Inside England’s second most deprived area - BBC Newsnight

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  • Опубліковано 14 гру 2022
  • Newsnight is following a community in Knowsley on Merseyside over the next five months to see how people are affected by the cost-of-living crisis. The area is one of the most deprived in the country, with over 25% of children living in low-income households.
    Victoria Derbyshire meets Steph Cargill, a single mother of two who works part time and struggles to pay her bills. Some months she gets down to her last pound. She'd like to work full time but wouldn't be able to afford the childcare required.
    36-year-old Gary See runs the local community centre which serves hot meals for free to those who need them and runs a heavily discounted ‘social supermarket’ providing kitchen staples at discounted prices. He drives his van to deliver essentials to those in need - from food parcels to electric blankets.
    He tells Newsnight that one mother, whose child had attended activities at the centre, told him she was happy because her children were able to get washed there.
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  • @hencakk
    @hencakk Рік тому +785

    Two words I hate are ‘working poor’. If you work full time, you should earn enough to feed, heat and clothe your family. Nobody should be busting their gut at a job and still be reliant on charities to make ends meet. Plus, we really need to do something around clihildcare. If everyone had the chance to use subsidised or free childcare, millions more people could get into the workforce and pay their own way.

    • @yootaobe5536
      @yootaobe5536 Рік тому +23

      It would also help increase the domestic birth rate and reduce the reliance on immigration to support the workforce demands. Career politicians are not planning decades ahead for a better future of those who live here.

    • @MsPeabody1231
      @MsPeabody1231 Рік тому +14

      Childcare is subsidised if your child is 2 and has a disability, or between 3 years 4 months and 4 if you work. You get 15-30 hours. The subsidy is not enough as the providers have to find ways to put charges on everything else and charge the parents.
      Oh and in London childcare is £70-110 per day. It's so expensive in some cases sending your child to a prep school is cheaper than a nursery.

    • @Bettyswolloxmaryhinge
      @Bettyswolloxmaryhinge Рік тому +49

      @@user-vg9gg4fv9e that isn't the case with a lot of people though. And they don't want to live like 'kings', they want food and a warm home

    • @Bebedollie
      @Bebedollie Рік тому +7

      Some countries do have people that can't make ends meet cos they don't get paid enough so what are u talking about lol

    • @annaredding
      @annaredding Рік тому +21

      @D C Why the only benefit should be child benefit? I don't feel like paying for someone else's children. 😒 Disability benefit I have no issues with. Child benefit when someone has found themselves in unforseen trouble- yes. Paying for children of someone who didn't think to have a workable setup before having them - no. Subsidised state childcare I'm fine with, because it has worked well in other countries and is cheaper than paying for people to sit at home.

  • @Richard-fv7rq
    @Richard-fv7rq Рік тому +410

    Imagine a world full of people with Gary's compassion.

  • @abigailweir7287
    @abigailweir7287 Рік тому +311

    Gary is the sort of person that should receive a King's honour. Not a PM just for doing his job or a well paid lucky entertainer.

    • @sophiej1648
      @sophiej1648 Рік тому +23

      @@wallsendgeordie4154 Come back when you've contributed the same amount of support to deprived families as Gary has.

    • @wallsendgeordie4154
      @wallsendgeordie4154 Рік тому +1

      @@sophiej1648 not out of his own pocket!

    • @jacqui9176
      @jacqui9176 Рік тому +5

      @@wallsendgeordie4154 What an idiotic statement to make.

    • @jacqui9176
      @jacqui9176 Рік тому

      @@wallsendgeordie4154 What a sad individual you are.

    • @maxb9315
      @maxb9315 Рік тому +1

      @@wallsendgeordie4154 'could have' not 'could of'

  • @abbiebrown2733
    @abbiebrown2733 Рік тому +372

    Gary is incredible. Thank you Gary for helping people who are struggling. It's heartbreaking how people are struggling

    • @reasonerenlightened2456
      @reasonerenlightened2456 Рік тому +2

      If the old and the poor just disappear then there would be more for the Wealthy? Then this guy becomes obsolete.

    • @jamesbyrne9312
      @jamesbyrne9312 Рік тому +7

      Yeah I hope to god your being ironic

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  • @marco5718
    @marco5718 Рік тому +595

    This guy is absolutely amazing. It saddens me to see the decent people of the UK having to endure such hardship. Wishing you all a peaceful and joyous Christmas.

    • @astroboirap
      @astroboirap Рік тому +5

      what happened to steph's man though?

    • @tellmemore8837
      @tellmemore8837 Рік тому +1

      @@astroboirap Good question. He obviously doesn't give a damm. Probably uneducated and unemployed too.

    • @rocker-barrel4786
      @rocker-barrel4786 Рік тому +2

      Nice words

    • @georgesweedlepipe5084
      @georgesweedlepipe5084 Рік тому +2

      Well said! Marco 😇😇😇

    • @kieran5191
      @kieran5191 Рік тому +27

      @Roger Mellie I’m from Britain and there are people in far worse stated than this. These people aren’t even poor.

  • @rickyraw5457
    @rickyraw5457 Рік тому +804

    You never know when your circumstances can change dramatically....been in debt and struggling to survive is a daily battle for more and more people these days.... People like Gary are incredible supporting the needy in his community restores your faith in mankind...👍😁

    • @pepelepew1227
      @pepelepew1227 Рік тому +11

      what happened to steph's husband? get a court to order alimoney.
      linda has 2 children and 10 grandchildren .... wait thats 5 kids each, must be rich

    • @jkfd97
      @jkfd97 Рік тому +7

      @@pepelepew1227 He got barred from seeing his children because of "irreconcilable differences", what else?

    • @rastaman5354
      @rastaman5354 Рік тому +27

      That’s me bro just last year I was living comfortably now I’m living by pay check by time I pay money owed food, electricity, heating, road expenses, keeping the kids happy clothed and fed I have 0 money left to enjoy myself. Work my ass with nothing to show energy levels are at there lowest. But kids are happy and that’s all that matters

    • @nickmagee-brown739
      @nickmagee-brown739 Рік тому +13

      Easy, don't let it happen and work hard to grow your business/career...oh and keep your legs closed. 👍

    • @hassyg4083
      @hassyg4083 Рік тому +1

      @@nickmagee-brown739 deal dope

  • @iMertin90
    @iMertin90 Рік тому +49

    That jump in helping people is mental. I’ve had a food bank this year also

    • @aceman0000099
      @aceman0000099 Рік тому

      Clearly you didn't claim enough holidays on expenses!

    • @stefan2serb
      @stefan2serb Рік тому +1

      Can you access a food bank if you’re not on universal credit? I work full time.

    • @iMertin90
      @iMertin90 Рік тому

      @@stefan2serb try local chruch or salvation army.. also can try your local mp

    • @aceman0000099
      @aceman0000099 Рік тому +1

      @@Michael-fv1pw are those supposed to be luxuries that poor people aren't entitled to? A phone? Not even a smartphone, or an iPhone X... Just "have you got a phone" Jesus Christ lad

    • @angelachanelhuang1651
      @angelachanelhuang1651 10 місяців тому

      HELLO smirnoff

  • @runwithme9643
    @runwithme9643 Рік тому +50

    And the presenter, Victoria Derbyshire, was paid £240,000 - £244,999. Which I feel highlights the issue ultimately. Social priorities are really depressing.

    • @jackwatsonepic626
      @jackwatsonepic626 11 місяців тому +9

      Exactly I said the same with Phil and Holly how can they comment on ordinary people the money there on
      I watched a program on the BBC years ago in the 80s where a MP stayed with a family in a council house who wear on benefits for 2 days and got paid £15,000 while the people on benefits got paid only £2,000 and this was in the 80s , so obviously the £15,000 would have been worth a lot more .

    • @david-xg4hb
      @david-xg4hb 9 місяців тому

      BBC loves gaslighting poverty

  • @kellyshomemadekitchen
    @kellyshomemadekitchen Рік тому +81

    God bless each person struggling and those going out of their way to help them.

    • @fatbast3055
      @fatbast3055 Рік тому

      Your imaginary friend is part of the problem.

    • @joeds3775
      @joeds3775 Рік тому

      @Me Again you're just a sad lonely wan* stain on the sweaty sock of humanity. Every single one of those people is worth more than you can ever be. Wonder why you hide behind a keyboard.

    • @annaredding
      @annaredding Рік тому

      @Me Again Yeah, meanwhile over a million vacancies unfilled. Crazy.

  • @welshgruff
    @welshgruff Рік тому +233

    It is disgusting that the gap between rich and poor in this country has constantly increased. The system is broken. Too often it is the women who bear the brunt. Also, when children have a father they should be supported by both parents.

    • @jkfd97
      @jkfd97 Рік тому

      Women (single mothers) bear the brunt of constant child support income, comfy housing, countless support in every facet imaginable.
      Who looks out for the men (father)? No one. English (real) men don't want English women anymore. You're disgusting. You're the epitome of the modern woman which is in fact the modern man-with-tits.
      You are the worst demographic of women in the entire world. But, you're right, you don't deserve the "hardship" (of eternal comfort, support and convenience).
      Go and work in a sewer or a construction site powering society and then you'll see what bearing the brunt of society's problems is. You have no idea you spoiled little brat. I curse the parents who failed to raise you properly.

