I used to work in the Welfare system in Britain for years. When people can still afford cigarettes, alcohol & mobile phones, they are not really poor, just unwise in how they spend their money..
That's the thing about poverty, you don't have to pay car rego, a mortgage, insurance etc, and you don't have any future to invest your money in so of course people are going to spend the small amounts of leftover money they have on things that make them feel better, a mobile phone is an absolute necessity in today's world and the way that welfare is set up actively discourages saving money by penalising you for having too much money in your account
@@aclark903you should remove mobile phones from your list of stuff that shows a sign of excess spending. Phones are a necessity to get by in the modern world
@@CalamityJay-ez2mq I lost my job on 19th Sep. My salary only ever enough to pay my essential household bills, (don't drink, don't smoke, don't have a car, don't go on holidays, don't gamble), and leave me with maybe £150.00 a month disposable income, needed for clothes, entertainment and any household appliances need replacing. On 19th Sept applied for Universal Credit, wouldn't get paid anything until 26th Oct. On 27th Sept, got my last payslip. DWP took that into consideration, but I paid a months worth of bills out of that and food. My first payment of Universal Credit was £58.00, to pay the bulk of my bills and to buy food with. This has to last me until 26th Nov. I have no income and no savings. I asked for an advance, but they declined. I am allowed to have up to £16k in savings and still get UC, but the most I've ever been able to save was around £2k, which took me over a year and I used it to get my flat decorated. I live alone BTW.
I live in the UK. I have all my life. I'm homeless right now and learning that there are NO services at all to help me. I've been homeless for 3 months because my old house was destroyed in a storm, due to safety measures being removed to save on money. And now services to help me get a home again are also gone, removed, to save on money. My life was taken away as a direct result of government greed, and they will not spend a penny to fix that. These are the things that make un-aliving seem nicer. Especially in this cold. There is no hope. And the best I can hope for is that either I meet Rishi and get to tell him how i feel about this before I go. Or I can find a rich person and beg them to let me live with them and do anything for them. And the thing about that choice is that's somehow the good one. That's how low the bar is that I have to look forward to not being here anymore in 2015, or being an indentured servant. Can someone please remove the tories from this planet? For the sake of all of us who just want to live a normal life. Heating in the winter is not supposed to be a luxury in 2024.
I wish I had the money to help you, hang in there. I also wish I had the cash to assemble a hit-team to deal with the government, my very own "take em out" care package for the government, I think they'd really enjoy being number 1 on the list of my care package...
Haha, how naive of you. No, they won't even claim to get right on that problem. They will tell you how minority group X is the problem, The rich the world over have learned that xenophobia is the best way to keep the guillotines unassembled.
If it were not for the rich and elite who are heavily taxed btw and pay for the majority of taxes raised the poor would not have job opportunities and any standards of living, get a job whether you like it of not, stop having kids you cannot afford and stay as a family unit instead of been a single mu with several dads out there and you might not be in these circumstances.
So what’s your solution, have you ever wondered why they are millionaires? They’re intelligent. Put the average Joe into power what do you think will happen? There’s reasons why you won’t ever be in power.
@@tek87yknow at least if average Joes were in charge of the government, the elite bastards that have destroyed our society may get what's coming to them
The US draws the poverty line at $13,590, poverty rate is 11.5% For reference I will use the state I live in Florida. Florida's FMR (Fair Market Rent) is $1110 for a Studio apartment. This means that the maximum housing assistance in Section 8 government assistance is $1110 per month. The cheapest studio apartment in my county is in an abandoned strip mall turned housing complex, $1739 a month. Meaning that even with government assistance, living in the cheapest house available to you, you have to pay $629 a month. The US government determined anyone paying over 30% of their income in housing costs is "cost-burdened" meaning that with government assistance, to avoid being "cost-burdened" in the cheapest house available to you, you would have to earn $25,160 per year. Minimum wage is $12/h. Assuming you have a full time job giving exactly 40 hours a week that is $24,960 per year. You can scrape by on that, but lets say you get a raise and you start making $14.25/h. Your income is now $29,640. The income limit for Section 8 housing assistance is $29,200. You lost your housing assistance, your rent is now $1739 a month or $20,868 a year. After taxes and withholding your net income would be $25,575. After rent you have $4,707 to survive the year on. Maybe the poverty line isn't $13,590.
I’ve seen numerous situations where families aren’t even able to make more money because if they do they won’t be able to get assistance from the government. Their laws are so outdated it’s not funny. I couldn’t fathom the ignorance of these “leaders.” In positions of authority.
If you throw money instead of solving the root cause the problem will just manifest in another way. The root cause of the housing crisis is real estate hoarding. Wealthy people speculate on real estate at the expense of the middle and lower classes. Establish rules that allocate 50% of city (equally distributed in the interior and outer parts) for housing, make sure that people and corporations don't speculate and own multiple residences. It is a simple supply demand problem. The supply is artificially choked by corporations. The same problem exists in all cities, but most notable among them is Hong Kong, where a Middle class family can barely afford a cramped 150 square feet hell hole. But there are luxurious penthouses strewn across the city. The root cause is choked supply. Less than 10% of the total available real estate houses the residents of Hong Kong. The rest is owned by the wealthy. Affordable Housing is a fundamental right. It is disgusting to let the wealthy 0.1% hog 90% of the land.
This is definitely true. Having to choose between heating and eating is now so bad that food banks are giving out electric blankets, and libraries are giving out hot water for drinks and HW bottles. Even wetherspoons are helping mothers by warming baby bottles for free.
@@dogbog99 Yes but less money, since instead of heating an entire room, you can just heat up the bed (and the person in it). It's a lot more cost efficient, especially since heat rises (meaning heating an entire room can be a costly endeavour)
@@violet7773Not even mentioning the appalling number of terribly isolated housings that already cost an arm and a leg to rent in the first place. Good luck heating up a place when the heat literally escapes from everywhere at once.
That is odd because I have never seen a medical insurance policy where the maximum yearly out of pocket was more than $10,000. Did you buy your policy from one of the Clintons, Obamas, or Bidens?
@@kirkjohnson6638 They will only cover to a point. If your bills go over what your total coverage is then you have to pay out of pocket again. Insurance is a scam really and it's actually what keeps medical prices high. If there wasn't insurance to foot the outrageous bills nobody would ever go to them. They would then be forced to charge a reasonable fee for their services.
@@superfluous5162that’s part of how there pocketing the money, The more money a company makes the more that can be payed out as dividends while having a lower tax rate.
They never left the class system, it just looks that way because they can vote. Problem is, those that get to power still have a class division mindset, regardless of party. All parties have agendas designed to destroy the workers' rights, and way of life, in benefit of all others. And the workers cheer them...
did it stop being a class based system? if I remember correctly a lot of the properties for rent are owned by the local mp's(member of Parliament), who do you complain to if the landlord isn't fixing problems with the property like a dangerous tree broken water boiler leaky pipes ect. that's easy you go to your local mp, ah wait.....
Nah man. I'm russian, and from my point of view this sounds absolutely hilarious and sad at the same time. And you dare to call yourself "civilized world"? We live much better here in Russia.
My parents have been fortunate and have worked up from nothing to be wealthy and they have noticed the increase in living costs, my mum said to me recently how the hell do single mothers with kids live like this for example. If my parents are noticing the cost of living affecting them then there is something seriously wrong with
I'm from Czechia and every time i was sad that our country is going to hell economically i looked at Slovakia... Nowadays every time i get depressed about my countries situation I look at the UK to show myself that even some western European countries can do something worse
The Czech Republic is central to Western Europe anyway and you have always had it good throughout history, having basically your entire country be made up of middle class former mercantile families. You also had some of the most amazing artists in Europe's history.
Czechia has one of the strongest economies in Europe. If you think you guys have it bad there, just think about everywhere else... you're one of the ONLY EU members that still has native manufacturing and farming capable of supporting the markets.
And it'll get worse before it gets any better. Austerity is a dirty word, but if you spend money you don't have forever eventually you're spending all your money taking care of bankers instead of children.
@@remingtonn_ if you spend money you don't have, you typically do so by creating bonds which are then purchased by banks. Just like a credit card, the banks don't take those for free, they lend money in exchange for being paid back more than was borrowed. Moreover, national governments don't just borrow money then pay it back, they borrow money, then borrow money to pay back the money borrowed. When rates are low, countries can borrow for fairly low amounts of money but just like when you rack up a credit card more and more the minimum payment grows and grows until you can't even pay that. If you also have a situation where interest rates rise, then suddenly your minimum payment is rising even faster than you rack up new debts. The interest on bonds is just money being handed to the banks, and it's tax money that cannot be spent on anything else. In 2024, Fitch projects that number will rise to 176 billion gbp, up 60-odd billion, and it'll continue to rise from there. It already makes up more money than the day to day operation cost of the NHS which was 171 billion in 2022/2023 (compares to a total budget including long term capital of 181 billion). Some people think you can print your way out of such a situation, but ask a briton how they like the high inflation of the past while, whether it makes them feel richer or poorer. Print your way out of a debt crisis, and you print your way into a currency crisis, making your situation more difficult, as we've seen in many south American economies. Some people say the state isn't like people when it comes to debt, and they're right -- it's far worse. If I foolishly rack up debt, it dies with me, but if my government foolishly racks up debt, the obligation passes to my children whether they benefited or not.
