Working but poor: millions in work and in poverty
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- The government says the best way out of poverty is to work. But for millions of employed people in the UK, it’s just not enough.
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Inflation rates are slowly improving but real-term wages and benefits aren’t keeping up.
The number of working adults living in poverty has risen 56% in 25 years - and many of them think the government isn’t listening.
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Reported by Milena Dambelli
Filmed and edited by Samantha Everett
Produced by Annie La Vespa
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Working full time but not being able to afford basic necessities isn't working, it's slavery.
Free market fundamentalist will not approve this message !
Is it the same if they wasted all their money?
@@jarodarmstrong509
And that is not the case in America and most country's so your argument is invalid ! This is just another false accusation to defend the current criminal system.
This is what right wingers mostly do ! Blame all the corruption sinds Ronald Reagan to the people like it is their own fault !
@@jarodarmstrong509 Not like they have any money to waste, most of the people in this vid have nothing left after paying bills.
Working in unskilled labor jobs that were never designed to support a person, what do you expect? Not every job is there to support a household. People are working in supplemental employment expecting it to pay the entire cost of living. Thats just not the way it works. You need to get an education that provides you with a skill that pays all the bills!
Nobody who works 5 days a week , should be struggling it’s disgusting!
It's only gonna get worse
I grew up in post communist country, we were poor even if my parents work fulled time and then after work on my grandparents farm. This women from video is not poor! Look at her apartment... She probably can't afford all she wants but that's not poverty.
Example spotted. Her freezer is full of fries, its several times less expensive to buy potatoes and cut them... She is not poor, she just want life of rich people. She said she work 5 days a week but how many hours? She said, she has 3 kids, where is dad? She is not that young, so I guss those kids might be in age, that you can work part time. I was Woking as a teenager. No shame on that, I was proud of myself.
I am 37 now and earn quite a lot now, I was alway learning and working a lot. First jobs were like 1-1.5eur/hr. bus ticket at that time was 0.5eur... This is poverty, not what that women presents. She even said, we not look like poor but we are, nope she is just not poor.
@@baassiia Exactly, we've been programmed to believe that 39hrs a week doing fairly non-descript jobs should be enough to get you everything the modern media and big business tells you should be the norm.
She doesn't want to live rich, she's struggling to live in lower working class. Having fries in the freezer hardly means she's trying to live rich and, unfortunately, not everyone knows how to cook from scratch. I cook 90% from scratch and have 85p left for this month, as we had extra outgoing this month. It's not usually this tight, but we never have anything leftover. I shop smarter than most, but basic, unprocessed foods for the most part ,utilise things like dried beans, lentils, and basic rice to stretch meals, I've been making bread products at home, bulk make things for the freezer when I can, forage berries in the summer to freeze or turn into homemade jam.....frugality isn't even enough.
@@MrsBrit1 when you don't earn much you have to cut something, that's all. I don't think peeling potatoes is difficult. Instead of buying she can do it on her own. You can also think about moving to smaller place - less to heat etc. It's not great but it is what it is. I grew being poor but we were never hungry as my parents were resoursfull, I mean they know how to menage poverty. We eat what was seasonal (cheapest) and honestly food was great - home made. Making excuses - maybe she can't cook, is funny as she should learn!
I work 5 days a week but cannot afford a studio flat let alone decent one bed. Everyone deserves a privacy! UK became one giant crumbling house with cruel landlord.
I'm not in the UK, but I work my butt off and can't afford my rent anymore.
If you want to move in my state you need to pay first, last and sometimes extra for security. You also have to pay a non-refundable fee to just fill out an application. Also the new thing now that landlords are somehow getting away with is requiring renters to make 3xs the amount of their rent. Which is not only absurd but criminal. But I don't see anyone doing anything to stop it.
Are you an American by any chance?
@mariarohmer2374 I'm from Austin originally, but now live west of the city. I know exactly what you're talking about and it's ridiculous. I used to think I was making a decent salary, but now, I have to pay almost my whole check to rent (with all the fees added) and never have money left over for anything else. I'm 50 years old and am actually getting scared of where I will end up. I truly am poor now, and most likely will have to get a second job just to make the rent.
@@lemonhead162 That makes me so sad. I'm sorry to read this. I do understand. Too many people in their 50's or older are finding themselves priced out of housing. They work, they want to pay for housing but cannot. Or like you they spend all their money on rent. The government or private endowments need to be more proactive in finding answers and helping. It's not impossible to start by telling landlords they cannot pull these greedy scams. IDK why more people aren't talking about this. It's affecting so many. A solution is not impossible either. Stay strong, friend. Sending you my best wishes!🙏🏽👍🏽👍🏽
@@lemonhead162I live in Lebanon next to that Z regime that is doing horrible things in Gz. Come and live here, I will help you. It's cheap here. You rent for 150$ and for another 350$ you can live fine.
We can become friends.
This is why you have a mental health crisis. The vast majority of people are like whats the fking point anymore 😂
The mom with Grey hair if she needs extra money, i can help her out easily for 1 hour everyday for a good price😁 if she's not uptight😃
@@ACXIAO666 you need some help
EXACTLY THIS.
I seriously don't get why you vote for the people you vote. They are your enemies, and you don't even realize it. In Hungary we pay around 32 pounds per month for heating. And that's for a big apartment, okay we don't heat the kitchen. I really don't understand what's going on in England. Massive crime, flooded by migrants, seriously, move to Hungary, if you can get a good job here.
In Hungary we pay around 32 pounds per month for heating. That's a big house, okay we don't heat every room and the kitchen, but it's enough. Electricity is 12 pounds with a tv and a computer running all day. Water is a bit more expensive with the sewage together it's around 37 pounds. Healthcare system is 25 pounds. And these are all monthly. I guess these prices are okay.
A nation living off Aldi discount food and nothing else. Politicians should be ashamed.
Your country makes nothing,before making a list go visit factories in Asia like i have.
My dad works in the westminster building and we have a 5 bedrooms home, sometime i get told to have have lunch in the westminster lounge because we havent food in the house, well, the food that i like anyway. I wouldnt say we are wealthy, we just take on whats given to us on by the tax payers.
@@allykhan8594the UK is the world's 13th biggest manufacturer.
We make loads and we export services far more.
@@julianshepherd2038our top manufactured goods are cars from 2016 figures, when we produced 1.45m vehicles now after brexit 750k. Germany produces 6.5 million.
@@julianshepherd2038 you been canton fair? Go there come bk and find me what we do.
My mom got up 2 hours before us to start a fire in the wood heater outside. That also heated the hot water for us to get ready for school (Hardy Wood Heater). She’d gotten dad off to work, before we woke, while still dark out. A Railroad worker, he was gone a lot, sometimes a week at the time.
She packed our lunches with a handwritten note, and little picture she’d draw us.
She then sat our clothes out, on a chair, and our bath towel laying over the back rest, all near the den’s oil heater.