    • @hassyg4083
      @hassyg4083 Рік тому +3

      its north south divide

    • @johnsmith-jh5zx
      @johnsmith-jh5zx Рік тому

      Thats what happens when you force women to work and say its good for them. The result is split homes, decreased wages and broken children. Had that not happened the immigration wouldnt be such a problem and crime wouldnt be so high. There is a correlation with the end of the second world war and the absolute decline of the west since then. The good guys clearly didnt win if this is the result. Think further back, not just food banks or blaming tories. This is blaming the people who told you that womens rights was the way forward. Are you happier? Didnt think so.

    • @Adelehalsall
      @Adelehalsall Рік тому +15

      @@hassyg4083 not necessarily. There are plenty of poor neighbourhoods and parts of London that I would say are even more deprived than this.

    • @hassyg4083
      @hassyg4083 Рік тому +2

      @@Adelehalsall difference with London it doesnt look dumpy like the northern areas..London council actually keeps areas nice

  • @louis84100
    @louis84100 Рік тому +111

    It's a shame that nothing has changed in the uk, my mum had to go through these situations 30 years ago. Not having enough money for gas and electricity and no food in the fridge. Something has to change.

    • @apollo2276
      @apollo2276 Рік тому

      If we look at who's controlling world politics today and their agenda for this new world order hey have, you'll soon see why things don't ever change.
      We've had the technology of free energy for decades. Tesla wanted the public to have this in their homes and look what happened to him.
      Totally ignore what the mainstream report of this mans death, it was murder and they have proven that fact' today through investigations using todays technologies.
      They will silence anyone who is seen as a threat and Tesla was exactly that. They weaponized what he wanted to be used for the good.
      Look up Steven Greer. There has been quite a few large dumps of information to the public showing us what the governments and militaries are keeping hidden from the public. Why? Lots of reasons but one being they can't make money or control humanity from free energy technology! So in another word. Freeze to death or we will charge the public ridiculous amounts of money for gas and oil, happily destroying the planet while we do it, just so we the few who put themselves over the rest of us can stay in business.
      Very sick delusional individuals.
      Expand your knowledge anyway as to why in 2022 we are still burning fossile fuels and paying these lying corrupt corporations profits. When we could all heat our homes, rum our cars etc for absolutely nothing. Its exactly the same in the medical industry. We cured cancer over 100 years ago. But still today they insist you have man made poisons pumped into your body that makes you even more ill. why? Because they profit from it all.
      It's not that we dont have the technology to change our lives for the better, its because the sick individuals running the world won't allow you to have it.
      Many great brilliant minds ever to of walked on this planet going back in our history knew of this hidden knowledge. All were silenced & many more still be silenced today.

    • @scotttracy9333
      @scotttracy9333 Рік тому +23

      Of course this has changed. The rich have got richer

    • @AnitaDil
      @AnitaDil Рік тому +5

      My mum too for 5 of us. There’ll always be those that struggle regardless and always will be. At least there’s help now, there wasn’t then.

    • @kalebind
      @kalebind Рік тому +1

      Georgian State does not help us either but instead they allowed russian citizens set up 8500 business enterprises and perform operations and transfers of respective amounts

    • @kalebind
      @kalebind Рік тому

      IVE BEEN LIVING 42 YEARS WOTHIN SAME COURTYARD SO RUSSIANS BETTER DONT MESS WITH ME OR I WILL SENT THEM INTO SOIL

  • @mark.e.p
    @mark.e.p Рік тому +34

    I'm 64, how sad to see parts of my country so poor, it's utterly disgraceful. Years of political mismanagement

    • @christine-bc1kc
      @christine-bc1kc Рік тому +1

      yours is the best comment on here,,,cant believe people are lying down to this awful situation...the torys need booted out

    • @SW-fy8pq
      @SW-fy8pq Рік тому

      Uk serves the interest of American

    • @SW-fy8pq
      @SW-fy8pq Рік тому

      Uk gov got rid of all manufacturing industries for the sake of quick and swear free money. Uk has been generous in giving out benefit including the free healthcare which have been abused by the general public. Uk has been practising stupid and over generous human right and refugee laws. Uk is poor but still pretend to be rich. Uk has been supporting the warmonger US to participate in all wars. Uk has pride and has been reluctant to change to adapt to changes in the world. Uk has also been doing many evil things including funding anti gov organisations worldwide (hk is one of them) and slandering others using its media power, so this could be a payback time for the uk.

    • @andycap1188
      @andycap1188 Рік тому

      @@christine-bc1kc ... and where would Labour get the money from ? They never say, just call it 'investment' !!

    • @steverose8633
      @steverose8633 Рік тому

      Thing is Mark, It won't change with any other party in charge

  • @yunfanli4383
    @yunfanli4383 Рік тому +231

    I remember some sociology studies showing that in the 70s, neighbors in deprived neighborhoods in Chicago shared everything and helped each other. The women would cook in one apartment and hang around in another apartment (for TV and heating) so each household only paid for some utilities, and when something broke down, they chipped in to mend the absolute necessary. That's far from a satisfactory situation, but an aspect of the idea can be borrowed. For instance, two pensioners could live in the same house to share utility fees (one person doesn't need a lot of space anyway), and several parents can take turns to do childcare so all get more opportunities to work. Humans are supposed to live in villages to help each other, and the idea of nuclear families doesn't work in difficult times.

    • @John-nb6ep
      @John-nb6ep Рік тому

      Because the nuclear family is dead.

    • @justsomebloke6784
      @justsomebloke6784 Рік тому

      Yep, capitalism in it's pure form encourages selfish behaviour. What you're describing is survival socialism and it is discouraged because the rich lose out. These societal poverty events are cyclical, the ordinary person is for a while encouraged into accumulating wealth and property, which is then all taken away again. Here in the UK there is no good reason for this to be happaning other than ideological decisions. Our government has in less than two years just 'lost' £127 billion as a result of only four events of corruption or mismanagement, what the true figure is one can only imagine, and we do not talk about it at all because the media is oligarch owned.
      It's cool that you mention villages; when I was young I came up with a way that people could live sustainably, with everyone having enough of what they need. I remember laughing at myself when I realised that my brand new plan was indeed just that, the village.

    • @kieran5191
      @kieran5191 Рік тому

      “Sociology studies” in other words Marxist shite. Be careful what you read.

    • @justsomebloke6784
      @justsomebloke6784 Рік тому +3

      @@kieran5191 So princess, what should those people in Chicago have done? I would love to hear your erudite opinion on the proper solution for meeting their needs.

    • @mozdickson
      @mozdickson Рік тому +14

      Broken families are not nuclear though

  • @razkhan2958
    @razkhan2958 Рік тому +63

    He is good man help people struggling we need more man like him in our own local area and community

    • @thebeesnuts777
      @thebeesnuts777 Рік тому +3

      We do , but the as****** don't decrease their rents even though they can, especially in Birmingham, if you know what I mean, you know the chosen people

    • @nebhalabir1201
      @nebhalabir1201 Рік тому

      @@thebeesnuts777 ✡️and their greed have ruined the world.

    • @nebhalabir1201
      @nebhalabir1201 Рік тому

      @@thebeesnuts777 ✡️and their greed have ruined the world.

    • @reasonerenlightened2456
      @reasonerenlightened2456 Рік тому

      If the old and the poor just disappear then there would be more for the Wealthy? Then this guy becomes obsolete.

    • @dreamer2260
      @dreamer2260 Рік тому

      What we need most of all is for people to vote the Tories out of government and Labour in.

  • @metalgearpie594
    @metalgearpie594 Рік тому +63

    To all those affected in this video and around the country, I wish you all the best and hope you have a merry Christmas. To all those guys and gals working for charities and foodbanks we love you all ❤️. Hope everyone has a better year in 2023 than 2022. Xxx

  • @udaikandalama9136
    @udaikandalama9136 Рік тому +51

    Fantastic work done for the community...

    • @chipbuttytime3396
      @chipbuttytime3396 Рік тому

      it is full of drug users so they have money for that, i live there

  • @pattykelly6621
    @pattykelly6621 Рік тому +68

    I'm a viewer from the US. People are struggling. Young people, parents & kids, veterans, disabled, seniors. I mean, what the hell is wrong with people who don't want to help? Who don't want to see people live with dignity, have access to food, healthcare, heat, clean water even a reliable roof over their heads. Its mind boggling to me. And its other people who are barely surviving that are stepping up. Not the rich, not the corporations. We knew something was terribly wrong when school teachers, police officers, nurses, etc could not make ends meet each month and certainly couldn't afford to live in the communities they serve. And we did nothing. We're still doing nothing.