@@snackoman1577 that simply isn't true. Debt grew from about 30% of gdp in 2000 to over 100% of gdp today. Almost half of all the money spent in the economy comes from the government, and at its peak more than half the money spent in the economy came from government. The question isn't about austerity because the government hasn't been austere (virtually no government on earth has been which is why despite devastatingly high taxes governments have also been racking up massive debt). The question is where is your money going? There is no political party in most governments who are willing to be austere. That would mean laying off billions of pounds worth of bureaucrats and shutting off billions of pounds worth of pet projects, and even the tories aren't willing to do that. Historically, income taxes are something of an aberration, and even when the UK implemented them in 1842, they were generally fairly low. Today, they are quite high, a relatively middle class person like an engineer or miner could see most of their income go to the government. In this context of record high taxes and still record high debt, this isn't austerity, it's largesse.
We have lived in destitution for over 2.5 years now because my wife was born outside the EU (the US) we were told she had no recourse to public funds, this meant that when I finally shut my business down to become her full-time carer, thinking that because we had been married for 4 years and had a 2.5 year old son together, that we could get help... Ohhh how wrong I was, we were made to try and survive on £350 a month after rent as a family of three because she was born outside of the EU, for TWO AND A HALF YEARS NOW!! Let me put that into perspective for you, council tax is £168 a month, electricity and gas which we use minimally is at least £135 a month, water is another £30 a month, car tax is another £50 a month, car insurance is another £80, we don't have enough money for food, we don't have enough money foe fuel to get to her appointments to keep her alive, we don't have enough money to buy the food that she NEEDS because of her restricted dietary needs, she can't even drink the tap water because it further damages her kidneys. We couldn't get 30 hours free childcare a week because she was not in work or on disability benefits (because she was denied them), I couldn't claim carers allowance because in order to apply your partner has to be in receipt of disability benefits, they don't give a DAMN if your partner is dying, if you have a stack of medical records 10ft high, if they aren't getting paid they say you aren't caring for them. So to reiterate... Whilst EVERYONE ELSE WAS MOANING ABOUT COST OF LIVING CRISIS!!! We were trying to survive on £350 a month as a family.
Well from the 19th December last year UC stopped my money, I live in a 1 bedroom flat with a flat mate who's female. We have separate sleeping arrangements, she has a pull out bed and I have the bedroom due to my disability, we aren't together (I'm a gay man) she has been a friend for the past 15 years, also I would never be able to afford a property on my own. Universal credit after nearly 4 years of this arrangement have now came to the conclusion that we are living together as a married couple, I'm now facing homelessness and debt due to this.
And because of lack of housing people cannot afford to move away from deprived areas to find Jobs outside of their towns 🙃🤦♂️ plus the rail situation forces everyone to use car
Ok but is everyone moving to London going to help? The rural/city divide is a problem everywhere. The real issue for the UK is that only a few places are successful. Maybe infrastructure and special economic development zones. Idk.
@@somethinglikethat2176 True that but social mobility is a major problem. Why can't our elites organise rents and railways as effectively as other countries? Have great Saturday 👍 👌
@@BanterRanterrmost rent is done by normal people it's just that eveyone wants to go and live near London to work in London it's a cultural thing, secondly what's wrong with cars if anything public transport will limit you to where elites want you to go easily
@@BanterRanterractually our rail is some of the best in the world, few places rival London, and the UK as a whole is much better connected then nearly any country in the americas, Asia and Africa and even half the countries in Europe
@@datcheesecakeboi6745 That was my argument: London has an incredible public transport system that only a few locations can compete with, but this is not the case for the rest of the country, and several important cities do not have direct connections to the capital city. 🙄
@@ravanaRTTWell as a foreigner I am asking why enough investments haven't been made up in North where other major cities like Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham are instead it's being spent in suburbs and countryside of already rich south
As an expat who’s been living in the UK (England) for two years now, I can confirm it is true that the living standards of the UK has seen a steep decline over the past decade (since 2010 I would say) things are overpriced quality isn’t the best alongside all the inflation and high fuel prices… a lot of European countries are better than the UK if I am to be honest, France being one of the obvious examples
This was said by the UN a few years ago that it is a political choice and could be sorted out asap. The Govt just denied it though they had well looked into everything. Nothing alters with denial.
@@hansmuller1625oh yeah, it was a labour prime minister that crashed the economy last year, tripled mortgage rates, and sent inflation soaring to higher levels than any other nation in Europe AND the G7, after all, right? That was Liz Truss, the Labour prime minister who was voted in by tories and lead the Conservative party, right? It was also the Labour government who siphoned off billions of public funding to their Conservative pals and lobbyists vis a fast-track service loophole the last 3 years, too, right? F&&k off, mate. You know full well that the Conservative party are responsible for the abysmally poor running of the country; they've been in power with mentally deficient supporters like yourself enabling them for over a decade. There is not a single problem given to them by any prior government that could possibly take that long to fix. It's all on them, and it's all on you.
Honestly it's not just welfare which is woefully inadequate, I spent years working in social healthcare on minimum wage and barely broke even month to month. Since I stopped working to become a fulltime carer for my ailing wife I've found that I'm no better or worse off than I was when I was working every hour god sent. In a system where you are literally damned if you do, damned if you don't, it's no surprise we're in such a dire situation.
Another point Most of these poor people are not native Brits but they are immigrants from other countries like Somalia ( very common in Britain) There are people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran, iraq, Palestine etc There are people from Morocco, Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, congos, libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana and other African countries Also from Albania, Croatia, Bosnia, serbia and other balkan countries Recently, a lot of people from eastern Europe also have come to Britain
The idea generally is to offer assistance just high enough to prevent major suffering but low enough to encourage gainful employment in the private markets. Private enterprise is where the country prospers and grows economically. Paying social welfare is a drain, Paying someone to provide care for a family member is a drain. It only moves money around at a net loss. People cam sat tax the right more and more but they will eventually run out if money to tax also. Unless governments are exploiting natural resources as a form of income, it all is dependent on private enterprise creating more value and worth than governments can print money to spend.
@@sumduma55 so why is it that private care work paid me the lowest wage of all? I got more working as an NHS support carer than I did in private care. The issue isn't just benefit drain, it's the fact that the minimum wage is so far below a working wage that you can work 45+ hours a week on minimum and still be unable to survive without handouts.
@@Veklim I don't know and don't care about your pay discrepancies. You need to follow what I said. The government does not have a magic pot of money. It relies on extraction of funds from people or companies via taxes and fees. If everybody worked for the government, the government would have to impose a 100% tax on everybody just to collect the same amount of funds to pay everybody. Social welfare generally supplies as little as possible to encourage outside private work. Work this out on your head. If you have a town of 10 people all working for the town, and this town has 100 bucks, it can pay each employee 10 bucks a year. It then has to find a way to collect another 100 bucks or it all falls apart. Suppose one person decides to put 1 dollar a year into savings. Now the town has 99 bucks and is a dollar short. The town needs to tax private enterprise in order to make that dollar up. But for that 10 dollar a year salary to be anything meaningful other than continually passing money back and forth, it needs to find sources of income not provided by itself. Do you understand now? Government only functions with other people's money and encourages other people to produce value and worth so it can take for its own needs. It needs to encourage unproductive people to participate in that outside enterprise becoming productive people.
Ive never seen so many young families asking for help to feed there kids on local fb pages. That or people looking for homes that they can afford. Ive been helping where i can but now even my funds are becoming limited.
is this in the UK youre talking about? or another country. what age are the people asking for hlep would you say? older folks? young families? demographics? white? arab? african?
It's disgusting how they cater to immigrants while leaving thousands of British Nationals, many of whom served their country and now live on the streets. It's a disgrace!
It was little reported in the mainstream news in the UK but the UNHCF had to become involved for the first time in child poverty in the UK recently. Not bad going for one of the worlds "richest" countries.
I see your problem. You're associating the wealth of individuals who happen to reside in a country with the country itself. The UK isn't rich. Some of its residents are. Now if this was about Saudi Arabia with its gigantic Aramco that would have been a little different.
@@5crassrockerThe demographics for poverty are divorced women with their children, immigrants and people of color. These are all social problems not economic ones.
People need to realise that less than 100 years ago, we had the worst ghettos in Europe despite being the richest Empire on the planet. People also need to realise a quarter of the entire united kingdom have been living in poverty for over a decade now...