She’d make us breakfast if we wanted it, and even put our back packs on our backs, and complained of how heavy they were, that we had to lug them, and we hugged and kissed her telling her they were fine, and off to wait on the rural county bus.
Then she got ready for work, serving school lunches at a Private School in another county. She was never to tired to cook us a full supper, each night and complete the cycle.
I miss her everyday. No one will ever love me the way that woman loved me, never again in my life.
And she died way too soon to reward her for being such an amazing mom.
The night before she died, she was ordering my wife and I, our Christmas Presents, for a Christmas she wouldn’t live to see.
Lord, thank you for letting me get these words out❤, I haven’t mourned her properly. Shock is giving way to grief now, and as I’m always late, it’s years later, and I’m alone working in Chile, left with my thoughts. Homesick for a home in MS that is long gone now.
When my brother died, at 17 in a car accident on his way to work, they found all those letters in a Cedar Chest in his room. Even my notes. He made notations on some of them(last day of school, Kyle’s Birthday, my birthday, day before Vacation!, day after Kyle’s Soccer Championship, etc.
I was the richest poor boy in Mississippi, because of her. RIP Mama RIP Joey
Your mother sounds like an angel. Unfortunately, they don't make 'em like that anymore. Thanks for sharing your memories.
❤🙏 Rip to your loved ones.
A good wife is a pearl.
@@threethrushes Amen!!!, Blessings to You!!!
@@helenacrossbow1412 Amen!!! Blessings to You!!!!
I can't believe that people in the UK are being asked to take salaries of $19,000 pounds. That's just criminal.
Supply and demand.
Interesting. What's the average salary in UK?
I was forced to work whilst disabled with Epstein Barr and my take home for 10 years was barely 9k. Inevitably I was evicted whilst at work.
@@kubhlaikhan2015 WHAT?!!! That's ridiculous. How could live on $9K? Most people need that to survive a month, let alone a year?! OMFG!!!
@@ThatBearHasMoxie Total income was LESS than 9k per year for almost a decade while I was seriously ill at the same time. Benefit agencies actually took cash BACK from me because I was too ill to complete their forms without help. The system doesn't work. Nobody carries any responsibility or accountability and cases like mine are excluded when they compile reports and statistics. I'm by no means the only one.
Personally, if it weren't for my dad, I'd be homeless.
Yep, men don’t put up with not enough. They find a way to get more. The problem here is all the single mothers who thought the grass was greener on the other side and left stable, functional family units to then end up in poverty, and cry poor!!
@@ThatOneInTenThousand..Are you part of the Gammon and Pineapple party?
@@verdebritanica Have you got their address, that sounds like a club for me?
@@filmntvguy1977 what an ignorant and narrow minded comment. Even 2 parent families are struggling. For many people in this country, work doesn’t pay and it’s been like this for a number of years.
@@filmntvguy1977 Apart from the men without a job. Bitter are we ?
The money is being redirected to the wrong places: MPs salary, illegal arms, and wasteful spending
MPs salary is a ridiculous distraction. When the boss of perismonn is awarding himself millions.
Look it up, he’s making multiples more than the wage bill of the House of Commons and lords summed up. That’s where your rent money is going, fat cat CEOs and bankers.
Profits up
Rents up
Prices up
Wages, not so much
If only our government didn't spend billions on an excel spreadsheet over COVID. I'd have made an excellent spreadsheet that worked for £5m and a top shelf twix
And how many MPs are on boards of directors, have 'advisory' roles for hundreds of thousands for just a few days work? They're paid because their MPs it's clearly corrupt.
Royal Family is worth $28 Billion, and own 6.6 Billion Acres of land, what are they doing to help the struggling familes of the UK??
Damn, 6.6 billion acres of land? I can’t even fathom what that looks like.
filthy rich huh?
The entire UK is only 60 MILLION acres, and the RF don't own it all.
All the dry land on Earth is approx 32 Billion acres.
oh yeah... get rid of royal family and all will be perfect....news for you...look at america/russia and france....
At least your country have food banks that can assist you with food. Here in South africa we don't if the churches does not help. You left to your own devices. There is a stigma that there is only certain people without food but reality is most people
I thought things were bad in 2008-2010 but its even worse now. 14 years of austerity have absolutely gutted this country. No wonder mental health issues are exploding right now, life in the UK for so many just feels futile. We are rapidly sliding back towards Victorian era levels of poverty, illness and inequality. 😣
‘To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all’ - Oscar Wilde
This. People think they will have or deserve a good life just because they were born. I got news for you.
@@zuzanazuscinova5209 at the very least they deserve a decent life. Jesus. 🙄🤦🏻♀
@@zuzanazuscinova5209More people were having a good life in recent memory. That’s just verifiable fact.
@@zuzanazuscinova5209 how brainwashed you are. This world does not need billionaires who are parasitising and sucking dry everyone around either.
The Irish Poet died in 1900, surely life should have improved for people in those 124 years. seems we are travelling without moving
What makes my blood boil, is that the minimum wage goes up, then guess what! All the household bills go up AT THE SAME TIME! So how are we benefiting from it! The government doesn’t say that, do they!
Last year my bills went up by 13% and my food shop by about 50% and gas/electric by about 75%. Meanwhile my wage went up 3%. Make that make sense.
Have you only just noticed this?
Your not supposed to live forever on minimum wage your supposed to use it as a stepping stone to a better job, most minimum wage jobs are held by students and immigrants who have no qualifications yet, if your middle aged and haven't figured out how to learn a trade or skill that earns you more than minimum wage that is literally a choice that you have made for yourself.
@@randomdude_2000but that's not how it works, I remember min wage being £5.25 I was on nearly £9
Nowadays I'm on £12 and min wage is now £11.20 I think.
You can't work your way out of this, crabs in a bucket everyone is being dragged down by min wage increases.
I'm considerably poorer than I was 10 years ago.
I longer do anything more than the bare minimum, no overtime, nothing.
No incentive to.
Sorry? You want..... extra free money? The minimum wage rise is supposed to rise roughly in line with inflation - not to outperform it!
"When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty."
I work in care sector. 90% of my co workers are foreigners. Carets, nurses, even admin staff. Yes, it’s tough. But it’s a job. And we’re always hiring. We are looking after your elderly. British people don’t want this kind of work because it’s tough. I know people claiming benefits but they would not work in care. It’s bizarre.
Not everyone is made for care work. I know they are severely understaffed and it's a very important job, but I feel like when they are so desperate to staff they hire literally anyone, it attracts the wrong kind of person; abuse in care is widespread.
So true.
This is why I'm not having children, because I know I cannot afford to raise them well.
What about the illegal; and the illegal immigrants; they like having large numbers of children; and many of them are not wealthy enough to afford having several children?
It's sad but it's why my daughters have decided not to have children.
And yet the immigrants crank them out like rats in the gutter and are given taxpayer dollars to raise them.
You could easily afford them if you were an illegal immigrant.
In the bad old days, “great” Britain would just raid and loot the resources and savings of other lands but now you must get past their improved defenses.😅
I thought 🤔 it was only me, but millions of us working and don't have anything left at the end of the month
Remember you will own nothing but be happy.