    • @annaredding
      @annaredding Рік тому +2

      There are people who are struggling, but I do not feel like helping that lady with 2 kids who has a nicer house than many couples in full time work and a car (which seriously very few working single people on lower scale of wage can afford), nor the grandma who can help out to take care of grandkids but her family is not able to help her out a tiny bit in exchange. One of my grandmas worked, another budgeted hard and took care of grandkids. Neither would sit and moan, my partners grandma would make and sell stuff and another went abroad to work seasonally to top up her retirement and have some savings. I'm supposed to be paying for this lady's car and kids, or the other lady's kids having free childcare? Nah.

    • @Boo-pv4hn
      @Boo-pv4hn Рік тому

      Atleast in the USA they done a story to acknowledge those left behind by Covid immune suppressed ect.. in the uk it’s not even been acknowledged

    • @mgm8822
      @mgm8822 Рік тому +13

      @@annaredding How about having some human sympathy?

    • @annaredding
      @annaredding Рік тому +5

      @@mgm8822 I have empathy for people who do something to take care of their lives, and those who genuinely cannot do it for themselves. I can sympathise with the feeling of struggle, divorce is often horrific, and it can be tough feeling stuck, and adjustment to different financial circumstances and more responsibility is tough. I can sympathise with their situation and feelings, but I don't have to excuse their behaviour - the people who work, often long hours on low wages are paying for this lady with 2 kids while often having no prospects of getting their own stable home to have kids in - they also deserve empathy.

    • @sewadeusltd2442
      @sewadeusltd2442 Рік тому +2

      Governments that don't look after its people (tax payers) first and choose to spent money taxes else where in the world .Its good to see humanity still exist in people like Gary

  • @charlottecarter1695
    @charlottecarter1695 Рік тому +82

    Gary is incredible 💜

  • @williamgoss4691
    @williamgoss4691 Рік тому +29

    Thank you Gary for working hard to gather resources to help your community survive. And Survival is the best a lot of people are doing, can do, with food prices and energy costs going up and up. Just appalling, but again, thank u, Gary for all your work !!

  • @martycrush6412
    @martycrush6412 Рік тому +34

    This becoming a closer and heartbreakingly more real situation for my own and thousands of other families. I work 55 hours as a labourer and used to get 100-£130 a week to use for extras( new shoes , uniforms and holidays). I’m now down to £10-£20 a week. I’m so scared I won’t be able to put clothes on the backs of my family 🥺🥺. There are families a lot worse of than us I know😱😱😱

  • @michaelprice3040
    @michaelprice3040 Рік тому +52

    Over the years every upper management team is getting 300k bonuses and the businesses we work for made an extra million compared to the years before that and because our employers couldn’t spread the wealth honestly with “trickle down economics” the economy is tanking.

    • @annaredding
      @annaredding Рік тому +3

      Well, the markets rejected the idea of cutting tax for the rich that Truss had, so killed off Reaganomics revival rather fast. Which would be entertaining if it wasn't so costly. Time to move away from supply side and Freedman.

    • @yilmazh3127
      @yilmazh3127 Рік тому +2

      Ok tax the hell out of private company profits to the point where board members are earning less than 100k and see how quickly the company will nose dive

    • @michaelprice3040
      @michaelprice3040 Рік тому +3

      @@yilmazh3127 who said anything about tax? Maybe give that money to the other people in the company that worked for it? That money isnt going back into the companies it’s going into personal investments. Multiple houses, metals, crypto or even just items of leisure.
      But also if the plan is to never give any of the wealth to the poorer classes then the whole “strategy” of trickle down economics was a lie and the rich never planned on sending the money down the line in the first place.

    • @None-zc5vg
      @None-zc5vg Рік тому

      'Trickledown' was only ever a cynical scam as it only ever could have been.

    • @counterleo
      @counterleo Рік тому

      @@yilmazh3127 Not tax the "hell" out of them, but don't let them have megaprofits while the employees who actually produce the goods struggle? And if some giga market cap multinational corps move away from the country because of it, then good riddance because they aren't interested in contributing to the community or sustainability, only in their own profits. Maybe some smaller local businesses will replace them.

  • @DH-zp7bc
    @DH-zp7bc Рік тому +102

    The whole of the UK is now have's and have not's nothing in between. Houses have purposely not been built to keep rents and house prices high. Grown adults living in house share's, with no hope of bettering themselves.

    • @Bulletguy07
      @Bulletguy07 Рік тому

      @D H Thatcher sold off Britains social housing to turn folk into capitalists. Thats where the rot began. Ex-council houses are rented out by private landlords as buyers only had to live in them for a time limit before they could sell which many did, at a huge profit.

    • @TheTonialadd
      @TheTonialadd Рік тому +4

      Sounds like here in the USA.

    • @eg4933
      @eg4933 Рік тому

      well welcome to globalization. The whole world is going to get worse before it gets better imo.

    • @freakinfrugal5268
      @freakinfrugal5268 Рік тому

      Why shouldn't grown adults have houseshares if that is what they can afford. Why should people expect to be given a free home of their own.

    • @DH-zp7bc
      @DH-zp7bc Рік тому +6

      @@freakinfrugal5268 No one should get free anything, but when you look at wages to rents to cost of houses/rent something is wrong. The latter has vastly outstripped the former.

  • @cordeliav3055
    @cordeliav3055 Рік тому +4

    What a wonderful, caring man this is; a really decent human being.

  • @helensproston7312
    @helensproston7312 Рік тому +10

    Great to see someone genuine with a genuine heart actually doing something to help and support people. I think it's absolutely disgusting the way benefits are worked out. The poor lady who had 29p too much in her pension to qualify for help !!! You would think they would give the over qualifying a broader window than 29p ! There's enough money wasted in this country to help everyone who needs it !

  • @user-pd6bd7ir4z
    @user-pd6bd7ir4z Рік тому +81

    as a guy in my thirties, I earn the average UK’s salary my wife doesnt work because we have a baby. Yet we’re dont have it easy either despite living in the North East which is supposedly a bit cheaper than some other areas of the UK. The fact of thr matter is, the UK has the second most expensive child care in the world. Why is that?

    • @SamuelBlack84
      @SamuelBlack84 Рік тому +19

      Glad I don't have kids

    • @annemariecandyflip6531
      @annemariecandyflip6531 Рік тому +5

      I guess at number 1 is The Netherlands? Childcare is very bad arranged and very expensive. Even in the North-East where I reside life is very expensive, even more in some things than the western part of my country! And we're quite isolated here. Public transport is lousy and crazy fares

    • @raijinenel3116
      @raijinenel3116 Рік тому

      It's so that white British don't have children, but they will fund Muslim families to pump out kids and pay for every expense they incur. They want to replace us, freedom loving people, the last defence against Authoritarians.

    • @duncansmith7562
      @duncansmith7562 Рік тому +25

      "we have a baby" = we chose to have a baby.
      presumably you calculated cost of child care before deciding to have the baby?

    • @duncansmith7562
      @duncansmith7562 Рік тому

      supply and demand. parasites living on handouts not really tempted to work in childcare, loads of immigrants with kids that claim childcare.

  • @sherri9300
    @sherri9300 Рік тому +76

    Same thing happening in Canada, the poor get poorer 😢

    • @patttrick
      @patttrick Рік тому +8

      The rich get richer and the poor take the blame.

    • @mitchkmn4
      @mitchkmn4 Рік тому +2

      @Roger Mellie bro put as much punctuation as possible to prove he could 😭

    • @richard7645
      @richard7645 Рік тому

      Never known a government trying to mentally cripple you in all my life!

    • @cakepudding3220
      @cakepudding3220 Рік тому

      @@richard7645 Well the word government means Mind Control in German

    • @milanikolic5309
      @milanikolic5309 Рік тому +2

      Agenda 21

  • @hoodedr6
    @hoodedr6 Рік тому +80

    Videos like this make me realise how lucky I am, at Uni with a car and motorbike, live with my parents rent free and some people are living like this. I feel very guilty for some reason, but I hope they get the help they need.

    • @robjonson629
      @robjonson629 Рік тому +8

      Does Mummy still do your washing ?

    • @hoodedr6
      @hoodedr6 Рік тому +3

      @@robjonson629 Lol

    • @randomsheep1165
      @randomsheep1165 Рік тому +38

      @@robjonson629 I don't know what the purpose of this statement is

    • @Dan-hs8um
      @Dan-hs8um Рік тому +15

      At least your humble bro cant knock yourself for that

    • @Zara-cb1xu
      @Zara-cb1xu Рік тому +11

      Don't feel guilty. You're really smart for doing so, use this opportunity to save as much as you can.

  • @Uthedudeful
    @Uthedudeful Рік тому +131

    Ms. Cargill is clearly an incredibly intelligent and eloquent woman. My heart goes out to her, and everybody else living in poverty. I grew up in poverty, so I know what it is like to have nothing. The newspapers and politicians, both Tory and Labour, want us to believe the working class are bigoted and stupid. It couldn't be further from the truth.

    • @edwinturner1149
      @edwinturner1149 Рік тому +2

      old news,has the elite,big co s,ect,ever cared,its profit before people,ever seen the pic of the poor man running alongside the kings coach with his cap outstretched.?