Yeah I’m an Aussie from Queensland we have a problem where I am too almost coal cattle and resources come from Central and North Queensland while 3.8 out of the states 5.4 million population lives in the south east corner. Almost all the coal royalties go down south it’s our coal and our money
and they stepped up the murder of the disabled a few years ago (PIP) and the elderly during the scamdemic (Midazolam/Morphine) - useless eaters, of course.
The age old rich getting richer. The poor getting poorer. Why give hand outs to those in need. When you could line your own pockets. And set yourself and your kids and potential grandkids up for success. This is the type of country our government is allowing to continue.
@@centuriongaming1866 don't I? Let's just go back and remind ourselves of all the good the tories has done in the past 13 years in power. What's that? Nothing. Thought so.
I don't need a solution. I'm not running the country. But some incompetent stuck up muppets are running the country. And running it to the ground. Lining their own pockets and the pockets of their friends before the country
This seems to be talking about Universal Credit which doesn't have anything to do with the council and council funding. It's done by central government directly. They are saying the amount set by central government was too low.
It's also impossible to keep a large quantity of suburban housholds in a degree of wealth. It's the kind of places that necessitates the highest amounts of infrastructure for the lowest amount of density. City budget end up in roads and sewage systems where they should be in schools and public transit in denser areas.
@@marcbuisson2463 I agree. Council tax levels should take into account the density and how that impacts the cost per person or house. People should be paying enough taxes to pay for their services so the suburbs aren't subsidised by urban residential taxes. I live in the countryside so here we don't get a lot of those things. The road isn't a residential road. It exists to travel from place to place and would be here whether my house was here or not. We don't get government supplied water or sewage services, we build our own.
Considering the tories have been singing from the 1997 new Labour playbook for the past 2 decades, I think its reasonably self evident that this is no longer a "party politics" thing, and is more of a "serfdom & debt riddled peasants" thing.
It really would not matter a jot who are seated in NO10 the results would be the same because they are one and the same. It’s an illusion of choice, there’s NO choice.
One of the many problems of this side of the globe is the amount of people reliant on the government for their livelyhoods, either through housing or their paycheques
We are spending millions per week keeping illegal immigrants in hotels instead of sending them back because that is against international law and their human rights. Over 25's on universal credit should be in a job not living off the state.
I was sanctioned for 12 months as I failed to attend an appointment the very same day they sent me the appointment e-mail. I was in hospital, unconscious, having surgery. They say this is not an excuse for missing the appointment. This lead to me becoming malnourished and am now PERMANENTLY signed off as my health was destroyed because of it, so now I'm having to recover with loads of hospital visits and treatments to treat things like my spinal osteoporosis. Funny thing is after several appeals it was overturned a couple of years after and was payed it backdated, well 6 months as the other 6 was 'too long ago' The system is a joke
I was in one of the pilot groups. I went down to one meal a day because I couldn't afford to eat. I lived in the cheapest HMO I could find, which cost about £20 a week more than what they said was the average cost of an HMO. Fortunately, I am doing better now, but I cannot and will no forget how bad it is to be struggling to feed myself and yet constantly have to justify my existence to someone every week.
@@magnusbruce4051 Good for you👍 I'm glad things are better for you. if only more people realised that living off the state. Should be at best a short term plan.
@@SaintGerbilUK Is it really a shock that the government bent on making these things out to be so terrible, fucked it up? I don't think this says anything broadly like you wish it did.
Bloody too right. There's nowhere for people to live anymore yet the politicians who are supposed to be working for us by controlling what gets spent where live in several houses. My daughter works two jobs, the landlord wanted his house back and her and my grandchildren have been sleeping on the floor in my tiny flat for two years.
@@ConservativeCalifornian1032 That is actually a really stupid point. If a nation cannot afford to help families have children, it's a social failure not a personal one. It means that this society is privatizing all the profits and leaving the losses to the youngest and the poor. Turns out, declining birthrates will only make it worse. In simple words, it's not only incredibly ignorant and arrogant for you to say that. It's also extremely counterproductive. As it incentivizes the worst case scenario, a vicious cycle of economic decline and inequality.
@@LuizAlexPhoenixlol... societies survived and prospered for thousands of years with no government run social welfare systems. Perhaps the adage if you don't work, you don't eat is appropriate here.
It has got so bad that a bunch of billionaires have started saying that the systems in countries including the US and UK are out of whack, failing to redistribute wealth increases. I guess they are the ones who learned a bit about the history of revolutions, and can recognise societal patterns.
Yet those billionaires still cling to their cash and stash it in untaxable ways. They want to insult the system but they want the normal working man to pay for everything and they keep their billions for themself. Hypocrits
@@ietomos7634 I mean the use of progressive taxation to ensure a dignified life to the unfortunate, and the provision of essential services to all regardless of wealth. I find it interesting that most of those who push "taxation is theft" are of a religion which calls for all to support the unfortunate, are comfortably off themselves, and are not well versed in the causes underlying the Age of Revolutions and the 20th Century's establishment of welfare states.
@caelanireland9253abolish all social programs and put the money back in the pockets of the people. For those that cant and wont work its their familys problem. If the family doesnt want that burden then goodbye grandma. This solves the issue of disrespectful people because they could be left to perish for being an a hole. This also solves the poverty issue because if forces the community to take care of the people they value instead of saying "thats the goverments responsibility"
@caelanireland9253 Fair & livable wages would be a solution. Ensuring everyone has a job, ensuring everyone has access to free mental health care, childcare & social services for the old, people with disabilities & those who suffer from addiction etc. If there's no 'welfare' then these things need to be in place.
@ereristark425 You raise the wages and give access to health care for those in the worst conditions, you raise the cost of the standard of living for everyone else and probably cause more people to drop to the bottom, thus needing another increase and more funding for social welfare that will put more of a strain on the people. Genius plan there.
The government's job is to make itself look good so it gets voted into power. Same for all governments. The onus is on the voters to educated themselves on what looks good Vs what is good.
I live in California with a $15/hr min wage, and rent control. Inflation has only jumped higher and the only new apartments being built are the luxury ones with over $2200 rent per month for a studio.
@@haseebejazmusic9125I'll never get the inhumanity of building expensive condos and luxury apartments when we need affordable housing in Ca so goddamn bad
"The UK's poverty level is violating international law." The entirety of sub-Saharan Africa, Yemen, Laos, Iraq, and about half of Latin America just started sweating.
Chuckle Chuckle. I remember the 1970's and the Union strangulation of industry in the UK. If Labour get back in power, expect more of the same and watch inflation and interest rates balloon. Then, as a taxpayer, cringe as you watch all your tax being spent on the welfare of identity fraudsters who can't even remember which country they were born and lived in P***ING all over your concerns as you lose your home.
Tbf I can't recall where I read it but I had seen that standards of living were better in the late 19th century so, no, they're making things worse than even then.
@@octaviondeminicolas1941 It is comparatively, or certainly they made a strong argument, they had to take technology into account or leave it out of course.
let in poor unskilled people and suddenly there are not enough jobs for them. you get inflation, which in turn increases prices, which powers production and increases prices further. only one of the factors, ignoring the dumbass government.
I feel like Rishi is just ruining the British economy right now as a revenge for the colonization of India (modern day Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh)
Inspiring growth in the economy is exactly what brings people out of poverty by creating jobs, wealth and security. In the UK we spend £60 billion a year on UC of which 62% are unemployed. When I was in college someone told me they want to live off benefits and the government. I don't know what measure the UN has used to measure poverty levels but I'm 99% sure they haven't considered the amount of people who refuse to work, among the many other factors that go into the uk economy.
Yeah, the US is in a bad state, but we never had the levels of austerity that Britain went through. Just be thankful that we elected Barack Obama rather than Jon McCain in 2008, because the Republicans would've absolutely doubled down on tax cuts and spending cuts rather than government programs to help people.
@@jamalgibson8139wether you like obamas policy or not people have to admit he did a lot for helping the poor, the problem is modern democrats and republicans both don’t give two shits about the poor
@@markstrom3630 That's true, but not the whole picture, because some states are MUCH better off than others which brings the average up. For example, Mississippi's poverty rate is over 19%, meaning 1 in 5 people in the state live in poverty. Unsurprisingly, 9 out of the top 10 states are staunchly Republican (the odd one out is New Mexico).
If you've ever seen Kim Jong-il's response to the UN writing a very angry letter to this government about breaking international law in 'Team America: World Police', the Tories would probably use a shark tank too.
I’m on the lowest rate of disability here in the uk and I consider myself lucky yeh I’m still broke 99% of the time but my freezer is full and my bills are paid it’s the people on standard rate but for over 25’s they get £368.74 a month so about £90 a week and don’t forget housing benefits that’s an extra £282.44 so really they get about £650 a month with the majority of your rent paid it’s still really bad but it’s manageable we just have to remove joy from our lives 😢
The UN picks and chooses who to criticize. 23 kids died of starvation in South Africa and this country is not short of food, nor is it a poor country. We have a huge agricultural sector and grow veges, fruits, meat and game... Everything. What we have is corruption - which is what the UK is probably suffering from too. When the government is spending millions on paper clips, 3 ply toilet paper and lunches for its offices while it's people starve, then you need some public outrage and accountability.
