini China, just watch.
You took words right out of my mouth...
Well said
The UK has gone back to the living standards and income levels during the time of Charles Dickens. Wouldn't be shocked if the government brought back the Poor Houses.
Royal Family and MPs voted themselves recent income raises and increases to their heating allowances. They are unconcerned about the plight of their loyal subjects, seniors and tax paying working class poor. Outrageous that the citizens allow this inequity to exist and consider it normal.
Hai ragione,i ricchi vivono in un mondo finto 😢 è tutti gli altri a guardare 😢
@The-Great-Brindian I do not live in the UK, am Canadian, so have no voting rights, just my perspective from the outside looking in.
If the Brits are too apathetic to advocate for change and equity for themselves, and are willing to settle for the current status quo with its injustices and impoverished living conditions (currently they have the worst among the G7 nations), it is certainly not up to another nationality to shake down their system.
We have our own issues with our current tyrant government that we hope to change sometime next year.
Blessings for all Cornwall residents.
American here... I feel so sad for all the UK people suffering. We are almost in the same situation here... all the while both our govts shovel money to the 1%. Disgusting.
People having 5 kids is just selfish and irresponsible.
Yet 100 years ago it was totally normal.
And welfare payments didn't exist.
Given the options of infinity migrants or people having a few kids, I know which I'd pick
totally agree.
Muslims are having endless children in the great replacement.
Why shouldn’t whites have kids, we need to replenish whites.
Actually we are facing a huge fall in population and don't have enough young people working to support the ageing population hence our need for overseas workers. One full time wage earner used to be enough to support a buy a house family but not any more. We need people to have families but we are pricing them out of it.
@@janewayles499 We don't need more people you fool! We need less, for 1 thing to curb climate change, its the only way. One child = 80 years of consumption.
Hats off to all the Mums and Dads that are really trying to make their kids lives special and secure. Love is more important than tangible things! 💙
When you produce nothing but make Billions in profit off the backs of Workers, Rents three times higher than the minimum wage in the economy, water, gas, etc. These bring workers into great poverty, make them dependent on food banks and other aid,, Although workers work hard😢😢😢
There are so many rich men in London. Lol all a girl had to do is book one. Lol
If you're struggling with a child, why then go on to have another three kids and expect any different? Ridiculous
Because people want to fulfil their dreams just like rich people
But they cant, so they shouldn't. Its not fair the kids@@ceooflonelinessinc.267
@@ceooflonelinessinc.267how can having four kids you’re struggling to feed, clothe and house, let alone educate and entertain, be regarded as “fulfilling a dream”? You can’t keep doing the SAME thing but continue to expect a different result, not in any aspect of life.
@@frugalitystartsathome4889 Yeah. You're right.
I agree to an extent but more should be done to make fathers pay. I know a few who make good money 60k+ were previously married to kids mother yet pay nothing for their kids after divorce.
Yes and how many of these people where convinced that Brexit was the way to go Cornwall got massive EU subsidies but they forget about all that Tories where in for 14 years Labour have been back in power 4 months …
You need to look at highly exploitative marketing and misinformation and desperation to understand why people voted for Brexit..
It’s the same here in the US - you have people intentionally misinformed who vote against their best interest. Sadly both our parties don’t represent the people, both push an exploitative agenda, and somehow this comes back around to serve the politicians further. Have some compassion for the marginalized, nobody has really ever looked out for them in government.
@@wilfredsterling2124 English people voted for Brexit because they have no critical thinking.
@@wilfredsterling2124 Of course you would say that !
@@NotesNNotes Throughout history these people have been making the wealth The people at the top treat them poorly and they love it Thank you sir Can I have a little more please 💥
Maybe not producing 3,4,5 children
Their children are YOUR responsibility
We are in this together
England behaves like a narcissist, helping the people outside their own threshold and treating their own appallingly.
Same elsewhere look at Canada US Australia
It's the same way here in the USA too 😢 illegal immigrants get free money and housing 😢
They don't help anyone, so-called "foreign aid" is only a way to get large government contracts like an investment but the tabloids have taught you to always turn against the foreigner and the poor rather than the rich who evade taxes worth a lot lot lot more
Greetings from Lalor, Australia! My ancestors were Cornish (12% of my DNA). In Australia, we are facing the same cost of living crisis. The food charities, Food Bank and Second Bite, are always busy.