Your not to supposed to have a life outside of work. Look at how they increase the pension ages in the hope that less people will live to enjoy that time. Its a way of slowly getting rid of retirement altogether.
26 billion dollars aid was given to israel just today, we need more us citizens speaking up against this
BRING MORE BOAT PEOPLE PLEASE AND GIVE THEM HOTELS, MONEY, FOOD, E BIKES, TAXI RIDES AND STEAL HOUSING FROM US TO GIVE THEM.
We. are nothing but slaves!! It will not change until WE decide to change things.
That’s exactly what I thought, but there’s so many people struggling, I’m working full time and still live with my mum as I can’t afford to move out, it’s never been that bad before!
Last year, I was working full time, budgeting groceries, unable to afford date nights, and missing time with my kids. Now I learned how to make money online. Now am a SAHM, homeschooling, and making profits every week.
Everyone needs more than their salary to be financial stable. The best thing to do with your money is to invest it rightly, because money left for saving always end up used with no returns.
Who is your financial coach, do you mind hooking me?
Am looking for something to venture into on a short term basis, I really need to create an alternate source of income, what do you think I should be buying?
Cryptocurrency investment, but you will need a professional guide on that.
Facebook 👇
I don't want to come off sounding overly harsh against people really struggling and doing what they think is their best, but... living and survival has never been easy since the birth of mankind.
I think living in peaceful developed countries for a few generations has already made us forget that less than 100 years ago, some of us even have living grandparents that experienced a world war, saw the a-bomb go off, commuinism and democracy go to war, and suffered through a great depression. If you can talk about how life is hard from the comfort of your home, have food in your freezer, with water and gas, and a government you can try to petition for help... you're technically more privileged than like +80% of the world now and more privileged than most of the world back then.
All I'm saying is that life being super duper hard is not an accident or someone's mistake, it's almost the natural state of existence.
Nobody is anti stoic here or challenging the nature of existence. Here we're talking about an avoidable (key word) deterioration in living standars caused by greed, corruption and incompetence.
Meanwhile Jeff Bezos just bought a $500m yacht. The world is a sick place.
If he wasn't providing a service that everyone wants and uses daily he wouldn't be so rich
to be fair he pulled himself up from his bootstraps, he started off in a broom cupboard, for a room, he has created a brand that has created tens of thousands of jobs around the world, i say good luck to him, you can not take it with you
Tories and new tory Labour under Blair and soon starmer are the problem along with worshipping of brass money capitalism is the problem amd the lies its spinning for last 100 yrs or longer in uk and usa etc also the people in the country are doing nothing about anything from top down
The tories and all right wing capitalism countries are telling you huge lies and huge porkies
you don't have that kind of wealth without benefitting from the work of someone else who doesnt get paid for it. It's a monopoly.
@@slinkiegirl2001Amazon workers have a high turnover rate.
Disgusting that normal hard working people who live in a wealthy country such as the UK, have to live like this.
The UK is not that wealthy anymore. In terms of per capita, we're about the 25th richest country in the world. Literally India has more money than we do.
People do make enough money, but the state takes it all away from them - this is done on purpose to make you poor - here in USA.
In Hungary we pay around 32 pounds per month for heating. That's a big house, okay we don't heat every room and the kitchen, but it's enough. Electricity is 12 pounds with a tv and a computer running all day. Water is a bit more expensive with the sewage together it's around 37 pounds. Healthcare system is 25 pounds. And these are all monthly. I guess these prices are okay.
@@DerpydinkI have no empathy for the poor in Britain given how Britain keeps our people in abject poverty. Goes to show the benefits of its eternal plundering is not benefiting the common people. British companies own 70% of our mines. They control our government. Lonmin gave the Marikana massacre order to Cyril Ramaphosa. The interfere in our politics. Phil Craig a British national wants to make the Cape independent of Azania. The arrogance. He needs to return to Britain. Many British own palatial homes here. You have a problem with poor immigrants, we have a problem with your wealthy ones.
@@elizabeththebus2966 Azania LOL
Why isn’t anyone making the royal family accountable?
Because it isn't their fault. I'm not a Royalist, but "poverty" in the UK (a vague, meaningless term) isn't caused by the existence of the Royal Family.
@@lochnessmunster1189 But they have billions. They can afford to be generous and pay for poor people’s utilities.
@@plumeria66 Who are "poor" people? I earn minimum wage. Am I 'poor'?
@@lochnessmunster1189Yes, you are. I am too at 38,480 in the US.
@@SolorockinOne At what percentage of the world are you in, earning $38,480 per year?
The average yearly wage I have been seeing on new job postings is 20,000 pounds a year. Having just moved from Canada, I have never seen such a massive gap between the cost of living and the average wage. Not to mention, the electric bills are absolutely outrageous in the winter. Companies should be ashamed of themselves for offering such unliveable wages.
The whole system seems wrong to me. Work, pay taxes, for what?? So we can spend billions abroad on wars???
Pacifism makes sense
To house our unwanted guest coming over on dinghies....
if working doesnt get you out of hardship, then what is the point of working
There are different types of working - not all of them offer a route out of hardship.
You become a janitor and you think that will take you out of hardship??
You don't starve?
@@KaranBagga87Of course. Honest work. One of the most important jobs in society.
Survival and dignity
I'm in the U.S. and hardly ever turn on the heat unless it's just unbearable.
And only because my grands live with us, If not for them it would always be off.
Electricity of course has gone up ridiculously of course. I cut costs in every way possible.
No cell phone (still have a landline) no new clothes, shop at dollar stores, thrift stores, cook
at home, do my own hair, nails, and grooming of all sorts. We have learned to enjoy the simple
things in life. When you look at things that way, we are truly blessed.
When I lived in London for 4 years, everybody was so posh and wanted to get on the 'property ladder ' . I left after 4 years. You work and you dont get anywhere !
Why do we keep voting for the same political parties that do nothing for us?
Out of touch politicians that don't do their job!!!
Why do we keep tolerating the same nonsense?
because we are a bunch of limpdickpillocks 😇
Because I don’t want people on benefits to have a payrise.
Work should pay (it doesn’t) but I’m afraid the left always advocate higher benefit spending which just encourages people to not work at all.
I already pay insane taxes and it’ll go up even more if labour win.
We didn't vote for the last 2 wasters... They begged themselves in......
They are all as bad as each other, no party seems to be effective.
@@Barneysma Problem is the Conservatives have been in power for 80 of the last 123 years. So "all as bad as each other" is lazy thinking.
This just ain’t happening in the UK….this is happening in every developed country in the world
No it is not , you are the reason the UK is in the state it's in. Open your eyes for goodness sake and wake up to what is happening, you are being led into believing that what you are living in is the new normal, it's not and most countries are looking on in shock and pity.
Here is getting worse
Money going to IsraHELL
@@claudiafigueiredo4979 But still nowhere near as bad as America…..