I mean 80% of the stuff they have to vote for against a country is directed against one democratic country, 20% goes to autocratic ones the likes of china, russia, iran, etc.
The UN really doesn't, they criticize south Africa a lot of the time. The thing is, this doesn't make it into mainstream news because people generally know South Africa is struggling. The fact that this is happening in the UK is a lot more newsworthy.
@@chungus816sorry? most people don't actually know shit about Africa's politics. they just know "aww Africa is poor" as if the entire continent is. you might jive with more historically/politically inclined groups, but that does not mean that the statuses of different African countries is common information. the reason things like this don't make it into mainstream news is because nobody in the north cares about the global south. for example, climate change affects the global south more than it does the north. and people deny that it is happening because of this.
Thanks for confirming that the UN is economically illerate. Free the market and the majority reap the rewards. Keep with the sort of managerialist policies we have now, the poor will only get poorer.
@liamoneill4706 lol they need the tV for their propaganda. It's a net positive for the government. When they shut down TH-cam might be more appropriate
Never. When the famin destroyed potatoes those many years ago the brittish government had similar conversations and debates about how or even if to help their neighbors. Since the land was technically owned by alot of brittish the Irish had to pay landlords for what little they could sell of their farmed produce. It was either starve or be kicked out and starve. The famine killed the potato. The brittish starved the Irish
There are NO food stamps. Only by the grace of the public donating we have food banks which the Govt think are fantastic! Now even the people who donated are using them apparently no longer as affluent as they were.
The fun thing about international law is that there's no international police or international court to enforce it
There is court. But it need cooperation with foreign police to do anything. Making it one of most usless things on planet, that could`ve worked.
Wow in America. We are way way worse. Richest county and can't afford basic health care. Wish we had these type if problems.
what about interpol?
@@MrBennieagray
They could easily afford it.
They just don't want to.
@epaminon6196 Oh, I know lol. We used to have free public college and now it's like everyone forgot about it and is seen like a crazy radical idea lol
In normal times, this would be a national disgrace.
These days it's just "oh yeah, that figures"
I used to work in the Welfare system in Britain for years. When people can still afford cigarettes, alcohol & mobile phones, they are not really poor, just unwise in how they spend their money..
That's the thing about poverty, you don't have to pay car rego, a mortgage, insurance etc, and you don't have any future to invest your money in so of course people are going to spend the small amounts of leftover money they have on things that make them feel better, a mobile phone is an absolute necessity in today's world and the way that welfare is set up actively discourages saving money by penalising you for having too much money in your account
@@aclark903you should remove mobile phones from your list of stuff that shows a sign of excess spending. Phones are a necessity to get by in the modern world
@@aclark903thats a standard that people waste money on small pleasures when there is economic problems
@@CalamityJay-ez2mq I lost my job on 19th Sep. My salary only ever enough to pay my essential household bills, (don't drink, don't smoke, don't have a car, don't go on holidays, don't gamble), and leave me with maybe £150.00 a month disposable income, needed for clothes, entertainment and any household appliances need replacing. On 19th Sept applied for Universal Credit, wouldn't get paid anything until 26th Oct. On 27th Sept, got my last payslip. DWP took that into consideration, but I paid a months worth of bills out of that and food. My first payment of Universal Credit was £58.00, to pay the bulk of my bills and to buy food with. This has to last me until 26th Nov. I have no income and no savings. I asked for an advance, but they declined. I am allowed to have up to £16k in savings and still get UC, but the most I've ever been able to save was around £2k, which took me over a year and I used it to get my flat decorated. I live alone BTW.
The most British thing ever is visualising "acceptable standards of living" with a picture of curry
😂😂
Get over it. Racists everywhere
I was confused as an Indian I thought it was Culinary video
You don't if it's curry-spiced food or not. The Pictures can be deceiving sometimes.
Why do you say that when you eat Indian food you GORA PAKORA!!!!!
I live in the UK. I have all my life. I'm homeless right now and learning that there are NO services at all to help me. I've been homeless for 3 months because my old house was destroyed in a storm, due to safety measures being removed to save on money. And now services to help me get a home again are also gone, removed, to save on money. My life was taken away as a direct result of government greed, and they will not spend a penny to fix that. These are the things that make un-aliving seem nicer. Especially in this cold. There is no hope. And the best I can hope for is that either I meet Rishi and get to tell him how i feel about this before I go. Or I can find a rich person and beg them to let me live with them and do anything for them. And the thing about that choice is that's somehow the good one. That's how low the bar is that I have to look forward to not being here anymore in 2015, or being an indentured servant. Can someone please remove the tories from this planet? For the sake of all of us who just want to live a normal life. Heating in the winter is not supposed to be a luxury in 2024.
Keep strong, don't think there is no hope❤
Id steal something small from a shop and vet caught on purpose just to spend a night in the cells with a free meal. I feel your pain 😞
Unaliving one self doesn't solve problems. Finally dealing with thirst who cause problems does
Must be a kick in the teeth to see immigrants being given brand new flats and hotels all over the country, sorry for your situation
I wish I had the money to help you, hang in there. I also wish I had the cash to assemble a hit-team to deal with the government, my very own "take em out" care package for the government, I think they'd really enjoy being number 1 on the list of my care package...
And as one the rich, the elite and the shareholders said "yeah. We'll get right on that problem".
Plot twist they are all the same
Haha, how naive of you. No, they won't even claim to get right on that problem. They will tell you how minority group X is the problem,
The rich the world over have learned that xenophobia is the best way to keep the guillotines unassembled.
Not that poor either because prices are typically much lower.
One would think that hundreds of years of ruling the whole world would have left them with tons of cash but it seems it stayed on the .01%
If it were not for the rich and elite who are heavily taxed btw and pay for the majority of taxes raised the poor would not have job opportunities and any standards of living, get a job whether you like it of not, stop having kids you cannot afford and stay as a family unit instead of been a single mu with several dads out there and you might not be in these circumstances.
Did anyone else click because they saw food?
I DID & I WAS DISHED SOMETHING ELSE 😂😂
My favourite comment of 2023. 😂
thought i was bouta be hooked up with a fire recipe
Yes bro😂
Why are you judging me 😢
This is what happens when you put millionaires in charge of the government, they help themselves.
So what’s your solution, have you ever wondered why they are millionaires? They’re intelligent. Put the average Joe into power what do you think will happen? There’s reasons why you won’t ever be in power.
Michelle Mone, poster child of this very statement
Millionaires are ALWAYS in charge of government, despite appearances.
Lets put poor people in charge of the government. What could go wrong?
@@tek87yknow at least if average Joes were in charge of the government, the elite bastards that have destroyed our society may get what's coming to them
The US draws the poverty line at $13,590, poverty rate is 11.5%
For reference I will use the state I live in Florida.
Florida's FMR (Fair Market Rent) is $1110 for a Studio apartment. This means that the maximum housing assistance in Section 8 government assistance is $1110 per month. The cheapest studio apartment in my county is in an abandoned strip mall turned housing complex, $1739 a month. Meaning that even with government assistance, living in the cheapest house available to you, you have to pay $629 a month. The US government determined anyone paying over 30% of their income in housing costs is "cost-burdened" meaning that with government assistance, to avoid being "cost-burdened" in the cheapest house available to you, you would have to earn $25,160 per year. Minimum wage is $12/h. Assuming you have a full time job giving exactly 40 hours a week that is $24,960 per year. You can scrape by on that, but lets say you get a raise and you start making $14.25/h. Your income is now $29,640. The income limit for Section 8 housing assistance is $29,200. You lost your housing assistance, your rent is now $1739 a month or $20,868 a year. After taxes and withholding your net income would be $25,575. After rent you have $4,707 to survive the year on. Maybe the poverty line isn't $13,590.
Well said
Housing assistance should be assisting people even while they earn more… it should taper off and not disappear
I’ve seen numerous situations where families aren’t even able to make more money because if they do they won’t be able to get assistance from the government.
Their laws are so outdated it’s not funny. I couldn’t fathom the ignorance of these “leaders.” In positions of authority.
Damn...
If you throw money instead of solving the root cause the problem will just manifest in another way. The root cause of the housing crisis is real estate hoarding. Wealthy people speculate on real estate at the expense of the middle and lower classes. Establish rules that allocate 50% of city (equally distributed in the interior and outer parts) for housing, make sure that people and corporations don't speculate and own multiple residences. It is a simple supply demand problem. The supply is artificially choked by corporations. The same problem exists in all cities, but most notable among them is Hong Kong, where a Middle class family can barely afford a cramped 150 square feet hell hole. But there are luxurious penthouses strewn across the city. The root cause is choked supply. Less than 10% of the total available real estate houses the residents of Hong Kong. The rest is owned by the wealthy. Affordable Housing is a fundamental right. It is disgusting to let the wealthy 0.1% hog 90% of the land.