It's the same in the US. Prices are rising for food and housing. Wages stagnate. I feel for all in this position. Homelessness is rising.
Agree but there the med facilities are mainly if you have insursnce plus tent cities wrre so wicked in covid time. Sems nhs so on here is better..
People are poor because we are taxed on tax on tax on tax. Your employer is taxed so they pay you less. Your wage is taxed. You then buy petrol to get to work and a third is tax. You jump in your car which is dearer than ever cause it's taxed and the car company is taxed into oblivion. Then your food is taxed and you pay council tax too. If in Scotland you even have to pay a quarterly tax for owning a house. For OWNING a house. If you get 2000 a month probably only about 600 of it is truly yours. Where's all the tax going? I work in the system and see who gets the money. New arrivals from the third world and polish and Romanians. Trust me. I see it every day. £37,011 in benefits while we are working for an average wage of 25000 in Scotland. We are being scammed
This is 15-year old news at this point... Are you going to do something about it or talk another 15 years while it gets worse?
How sad that you are just full of grievance- you must live a very unhappy life.
@@donna25871 I'm not full of grievance. I live a very happy life actually. How sad that you read that from my comment. I think that's what you call projecting. Here's hoping one day you learn to enjoy your life like I do.
@stephenmurray8559 it's literally you projecting your own prejudice though. Also your numbers simply are not correct...
Stop lying and educate yourself! No EU country arrival gets anything apart from those who came before Brexit. They get UC like a British national if they have settled status, that's all. It's your government and the billionaires behind it that is stealing and bankrupting the economy.
I ended up homeless on street in cornwall for 7 months with my dog i used to sleep at redruth train station sometimes hector cat keeping me company before he passed away , i had to go to scotland to get housed , i miss portreath so much x i was always at that church in Camborne for food sonetimes clothes aswel and toiletries
Scotland does a good job housing lifes failures
Bless you no one should be on the streets. I hope you are doing better now.
@@alexs6770 Why does Scotland have to house homeless Englanders
Im sorry for the way you had to struggle and hope you are ok now ..the little cat was there for you. I personaly prefere the company of animals to most humans.Bless you dear man
@sarahann530 I am not a failure I have a terminal tumor and lost my job I worked at heartlands in pool and in port Isaac where I was BORN in cornwall , if you leave cornwall over 5 years for WORK you lose your local connection if not lived where you were raised for 5 years so you really shouldn't make assumptions I am dying , I hope you look at how you judge people and stop being a horrible person , I now have a large home and my own business and fighting my tumor and I now have rightside paralysis, the only failure is how you were raised to be so horrible
This s is happening in the USA too
And other countries
Always have hundreds of billions of dollars for wars but not to help people
The old saying you can only trust yourself is correct. No one and no government will rescue us in tough times. We must exercise personal responsibility.
the government only care about tax from people,,,
Wages two thirds of the national average, a seasonal economy, and a massive shortage of affordable housing…
And since Brexshit, no European subsidy to compensate. 🤷♂️
I'm from there and it's all true, i've left now. But everyone there makes out they live in the best place in the world to overcompensate for how bad and desperate a place it is
European subsidy? We were net contributors😅
@@REX4340 not in Cornwall
@@Sara-xc9xo 8 years and the REX's still believe what they were told.
@@REX4340Cornwall isn't a country. Britain paid more than it used
Didn’t Cornwall vote to say they didn’t want EU funding anymore?
You mean our money that was stolen in the form of addional taxes to pay for the EU which they paid a much smaller amount back taking their cut to pay their outrageous salaries, pensions and benefits which they pay no tax on.
Not everyone voted to leave the EU in Cornwall. I voted to remain. So, let's not condemn us when not all of us asked for this.
Work full time have two kids I'm completely sinking
Cornwall is one of the poorest economic regions in Europe. Zero hours sandwich making in the summer? Outrageous. Some folk can't afford sun tan lotion let alone the staggering cost of holiday rentals. Own a holiday cottage in Cornwall ( or any where else desirable)?. You are directly responsible for the lack of housing and derelict village communities. At least 25% of housing stock in Cornwall is 2nd homes and then there are the air b&b's. How is this ever going to get better?
Don’t worry , there’s no sun in the uk .
Whill our country is sends millions in aid to other countries
A lot more than millions..plenty of hidden money just not for helping those in need..or raising wages and living
You STOLE trillions .