@@claudiafigueiredo4979 This was two years ago and worse it’s become th-cam.com/video/f78ZVLVdO0A/w-d-xo.htmlsi=-wuV8EEWfj6JqqJ_
Same issues here in the US. Taxes high, retirement age at 67, college unaffordable, food expensive, healthcare premiums high.
great job Rishi! Top notch!👍
This is not happening by accident, if anyone's seen the video of that millionaire Australian property developer's "mask off" Ted Talk, they will know what I'm talking about. We have a government that aren't just letting this happen, they're making it happen and their friends are getting very rich.
Classic divide and conquer. Distract the plebs with boat people, Rayner's non existent tax avoidance, what is a woman etc. Meanwhile Mone gets hundreds of millions, Cameron's in the Panama papers, Sunak and his Mrs are getting tenders, Menzies is on a bender with rent boys, Zahawi is getting fined and Hunt is laughing all the way to the bank because he 'forgot' how many properties he has.
@@blazzz13
Good one.
Yeah, they have to keep the poor starving and desperate so we are desperate enough to work all hours for poverty wages without worker protections because we’re “self employed contractors”. Because that’s how the millionaires become billionaires. If the poor have any kind of safety net then we won’t be desperate enough to take the worst jobs at the lowest wages, and then employers would have to pay reasonable wages to tempt us in, and then the CEO wouldn’t be able to afford that third super yacht
What’s the name of the Ted Talk?
@@sophiadaly4712 not sure, but heres the clip from novara media "Sociopath Businessman Tells The Truth About Capitalism"
I was working full time In palliative care, and became homeless!! And I was told tough luck by the council .
I now stay at home with my baby, I went back to work 3 months after a c section ..
I will not be rushing back to work, I laugh when people try to shame me for not working, broke my back looking after the most vulnerable people and told to f off when I needed help .. never again.
Taking care of a baby is not doing noothing. Childacre is work. No reasonable person should shame you for being lazy. It is the opposite: taking care of a baby is very demanding and extremely important work. In a fair society, you should be paid for that.
Yes easy to become homeless the way rents are rising. Wages not keeping up. Private housing is precarious now.
You’ve offered something to society _(unfortunately at a cost)_ , you didn’t just decide to breed and be taken care of.
@@samuela-aegisdottir "Taking care of a baby is not doing noothing."
It is literally insane that some people believe that it is. They wouldn't be around, themselves, if someone hadn't put in the work and effort of raising them (and, for those who believe that childcare isn't work, it's a shame that people bothered).
@@janetmalcolm6191 Early on in lessons, I often show pupils a couple of houses and ask how much they reckon the parents of a mate of mine paid for one in the late sixties..
I then explain why the game of Monopoly was invented, and some of the reasons why high house prices are a bad thing.* I've only had one person get the price correct. The same house, IF it had kept pace with wages, it would be about £115k to £125k now, but about 2 years ago one went down the same road for £750k.
* Despite idiot newspapers crowing about them going up, as they have been told that that's a sign of a good economy, and never bothered to think about it for themselves. Ironically, often, it's the same newspapers that whine about too many immigrants and a declining native population, not seeing (or choosing not to see) the connection.
I live abroad and went back after a year to see my parents. My immigrant retired hijab wearing muslim Pakistani mother was buying extra bread, milk and other items everytime we went to shop just to put in the community food bank. She said people are struggling so i try to do this every time i come to the shop. I say this only to show we are all in this struggle together and we muslims do not hate everyone else. We care for our neighbours regardless of race and religion. My parents arent rich and also complain about the cost of living but they worked hard and have a little extra and therefore try to help the people in the local community.
They sound like beautiful people.
I love how the word poverty is thrown around. I grew up in the 60s and we had very little. We were always hungry but fit and lean. These people don't appear to be short of food - or tattoos.
Exactly. The word 'poverty' has an entirely different meaning now than 60 years ago, thanks to the Left. You can have Sky TV, double glazing, an electric scooter, live off takeaways and as you said, lots of tattoos, without working, and still be in 'poverty'.
Tory alert
@@frankoys2010 how is that a refutation?
If it is any comfort...it is exactly the same situation here in New Zealand. The working poor in this country rises every year. The rich get richer the poor are invisible, rents have just gone up, landlord's are supported by the government, renters are ignored. You do your best while knowing it won't get any better any time soon, if ever. Good luck.
We need a wealth tax.
We need a capital gains tax. It's disgraceful that rich foreigners from fascist countries move here and become our landlords, owning multiple homes, while born Kiwis will never own a home or even be comfortable.
@@cosmicmuffin322 Still happy with MMP?
😂
This government is a total and utter disgrace and instead of trying to help people Sunak just came up with yet another cruel way to go after the poorest of the poorest
Same in America! Our government sends our hard earned taxpayer money to Ukraine and Israel
Same in Australia
Same in canada
Same in Europe
@@CourageUnderFire87 Governments need to make people poor in order to control them, raise armies and navies, and to create hoards of workers. Money was created to keep you poor - not to make you rich.
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The most memorable things of my child were when we struggled and the creativity it produced. Poverty is not all that bad if there is enough to eat (even if it is from grocery dumpsters) and a place to stay. What is poverty? Not having wants while all that is needed is needs. We laugh about the times and they get us though current struggles. What we need are smiles and belief that we can get through. What is sad is all those who are just learning about how hard others had it for many years before -- I guess there are less people laughing at us -- but still people laugh and mock and I for one don't care about them. My child wants to write a book about our adventures and creativity. I just finished Legacy of the Gold which is the struggles of nature because of man's greed and lack of appreciation. Maybe set aside all those techy toys and share in one another and whatever there is. It is so easy to open a wallet but creativity is in not having a wallet to open. Experience and be joyful -- you might be amazed even when minimum wage is what we have.
I really like this lady. Looks like she takes care of her house. Everyone deserves a warm place to live.
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BRING MORE BOAT PEOPLE PLEASE AND GIVE THEM HOTELS, MONEY, FOOD, E BIKES, TAXI RIDES AND STEAL HOUSING FROM US TO GIVE THEM.
@@CrumpetsNBiscuitslol are you ok
Yes. Like, this lady seems like she genuinely works hard and is just not earning enough - I am glad they showed someone like this. Normally it's a woman with 5 kids by different fathers who has false nails, lip fillers, dyed hair, false lashes and a kilo of make up saying 'I can't afford bread pls my family is dying'.
No, they don’t. You get what you put into society. She obviously doesn’t give society much. This is just natural selection.
Meanwhile the most profitable companies are making exceptional profits. But at the same time they can't pay their workers a real living wage.
What is a "real living wage"? define.
Why are the workers on minimum wage living lavish lifestyles . Why dnt they have saving habits .
Stop buying from those companies then? You're the ones making them rich lol
@@joshuadalton6063 Not sure about UK, but some industries have almost monopolies.