This is definitely true. Having to choose between heating and eating is now so bad that food banks are giving out electric blankets, and libraries are giving out hot water for drinks and HW bottles. Even wetherspoons are helping mothers by warming baby bottles for free.
Thank God for those people. They have hearts unlike our joke of a government
Electric blankets still cost money to run just like heating
@@dogbog99 Yes but less money, since instead of heating an entire room, you can just heat up the bed (and the person in it). It's a lot more cost efficient, especially since heat rises (meaning heating an entire room can be a costly endeavour)
@@violet7773Not even mentioning the appalling number of terribly isolated housings that already cost an arm and a leg to rent in the first place. Good luck heating up a place when the heat literally escapes from everywhere at once.
@@GreyPunkWolfwhy can't I comment lol
Meanwhile, here in the US, we had to spend $60,000 on medical bills last year to keep my wife alive. And that's WITH insurance.
Did you actually pay the $60,000 cause you know you can haggle the bills, you can even ignore them the collectors give up after a while.
That is odd because I have never seen a medical insurance policy where the maximum yearly out of pocket was more than $10,000. Did you buy your policy from one of the Clintons, Obamas, or Bidens?
@@kirkjohnson6638 They will only cover to a point. If your bills go over what your total coverage is then you have to pay out of pocket again.
Insurance is a scam really and it's actually what keeps medical prices high. If there wasn't insurance to foot the outrageous bills nobody would ever go to them. They would then be forced to charge a reasonable fee for their services.
People pay national insurance for the nhs you know …
Its bot better here, here you just have the most basic of treatments, so whilst it is free, she probably would now be dead
>Access to adequate standards of living
>butter chicken
U love it don't u??
@@171_indranildutta6We all do. And we all lie about it.
Fun fact: While people keep going into poverty, the government and companies pockets keep filling
So why not create an organisation that works on dividends like in sovereign fund in Norway .
@@superfluous5162that’s part of how there pocketing the money, The more money a company makes the more that can be payed out as dividends while having a lower tax rate.
Got clickbaited by good looking food
😂 Sunak = Chicken Tika Masala
Same
Pull a Dutch people in the 1500s
Yes cos weather or not someone has access to chicken tika masala is the standard of living
Curry 🤤
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UK try not to revert to a class system that favors the elite challenge
They never left the class system, it just looks that way because they can vote. Problem is, those that get to power still have a class division mindset, regardless of party. All parties have agendas designed to destroy the workers' rights, and way of life, in benefit of all others. And the workers cheer them...
(Impossible)
did it stop being a class based system? if I remember correctly a lot of the properties for rent are owned by the local mp's(member of Parliament), who do you complain to if the landlord isn't fixing problems with the property like a dangerous tree broken water boiler leaky pipes ect. that's easy you go to your local mp, ah wait.....
The fuck you mean "revert" was it ever not like this?
Feudalism to capitalism
Better double down on arresting people for jokes on Twitter and finish banning cooking knives. That's WAY more important than this, right? 😒
Nah man. I'm russian, and from my point of view this sounds absolutely hilarious and sad at the same time. And you dare to call yourself "civilized world"? We live much better here in Russia.
My parents have been fortunate and have worked up from nothing to be wealthy and they have noticed the increase in living costs, my mum said to me recently how the hell do single mothers with kids live like this for example. If my parents are noticing the cost of living affecting them then there is something seriously wrong with
I'm from Czechia and every time i was sad that our country is going to hell economically i looked at Slovakia... Nowadays every time i get depressed about my countries situation I look at the UK to show myself that even some western European countries can do something worse
Pessimism: things can’t get worse.
Optimism: yes, they can.
The Czech Republic is central to Western Europe anyway and you have always had it good throughout history, having basically your entire country be made up of middle class former mercantile families.
You also had some of the most amazing artists in Europe's history.
Yeah but in reality it is still way better…
Czechia has one of the strongest economies in Europe. If you think you guys have it bad there, just think about everywhere else... you're one of the ONLY EU members that still has native manufacturing and farming capable of supporting the markets.
We were fine before Blair opened us up to mass immigration and house prices got multiplied by 5 and wages stayed the same!
They are making cuts to children’s services and adult social care whilst pocketing bonuses. The children are truly at risk. 😢
And it'll get worse before it gets any better. Austerity is a dirty word, but if you spend money you don't have forever eventually you're spending all your money taking care of bankers instead of children.
@@SJ-co6nk? I don't see the connection. care to clarify your point?
@@remingtonn_ if you spend money you don't have, you typically do so by creating bonds which are then purchased by banks. Just like a credit card, the banks don't take those for free, they lend money in exchange for being paid back more than was borrowed. Moreover, national governments don't just borrow money then pay it back, they borrow money, then borrow money to pay back the money borrowed. When rates are low, countries can borrow for fairly low amounts of money but just like when you rack up a credit card more and more the minimum payment grows and grows until you can't even pay that. If you also have a situation where interest rates rise, then suddenly your minimum payment is rising even faster than you rack up new debts. The interest on bonds is just money being handed to the banks, and it's tax money that cannot be spent on anything else. In 2024, Fitch projects that number will rise to 176 billion gbp, up 60-odd billion, and it'll continue to rise from there. It already makes up more money than the day to day operation cost of the NHS which was 171 billion in 2022/2023 (compares to a total budget including long term capital of 181 billion).
Some people think you can print your way out of such a situation, but ask a briton how they like the high inflation of the past while, whether it makes them feel richer or poorer. Print your way out of a debt crisis, and you print your way into a currency crisis, making your situation more difficult, as we've seen in many south American economies.
Some people say the state isn't like people when it comes to debt, and they're right -- it's far worse. If I foolishly rack up debt, it dies with me, but if my government foolishly racks up debt, the obligation passes to my children whether they benefited or not.
@@SJ-co6nk britain has been in austerity for over 10 years
@@snackoman1577 that simply isn't true. Debt grew from about 30% of gdp in 2000 to over 100% of gdp today. Almost half of all the money spent in the economy comes from the government, and at its peak more than half the money spent in the economy came from government.
The question isn't about austerity because the government hasn't been austere (virtually no government on earth has been which is why despite devastatingly high taxes governments have also been racking up massive debt). The question is where is your money going?
There is no political party in most governments who are willing to be austere. That would mean laying off billions of pounds worth of bureaucrats and shutting off billions of pounds worth of pet projects, and even the tories aren't willing to do that.
Historically, income taxes are something of an aberration, and even when the UK implemented them in 1842, they were generally fairly low. Today, they are quite high, a relatively middle class person like an engineer or miner could see most of their income go to the government.
In this context of record high taxes and still record high debt, this isn't austerity, it's largesse.
We have lived in destitution for over 2.5 years now because my wife was born outside the EU (the US) we were told she had no recourse to public funds, this meant that when I finally shut my business down to become her full-time carer, thinking that because we had been married for 4 years and had a 2.5 year old son together, that we could get help... Ohhh how wrong I was, we were made to try and survive on £350 a month after rent as a family of three because she was born outside of the EU, for TWO AND A HALF YEARS NOW!! Let me put that into perspective for you, council tax is £168 a month, electricity and gas which we use minimally is at least £135 a month, water is another £30 a month, car tax is another £50 a month, car insurance is another £80, we don't have enough money for food, we don't have enough money foe fuel to get to her appointments to keep her alive, we don't have enough money to buy the food that she NEEDS because of her restricted dietary needs, she can't even drink the tap water because it further damages her kidneys.
We couldn't get 30 hours free childcare a week because she was not in work or on disability benefits (because she was denied them), I couldn't claim carers allowance because in order to apply your partner has to be in receipt of disability benefits, they don't give a DAMN if your partner is dying, if you have a stack of medical records 10ft high, if they aren't getting paid they say you aren't caring for them.
So to reiterate... Whilst EVERYONE ELSE WAS MOANING ABOUT COST OF LIVING CRISIS!!! We were trying to survive on £350 a month as a family.
That is bloody tragic, so sorry for you and your family, hope it gets better for you 🙏💙
@@houdinisplug thank you, all we can do is cling on for dear life and hope.
Well from the 19th December last year UC stopped my money, I live in a 1 bedroom flat with a flat mate who's female. We have separate sleeping arrangements, she has a pull out bed and I have the bedroom due to my disability, we aren't together (I'm a gay man) she has been a friend for the past 15 years, also I would never be able to afford a property on my own. Universal credit after nearly 4 years of this arrangement have now came to the conclusion that we are living together as a married couple, I'm now facing homelessness and debt due to this.
And because of lack of housing people cannot afford to move away from deprived areas to find Jobs outside of their towns 🙃🤦♂️ plus the rail situation forces everyone to use car
Ok but is everyone moving to London going to help? The rural/city divide is a problem everywhere. The real issue for the UK is that only a few places are successful.