@@geertstroyNo one in these comments have stolen Trillions 😂
Remind me how importing vast amounts of unskilled labour is supposed to make this better?
Think of it as a tax.
By limiting supply and increasing demand, price go up!
Effectively forcing people to pay more than they otherwise would.
20% tax on £1 is 20p.
20% tax on £2 is 40p.
By giving you to pay more, more tax revenue is generated.
It's all one big scam
Because we have a decreasingly low birth rate with an increasingly ageing population.
Because it keeps inflation down by addressing Britains labour shortages.
@@jeremiahpoole6526
I never understand that arguement.
What I think You're saying is pursuit of infinite growth on finite land with finite resources.
Across the world populations want to shrink naturally but we're not allowing for it to happen, for the ridiculous pursuit of infinite growth.
Why?
Populations will shrink but will become incredibly old as people are ‘dying longer’.
The economics will follow suit - for richer or poorer.
I was really hurting before the cost of living increase now it's unbearable
What's so unbearable, Tomtroy? That you don’t have a Bugatti Veyron parked outside your mansion in remote Yorkshire? Or is it just the fact that you seem to be on a mission to contribute absolutely nothing useful to the economy?
@@The-Great-Brindian wth is wrong with you?
Why should one contribute to society and economy in the first place? Nobody chose to be brought into this world and be forced to fit in society and suffer in this scam system?@The-Great-Brindian
Mother of 5, dude wtf …
Obviously had no consideration for the environmental impact these extra human beings would have on the world. Breeders are selfish.
Giggity!
Single mother of 5!! I need to know more context but that sounds like a self inflicted wound
Exactly. Labour can skin middle earners like myself who live within their means (childless, work 6 days a week) to clothe everyone else but once we're crippled, watch the economy start to tank. Maybe some people need to start taking responsibility for their own actions
@@tonyatthebeach OK so you can exist but those 5 kids from a country that barely produces any kids shouldn't exist? hmmm... ok...
Long Live Cornwall and Long Live Britain!
It's getting worse each day
The words Brexit (trade barrier, weakening Pound increasing cost of imports), Ukraine war funding and sanctions on Russian energy into Europe (driving up gas and electricity prices for the entire continent including UK) not mentioned here? Is this supposed to be called reporting or journalism? How can this "cost of living" be discussed here without asking or trying to identify the CAUSES of it? Is Brexit now a swear word that no mainstream TV channel is allowed to mention? These people in aggregate voted ENTHUSIASTICALLY for Brexit and now they have nothing to say on it or acknowledge what they have done to THEMSELVES?
It looks BREXIT policy failed.
Nothing to do with brexit. Not. A. Single. Thing
@@stephenmurray8559Brexit had a negative impact on the country that’s a fact. The amount money the country lost since then is huge.
@@Anonymous-r3s oh really? How much did it lose?
@@Anonymous-r3s And it's not a fact. The economy has continued to grow. GDP is higher now than before brexit. It's not a fact
If a sovereign nation needs an economic bloc of countries for economic prosperity, I would say the failure isn't leaving the bloc but rather the internal politics and economic affairs of that country.
They haven't seen anything yet, wait for Starmer to start sending all the cultural enrichment there!
Who pops out 5 kids these days? That lady doomed her children to poverty. Personal responsibility!
Unless she took on someone else's choldren or sdopted them.
What do you want her to do with them, then? You don't know her story.
exactly. people always cry and curse government, a governemnt which is dependant on a worldwide economic situation. but what do people do to help themselves, except cry, complaing and point to the government? nothing or make 5 children.
Typical breeder expecting everyone else to foot the bill.
I refused to have a second child with my wife upon learning that it costs one hundred thousand dollars to raise a child. So she filed for divorce and is currently pregnant by her new fiance.
Same thing happening in Australia.
We have working families, earning good money, living in tents and cars.
So what happens this winter when people don't put on their heat? All the moisture feeds the mold, the mold grows out of control, people get sick, especially the children, the NHS gets overwhelmed, things just get better and better because now Britain has taken back total control, just in time to lose toal control. Very sad. The british people deserve better from their government. Don't expect to get it.😢
Even with the heating on my house gets mould in the windows. You have to clean them regularly to keep it at bay. But I can't stand the adverts that just tell you to wrap up and use a hot water bottle. That is not the solution. It's totally irresponsible.