@@john-fr5yd Saving habits? What do they save every week? I'm not sure what you mean by lavish lifestyles... I don't see that in this video. If those who are in poverty buy marijuana or something similar, it is to escape reality. I'm not saying it is right to buy drugs, but poverty is much harder to get out of than it might initially seem. If someone has an extra $30, they want an immediate escape because that is more tangible than some long term goal that they don't see as possible.
I stopped working....it was pointless to keep a job.... i couldn't earn enough for rent, utilities, food and insurance...out of control inflation.....now i live in a old car... get welfare payments, get free government insurance and have a side hustle for cash.....
My quality of life is lower...but my mental health has improved and im much happier...i learned to get live a much simpler life now...
Those who can still afford to live in a flat or a house you are extremely lucky, I'm in my 50's and I lost my home due to illness and have been living in a room in someone else's house for years, it's horrendous.
It's honestly getting out of control.
I agree and that's why I am turning my backs on the main parties once and for all
Or is it going exactly to plan?
@@morganoox3838deffo😢
Boss of British Gas on a £4 million wage ...and there are many more just like him .
Go check your pension funds and see what your own before you complain. You probably are an owner of centrica
While people can't pay the bills.
Unfortunately it's a drop in the ocean that amount, reason for cost of living, housing crisis is from other reasons
Why can't he be paid £4milliion?
4m is if he , any one of his employees or company screws up, his career is finished, it’s after dinner speaking and sound bite for a random news story. If you had that arrangement (failure is final), I’m sure your number would be high 6 figures as compensation.
I remember the UK was putting all refuges in a 4 stars hotels for weeks. Cannot understand why they don't take care of their own citizens in the beginning... It's pathetic.
You'd think the Royal family would start taking cuts in their lavish lifestyles and help those struggling instead...
But the Royal Family aren't the cause of other people financially struggling. I'm not defending them, and I don't care about them. But it's not their fault.
Politicians should be on minimum wage and nurses and doctors should be earning 100k a year. MP's are criminals, all of them.
At least in portugal PM gets a salary of aroung 7 times the minimal wage which is not a lot considering the position and responsibility. The problem is corruption, laws designed to favour the wealthier and not the 99%. Politics are the pcrostitutes of the capitalism we live in.
We have corruption imo because of our culture (from regular people to politicians) and exactly because they get paid sh*t, so when someone offer you 75k€ they accept without thinking.
Is same thing with dr*gs on airport,shipyard ect when you earn 1000-1500€ 5+k€ seems like a lot
Ect ect
The UK Prime Minister also gets a salary around x7 the minimum wage.
I agree but these people in the video ain't doctors not nurses, many work just part time with kids??
I get what your saying but the problem is you want smart people leading the country.
They should make it more open how much their total renumeration is from all the little deals they do.
In The Netherlands this is also a growing problem. And more and more people with jobs that are homeless.
Do they sleep in shelters?
In Sweden too its propably in almost every country..keep em poor..
then make smoking weed illegal lazy stoners
@@HHWP1488 But they aren't lazy. The point was that work does not secure basic necessities. Learn to read before you comment.
They interviewed two women and there was no mention of a FATHER or a boyfriend. I don't know why there was no biological father present, but if there was, and he was working, there would be TWO INCOMES to provide food and shelter for the kids.
Your point is ? Of course two income is better than one when one is struggling, but the main issue isn't that there's no father. It's not normal to not be able to afford the cost of living even as a single parent.
It's 2024 not 1934 families are made all different
Deceased? Left? You don’t know the circumstances.
This is also what is going on here in the States as well. People are severely struggling even with jobs. Not only with just a job but with decent paying jobs. With the rate of inflation, the wages are not keeping up.
In this world of greed and money, the leaders want their subjects to be the least successful.
So you going to pay for everything?
@DrJams nah Percival, you are.
BRING MORE BOAT PEOPLE PLEASE AND GIVE THEM HOTELS, MONEY, FOOD, E BIKES, TAXI RIDES AND STEAL HOUSING FROM US TO GIVE THEM.
@@CrumpetsNBiscuits its not about the boats .. its 40 yrs of neoliberalism that brought this country to its knees.
*It seems that UK became a third world country 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣*
Why is this happening in the UK?
So called 1st world country… please people think real hard who you vote for, this Government doesn’t care for its working class citizens. It breaks my heart to see this happening in the UK. That lady made me cry when she said that she doesn’t cook dinner every night anymore because she can’t afford to.
You voted brexit 😂😂😂
Nonsense, of couse seh can afford, she doesn't cook because of laziness.
@@fmanresurrected6774F all to do with Brexit. Scumbag politicians, the vermin left and massive 3rd world immigration
You sided with Communisn in WW2..along with USA. The long term results are what is showing today .
@@now591
Your right
Depending on this administration is a total loss. Investment is the only way to secure your family's future, grow wealth and stay ahead of inflation. May you find success as you read.
Honestly speaking! Investment has been the easiest means to save and multiply income because money left for savings always ends up used without returns.
The truth with this recent economy, everyone needs more than their salary to be financially stable. The best thing to do with your money is to Invest it correctly.
I feel sympathy and empathy for low income individuals who are struggling to survive. If it weren't for my investments with Sherryl Kumar, I wouldn't be where I am today.
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Right ….Pay attention . Whst you are going to need to fix this is
1 a small inflatable boat
2 tin of shoe polish preferably black or mid tan..
3 bus fare to Dover
You don’t have to do anything else, it all gets done for you .
Maybe if western European Nation didn't take the wealth from Africa, India, Middle East, and Americans you would be even poorer
I work as a Plumber at a military base where they house 1700 of the immigrants that have just come across the channel illegally.. and i can tell you..they are blasting out the heating 24/7. All free, paid by you guys and me. Absolutely disgusting
Wowww grrr
Its terrible !! What can we do about it Anything ? Wish i knew what the answer is. not politics thats for sure.
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Also... they do daily trips for the immigrants to the local towns so they see something else other than the dull army base .. Chelmsford, Ipswich, colchester, Braintree etc..around 10 mini buses full of immigrants get dropped off in the towns and picked up afew hours later.. and one time the security on the base was telling me they do random searches of their rooms, incase they are hiding weapons or drugs and they found a bag full of handbags and wallets that they had stolen on the days trips. It's absolutely disgraceful our government is letting this happen. Basically shipping these immigrants into our peaceful towns..and they are robbing people and shops. They are also coming to these bases straight from the boats in Dover with all kinds of diseases that we haven't even had in this country for decades. They get free food and drink all day.(which they complain constantly that its bad) Something like £30 daily allowance each which they send home to their families. Free cigarettes. They had the Heating on full blast over the winter months while my 90 year old Nan down the road is freezing to death cos she cant afford the heating on... It's a all Male immigrant camp and we finding used condoms everywhere. This post will probably be removed. But it's the truth. RAF Wethersfield.
Work just doesnt pay in this day and age. The system is designed to give more and more to the landlords
I own a property that I rent out, and the price to buy the property is calculated on 15 years of full rent(IMO)
then I have to pay tax on the rent I receive ,apart from any things I had to buy for the property
The main problem is as rents soar higher ,the price for investors to buy a property also goes up to the 15 year equation.