    • @duncancurtis5971
      @duncancurtis5971 Рік тому +2

      Its not a 70s style demand for wage rises. This is real 💯. Most agree its not enough just to do a 1997 on the Tories but hold Labour to account for the situation.

    • @cheryl5994
      @cheryl5994 Рік тому

      THEY DON’T THINK ANYONE’S STUPID OR BIGOTED AT ALL, THAT’S JUST BEING NARROW MINDED IN ALL FAIRNESS.
      IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU THINK THAT THEIR STUPID.

    • @Uthedudeful
      @Uthedudeful Рік тому

      @@cheryl5994 The politicians are taking us all for a ride. They're treating the public like mugs and the journalists are letting them get away with it.

    • @reasonerenlightened2456
      @reasonerenlightened2456 Рік тому +1

      If the old and the poor just disappear then there would be more for the Wealthy? Then this guy becomes obsolete.

  • @TheVideoGamesHistorian
    @TheVideoGamesHistorian Рік тому +20

    Some idiotic comments on here , First of all the woman with two children was working and had a partner when she had her children ,Life has a habit of changing some of which you have little or no control over ,
    Secondly who can plan for every circumstance especially energy prices which have gone through the roof add on rent increases and mortgage rates ,
    We should not have a need for food banks or warm spaces in a rich country but here we are ,

  • @mikewingert-savagelyerudite
    @mikewingert-savagelyerudite Рік тому +73

    Why aren’t former ‘partners’ paying? Men just seem to walk away. As a man I don’t understand it at all.

    • @TheTonialadd
      @TheTonialadd Рік тому +23

      I was looking for this comment! Where’s the dad? Why isn’t he paying child support???

    • @bloodfiredrake7259
      @bloodfiredrake7259 Рік тому +11

      Why should he have to? Women get to choose whether they want to be parents, why not men?

    • @mikewingert-savagelyerudite
      @mikewingert-savagelyerudite Рік тому

      @@TheTonialadd correct. Men are such feckless vermin.

    • @mikewingert-savagelyerudite
      @mikewingert-savagelyerudite Рік тому

      @@bloodfiredrake7259 The money is for the children; they are innocent in all this. Both parents, whether enjoying full custody or not, must pay for any children. Most men are feckless lazy vermin; knuckle draggers when it comes to their children.

    • @bloodfiredrake7259
      @bloodfiredrake7259 Рік тому

      @@mikewingert-savagelyerudite Are you a leftist or feminist?

  • @RobertSmith-rj9md
    @RobertSmith-rj9md Рік тому +1

    Heart goes out to these People xx makes me feel so so lucky and Grateful xx

  • @VinylFrontier81
    @VinylFrontier81 Рік тому +10

    its not just single parents that are fighting this battle. me and my wife struggle daily to make ends meet for our kids. working adds nothing. the more we earn the more the gov wants to take. its a never ending shit pit. bless to all who are struggling.

  • @palehorse6250
    @palehorse6250 Рік тому +47

    Look at the level of STRESS being inflicted upon the working class!! Funny thing is, when the working class is so focused on trying to just get by, they have a lot harder time being involved in political issues, and affecting change while their CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT rips them off and ignores the social disaster they've created. My god people, start voting for progressive candidates and parties who want to HELP YOU!

    • @Manc268
      @Manc268 Рік тому

      maybe, but look over the pond & even the votes are suspect

    • @Manc268
      @Manc268 Рік тому

      @Roger Mellie shouldnt you be on the telly ?

    • @laetitialogan2017
      @laetitialogan2017 Рік тому

      100 % correct

    • @Manc268
      @Manc268 Рік тому

      you say they 'want to help' ?? but do they ? really? i dont think people believe that anymore. The history of pItch forks & guy fawkes are now fully understood.

    • @hassyg4083
      @hassyg4083 Рік тому +1

      working class are idiots to follow the government. should forge their own lives

  • @mike.B.1
    @mike.B.1 Рік тому +45

    Perhaps you should interview people who are not jobless & single parents. People who are in full time employment on minimum salary without kids. How do they manage to pay their bills?

    • @pussygalore731
      @pussygalore731 Рік тому +1

      Well they obviously manage to pay their bills otherwise they wouldn't go out to work

    • @elizaann1888
      @elizaann1888 Рік тому +20

      @@bobjames6622 You are brave, people don't like facing the truth about offspring. If you can't feed, don't breed.

    • @kieran5191
      @kieran5191 Рік тому

      @@bobjames6622 pedophile.

    • @7arboreal
      @7arboreal Рік тому +2

      She isn't jobless.

    • @HarvesterYT
      @HarvesterYT Рік тому +9

      @@elizaann1888 Raising a child is at least an eighteen year commitment. It's easy to look at the current economic instability and say 'shouldn't have had a kid' but just 2 or 3 years ago it was impossible to predict what's happening now.

  • @stephenloudon5833
    @stephenloudon5833 Рік тому +4

    Keep up your amazing and compassionate work Gary! You must be a hero and a shining star to so many people. You will indeed be richly blessed. I admire you. Love from South Africa. God bless.

  • @alikamal3464
    @alikamal3464 Рік тому +7

    Some of the best humans you will ever meet live in places like this.

  • @khadsykoo2528
    @khadsykoo2528 Рік тому +13

    All MPs should take a pay cut and live on the wages the general public are living on so they truly understand the struggles. The lack of empathy is allowing them to make stupid policies and decisions.

  • @thomaslai5303
    @thomaslai5303 Рік тому +52

    Good man Gary, god bless you.

    • @sammacdaibheid
      @sammacdaibheid Рік тому

      ​@Roger Mellie you should change your name to Colin Robinson.

  • @l6outinthestix46
    @l6outinthestix46 Рік тому +16

    Big up to these people

  • @barnbersonol
    @barnbersonol Рік тому +5

    These docs never show what rough council estate are really really like. You have to live in that world to properly know.

  • @DaRkLoRd-rc5yu
    @DaRkLoRd-rc5yu Рік тому +33

    She'd have to earn an extra £1000 a month to afford childcare to work full time at £50 a day 5 days a week. So to make it worth it she'd have to earn more than that extra.

    • @pocolol8424
      @pocolol8424 Рік тому +2

      If she rents private she might have to find some money to pay for what the benefit cap doesn’t cover as well.

    • @PotatoPirate123
      @PotatoPirate123 Рік тому +8

      Yes her Universal Credit would surely drop massively if she earned over £1000 more, which is why so many people don't see the point in working full time

    • @kamaldeepjohal9372
      @kamaldeepjohal9372 Рік тому +6

      What about child maintenance and the role of the father?

    • @PotatoPirate123
      @PotatoPirate123 Рік тому +7

      @@kamaldeepjohal9372 the father might no longer be alive. Sometimes a change in fortune revolves around the death of a parent, and if they don’t have life insurance or it doesn’t pay out then you basically lose a huge amount of support forever.

    • @kamaldeepjohal9372
      @kamaldeepjohal9372 Рік тому

      @@PotatoPirate123 yeah you're right.

  • @elgun6125
    @elgun6125 Рік тому +13

    This will only get worse with the energy crisis. It’s not just the food, it’s the cold. My house is freezing.

  • @anthonyfox5587
    @anthonyfox5587 Рік тому +2

    as someone who has grown up in this area, (halewood), and with all of my family still there, i really didnt know that, just shows what people are going through

  • @johnkennedy9222
    @johnkennedy9222 Рік тому +36

    I am from Knowsley. Kirkby and Huyton are 2 of the toughest areas in the country. It’s a disgrace the way these poor people are left to rot.

    • @hassyg4083
      @hassyg4083 Рік тому +1

      peddle drugs and they will come outa poverty

    • @Taharqo.saved.the.Hebrew
      @Taharqo.saved.the.Hebrew Рік тому

      Come to Brixton and see how people live there shootings and stabbings everyday and weekly murders, it's so normal it doesn't even make mainstream news anymore

    • @duncancurtis5971
      @duncancurtis5971 Рік тому +1

      I spent time in L8 in the 90s. Fantastic community spirit, lovely to outsiders.

    • @tomosullivan5970
      @tomosullivan5970 Рік тому +4

      I’m from St Helens, and it’s the exact same here

    • @paulamos8781
      @paulamos8781 Рік тому +1

      Tough area with some dangerous out of control dogs costing up to £800 a time. Been attacked twice. I work in the area as a tradesman for Social Housing groups..

  • @vickimarlene4905
    @vickimarlene4905 9 місяців тому +3

    I’ve cut back on food, showering everyday, heating. Life is tough here in Oz too for pensioners. I rent privately which takes up two thirds of my fortnightly pension. Reasonable accommodation is so hard to get now. My rental is cheap compared to other places. It’s a dire situation and I’m worried about my future at 68.

  • @alexdiaconu7979
    @alexdiaconu7979 Рік тому +19

    The biggest shortage of this county is not money, but proper financial EDUCATION. Basic knowledge of budgeting, planning, saving and investing.

    • @PHlophe
      @PHlophe Рік тому

      Alexandru they are doing that part ok but we should be able to have schools and sports activities in most neighborhood like i did when i was a kid.