Maybe infrastructure and special economic development zones. Idk.
@@somethinglikethat2176 True that but social mobility is a major problem. Why can't our elites organise rents and railways as effectively as other countries?
Have great Saturday 👍 👌
@@BanterRanterrmost rent is done by normal people it's just that eveyone wants to go and live near London to work in London it's a cultural thing, secondly what's wrong with cars if anything public transport will limit you to where elites want you to go easily
@@BanterRanterractually our rail is some of the best in the world, few places rival London, and the UK as a whole is much better connected then nearly any country in the americas, Asia and Africa and even half the countries in Europe
@@datcheesecakeboi6745 That was my argument: London has an incredible public transport system that only a few locations can compete with, but this is not the case for the rest of the country, and several important cities do not have direct connections to the capital city. 🙄
Outside of London the UK really isn’t that rich.
most people in londom arent even rich either
@@ravanaRTT well true but there still is infrastructure to support londoners, but outside it’s not the best
@@tahaymvids1631 very true! Cost of living here is a joke though
@@ravanaRTTWell as a foreigner I am asking why enough investments haven't been made up in North where other major cities like Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham are instead it's being spent in suburbs and countryside of already rich south
More accurately outside central London. Other parts of London are as poor as hell too.
There's no such thing as a "UN Expert".
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You look exactly like I expected you to
@@Charlie43348 You know what's funny about that is the videos on my channel (on this account) were taken when I was literally a homeless person.
True enough the UN is where everyone sends their dregs to.
As an expat who’s been living in the UK (England) for two years now, I can confirm it is true that the living standards of the UK has seen a steep decline over the past decade (since 2010 I would say) things are overpriced quality isn’t the best alongside all the inflation and high fuel prices… a lot of European countries are better than the UK if I am to be honest, France being one of the obvious examples
This was said by the UN a few years ago that it is a political choice and could be sorted out asap. The Govt just denied it though they had well looked into everything. Nothing alters with denial.
Damn!
People can see now what has been happening but still think Labour would be worse. Not thinking clearly are they!
@@janetmalcolm6191
Agreed, Labour would be even worse.
@@hansmuller1625oh yeah, it was a labour prime minister that crashed the economy last year, tripled mortgage rates, and sent inflation soaring to higher levels than any other nation in Europe AND the G7, after all, right? That was Liz Truss, the Labour prime minister who was voted in by tories and lead the Conservative party, right?
It was also the Labour government who siphoned off billions of public funding to their Conservative pals and lobbyists vis a fast-track service loophole the last 3 years, too, right?
F&&k off, mate. You know full well that the Conservative party are responsible for the abysmally poor running of the country; they've been in power with mentally deficient supporters like yourself enabling them for over a decade. There is not a single problem given to them by any prior government that could possibly take that long to fix.
It's all on them, and it's all on you.
@@hansmuller1625A hypothetical does not excuse the current disastrous reality.
I swear it’s been violating international law for about 13 years.
All socialist countries are.
30 years
@BauregardSenior87 no way in hell you think the UK is socialist.
@@BauregardSenior87bruh the UK ain’t socialist by any means, Labour are now just red tories, and aren’t socialist at all
@@merkuree To be fair, the NHS is a somewhat socialist concept, but that’s most likely why the Tories are working so hard to kill it.
+40,000 death of despair in UK 2021-2023 cost £22m public health funerals equal unabated cost to put natural capital
When the UN says your economy is too neoliberal, you really have a problem
Honestly it's not just welfare which is woefully inadequate, I spent years working in social healthcare on minimum wage and barely broke even month to month. Since I stopped working to become a fulltime carer for my ailing wife I've found that I'm no better or worse off than I was when I was working every hour god sent. In a system where you are literally damned if you do, damned if you don't, it's no surprise we're in such a dire situation.
Another point
Most of these poor people are not native Brits but they are immigrants from other countries like Somalia ( very common in Britain)
There are people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Iran, iraq, Palestine etc
There are people from Morocco, Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, congos, libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana and other African countries
Also from Albania, Croatia, Bosnia, serbia and other balkan countries
Recently, a lot of people from eastern Europe also have come to Britain
The idea generally is to offer assistance just high enough to prevent major suffering but low enough to encourage gainful employment in the private markets. Private enterprise is where the country prospers and grows economically. Paying social welfare is a drain, Paying someone to provide care for a family member is a drain. It only moves money around at a net loss. People cam sat tax the right more and more but they will eventually run out if money to tax also. Unless governments are exploiting natural resources as a form of income, it all is dependent on private enterprise creating more value and worth than governments can print money to spend.
@@sumduma55 so why is it that private care work paid me the lowest wage of all? I got more working as an NHS support carer than I did in private care. The issue isn't just benefit drain, it's the fact that the minimum wage is so far below a working wage that you can work 45+ hours a week on minimum and still be unable to survive without handouts.
@@Veklim I don't know and don't care about your pay discrepancies. You need to follow what I said. The government does not have a magic pot of money. It relies on extraction of funds from people or companies via taxes and fees. If everybody worked for the government, the government would have to impose a 100% tax on everybody just to collect the same amount of funds to pay everybody. Social welfare generally supplies as little as possible to encourage outside private work.
Work this out on your head. If you have a town of 10 people all working for the town, and this town has 100 bucks, it can pay each employee 10 bucks a year. It then has to find a way to collect another 100 bucks or it all falls apart. Suppose one person decides to put 1 dollar a year into savings. Now the town has 99 bucks and is a dollar short. The town needs to tax private enterprise in order to make that dollar up. But for that 10 dollar a year salary to be anything meaningful other than continually passing money back and forth, it needs to find sources of income not provided by itself.
Do you understand now? Government only functions with other people's money and encourages other people to produce value and worth so it can take for its own needs. It needs to encourage unproductive people to participate in that outside enterprise becoming productive people.
@@Veklimmass immigration depresses wages, especially at the low skill end of the spectrum.
Ive never seen so many young families asking for help to feed there kids on local fb pages. That or people looking for homes that they can afford. Ive been helping where i can but now even my funds are becoming limited.
is this in the UK youre talking about? or another country. what age are the people asking for hlep would you say? older folks? young families? demographics? white? arab? african?
@@5crassrocker
You disgust me.
@@Sh4dowbanned?
Just be careful. There’s a LOT of scammers out there right now and they’re pouncing on this opportunity. It’s sickening. I’ve fallen for it before.
@@Sh4dowbannedbro asked a question. goddamn.
The poverty was even worse in 2011, Uk went to the dogs ages ago! Its a real Shitehole
glad I left ages ago
It's disgusting how they cater to immigrants while leaving thousands of British Nationals, many of whom served their country and now live on the streets. It's a disgrace!
It was little reported in the mainstream news in the UK but the UNHCF had to become involved for the first time in child poverty in the UK recently. Not bad going for one of the worlds "richest" countries.
whats the demographic for the poverty? Native Britians or illegal migrants?
I see your problem. You're associating the wealth of individuals who happen to reside in a country with the country itself. The UK isn't rich. Some of its residents are.
Now if this was about Saudi Arabia with its gigantic Aramco that would have been a little different.
@@5crassrocker are they illegal immigrants or former commonwealth empire members?
@@5crassrockernative Britons, at least here in Scotland, most people in poverty here are white Scots, especially in Glasgow
@@5crassrockerThe demographics for poverty are divorced women with their children, immigrants and people of color. These are all social problems not economic ones.
People need to realise that less than 100 years ago, we had the worst ghettos in Europe despite being the richest Empire on the planet. People also need to realise a quarter of the entire united kingdom have been living in poverty for over a decade now...
Yeah I’m an Aussie from Queensland we have a problem where I am too almost coal cattle and resources come from Central and North Queensland while 3.8 out of the states 5.4 million population lives in the south east corner. Almost all the coal royalties go down south it’s our coal and our money
Which means that the Tories. Who've been in power for 13 yrs. Are incompetant
and they stepped up the murder of the disabled a few years ago (PIP) and the elderly during the scamdemic (Midazolam/Morphine)
- useless eaters, of course.
Yes, well aware of the history. 🇮🇪
Interesting
This is a worldwide phenomena. Things are going to have to change, or we're gonna be back at "let them eat cake".
It's Rishi sunak who is ruling
What do you even expect?
The age old rich getting richer. The poor getting poorer. Why give hand outs to those in need. When you could line your own pockets. And set yourself and your kids and potential grandkids up for success. This is the type of country our government is allowing to continue.
You don't know what your talking about
@@centuriongaming1866 don't I? Let's just go back and remind ourselves of all the good the tories has done in the past 13 years in power. What's that? Nothing. Thought so.