The Government needs to cap rent ,to limit the sale prices of property and also give a tax break to tenants
so if you pay 10k rent a year that is tax-free in your wages
But all governments are afraid to interfere in the capitalist system apart from taking more tax from it.
The whole system is double or triple tax ,you are paying rent on money taxed from your wages to a landlord then he is taxed on that taxed money
same as vat in any shop you are paying 21% vat on money already taxed at source from your wages
truth is slavery was never abolished it was merely better disguised.
Why did your parents not help buy a house? What were they doing?
The Government oddly hammer landlords, who are doing the job of the government with social housing... odd policy!
@@robtheplod sell up go abroad do not invest in this country.
Having a buy to let these days after the raise of taxes and interest rates is not worth it. Landlords are selling their properties before they are financially crashed.
Here in America everything, and I mean everything has become more expensive. Food, taxes, utilities, gas, you name it. The market is abysmal and people like me and my partner of 24 years are starting to worry we won't have enough money to carry us through old age and we are already in our early 60s.
But for a lot of people it is their own fault, they buy everything on credit cards and only pay rent, and they take money out of their 401 R what is for their pension, but never return the money back. I am Dutch and we buy almost everything with our debit card, Our pensions we pay to the Insurance compagny, but we can not take money out of it. So you will have about 70 % of your last salary. I can understand that you are afraid, i can only say to you pay of your credit card debt. and save more money. Other wise you have to work after your pension, and that is awfull. I wish you the best wishes, and take care of each other.
I used to live in London for 7 years. That was 12 years ago. Came back last summer to celebrate friend's bday and couldn't believe my eyes. The energy is off, most of the people looked grey and sad, food prices almos doubled. A lot of very old people working physical jobs and at the same time huge restaurants closing some parts as they aren't fully staffed. And that was my beloved vibrant city of London, hard to imagine how rural areas function...
I'm going to London for the first time in a few weeks. Sounds like Sweeney Todd times. The hotel prices are high so I almost considered going somewhere else, but I've never been and it's my bday.
@@Cocoisagordonsetter Person above is talking absolute nonsense & complete scaremongering. London is exceptional, world class city and richest in Europe. Not sure what area/people they are talking about but doesn't reflect my experience living in London for last decade. If you live here and can't get a good job/income it's on you not the system.
Same in the US. I see so many elderly people working and I hope they are doing it because they want to and not because they have too 😢
@@sushiaddict94-oo7oe I'm sure it will be amazing there.
London is an 80% brown mono-culture. it is a hollowed out ethnic welfare city funded by the silent white majority
who never wanted the disaster of diversity. White flight also from Birmingham.
I still earn a similar wage to what I earnt in 2001 meanwhile the cost of everything has trebled. Our government is taking us for granted, they like to tax us more to pay for people who don’t work. In this country your either that rich that you don’t care or everything is free if you decide not to work. The people in the middle of it all are the hard workers that earn an average wage and have nothing left every week, it’s disgraceful. We pay for rockets for other countries to fire at each other whilst our own armed forces are depleted. If we went to war all our children would be forced to defend us whilst said government would retreat to their bunkers. I really am ashamed of my own country
Don't be ashamed of your country. Be angry towards those who have subverted it.
Nothing is for free! Maybe looks at how much people get on benefits. They have work commitments they have to meet or they loose money! How many people do you really think choose not to work ? May look at your MPs and what they get in expenses and payouts before you start attacking the worse off in this country! MPs get more in a week than most people on benefits get in a year!
INflation is getting worse. You are not wrong. But most folks (USA) do NOT know that France gave MILLLIONS to the state of
Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. There were donated funds from one at least international charity as well.
Bro, if in 23 years you haven’t managed to earn more money, you share a big portion of the blame. In 2001 I made maybe 20k while going to school full time, today I make 6 figures, that didn’t happen overnight it was a lot of work and risk.
They don’t tax you more to pay for people who don’t work people that don’t work still pay taxes too, your lining the governments pockets go figure
That's life. No one was ever promised affluence. Remember the Okalahoma Dustbowl and the Depression. My Grandpa slept on park benches. My grandparents had Spam for the holidays and used a dresser drawer for my Uncle's crib. They spent their honeymoon dealing with bedbugs. You just have to get on with it. Look at what you do have instead of what you don't have. The lady in this video had a nicer house then I do. She was clothed and didnt look malnourished. You're not alone... join the club. We're there too.
Ya everyone just bend over and take it in silence.
This is infuriating. How woulda millionaire PM have a clue what poverty feels like.
The entire UK govt is infiltrated by Z1ionists
If conservatives get in power again the unelected prime minister pledges to strip all benefits from millions of people if they don't find work within 12 months, with the help of the work coach, so that's the sick, disabled etc without support, will make homeless people in the millions if the tyrant has his way.
He also this billionaire said he's going to strip doctors ability to write sick notes
they laugh behind closed doors... I hear celebs and rich people tell us how we should live and be happy but I think they have forgotten what normal life feels like...
Exactly, when are people going to wake up and stop voting for career politicians.
Someone should have told him what a dump this country is not to bother coming here.
I tell people all the time! I love between Vietnam and Malaysia......they all think Britain is paved with gold and it's amazing 😂
I tell them all the time , it's a cesspit of misery the uk
and bringing 4 children!
Whole world same problem.
Calm down
You think his own country was better?????
In India the Government is providing free ration to 80% of the population (that is 80% of 1.4 billion), free housing subsidy to poor and people buying their first home, tax concession for people with home or education loans... Not a since paisa wasted for illegals or other countries' wars..
soon it will be better to move to india from uk or australia.
ON THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IT SAYS GIVE ME YOUR TIRED , YOUR HUNGRY , YOUR POOR… WELL ITS AMERICANS WHO ARE TIRED AND HUNGRY AND POOR
I was in the USA last month and it seems that everyone is driving a big fancy Ford F 150. Maybe a lot of Americans are living beyond their means? Maybe too many tax cuts for the very rich and corporations?
What makes me angry is the lack of any solution, there are no opportunities to grow, no chance of escaping this. It annoys me further that people still look for government to solve their problems, just stop. No political party is going to save us. They are the same party flying different colours. There is no hope in politics, and I am done looking for solutions in it. So if anyone has any solution that does not involve the government, we want to hear it.
Vote Pigasus for President! Pigasus the pig!
wealth tax
@@rossm2853 wealth taxes have never worked. Anywhere, at any time. In fact, I would go as far as to say its this anti-wealth sentiment that is exactly the cause of many of our problems. There are no incentives within the UK that actually drive investment, hard work and productivity.
Gifted doctors in the UK find work abroad because the quality of life and pay are superior in other countries. The cream of the crop rise to the top, which is not here, while we get everyone else who cannot find work elsewhere. In other words, we get the bottom of the barrel. When you have an attitude, law and policy that chases away people with wealth or skills that would bring wealth to the country, you have setup a system where you will get poorer and poorer.