This has been going on for years now, it's a disgrace.
Yes especially in Cornwall. I'm fortunate enough to have been able to install external wall insulation and have a new heating system. The damp here still needs to be managed a lot. In Cornwall, opening the windows doesn't do it cos it's so damp here. Before I could afford to make the improvements, the walls were wet with damp and condensation
@@Sara-xc9xo I'm sorry to hear that. At least you do have some tools in your battle against this problem. I've been to Britain a few times, but not since the 80's. While I found it damp, I don't recall people having this problem to this extent. Again, I don't live there, so perhaps I'm wrong. Anyway, I wish success in keeping warm and dry.
Its sad to hear these elderly people say they had great expectations from this new govt...With all due respect dont people learn anything about life and that all govts are criminal organisations?
We need a government who will stop the super rich hoovering up all the assets and pushing up the prices of housing. Rents are through the roof. If 50% of your income goes on housing then what's left over is taken by all the other bills and food and you feel like you are working for nothing.
Bbbut Pop n Mom rentals also hoova up the incomes and these are deemed smarties , innit .
My country is warm and cooling when it rains - a cup of tea or coffee cost $1.54 euro
From SE Asia
It depends on what you eat and at where - the difference in prices are great
Won't be cheap for long. You have yet to shut down your fossil fuel power stations. The transition to net zero will see your cost of living soar.
3:30 Here's another idea. Let's introduce a cap on the number of children you can have. Instead of what you perceive as what's fair for you, let's do what's fair for society.
Why are people out here having loads of kids they cannot pay for??? it's infuriating!
Do you support increasing the quotas on migrants to compensate lower birth rates?
Minus immigration our population would have shrunk almost 17,000 last year. Meaning there’s more and more old people year on year that become economically inactive and require care. Strain on the NHS is ever increasing and public services will become increasingly underfunded and staffed due to lost tax revenues.
Really we should be encouraging more people to have children, provide support to allow parents to return to work sooner, be economically active and ensure they have incomes fit to support a family.
Sooooo true❤
5 kids. Where's the fathers.
Single parent of 5? How?
She was in a relationship, had kids ,they split.. and now she's single mum of 5 ..
Wanted child benefits
too many people having too many children they can't afford. same old story.
Are you saying you don't know where babies come from?
@@GlasPthalocyanine they are saying that having 5 children you cant afford is selfish and irresponsible. Perhaps the mother in question didn't know where babies came from!
I wonder where the all the money has been spent that those that have contributed their taxes get hardly anything back?!
Crazy how people think things will get better, this is the new normal, things will only get worse
Agree, always annoys me when they refer to it as the ' current cost of living crisis ' It's how it is, it's here for good, those extra painful food prices recently are baked in, nothing is going down, it never does
that's nice of them to have a free meal
Brooke has enough money to get her nails and hair done.
Yeah. It's harsh but I did notice that. She may get it done for free from a friend, we don't know. But I did notice it
Exactly what I thought and also having them lips injected with poison, money isn’t that bad if you can afford them luxuries!
and lip filler
@@positivejoy-z6y and fake tan… She doesn’t look like she’s strapped for cash at all
She's being interviewed on a national TV programme. There is nothing wrong with her wanting to look presentable.
Nothing will EVER change the ruling class dont care
Labour should be ashamed of their actions
Im sad to say if you haven't brought and payed off a house and have a pension by your 65 then you've probably made some bad decisions in your past...im a working class stiff who has worked my adult life working minimum wage job's and two on occasion and have managed to achieve it..the world is a cold hard place for folks who haven't done the smart things!!!.❤️🇬🇧
You're missing the fact that people move around to where the work is. That's not just minimum wage, btw. Anyone in the Forces, or the Police, Doctors, Nurses, Building contractors.... Sure, I bought a house in the 80s and then had the privilege of being able to afford to live in it for 30+ years. Not everyone is in that position. And how can I pass on the benefits to kids who have had to find work in other parts of the UK?
@@GlasPthalocyanine yes , if there's no work or opportunities we're you are then move to we're they are.. I've had to move to other countries chasing work and have had to do without to pay the mortgage and rates etc..the excuse that houses we're cheaper back when is not going to fly..well the houses have increased in value so have the wages and the biggest increase in prices are in the major cities..not everyone can afford to live in the city so move to we're their cheaper!!!.❤️🇬🇧
@@caravanstuff2827eugh delulu
Cornwall - isn't that where Wurzel Gummidge comes from?