@@mquiny so what's your solution for a 100 billion defict
@@mquiny look at the growth of uk economy before brexit then compare it other g7 countries
I don't need a solution. I'm not running the country. But some incompetent stuck up muppets are running the country. And running it to the ground. Lining their own pockets and the pockets of their friends before the country
That's what happens when you change the funding formulas to divert money from deprived urban areas to royal Tunbridge Wells rishi
This seems to be talking about Universal Credit which doesn't have anything to do with the council and council funding. It's done by central government directly. They are saying the amount set by central government was too low.
It's also impossible to keep a large quantity of suburban housholds in a degree of wealth. It's the kind of places that necessitates the highest amounts of infrastructure for the lowest amount of density. City budget end up in roads and sewage systems where they should be in schools and public transit in denser areas.
@@marcbuisson2463 I agree. Council tax levels should take into account the density and how that impacts the cost per person or house. People should be paying enough taxes to pay for their services so the suburbs aren't subsidised by urban residential taxes.
I live in the countryside so here we don't get a lot of those things. The road isn't a residential road. It exists to travel from place to place and would be here whether my house was here or not. We don't get government supplied water or sewage services, we build our own.
He couldn't care less though. That's his intention
I bet you live in Royal Tunbridge Wells
As a UK citizen barely able to afford things - “wow, the government is doing scummy things and impacting us negatively? Who could have thought?”
And they don't care about Israel commiting war crimes😢
Hamas is also.
14 years of Tory misrule ??
I think you'll find it's all going well, from their perspective. The poor are poorer, and the rich are far richer.
This started in the 70s thanks to labour inflation PM wilson
@@EzraMerrthis started in 500,000 bc with thagbar
Considering the tories have been singing from the 1997 new Labour playbook for the past 2 decades, I think its reasonably self evident that this is no longer a "party politics" thing, and is more of a "serfdom & debt riddled peasants" thing.
Its a socialist uniparty. Labour and Tory have nearly identical manifestos.
Get the tories out.
It really would not matter a jot who are seated in NO10 the results would be the same because they are one and the same.
It’s an illusion of choice, there’s NO choice.
Please, I've been thinking this for over a decade now.
You do realise Labour would be worse right?
If youre still blaming this on one party or the other you need to seriously wake the fuck up.
@@Crosswizz very true, the only differences in the parties is how quickly and blatantly they would enact their uniparty agenda.
One of the many problems of this side of the globe is the amount of people reliant on the government for their livelyhoods, either through housing or their paycheques
We can try not basing the economy off debt. That would be a good place to start.
Sounds like the UK is taking lessons from the US.
England are obedient little serfs what do you expect...
We are spending millions per week keeping illegal immigrants in hotels instead of sending them back because that is against international law and their human rights. Over 25's on universal credit should be in a job not living off the state.
The entirety of Europe is very lopsided when it comes to wealth inequality. Its not anything new
the uk government has basically crashed the country with corruption
We taught the us
Universal credit! What a joke! I was sanctioned for 7 months for missing 1 appointment.
Doesn't sound very universal.
Universal credit: aka inflation creating apparatus.
Don't be a leech then
I was sanctioned for 12 months as I failed to attend an appointment the very same day they sent me the appointment e-mail. I was in hospital, unconscious, having surgery. They say this is not an excuse for missing the appointment. This lead to me becoming malnourished and am now PERMANENTLY signed off as my health was destroyed because of it, so now I'm having to recover with loads of hospital visits and treatments to treat things like my spinal osteoporosis. Funny thing is after several appeals it was overturned a couple of years after and was payed it backdated, well 6 months as the other 6 was 'too long ago' The system is a joke
Happened to me I was sanctioned for missing an appointment as they sent me to an course same date same time.
Its way more than these stats say. The majority live in poverty in the UK its a disgrace whats happened to this nation
It’s a shame because I love England I was born and raised here but the government just make me want to live elsewhere and it’s a shame
The universal credit pilot was insane. "Let's see. People are dying of hunger? Excellent, roll it out everywhere."
I was in one of the pilot groups. I went down to one meal a day because I couldn't afford to eat. I lived in the cheapest HMO I could find, which cost about £20 a week more than what they said was the average cost of an HMO.
Fortunately, I am doing better now, but I cannot and will no forget how bad it is to be struggling to feed myself and yet constantly have to justify my existence to someone every week.
@@magnusbruce4051I'm guessing that you now have a job and can pay your own way?
@@SaintGerbilUK yep :)
@@magnusbruce4051 Good for you👍 I'm glad things are better for you. if only more people realised that living off the state. Should be at best a short term plan.
@@SaintGerbilUK Is it really a shock that the government bent on making these things out to be so terrible, fucked it up? I don't think this says anything broadly like you wish it did.
Bloody too right. There's nowhere for people to live anymore yet the politicians who are supposed to be working for us by controlling what gets spent where live in several houses. My daughter works two jobs, the landlord wanted his house back and her and my grandchildren have been sleeping on the floor in my tiny flat for two years.
Rent another house, there are literally millions.
Dont have kids if you cant afford it and stop expecting someone else to take care of your children. Educate yourself🙄
@@ConservativeCalifornian1032 That is actually a really stupid point. If a nation cannot afford to help families have children, it's a social failure not a personal one. It means that this society is privatizing all the profits and leaving the losses to the youngest and the poor. Turns out, declining birthrates will only make it worse. In simple words, it's not only incredibly ignorant and arrogant for you to say that. It's also extremely counterproductive. As it incentivizes the worst case scenario, a vicious cycle of economic decline and inequality.
@@LuizAlexPhoenixlol... societies survived and prospered for thousands of years with no government run social welfare systems. Perhaps the adage if you don't work, you don't eat is appropriate here.
don't breed if you can't afford to house yourself and your children? problem solved
All got Big telly's and new Nike's though whilst queuing at the foodbank
The share holders are the central banks, China and so on.
What were you expecting when you get someone from Goldman Sachs to be your prime minister😂
It has got so bad that a bunch of billionaires have started saying that the systems in countries including the US and UK are out of whack, failing to redistribute wealth increases.
I guess they are the ones who learned a bit about the history of revolutions, and can recognise societal patterns.
"Guys please do something, they're gonna have our heads on pikes by the week!"
You know that they say, that history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. So what does rhyme on guillotine?😂
Yet those billionaires still cling to their cash and stash it in untaxable ways. They want to insult the system but they want the normal working man to pay for everything and they keep their billions for themself. Hypocrits
What do you mean by redistribution of wealth? Do you mean taking it from someone against their will and giving it away?
@@ietomos7634 I mean the use of progressive taxation to ensure a dignified life to the unfortunate, and the provision of essential services to all regardless of wealth.
I find it interesting that most of those who push "taxation is theft" are of a religion which calls for all to support the unfortunate, are comfortably off themselves, and are not well versed in the causes underlying the Age of Revolutions and the 20th Century's establishment of welfare states.
If the United Kingdom is impoverished, why do they aid Ukraine and send military personnel there?
There are laws against poverty makers? I guess a long list of Argentinians politicians must be judged...
Great quote I heard:
"the UK government nicked (stole)
the wheels and ran off with them"
And that's been going on for years.
Love that they see a problem and immediately find the wrong solution.
@caelanireland9253abolish all social programs and put the money back in the pockets of the people. For those that cant and wont work its their familys problem. If the family doesnt want that burden then goodbye grandma.
This solves the issue of disrespectful people because they could be left to perish for being an a hole. This also solves the poverty issue because if forces the community to take care of the people they value instead of saying "thats the goverments responsibility"
@caelanireland9253 Fair & livable wages would be a solution. Ensuring everyone has a job, ensuring everyone has access to free mental health care, childcare & social services for the old, people with disabilities & those who suffer from addiction etc.
If there's no 'welfare' then these things need to be in place.
@ereristark425 You raise the wages and give access to health care for those in the worst conditions, you raise the cost of the standard of living for everyone else and probably cause more people to drop to the bottom, thus needing another increase and more funding for social welfare that will put more of a strain on the people. Genius plan there.
@@Zavitor my response got deleted because i wasnt as nice as you. X'D
Before I respond to everyone, does the uk have laws that prevent any of their citizens from participating in the economy?
Thatcher's legacy lives on.
Trust me, UK is not the only one
The Conservatives would rather change the rules to make themselves look better than actually fix the problems.
Labour would rather make themselves look better by changing rules than fix problems.
@@BauregardSenior87 Considering they haven't been in power for over a decade, maybe that view is outdated?
nah that's the WOKE NOT THE CONSERVATIVES!
The government's job is to make itself look good so it gets voted into power. Same for all governments. The onus is on the voters to educated themselves on what looks good Vs what is good.
@@user-fz7kt6cy5tTories are horrid, idk what you mean
Imagine if wages matched inflation, and housing costs were fully regulated.
Nothing makes something more affordable than when the government gets a hold of it.
Imagine a world without the tiny hats controlling everything, it would be lovely and free
I live in California with a $15/hr min wage, and rent control. Inflation has only jumped higher and the only new apartments being built are the luxury ones with over $2200 rent per month for a studio.