    • @allip4226
      @allip4226 Рік тому +5

      You can't budget your way out of tripling energy bills and double digit inflation on minimum wage.

    • @HumansAreShitFactories
      @HumansAreShitFactories Рік тому

      @@allip4226 therein lies the problem

    • @Fishka5678
      @Fishka5678 Рік тому +3

      Yes !!!
      People complain they dont have money but order take away for £30. You can cook a good dinner with meat for a family for that for a week!

    • @romystumpy1197
      @romystumpy1197 Рік тому

      @@PHlophe I agree, I've always been prudent,this energy crisis should be a wake up call to millions whom squander money

  • @matthewgreen9062
    @matthewgreen9062 Рік тому +4

    I will get slagged for this but I say things as it is
    If you don’t work and don’t have savings then don’t have kids . It’s not fair on the children living in a shit hole without food and clean clothes.
    Young parents if you don’t work and you haven’t got a minimum of 15k per child then don’t have kids . Spend a £1 and put something on the end of it !!
    Don’t put children in these conditions. IT MAKES ME SICK!!! You only yourself to blame simple

  • @iandarall4551
    @iandarall4551 Рік тому +12

    I was a single parent with 2 small lads .I was lucky I was self employed doing manual work mostly for middle class people .I was taking kids to work with me .sometimes they liked it sometimes not .sometimes customers said it was cruel and took em in to watch telly while I did the work .anyway b4 they left school they was able to do about 40 different jobs professionally from drains to roofing .fencing slabbing brickwork ,all sorts lof woodwork recycling .they have never been out of work

    • @christinecatt8039
      @christinecatt8039 9 місяців тому +1

      You will always have work and never starve, if you train to become either an electrican or a plumber..
      There will always be a need for your services. 🙂

  • @justsomekid33
    @justsomekid33 Рік тому +106

    People deserve to live in dignity and decency. I'd say lets hope for an uprising against the Tories but are Labour genuinely going to change anything? I'm in despair at it all.

    • @sandrafinbar
      @sandrafinbar Рік тому +3

      Everyone says vote Reform.

    • @notjustforhackers4252
      @notjustforhackers4252 Рік тому

      Labour proved last night they don't care about the people or what they want. They just want more voters to get them in power. Only a fool would vote for either of the entrapment parties.

    • @notjustforhackers4252
      @notjustforhackers4252 Рік тому +2

      @Me Again Well, ain't you nice. These people and their situation are a direct result of political policy.

    • @IBTU
      @IBTU Рік тому +1

      No two hands of the same monster

    • @edwardbernthal160
      @edwardbernthal160 Рік тому +2

      @@sandrafinbar no they do not, not if they are sensible.

  • @muneebsandhu6834
    @muneebsandhu6834 Рік тому +104

    This is a situation in first world country. It is impossible to imagine the lives of African and Asian peoples who are grappling with many other problems apart from poverty. 33 million people in Pakistan are currently living in makeshift camps alongside roads due to unprecedented floods this year. Another tragedy is of winter season.

    • @justsomebloke6784
      @justsomebloke6784 Рік тому +7

      Yes, I see all of that and cannot imagine the despair they live with every day. I'm not sure how we consider ourselves civilised when tragedies such as these are allowed to continue without major mobilisations of aid from first world countries. I put stuff in food bank collections every time I go shopping, but there is nothing spare after that for people elsewhere. I think at heart, most people would agree to their countries doing more, but poverty is relative to the circumstances of your life, and I don't think those that are struggling already even have the mental space to be able to consider the lot of people starving half a world away when they can't feed their own kids. That is not to say they don't care, but what can they do?

    • @justk2575
      @justk2575 Рік тому +38

      This situation is unfortunate. However, I agree with the comments on Pakistan etc. I live in a third world country.. I grew up poor, so did my parents.. they worked VERY hard to send me to school etc .. I studied in the uk for 3 years and I was always amazed at the quality, variety and price of food compared to here. It’s so expensive where I live. We learn from an early age to cut and contrive and go without. The difference between needs and wants. If you don’t have go without, if you have little make do with what you have. I think it’s a huge shock for the uk because their basic is another’s luxury. It’s adaption and survival skills. Learning to make meals stretch. Learning how to cook very cheap and affordable meals.. even skipping a meal here and there. This is not uncommon in other parts of the world. I’m not saying it’s ideal but this is the reality. I’ve been looking at loads of videos like this .. people well dressed. Nice house, amenities , stoves, electricity etc .. they don’t look as though they’ve missed a meal in their lives .. it’s a stark contract to poverty in other countries where you see people emaciated, homeless etc.
      This is a shock to the people of Britain and o hope they learn to adapt to the situation.. we don’t have food banks or grants or anything like that.. community centres that do free meals etc… o do loads of charity and help meal feeding programs etc to the homeless , the starving etc.. when I see poverty and hunger.. it’s a far cry from this.
      I hope things improve. I hope the situation in Ukraine is resolved.. and I hope this brings communities closer, I hope no one forgets the survival tips tricks and hacks and even when things improve, I hope they continue to budget and save.
      Budget the hell out of it until things improve.. here .. we’ve live on a budget all the time.. regardless of things improve .. budget.
      You never know when hard times can hit and things just keep going up and getting harder..
      I do one meal a day as it’s cheaper . I walk more to save on petrol. I don’t use my ac unless it’s blazing hot , I turn it off at night .. etc .. things to save… it’s all we can do..

    • @pajeetkumar1645
      @pajeetkumar1645 Рік тому

      Pakistanis are always moaning etc, if you want to see real malnutrition just come to India. We are ranked 102 on the Global hunger index that's worse than all our neighbours and most African nations.

    • @pajeetkumar1645
      @pajeetkumar1645 Рік тому

      @@kevinheath7588 you think it's good news that India is ranked amongst the worse for global hunger ?

    • @yilmazh3127
      @yilmazh3127 Рік тому

      Well the reality is, that is what happens to non oil rich countries that cling onto religion and corrupt politics. There’s a reason why countries that adopt western style laws and political structures start to thrive. And my country Turkey is going backwards now because the uneducated people here are voting for religious nuts that continue to exploit the country and it’s people

  • @gordon4672
    @gordon4672 Рік тому +8

    I sort of noticed that a lot of these interviews are with single parent households

  • @daz0086
    @daz0086 Рік тому +76

    There is a simple solution to this, get the major supermarkets to stop throwing away produce. Milk, eggs, bread, so much is wasted because of silly strict out of date rules. They can ship these items around the area and feed these who are needed. The government needs to stand up for those in need. Also provide those in need a simple card that gives them a massive percentage off goods when shopping, say 80 to 90% off the bill.

    • @Tha3rdworldghost
      @Tha3rdworldghost Рік тому

      It too big of a risk. You will always get some dick head who sues becausing the milk was a little bit off.

    • @edwinturner1149
      @edwinturner1149 Рік тому +10

      it would help if food was cheaper at the big 4,it could be

    • @Olliebear38
      @Olliebear38 Рік тому +9

      Supermarkets are too concerned about how much money they can save by reducing their food waste instead of supporting communities who are in need of support. Let's not be misunderstood here their community programmes and money they raise for local charities is so far off the mark its insulting in comparison to their profits 📈 I worked for 11 years in supermarket retail and believe when I say they do not care about people.

    • @nico101gaming
      @nico101gaming Рік тому

      The government passed a bill where food can’t be thrown in the bin anymore. Most stuff is collected and donated to charity. Tesco for example use Fareshare and have donated over 145 million meals since 2016.

    • @hassyg4083
      @hassyg4083 Рік тому +4

      or get English government to invest in North

  • @mike.B.1
    @mike.B.1 Рік тому +29

    5:27 she has better housing than me. And I work full time.

    • @TheSebiestor
      @TheSebiestor Рік тому +14

      Paid for for by your taxes

    • @SA-ff9uc
      @SA-ff9uc Рік тому +1

      She can afford a kid, a house and a car and duck lips. She would have been living in a crowded slum 100 years ago and arguably still should be.

    • @RotatableHorse
      @RotatableHorse Рік тому +8

      Yeah, she will get child benefits for two, the father will provide child allowance and she no doubt will get some sort of housing allowance.

    • @Jane-rc2rk
      @Jane-rc2rk Рік тому +20

      She’s explained…her children are very young. She used to work full time and bought those things when she was fully employed and with a partner. Everyone’s circumstances can change overnight, literally; those nice things don’t suddenly disappear. Surely you don’t begrudge her a nice home?

    • @kieran5191
      @kieran5191 Рік тому

      @@Jane-rc2rk bullshit. She’s got her hair don’t professionally and is plumper than a Christmas turkey, poor my arse.

  • @liveitlarge68
    @liveitlarge68 Рік тому +12

    To all the single parents being mentioned, I really do want to know where are the fathers and their contributions??

    • @lucydawson1344
      @lucydawson1344 Рік тому +1

      My ex barely pays enough maintenance each month to cover a weekly shop. Luckily I’ve now remarried and my husband and I both work full time! He used to pay even less when my twins were tiny and I was a single parent (left him when they were 6 months old) a fellow single parent I knew received £550 a month maintenance from her ex for just one kid but were not all lucky enough to see that much!