Why is the teacher moaning instead of working full time ? We have to and I’ve got twenty years on him .
Because someone has to look after their children because now childcare costs more than some people's mortgages! It was a different world 20 years ago.
Entitlement. Can you imagine him trying to control a class of kids. F**kin hopeless.
@@janewayles499 in 1991 my mortgage rate was 15.5% . We earned less than a teacher then and now . Our monthly income was 1,400 . We both had to pay poll tax . I paid all my wage in child care so I could keep my job for when she was older , no generation had it easier . Sorry for sounding harsh but compared to most people teachers are hardly hard done to . ( not talking about myself . ) I’m not rich and was brought up on a council estate with my widowed parent . At 18 I got 34 pound a week ,for full time , my rent was 21 a week , I paid poll tax , friends gave me clothes , I only got to eat if I was at work . Folk are spoiled today and generation after generation struggled . Just seems to me some could help them selves more
We've been enduring massively overpriced housing for far too long. Our big chance to see systemic change was in 2019 & instead the people voted for Boris the clown. Game over / nail in coffin.
"I think they should change the 2 child benefit cap, that would really help"
Or just don't have more than 2 kids, how's that for an idea? I swear these parents act like getting pregnant is some mysterious accident they have no control over... Use protection, don't have kids your can't afford. It's literally that simple.
I'd rather live in Cornwall then Gaza.
Just cause we aren't in gaza don't mean people aren't suffering I feel for the people of gaza and the west bank and Lebanon but that doesn't mean I can't feel for the people around cornwall I live here and I see it every day.
Sorry buy why would you have 5 kids if you can't afford it. Now we have to pick up the slack.
5 kids and a single mom, if the kids have the same dad and he is still alive. Unless there was some abuse she needs to apologise and go back to him and make it work.
The only losers are the 5 kids and they did not ask to be here.
Victorian Britain is back
the WEF’s global 6UILD 6ACK 6ETTER pogrom continues
The cost of living crisis is made up! The reason for the rise is greed. Take a look around.
1. Banks: There's less branches, less branch workers, less overheads but interest rates go up?
2. Energy: Up and down the country we see more and more wind farms, more renewable energy more competition but the prices keep going up?
3. Food: Food portions are getting smaller but more expensive look how big things were 20-30 years ago at a fraction of the price. But now we get less for a stupidly high price.
Just the 3 examples are huge because they affect every single one of us. They are squeezing everything they can out of us for one reason. GREED. Untill company's are boycotted like Cadbury, BP and shell, withdraw your money from banks. The so called cost of living crisis will continue to get worse.
UK sold a huge stack of gold at rock bottom prices years ago. Bad move.
They voted for Brexit too 😅
Aren't you missing the massive elephant in the room?
The Plandemic? The ongoing proxy war of Ukraine vs Russia? Both are the tools used to make us poorer and to push through the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
How can you have access to the internet and just ignore this. Or did you not know?
How much was it ?
@@milsub59 They sold half of the gold reserves at US $282.40 per ounce. The price is now at over $2500.00 an ounce. It will be north of 3000.00 in a few years no doubt.
I bet most of the gold was also sold at Fort Knox.
"single parent of 5"
No sympathy for her... next?
I reckon retail of either fresh produce or regionally/nationally grown fresh produce would be a good thing to subsidise or exempt from taxes. the latter option would simultaneously make healthy eating more affordable, support local farming and decrease dependency on food imports, and potentially decrease the carbon footprint of people's diets through shorter transport routes (it certainly would if you compare regional for far overseas fresh produce; comparing to processed foods seems difficult).
of course it doesn't fit with the austerity plan of the current british government, but I would think that this could be a very widely popular policy too. say it's for kids and for farmers and for the environment/climate. heck, I even think older people already buy more fresh produce and would appreciate it even without being told to. that kinda seems like all of the important electoral bases covered. emphasise climate and maybe benefits of national farming regulations over imported produce (pesticides and aorker exploitation) for progressives, emphasize that it lends itself to a more traditional lifestyle and more traditional cuisine for conservatives.
I'd say do it for retail of all nationally produced fruit and vegetables, maybe some dry staples like flour, and come up with some sustainability criteria to add a selection of fish, meat and dairy products worth supporting.