We need more incentives, not less.
@@billmaster1157 No the problem is the super wealthy will own everything. They own the assets, land, multiple houses, shares. Wealth is built through owning these assets. If they aren't taxed there wealth continues to grow and they continue to buy more. Normal working people can't compete. I'm not talking about taxing working people more ie doctors, I'm talking about a wealth tax targeting those (who predominantly) not working with say £10 million or more in assets. This is who needs to start pay.
@@rossm2853 this is beside the point. I was specifically asking for a solution *without* government. Ie no taxes
Also, thats really stupid. The wealthy can only stay wealthy by constantly buying, selling, innovating and competing. Without an impetus, there is no source of wealth. That impetus is always an incentive to improve ones condition above what already exists, which requires a constant raising of the lowest standard with the highest.
Besides. Its always happened that a wealth tax always see the wealthy selling off their assets and moving elsewhere. California tried this recently where this happened exactly and ended up losing a source of tax revenue.
So if you work and still can't afford the basics doesn't this show how working is pointless? You may as well be unemployed!
As a migrant you get more money in aid, than these real English people working. Thats shows that the system is your enemy. I seriously don't get why you vote for the people you vote. In Hungary we pay around 32 pounds per month for heating. And that's for a big apartment, okay we don't heat the kitchen. I really don't understand what's going on in England. Massive crime, flooded by migrants, seriously, move to Hungary !
Soon they will use digital cash so they can claw back benefit money from anybody with any kind of job.
Yes🎉
Absolutely disgusting. The government should be ashamed of themselves for letting this happen!
This did not happen overnight, the people saw it happening and did nothing. Blame yourselves
Let What happen? A single mother of three with no particular skills complaining her nondescript job doesn't pay enough for four people, another single mother working part time complaining she's skint. The third one, I doubt he really needed to be at the food bank but regardless If you don't have enough skills between two of you to support four kids then don't have that many. I'm not saying there aren't people out there deserving of better but these type of docs never do the subject matter any justice with their choice of participants. At least they managed to avoid the cig and Playstation b-roll footage this time.
We need a WEALTH TAX asap. It's criminal that we tax the daily workers, yet the millionaires and billionaires pay less tax for no work while there bank accounts grow.
That doesn't help. The government just spends it on migrants and war.
The government should be ashamed
They don't know the meaning of the word!
Worked all my life, 17 to 52. Every 10 years or so, recession hits, and all I have gained disappears. I don't think I can keep pretending this is ever going to change. Now, with UC, I don't want to keep fighting
Yes, me too . I think people need to watch I, Daniel Blake or re- watch it. We are officially in a recession, but I think it started in 2019/ 2020 ... I am 61 in September with a health condition.
I'm 53,my wife is 50. We both work full time but never seem to have anything spare. I drive a 20 yr old car covered in rust. We hardly ever eat out. EVERYTHING goes on bills. Never seem to catch a break. I thought it would be easier by my stage in life but seems to just get more difficult.
Shame that people have a abundance of wealth on our backs, i cant even afford a kid at the moment working full time so i wont get one.
What happens when people reach 55 to retirement age without anything saved?
There will be millions unable to find work, in rented accommodation over the next few decades with zero provisions or ability to support themselves.
In the US people are living in vehicles. Lots of them on BLM land, in the desert. Others are moving to South America and Asia.
In the US, 60% of new retirees are homeless living in tents, cars and RVs. Even if they saved and invested what they could while employed, illness, divorce, failed investments, job loss wiped them out financially.
My husband and I immigrated from the US to Mexico 18 months ago. If we had stayed in the US, we would be homeless. There’s still financial pressure here, but not nearly as much.
Due to Blair and open borders.
@@Curlyblonde 60%??
America is the same
Working families are struggling
It feels like the
"Depression"
We have to pay an average of $10k a year for health insurance, did you know how much it costs us?
Not struggling enough apparently, since you are busy sending billions to fund wars that have nothing to do with you
Jolly good 😂
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Fed up of the UK and all its problems. No matter how much you make, it is NEVER enough to support a sustainable standard of living plus the high taxes making it worse. If you have an escape plan it is better to use it.
“Millions in work but in poverty…while government workers with minimal work but living above the average annual salary.”
Income in this country is terrible for 80% of people. Too many company’s offering only minimum wage
Did you think min wage was a good idea leftie it destroyed the free workers market so did mass immigration before min wage came in I could ask and offer myself at a interview for a hour.y rate and get a night shift allowance now its min wage and no shift allowance lefties destroy everything they touch
Please can you show me proof of this, especially the 80% figure.
Why is the money going to Ukraine? why to migrants? Politicians should be held accountable....
To Ukraine not all of it is in cash, its w*apons and equipment , migrants is because of birth rates decline and cheap labor like every other place in the world
Poor EU countries also spend money on refugees and support Ukraine. The UK is a rich nuclear nation..
In a democracy politicians, judges and journalists are never held accountable for anything. I might also remind you that in a democracy racism is a criminal offence which can land you behind bars.
@@philprofi6896 Democracy is just an empty slogan now.
Politicians like foreign aid because it prestige like to be seen on the world stage helping other countries while neglecting our own
My heart breaks when I see our friends in the UK hurting like this. Makes me question why they're okay with the royals living in several castles, employing hundreds of servants and quite frankly living the good, cush life. Rather they should be pouring money into helping their people. Anyone who can't feed themselves or their families or heat their homes. Or people who don't even have homes.That's what modern royalty should be doing if they are to exist. That's just my opinion.
It's nothing to do with the royal family. They have existed for centuries. Our politicians are bats**t crazy. They won't be happy until every working class person in this country is starving and freezing.
I think it's wonderful, we can all be on youtube, watching these videos and venting our frustrations in the comment section.
It's really constructive.
lol. True
I’m aged 67 and I have a payslip from fifty years ago, I was aged 17, working in a coal mine and I was getting £27.50 a week, which equates to around £485 in todays money. Now what seventeen year old gets that kind of money? And don’t forget that when I reached 18, I got men’s wages.
The properties were very cheap too.
I was an apprentice in engineering and remember £13 per week. Aged 68 now.
@skycloud4802, properties were not necessarily cheap...a pound had value
@@bill-2018 me too.
And that works out at £25,220 per annum. That's pretty much the average salary these days for a typical office job. The apprentice wage now is £6.40 per hour, so around £250 per week or £12k per year.
What the bleep does “living wage” mean if people can’t live on it? Why do the government get away with calling it that?
I’d like to see business bosses live on it.
You can quite easily live on it providing you live in a tent
@@JonnyiceyNice is that suppose to be funny or what?
@@tonyrobinson362 well I was joking but at the same times it's becoming a reality
Minimum wage is £11.44, with a standard 37.5 hour week it's around £1600 a month after taxes. Who "struggles" with that? There are places in the world where they live on $2 a day.
@@sleptiq yeah if you're single and willing to live in a flat share it wouldn't be so bad, not counting the expensive areas anyway.