    • @Livbythecode
      @Livbythecode Рік тому

      @@lucydawson1344this is why you marry men that have much to lose and much to share 😂 prioritising money & love equally is not a bad thing, even though society makes it seem like women are bad for being gold diggers. We are the ones always taking care of the kids by ourselves and money helps greatly with such a huge responsibility.

    • @liveitlarge68
      @liveitlarge68 Рік тому +5

      @@lucydawson1344 I’m sorry, but don’t have kids if you cannot afford them and then expect people like me to pay more taxes so my family gets less due to your choices.

    • @mattyr3724
      @mattyr3724 Рік тому

      @@Livbythecodewiling to look after kids? No majority of you are to lazy to work. And woman like yourself are the sole reason men these days don’t want fulfilling relationships and marriages 🚩

    • @mattyr3724
      @mattyr3724 Рік тому +2

      @@lucydawson1344Why is it down to a man to provide that much? Let’s be honest what ever a man provides never goes on the kid. Surely you should want to be the one who gives your kid everything oh wait woman don’t have any moral compass apart from take take take

  • @paulpalmer8235
    @paulpalmer8235 Рік тому +2

    Very sad watching this - fantastic organisation that is really helping people atm 👏

  • @davidbaillie2087
    @davidbaillie2087 Рік тому +57

    This young man does a beautiful thing, caring for others. As a Canadian we have the food banks that don't go far enough, but at least people have the option.
    I looked where Knowsley is situated and notice it is between Blackburn, Liverpool and Manchester and I have to wonder why the major sports teams don't support a charity like this, or maybe they do. Each club could donate a million GBP and support SO many people.
    I know it isn't our right to tell others to do with the money but to sit by and watch seniors or children not surviving would be extremely hard. A hand up, not a hand out, is the way I always donate and I am a pensioner.

    • @fugginbazza
      @fugginbazza Рік тому +15

      Many clubs do support charities such as Everton with their Everton In The Community with its programmes tackling issues such as mental health, employability, dementia, education, disability, poverty and homelessness in and around Liverpool, Knowsley included. They generate a hell of a lot more than one million pounds per year.
      But these problems will continue to get worse as even multi million pound charities cannot tackle the societal impact of a failed Tory Government which will do nothing to upset the balance of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

    • @davidbaillie2087
      @davidbaillie2087 Рік тому

      @@fugginbazza Thank you for letting me know that they do support them. Our local NHL team have a foundation that gives millions of dollars to support the community, but the NHL is such a smaller scale compared to the EPL.

    • @mickharrison9004
      @mickharrison9004 Рік тому

      Very well said freind but we generally live in an uncaring society , though there is one man united player who shouts out for the poor ,end of the day the main reason it's got as bad as it has is Tory rats have been in power over 12 years .

    • @stshnie
      @stshnie Рік тому +6

      If you look at any list of the most deprived neighbourhoods in England you’ll see that Blackburn, Liverpool and Manchester are also in the top ten,as well as Knowsley. Many of these places are former industrial towns and cities that generated the wealth of the country but now do not offer as many opportunities.
      Also see if you can find on the map Halton (near Knowsley), Blackpool, Oldham, Salford, Rochdale, Burnley and Pendle (near Burnley) - these are all also in the top 20 most deprived areas. Nobody is sitting by and watching people not survive. We also have food banks. Donations from football clubs just isn’t enough. There need to be better solutions. The first lady wanted to work but couldn’t because childcare is too expensive. The government should subsidise childcare.

    • @davidbaillie2087
      @davidbaillie2087 Рік тому +2

      @@stshnie Thank you for additional information. The response from local citizens is outstanding and it helps us people from far away understand your local are and allow us to see how much that people worldwide have the same view of helping their neighbours.

  • @ZimnaSophie
    @ZimnaSophie Рік тому +12

    Yeah the government needs to do something regarding childcare - the current situation is appalling, i don't know any nurseries that charge £50.00 in my area , all of them nowcharge £70.00-£80.00 a day it's crazy.

    • @jkfd97
      @jkfd97 Рік тому +1

      How about having children with a man that would allow you to stay home and mother your children like a real woman should? Oh wait, you're too desperate to be a slave to another man at work. Classic. 🤡🤡🤡
      Bless your children. They deserve so much better. I hope they pull through. 🙏

    • @Simon-pg1bm
      @Simon-pg1bm Рік тому +2

      It should be capped at £100 per month, but in a low tax country like the United Kingdom it's not possible unfortunately.

    • @erinkinsella91
      @erinkinsella91 Рік тому

      @@jkfd97 ohhh I found the sexist, shut up you're making a fool of yourself.

    • @jkfd97
      @jkfd97 Рік тому

      @@erinkinsella91 Make me. 😌

    • @erinkinsella91
      @erinkinsella91 Рік тому +1

      @@jkfd97 you havent even got a good comeback, jesus you're sadder than I thought.

  • @markc7440
    @markc7440 Рік тому +10

    I was raised in one of the areas next to Halewood and Knowsley, Speke being just over the boundary in Liverpool City Council area. There are a few areas within Knowsley and Liverpool areas that aren't as bad off, and if they were taken out of the equation areas such as Halewood, Huyton (well one side of it), Speke, Toxteth etc would be shown in an even more desperate situation. I don't live in the area now, work took me away, but whenever I am back I still see people struggling. This in a country that is one of the richest in the World.

    • @ilaria298
      @ilaria298 Рік тому +2

      I live in Speke and it’s desperate here right now, see ppl raiding bins outside Morrisons

    • @markc7440
      @markc7440 Рік тому +1

      @j0000shua I know that not the whole of Knowsley is terrible, I used to date a girl from the Roby area and it was nice (although a bit boring) around there. I also dated someone from the Archway Rd area and that was more rough, but more like Speke where I grew up.

    • @markc7440
      @markc7440 Рік тому +1

      @@ilaria298 I am shocked to hear that it's got so bad. It's never been a very rich area, not even just before my time when there were lots of jobs at Ford's factory.
      The big redevelopment of the Parade when the park was lost due to lies by the developer and Council didn't help (I was still living there at the time and where the pitches are now behind the old library were supposed to be part of the new park and the site of the old Speke Comp school).
      Speke has some good people, like the ones who run the Venny, but unfortunately it has more than its fair share of bad ones too.

    • @ilaria298
      @ilaria298 Рік тому +1

      @@markc7440 it’s defiantly a tale of two cities I live at the bottom close to the shops on alderwood, and we’re not so bad here, but see terrible things lately and hear stories, the sweet old lady next to me has to have her boiler turned off, she comes in to mine for hot water and some warmth, it’s disgraceful, the ppl at the venny and the church at the Noah’s ark are wonderful, they have a food bank

    • @mickharrison9004
      @mickharrison9004 Рік тому +2

      Thing is the rich don't like us .

  • @iabaca
    @iabaca Рік тому +2

    Childcare is the number 1 problem in my opinion. £50 a day is half a good salary...that's £1000 a month....that's a mortgage payment for a 200k house...how do parents expect to have a decent life with kids if it's that expensive to stay working.

  • @African.Diaspora.InLondonUK
    @African.Diaspora.InLondonUK Рік тому +2

    My 92 year old, elderly neighbor in hackney, eats every 2 days.
    We always checking on him.

  • @GerryMcGuigan-gx3sj
    @GerryMcGuigan-gx3sj Рік тому +4

    How come they all seem to have rather nice homes? What about the people who are actually homeless and sleeping on the streets?

  • @stellayates1594
    @stellayates1594 Рік тому +26

    Younger people may find it hard to believe that twenty odd years ago food banks were not necessary. The change has come about as rent and energy costs cannot be supported within benefit levels.

    • @tanyajackson622
      @tanyajackson622 Рік тому +2

      people use food banks because they can.

    • @riveness
      @riveness Рік тому

      @@tanyajackson622 wrong and ignorant idiots like you add to the destruction of our services.
      You get referred to foidbanks by social services. Referred. There was s no can. There is a need because of ignorant attitudes like yours

    • @tanyajackson622
      @tanyajackson622 Рік тому +4

      @@riveness nope, not always darling. I know this for sure.

    • @riveness
      @riveness Рік тому +2

      @@tanyajackson622 then I am sure you can spell out those conditions and your qualifications. You won't tho as you are a habitual liar. What percentage of food parcels come under your conditions?
      There are a small number of trusts that do not ask for referrals and nearly all foodbanks will give our t an emergency package. However referral is required for further parcels.

    • @tanyajackson622
      @tanyajackson622 Рік тому

      @@riveness Churches and charities that run food banks do not require a referral darling. Now you can relax and breathe instead of frothing at the mouth. Merry Christmas you triggered old cow x

  • @pfauniversal1890
    @pfauniversal1890 Рік тому +2

    There's a huge underclass in mainland Britain now.