There is no tax on fresh fruit or veg or meat.
Only some processed food is taxed like ice-cream,
and hot food and drinks consumed on the premises are taxed.
The problem is the carbon taxes added to haulage companies and levies on farmers.
The system works if you work on your personal development.
However, it is long slow and hard.
It is also parental responsibility because my daughter is doing well and has had her university education paid for.
This isn't just an issue with Cornwall but most seaside areas. Only jobs on offer are minimum wage with no progression, rent is high in the south, and the government doesn't so much to revitalise these places. Its no wonder most young people leave.
Cornwall is just a great big nursing home now tbh ,just loads of retired people , most commen accent in cornwall is west mdilands
Id love to do this for people.
Wouldnt we all, imagine being able to make so many people happy from something.
"Pockets of deep inequality"
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I'll take blue snow weather check on that one.
Top tip girls! Don’t have 4 kids or any kids for that matter until you have a good job and have bought a house. They only have themselves to blame
How about having a husband first? That may help 🤷🏾♂️
Housing cost is cause of UK problems. Need CGT on ALL property, scrap stamp duty, encourage build-to-let.
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY SHAMEFUL!!!!!
But it's not any better here in America either. I like how Corporate America loves to brag about how successful they are but won't pay a decent wage. 🤬
There isn’t a ‘cost of living crisis’. There are just too many people that can’t manage money and live beyond their means.
Rubbish when house prices are 6 to 8 times incomes and we have the most expensive fuel bills in Europe managing on wages that have not increased in 10 years is impossible. Learn some Economics!
@@janewayles499 your wage hasn’t gone up for ten years? You’d be as well looking for a new employer 🙄
Spot on more money they have more they want those benefits add up weekly
It isn't cost of living its cost of greed. Also saying people can't manage money is pretty stupid, if you don't have enough in the first place it makes managing pretty damn hard eh.
@@ScottishRoyal1 The trick is to match your lifestyle to your income. If you want more things you need to earn more, not borrow it. That’s where people don’t manage things well.
‘When the labour government came in, we had great expectations for improvement’ 😂 I thought old people were wiser and knew voting tories or labour would do nothing!
The issues lay in the south east/London and it having its free reign with the rest of the country. Unfortunately its own CoL issues are spilling out to the provences and making life objectively worse for the natives.
Born in Newlyn [west], I would love to return but can't afford the property. If I could afford to I would ensure that my property went to a local person/couple at a price they could afford, I don't want my wealthy greedy offspring making money off the backs of hard working locals struggling to make a living and not affording a decent place to live. Too many people are causing property prices to rise beyond the reach of the locals, sheer greed by mostly second home owners but also people inheriting property from their parents/relatives.
We had to move north to buy a house, just to get on the property ladder. It’s paid off though and next year we’ll be able to move back to Cornwall and own. People are having to do all sorts of things to survive now and it’s a shame that locals have to move to other areas to buy a house or for cheaper living expenses.
Shame on our planet for this happening anywhere. Even more so our own country.
UK has come back to its natural state because "revenues" are not arriving from far away British "possessions".
SPOT ON .
Roxy has very nice hilights in her hair! Nice nails and eyebrows Brooke! Maintenance like that don't come cheap!
Maybe she's doing it herself though. Maybe she goes to a student place like I do. Shouldn't judge without the facts!
Crazy!!! There is so much inequality in Great Britain!!! There is so much money in London!!!!!!
Believe me there is not as much money in London as you think. Most people struggle there and the wealthier people in London are leaving the UK as taxes increase. London like the rest of the UK is toast.
@saveandinvestwithgiorgiolo8375 really?? Have you seen the film Mortal Engines?? London is so rich. So powerful. Thanks for clearing it up though
@@DakotaFord592 Have you ever lived in London? Most people struggle with high rents and high cost of living.
@saveandinvestwithgiorgiolo8375 I know. That's where the money is though. In comparison to a small village in the north of the uk. In London a young girl from a small English village would be FAR more likely to meet a rich husband who will pay for everything... In London.
@@DakotaFord592 Understand but you are talking about a minority. Honestly take a trip to most of London (not Westminster or Kensington and Chelsea) and you will run straight back to the village!!!!
1:01 Single mother of 5… 😬 Where are the father(s), child support!?
Well, at least they have free NHS , right?....