We are not living but we are surviving.
There is no poverty. UK is in abundance. People are just taking faulty shape.
OK clown wake up
Everyone I know left the UK and their lives are far far better than if they stayed.
I moved to Bulgaria and there's no comparison. I hope I never have to go back.
@@gilessteve How is learning the language going?
@@pawel8365 Terrible! lol I can just about get by in shops, etc.
I would have loved to but we can’t now because of Brexit right? You can get a long visa but you won’t be able to live there for many years as far as I know. Unless I’m missing something?
@@alexcurmi7412 I have residency because I moved here before Brexit but I'd like to know the answer to your question.
Cost of food is off the charts. Our supermarkets declared record profits with CEO on 8 million package.
Food in the UK is cheap. I live in France where it is considerably more expensive. The US even more so.
learn to cook and your food bills will be halved
With limited funds, if you spend more than £70 on food each week, you're mental. If you can't at least survive on £35 a week, you're clueless.
@@jacknakamori328035 quid a week is f all, what that’s meant to cover every meal? Work food? Dream on 😂
@@randomdude_2000 Don't you need groceries for that, genius??
This is not poverty. It is luxury poverty.
Nothing luxury about living like this.
Those who have lived in different parts of the world will know what you mean. But the government is taxing UK workers until we squeak, and then spending recklessly on issues that only the elite support or care about. They could bring in different policies tomorrow that will prevent the poor from freezing and starving. But their posh dinner party friends will be upset.
Spare a thought for state pensioners. Trying to scrape by on £ 8,800 a year. Way way less, almost one third, of what a 40 hour minimum wage job pays. Why are they ignored as they pass away from hypothermia? I'm doing alright but so many basic state pensioners can't turn the heating on or eat healthily.
How would you rectify that situation? And if you get a full state pension you will get £11,400 per year.
@@lochnessmunster1189 Not on the basic state pension. Look up "basic state pension UK" That is what the older retirees like myself are on £169.50 a week, (£8,814). It is iniquitous that retirees on the 'new state pension' get so much more than us but that is the reality.
I can’t believe this is what life is like in England it’s getting more and more unbearable by the day !!
USA isn't better
I'm glad our family moved internationally over 30 years ago.. it's depressing to see the UK now. But other western countries are following suit with so-called leaders using the same playbook.
Read the press in India many people dream of jobs in UK or USA.
In Uk of the past you were told go to school get a job and you would have your own home, security, car heating and a nice life. That dream is over for 80% of people. Its failed because of all politicians not just one side. It’s low wages, high taxes. High costs for energy and housing. If you are low income worker id go abroad. Work in Dubai in a 5 star hotel for a couple of years. Save 15k a year. Then take life from there. Working like a slave in Uk to not even get anywhere is pointless. You are effectively replicating the strategy and of poor migrants to Uk yourselves. Go somewhere to save money to escape your low wages. Thats the state the Uk has become
Newcastle Two bedroom houses for sale £85000. Jobs advertised e.g Aldi £12 an hour. £1770 a month take home. Get a partner thats £3540 a month Household income.
@@iluvgsdsi agree i worked there 2010-14. Bought a flat for 68k. Saved decent amounts. Like i said or you said the key is mobility. Go where it makes sense. Or move from where something is not working. But from being a Manger and hiring people like on this video they always have issues. Lateness illness family emergency mental health issues and after a while you understand why they have ended up like this.
Where do I sign up?
Live in some Asian countries where the cost of living is low and you can still have a good quality of life there. My Canadian friend, Kirk, is living in China. He is very happy there
@@iluvgsdsLots of places small houses are over £200 grand plus. Minimum wage jobs everywhere. Govt wonders why people don't rush to get them! Obvious really....
Same in 🇨🇦 Canada!!! Working 7 day/ 8hr as Uber eat driver. The biggest problem is maintenance of 12 y old Toyota Yaris 63 y old / live with disabled wife who is saffering from Ptsd due to Sarajevo Sige 92-95. Didn’t have pizza for years. We don’t have out coffee or anithing
We decree food when we have to fix car. Without car I am not able to get any job.
10 years ago I was taxi driver. We were able to pay all bills and to go 7 days all inclusive to Cuba/ $1200.00 for two of us the chipset deal.
We will never see Europe again or our country Bosnia and Hercegovina
1996 we came to Canada completed English classes and got a job. Paying tax every April.
Politicians in Canada made disasters for low income workers.
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Good Joob!!!
Moral and Ethics doesn’t exist in Canada Anymore 😢
It was the best country once upon time. !!!😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
The problem of the poor is not a lack of money. It's a lack of production. Being a single parent doesn't help either.
Massive wealth transfers to the top 10% over 50 years are a political choice, tax the top and redistribute now
you clearly cannot do basic math
@@James_36 maths is one of my strongest subjects alongside economics
Top 10% pay 30% of the entire tax take. They have contributed more than enough.
Now it's time for Labour's benefits and welfare dependent generation to step up to the plate and put in a shift.
Far too many feckless, baby popping wasters draining the welfare system.
@@JuliusFawcett ''redistribute now''
''maths and economics, im a genius''
Here's proof that you're not.
Jeff Bezos is worth 193 billion. There are 6 billion people on earth.
Let's re-distribute his wealth shall we?
Tell me, oh enlightened mathematical and economical smoothbrain, what are you going to spend your newly acquired....*checks notes*....$32.16 on? Anything fancy?....
@@danielseaburg9763he's right and that's exactly what should happen. The top 10% have trillions of dollars. You've used an example of one of the "richest" men of the planet. That in itself is ridiculous. There's companies and people that are far richer than bezos, we just don't know about it. Clearly its not your strong point either
Greed at the top and millions in poverty.
"Poverty" is a meaningless term. Are people in Mozambique in poverty? If so, does the same word apply to millions in the UK?
may God bless all of you in need...working adults living in poverty! this is so wrong!
The UK is now a terrible place, you are taxed on EVERYTHING, stripped of your money, education costs are sky high with uni fees now at circa 10k per year and soon to rise. Wages are low, mental health is rife, no support for the middle people who are broke but just on the borderline of not receiving benefits. Pretty disgusting place to live really.
I came to the same conclusion in 2015, and emigrated. Moved to Europe before Brexit.
As at the end of this report, this governments answer is always to just reel off some very large numbers as if the problem doesn't even exist. It does and it's yet another national disgrace brought to us by the tory party. CH4 should do a regular weekly feature on poverty in the UK.
I agree 💯
@@NexusTheFocusMe too 👍
Government watching this and thinking "open an only fans after your 40 hour shift"
Stop projecting your own fantasies onto the government.
Even if she's only on the NMW, that's £19k. I have to ask why she'd be on NMW at her age too. I can guess.
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Poor Education
@@mimikhan9546 even with no education, she'd have worked her way up a level at least once.
What about if u have
Burn out?
It’s like this in New Zealand too. Rents are so expensive that the pittance left for food and utilities is insufficient