  • @5threelborn
    @5threelborn Рік тому +6

    I Lost my wife in first lockdown then my job and the bills started mounting up I didn't know where to turn. It's true what they say We're 2 paychecks away from being homeless so much pressure

    • @notimetodienttd1115
      @notimetodienttd1115 Рік тому +1

      So sorry for your loss and hard circumstances...Wishing you healing, strength and peace..Stay safe 🙏💕

  • @philcooper279
    @philcooper279 Рік тому +25

    If you are a single parent, working part time, you are going to struggle in these times of difficulty.

    • @CJ_YT.
      @CJ_YT. Рік тому +1

      @@rogermellie3724 they didnt choose it either

    • @jacwindsor5552
      @jacwindsor5552 Рік тому +2

      @Roger Mellie Exactly. Kids are expensive burden.

    • @CJ_YT.
      @CJ_YT. Рік тому +2

      @@rogermellie3724 that's a very good point, whether or not the child was planned, the parents should first consider their financial situation, depending on the nature of the parents, they might want to keep the baby whether they're ready or not. Logically thinking this is irresponsible, but I can empathise and understand that once they're aware of the pregnancy, they may feel obliged to keep and raise them.

    • @jkfd97
      @jkfd97 Рік тому

      @@CJ_YT. Their kids didn't choose to be born to parents that are financially irresponsible either.
      You hate children. Just admit it. You support murdering them in the womb too, don't you? Let the truth set your stubborn heart free. Acceptance will change your life.

    • @jkfd97
      @jkfd97 Рік тому

      @@jacwindsor5552 No, kids are a blessing and the most valuable treasure in the entire world but women like you decide they're good for nothing more than some extra income and validation of your ovaries.
      You hate children. You're not a real woman. You are the reason why English women will go extinct and the world will LAUGH as they do. 😂😂😂
      True justice will be served.

  • @michaeljones1802
    @michaeljones1802 Рік тому +28

    This is the future trickle-down promised us.

    • @michaeljones1802
      @michaeljones1802 Рік тому

      @@jpross68 Who could have thought giving all the money to the wealthy would obliterate the lower-middle class. Shocking.

  • @owent1166
    @owent1166 Рік тому +25

    People have such a lack of nuance in their thinking, they apply a broad brush and denigrate people for living and being human. For some reason these people feel entitled and justified in their condemnation, I have to wonder does it come from an emotional place and a quietly held belief of ‘I’m entitled to vocalise my opinion because I feel you’ve got more than you deserve based on my mood’… I honestly wonder if it’s anything more than peoples moodiness.

    • @jaijai5250
      @jaijai5250 Рік тому +1

      @Owen are Thomas. You’re correct. I’m of the firm belief that people shouldn’t be allowed to vote, buy newspapers, or post comments on public forums until they have passed an advanced Critical and Thinking test; and are able to produce the certificate.
      That would certainly reduce the amount of subjective, poorly reasoned comments.

    • @rayosullivan4398
      @rayosullivan4398 Рік тому

      They need to drop the bong and go work like normal people do there has to be something different going on with these people

  • @mariacordova6105
    @mariacordova6105 Рік тому +13

    It is shocking seeing that people struggled everywhere even in richest countries. When I see the royal family and their life style I don’t associate people in England living in poor conditions. Gary is a true hero. I applaud and respect him.

    • @tobiasmccallum9697
      @tobiasmccallum9697 10 місяців тому

      We destroyed the traditional family structure. Notice its single parent families who are struggling most. That is our fault as a society for destroying the family by creating a welfare state
      One parent works, one parent looks after the kids. Now we have 2 parents paying for 2 homes, and paying for childcare ontop of it, as they both have to work....... does that sound logical to you? No

  • @richardhayman4868
    @richardhayman4868 Рік тому +27

    I'm in the USA, but it doesn't matter where you're from; poverty is debilitating. What makes me sick is that we are all too willing to make documentaries like this, and wring our hands about poverty, as though it is some disease affecting beings on another planet, and yet we seem to expect so little in the way of progress. We effectively have peonage in much of the Western world, and we heard it, yet again: I want to work, I want to do better for myself and for my family, but every time I try to do better, then my real costs actually increase, and I'm worse off than I would have been had I done nothing. That is real. Meanwhile, do-gooders try to blunt the effect of policy, but it's like trying to bail a sinking ship with a teaspoon. It's no accident that so many people are forced to live this way, and the entire society bears responsibility. It doesn't have to be this way. Is it that intolerable to think that we could cut a little from the top in order to put an end to structural peonage?

    • @FourDollaRacing
      @FourDollaRacing Рік тому

      The West's opposition to communism is more important than its own citizens... didn't you get the memo?

    • @justsomebloke6784
      @justsomebloke6784 Рік тому

      Yes, to those that feel entitled to their stupendous wealth, it is intolerable. Here in the UK, sycophantic pseudo-scientists came up with eugenics to justify the rightness of those that have so much, having so much. It was then exported around the world and informed some of the horrors visited on "useless eaters" in the US in an attempt to eradicate that part of society. The nazis thought it was a great idea too, as do many of the alt-right movements around the world today. Nothing like "othering" people to ignore their pain.

    • @jennifermarie3158
      @jennifermarie3158 Рік тому +1

      Preach

    • @freakinfrugal5268
      @freakinfrugal5268 Рік тому +1

      Why should every poor person expect the government to cover their expenses and provide a certain standard of living? There is too much dependence. And then people get indignant when the safety net cannot keep up.

    • @richardhayman4868
      @richardhayman4868 Рік тому +7

      @@freakinfrugal5268 Well, you're not alone in feeling this way, and I can remember when I would say the same thing. Notwithstanding the question of whether democracy and capitalism can peacefully co-exist in a world of increasing competition for resources, and skipping a whole bunch of important and interesting points along the way, I think the bottom line is that we don't have open, accessible, and equitable competition...only the idea of such. What we have is a very structured and intentional system that ensures a steady supply of humans in need. When I recognized that, then it became problematic to think of people in need as parasites, rather than amazing human beings who were arbitrarily born to the "wrong" families, or with skin too dark, or accent too thick, or on the "wrong" side of the tracks. I stopped swallowing the bologna sandwich (bs) propaganda when I realized it was being authored by the people trying to preserve their way of life on the other side of the tracks.

  • @saturationstation1446
    @saturationstation1446 Рік тому +18

    usa here - total amount of meals i've had this year = 65 - 70. pretty typical for how most of my life has gone if measuring it as nutrition instead of just putting anything in my stomach. you can be full and not be getting anywhere close to what your body needs to prevent it from starting to break itself down to get the stuff our vital organs need every day. most of the stuff people eat here is so low nutrition idk how we call it food. its all junk/snacks here. because laws are very different state to state and its near impossible to change states if you are impoverished, some people can get more help than others in this country. i live in a state that wont help people unless they are pretty much on their death bed, have kids they cant afford, or are decades older than i am. employers dont need a reason to fire anyone in my state. they try their hardest to pay as close to minimum wage as possible, and minimum wage is 1/6th the cost of living in my state right now. basically its impossible to stay alive unless you know a bunch of generous well off people or were born into financial stability here..

    • @portman8909
      @portman8909 Рік тому +4

      Funny thing is I bet you're still like 200 pounds.

    • @annaredding
      @annaredding Рік тому

      move. it's not worth it. 😕

    • @freakinfrugal5268
      @freakinfrugal5268 Рік тому +1

      rice and beans. delicious.

    • @hassyg4083
      @hassyg4083 Рік тому +1

      true most of the ready meals they sell in stores are low in nutrients

  • @tatsf
    @tatsf Рік тому +8

    Here in the US it is often the case that economically deprived areas are often very dangerous as well. I've never been to the UK, is the same true there? The people's places visited looked quite nice and many seniors and children. I hope that they can at least feel safe walking around their neighborhood as needed! Such a sad situation for so many, as is here as well.

    • @alexanderturton8731
      @alexanderturton8731 Рік тому +8

      Low income neighbourhoods in the UK as well tend to have higher crime rates than richer neighbourhoods. We have much lower murder rates in general than in the USA (most likely due to it being much harder to access guns), but gang activity, drugs, robbery, assault things like that all increase in these neighbourhoods (on average).

    • @002lisamarie
      @002lisamarie 10 місяців тому +3

      In the Black/Asian deprived areas yes. The same as the US. Crime is quite bad in white deprived areas, which are often full of people of Irish origin.

    • @pataleno
      @pataleno 10 місяців тому +2

      The difference is you can walk around these places during the day and you would get no problems. You’d certainly get out alive.

    • @002lisamarie
      @002lisamarie 10 місяців тому

      @@pataleno Only because we have less people of colour.

    • @cloakanddaggersice2626
      @cloakanddaggersice2626 5 місяців тому

      Total bollocks to say this area halewood isn't safe it's more than that it is Neighborliness..

  • @Lcm2003
    @Lcm2003 Рік тому +8

    Bless Gary and everyone who tries their best to help people in need. Politics have failed us all, so communities must stick together and look out for each other ❤

  • @paulos9900
    @paulos9900 Рік тому +23

    I'm seeing their housing and I don't know if they own it or if it's rented but all I can say is that it is FAR better than where i'm living in EVERY way.
    I don't know the exact details of their money issues but they all have far more than I do.