@@haseebejazmusic9125I'll never get the inhumanity of building expensive condos and luxury apartments when we need affordable housing in Ca so goddamn bad
Imagine if Georgism were the way of the world.
Tbh thats how the uk has always been all the way since the saxons, it is all to do with hierarchy, the rich stay rich, the poor stay poor
"The UK's poverty level is violating international law."
The entirety of sub-Saharan Africa, Yemen, Laos, Iraq, and about half of Latin America just started sweating.
People say the Tories want to take us back to the 1960s, I think the want to take us back to the 1860s
Chuckle Chuckle. I remember the 1970's and the Union strangulation of industry in the UK. If Labour get back in power, expect more of the same and watch inflation and interest rates balloon. Then, as a taxpayer, cringe as you watch all your tax being spent on the welfare of identity fraudsters who can't even remember which country they were born and lived in P***ING all over your concerns as you lose your home.
Pax Britania 2: Electric boogaloo
Tbf I can't recall where I read it but I had seen that standards of living were better in the late 19th century so, no, they're making things worse than even then.
@@anne_frank_ No way that's factual.
@@octaviondeminicolas1941 It is comparatively, or certainly they made a strong argument, they had to take technology into account or leave it out of course.
"Take back control"...
I think we should give it back
That might have worked well...until you look at the people we trusted with it!
The rich have taken back control.
@@Northstanderexcuses 😂
let in poor unskilled people and suddenly there are not enough jobs for them. you get inflation, which in turn increases prices, which powers production and increases prices further. only one of the factors, ignoring the dumbass government.
I feel like Rishi is just ruining the British economy right now as a revenge for the colonization of India (modern day Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh)
Translation: more taxes to fund the lazy animals on bennefits...
And thats exactly the way WEF Rishi likes it
Thatcher may be dead but her legacy lives on
Well Tories worshipped her before her fall. She started the meanness. Money money money was her mantra but only for the few.
This isn't thatcher it's the leftists in your country who are stealing your future!
Is Thatcher in the room with us right now?
@@manofculture584no but the tories certainly do
@@manofculture584 no, thank god
its just her policies that are, and why the uk is getting worse by the year
Reduce the taxes upon taxes upon taxes and adjustable rate mortgages of the UK
Inspiring growth in the economy is exactly what brings people out of poverty by creating jobs, wealth and security.
In the UK we spend £60 billion a year on UC of which 62% are unemployed. When I was in college someone told me they want to live off benefits and the government. I don't know what measure the UN has used to measure poverty levels but I'm 99% sure they haven't considered the amount of people who refuse to work, among the many other factors that go into the uk economy.
Mr de Schutter needs to assess the USA. We need a big stink started about hungry children, it embarrasses me as an American.
We have about a 12% poverty rate but our population is over 340 million it might seem like more
Yeah, the US is in a bad state, but we never had the levels of austerity that Britain went through. Just be thankful that we elected Barack Obama rather than Jon McCain in 2008, because the Republicans would've absolutely doubled down on tax cuts and spending cuts rather than government programs to help people.
@@jamalgibson8139wether you like obamas policy or not people have to admit he did a lot for helping the poor, the problem is modern democrats and republicans both don’t give two shits about the poor
@@markstrom3630 That's true, but not the whole picture, because some states are MUCH better off than others which brings the average up. For example, Mississippi's poverty rate is over 19%, meaning 1 in 5 people in the state live in poverty. Unsurprisingly, 9 out of the top 10 states are staunchly Republican (the odd one out is New Mexico).
@@whyisyes3957that's what happens when you have a political arena entirely on the right side of the spectrum.
Great that the UN has made this statement. When can we expect them to do something about it?
If you've ever seen Kim Jong-il's response to the UN writing a very angry letter to this government about breaking international law in 'Team America: World Police', the Tories would probably use a shark tank too.
Lmao
I thought this was going to be some fiery spicey chicken recipe for some reason😂😂
I’m on the lowest rate of disability here in the uk and I consider myself lucky yeh I’m still broke 99% of the time but my freezer is full and my bills are paid it’s the people on standard rate but for over 25’s they get £368.74 a month so about £90 a week and don’t forget housing benefits that’s an extra £282.44 so really they get about £650 a month with the majority of your rent paid it’s still really bad but it’s manageable we just have to remove joy from our lives 😢
Lmao Trudeau is like "those are rookie numbers gotta pump up the ammount of homelessness".
Champ the UK in way worse shape
In the town I live in we built a whole mini subdivision for the homeless
Yeah cos homeless smack heads are created by government, not shit parents 🙄
@@MastemaJack Nice. Make homelessness permanent. What program is there to reintegrate them back into society and be productive?
@williammentink there's programs at city hall. They are province wide. The thing is there are some that like how they live.
Go on De Schutter, telling the ones in power what regular people have been demanding they hear for decades
It's not even true you spack the only people who "cant eat" dont work but do drink and smoke
This is nothing, you should see the stats of Lithuania and also the reality of poverty there...
There’s no such thing as international law
The UN picks and chooses who to criticize. 23 kids died of starvation in South Africa and this country is not short of food, nor is it a poor country. We have a huge agricultural sector and grow veges, fruits, meat and game... Everything. What we have is corruption - which is what the UK is probably suffering from too. When the government is spending millions on paper clips, 3 ply toilet paper and lunches for its offices while it's people starve, then you need some public outrage and accountability.
Corruption that's it.
I mean 80% of the stuff they have to vote for against a country is directed against one democratic country, 20% goes to autocratic ones the likes of china, russia, iran, etc.
South Africa doesn't bill itself as an advanced first world nation. The UK does.
The UN really doesn't, they criticize south Africa a lot of the time. The thing is, this doesn't make it into mainstream news because people generally know South Africa is struggling. The fact that this is happening in the UK is a lot more newsworthy.
@@chungus816sorry? most people don't actually know shit about Africa's politics. they just know "aww Africa is poor" as if the entire continent is. you might jive with more historically/politically inclined groups, but that does not mean that the statuses of different African countries is common information.
the reason things like this don't make it into mainstream news is because nobody in the north cares about the global south. for example, climate change affects the global south more than it does the north. and people deny that it is happening because of this.
If they’ve broken international law, send in the international police.
That's how Israel thinks.
Also the same UN saying we gotta take in as many refugees as possible, like that won’t cause a economic crisis
Unless you are disabled there should be no such thing as universal credit the second it dries up unemployment will fall I can guarantee you that
Thanks for confirming that the UN is economically illerate.
Free the market and the majority reap the rewards.
Keep with the sort of managerialist policies we have now, the poor will only get poorer.
In other worlds “Working as intended”
Hold up, that £85 per week earns you more than a minimum wage worker in South Africa... damn
Wait they're given 85£ a week for free?!
They would love America
Not the first time the UK has broken international law 😂
I wonder when the workers will finally snap and give the rich the French treatment
When they confiscate the televisions.
@liamoneill4706 lol they need the tV for their propaganda. It's a net positive for the government. When they shut down TH-cam might be more appropriate
Even the french don't have the balls for that shit these days...
Source: I live in froggyland!
Its the government/state that need to be given the French treatment, not the rich!
@@NickNackItaliano777 the two generally tend to be the same!
Lol how about cancel sugar tax? Too many taxes is what makes working ppl poor, while benefit scroungers get everything
The problem is people are spending my taxes poorly, in both the government and people on benefits...
The UN said this in 2015 too. People wanted their COUntrY BAcK. They'll get their workhouses back.
Thank God for a rational discourse around poverty.
The UK seems doomed to treat its citizens so badly.
When will things change !
The chance was there a few years ago but what did people do? People don't learn.
Never. When the famin destroyed potatoes those many years ago the brittish government had similar conversations and debates about how or even if to help their neighbors. Since the land was technically owned by alot of brittish the Irish had to pay landlords for what little they could sell of their farmed produce. It was either starve or be kicked out and starve.
The famine killed the potato. The brittish starved the Irish
Thats how they want it with the public as paupers perpetual peasants 🙄
I live in the uk a lot of people in run down towns rely heavily on food banks!! Where is our tax money disappearing to??
The UK gov thinks living in Britain and having food stamps is enough to not be in poverty
There are NO food stamps. Only by the grace of the public donating we have food banks which the Govt think are fantastic! Now even the people who donated are using them apparently no longer as affluent as they were.
When I was starving I couldn’t even get food stamps, I wasn’t earning enough apparently.
In other words, a decade of Tory rule?
Shocking... Simply shocking...
Mate this was caused by Tony Blair and lockdown. Nothing else
Over a decade now
What's even worse is that Starmer's Labour is just a red Tory party, we have no hope
And it was just the same under labour rule so what is your point
Significantly worse I would argue @@srgmiller340
damn i thought this was a food video
Government is too busy trying to sort out issues in other countries instead of our own