The questions not asked: how many of these people voted for Brexit and supported Ukraine and sanctions on Russia which cut off cheap energy to Europe? Or voted for Thatcher in the 1980s that led to the destruction of UK industry and especially favoured London over the North. But Channel 4 refuses to ask the question. Instead everything is the problem of the Labour government that has been in for a few months?!
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Leave Ukraine out of this
@@stevenhenry5267 So all these people were asked in a referendum before supporting Ukraine with funding as well as sanctioning cheap Russian energy into Europe? The population and electorate here are stunning world leaders in hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance. The cost of living crisis has been driven by COVID, sanctions on Russia, effective sanctions on China and also Brexit increasing costs of imports in addition to the weaker Pound making all commodity imports more expensive as they are denominated in USD. Nobody here on Channel 4 addresses the CAUSES of the poverty crisis, just the same platitudes. Arrogance and cognitive dissonance of the population that refuse to address that THEY themselves caused their own problems by EAGERLY running after their BEAUTIFUL Brexit, Thatcherism/Trussism ideology (so-called trickle-down economics, LOL!) and then cheerleading Ukraine against the nuclear superpower Russia. Welcome to the new assisted dying era. If you want to support Ukraine and sanction Russia there will be a heavy price to pay for it, so pay it and be happy with your decision. Join the dots and wise up if you want to survive.
It's going to get way worse, Commonwealth countries have spent decades encouraging dependence upon increasingly wasteful and broke governments.
Kindness, generosity & compassion are core values of Christianity…. And critical to British life. Food banks developed to help a small group of struggling Brits. Sadly these volunteer services will soon disappear as British society declines and decays…. WHY? EVERY aspect of British life is in crisis & chaos including: energy, NHS, education, aged care, transport, homelessness, housing, food, child care, schools, etc etc As immigration chaos, youth crime, street crime, record Domestic Violence, stabbings etc increase to record levels…. it is very clear Britain is a “broken” nation with many areas best described as “third world”. Sadly the worst is yet to come as the population grows at unprecedented rates! So sad…. So tragic…. So preventable.
#RiseUp
Fifth richest country in the world. Your head of state is over here atm. On your coin..😮 Despicable.
London city itself (a small business centre) generates something like 50% of UK's wealth.
If we didn't include it because nobody receives any of that money, the UK is in reality a poor country.
Take London out its about 35 richest..... Thanks to Cornwall voted Brexit... 🤔🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷
London isn't a 'small' business centre. It's a huge business centre.
@@AdamGordon1 London as a whole isn't but London city is.
It's pretty much one street, and it's all finance related.
Which street are you talking about? The West End is the world's number 1 hedge fund capital and a top 2 media centre. The Square Mile is the world's centre for commodities trading. Canary Wharf is a top 5 global banking centre. Silicon Roundabout is the centre of global fintech and London is a top 10 global tech start-up ecosystem and number 1 in Europe.
It's been consistently a top 2 most powerful city economy in the world, changing places with New York, for the last 500 years.
Cornwall should invest in tidal electricity production, that coastline can be put to so much use.. The UK does nothing to invest in the future, and it's catching up to us
Inflation is not 2% that's total fabrication. It's 2% compounded on all costs. Who is paying 2p on a £1 product or service? more like 20p to 30p so on ten of the above the figure is £2, to £3 passed on to the consumer, and this is happening on everything, absolutely everything, you buy constantly. The budget has just been declared, and the way it's gone, everything is going to go up massively. So another large round of price increases imminent.
Cornwall lost a lot of subsidy due to Brexit. The Johnson government promised to equal these subsidies. They didn’t.
As teachers, they didn't understand what a variable rate mortgage is? Only working part time? Really???!!!!! 🤯I'm a teacher and I teach full time and work a second part time job and also a side hustle to stay afloat. I didn't have kids either even though I wanted to. Reality is sad but it is what it is and I recognized that when I decided to make teaching my career. Day off? What's that 😂
Living in Cornwall is hard , but people voted labour, what did they expect to happen, I can see VAT and fuel going up to under their watch to. They have already split the country.
14 Yr of tories done this, its baffling seeing people blame Labour after such a short time. They have you thinking the way they want.
And Brexit
This is a real UK. The government and politicians claim that UK is the"rich" country, with "strong" economy, they should be ashamed,. It is a disgrace that Brits are suffering, having no support, and means to live with dignity.