    • @nervousheadache
      @nervousheadache Рік тому +11

      You obviously didn’t listen to what that first lady interviewed said, she bought most of what is in her home while she was in full time work, on a much better wage and while the price of goods and services wasn’t as high as it currently is.
      Just because you deem their homes to be nicer does not mean that they are not also struggling like you, which they very clearly are.

    • @cypruswez
      @cypruswez Рік тому +8

      She stated all her furniture etc dates back to when she was with a partner who was working full time, as she was. Hard won I dare say.

    • @annaredding
      @annaredding Рік тому +6

      @@nervousheadache Other documentaries on people on benefits often show people living in better circumstances than plenty of the working people. She also said 'missed a payment on her car.' C'mon. Many working people walk/take inconvenient buses, stay at home but work from home some customer service job/part time sales job, etc. In 5 years time when her kids are all at school there is going to be a different excuse.

    • @hmmmmm2634
      @hmmmmm2634 Рік тому

      I’ll give you exact details….they’re single parents of 2/3/4 kids, get free housing, housing benefit, council tax rebate, universal credit, help with uniforms/school lunches etc. They have no intention of working because everything is paid for including their hair, nails, plumped lips and nights out, all courtesy of the idiot tax payer!

    • @italianstallion9170
      @italianstallion9170 Рік тому

      @@nervousheadache yeh, only 10-15% of the benefit class are workshy, feckless, ne'er do wells!

  • @barrywalsh7926
    @barrywalsh7926 Рік тому +19

    "Stef has got two children", but where is her husband and/or the father (s) of her children? Is he contributing to the cost of raising his children? The interviewer didn't ask the question.

    • @daniellebrogan8699
      @daniellebrogan8699 Рік тому +5

      Clearly not

    • @thepathofguidance5684
      @thepathofguidance5684 Рік тому +1

      If the father is known then he is obliged to contribute or face jail. Unless the house and the mod cons were part of the deal.

    • @sarahroberts7374
      @sarahroberts7374 Рік тому +4

      If he's not working they take £7 out of his universal credit if he is working he is probably obliged to send £50 a week.
      Put it this way it doesn't cover the rent even if he is contributing to the legal minimum requirement.

    • @sarahroberts7374
      @sarahroberts7374 Рік тому +2

      @@thepathofguidance5684 Contribute or face jail what country are you in? Can you name one Dad in the UK who has gone to jail for none payment of child support that is literally not how it works at all.
      If the Dad refuses to pay then the CMS can take it directly out of his earnings and the mother takes a percentage deduction to cover the cost of them recovering it.

    • @crunchynuts793
      @crunchynuts793 Рік тому

      You dickheads instantly blame the father's!???? I know from my own personal experience and many good men's that the women are often total c@nts and refuse access to our children for no other reason than to cause pain!! Even when we pay extortionate amounts of cash we are still tortured and when we find our lives in tatters with depression from losing our children and souls ...NOBODY IS THERE FOR US!!!! lots of these womens situations are self inflicted and they also chose to have kids with shit head drug dealers and losers!!! Don't cast all men in this bracket! Many of us are good hard working loving men who are absent through no choice of our own!

  • @victorrivera-um3uj
    @victorrivera-um3uj Рік тому +1

    God bless this people who support in many ways to anothers in need

  • @colleenlongardner2692
    @colleenlongardner2692 Рік тому +2

    It's been studied and said the quickest way for children to live in poverty is to be raised by a single mother. So why are there still so many such children now with all the birth control means available?

  • @SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz
    @SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz Рік тому +11

    In other words
    People used to think
    This was an issue in other countries
    Not anymore
    It's everywhere

    • @vice.nor.virtue
      @vice.nor.virtue Рік тому +5

      It has _never_ been a secret that there is poverty and deprevation in the UK. Sadly, especially the north.

    • @SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz
      @SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz Рік тому

      @@vice.nor.virtue youtube help to let folks know

    • @italianstallion9170
      @italianstallion9170 Рік тому

      that why we should stop sending money to people just o live in deserts and paces where nothing grows or rivers flow, and the illegals as well.

    • @vice.nor.virtue
      @vice.nor.virtue Рік тому

      @@SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz For those that are a little tardy to the party. IT doesn't happen that frequently, but there are a few reports every year from makor news outlets that really show how effed up the UK can be. It's embarrassing considering we were once the wealthiest nation on earth and we can't even look after everyone at home.

    • @SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz
      @SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz Рік тому

      @@vice.nor.virtue the UK isn't alone
      Even for us in the US, we are having many problem
      The only hope we have is Jesus
      The corrupt Governments aren't doing anything for us

  • @angelamullen4850
    @angelamullen4850 Рік тому +16

    Thank you Gary , your passion to help others is a god send. The uk is meant to be one of the most wealthy and profitable countries in the world, yet in a 21st world it appears to be no better than we were in the earlier centuries, no one, and I mean not a single soul, should have to resort to existing like many at the moment, in the case of the lady who was 29 pence over to claim pension credit, she has probably worked all her life to subsidise those who have never worked a day and receive massive payment for universal credit…

    • @drakehonest2
      @drakehonest2 10 місяців тому +1

      Hello how are you doing today…?

    • @redguitar6062
      @redguitar6062 9 місяців тому

      The UK is still the world's 6th largest economy with a GDP of just over $3 trillion. The real question is where is all that money and what use is it being put to. The problem is that it is being hoarded. Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals, currently defined as those with a net worth of at least $30 million, do not earn money by trading their time like the rest of us but accrue it as a passive income syphoned out of the middle and working classes by buying up the assets and services they need to then rent them back or commoditise them at exorbitant prices. The only way to get this money back flowing back through the economy is through tax on this scale of wealth. We did it in the past to the greater common good and we need to do it again and aggressively if we are to bring an end to this horrow show across the world.

  • @dnt1951
    @dnt1951 Рік тому +1

    It has always been boom and bust, but I can't remember the energy prices going sky-high. I have always paid a monthly amount for electricity (I am all electric), so I have built up enough credit for the winter months. Otherwise, it would be difficult to tackle paying for gas and electricity on a weekly basis during the winter.

  • @mga59xbd38
    @mga59xbd38 Рік тому

    Community is how all of us pull through hard times.

  • @cweaver4080
    @cweaver4080 Рік тому +13

    Two minutes into a story on how people are just getting by, needing help to avoid starving, living in the second most deprived area in the country, in comes an ad for Jared trying to get me to buy diamonds. 🤔

    • @brandon17760
      @brandon17760 Рік тому

      "he went to Jared" has turned to "he went to the food bank" 😅

  • @Simboy93
    @Simboy93 9 місяців тому +3

    I am from India. Just curious. What stops old people from taking care of kids while younger people go to work? Like for example, if the single mom left her children with the older lady living on pension for say 25 pounds a day, she'd be able to work full time and the lady will also gets a helping hand (granted that she still wants to work).
    UK needs to look at innovative solutions like lowering the minimum wage for people beyond a certain age and stopping low skilled immigration. One of the arguments given for immigration is innovation. There's not a lot of innovation coming from a bus driver, or a fast food worker.

    • @kyle8952
      @kyle8952 5 місяців тому

      In the UK families are not close. If the son or daughter becomes an adult they move into their own house. If they become very rich, suddenly they move to a different town and only visit twice a year. The only families who stay together are criminal ones.

  • @davidlincolnbrooks
    @davidlincolnbrooks Рік тому +1

    £50 a day for childcare? Lordy, that's expensive. Approximately $60 US .

  • @danielnewton7357
    @danielnewton7357 Рік тому +2

    The BBC really does sugar coat the issues we face.

  • @eveoakley6270
    @eveoakley6270 Рік тому +3

    I couldn’t believe the deprivation in Knowsley when I visited in 1981, so things have never changed then 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @002lisamarie
      @002lisamarie 10 місяців тому +1

      Yes, things have changed. Most of them are getting a fortune in PIP now.

  • @olive0707
    @olive0707 Рік тому +4

    I'm sorry but I have to address the elephant in the room.. how are these people so deprived yet live in lovely accommodations, the old woman had every light on and lamp, telly and heater yet complaining about the price of everything. The woman who clearly isn't that deprived of getting her hair and lips done also has a lovely home, yet only works part time? Mr charity man seems to have enough money to get his teeth done?!? Don't get me wrong times are extremely tough rn I really can appreciate that however I don't feel like this is what you call "deprived" I know there are people really suffering in these times yet the BBC has done a terrible job at really showing this.

    • @Ivan162342
      @Ivan162342 23 дні тому

      Deprived was definetely not the right term to use.

  • @iamjoestafford
    @iamjoestafford Рік тому +2

    We have the lowest state pension in Europe, and the most expensive childcare - and neither of the two main parties are talking about fixing that. I can only see things getting worse.

  • @LBGemma
    @LBGemma Рік тому +2

    What an amazing mum. How heartbreaking. Our prime minister should try just a week in her shoes

  • @YouTube_Public_Relations_Dept
    @YouTube_Public_Relations_Dept Рік тому +4

    3:50 'everything we got came with me'. I wonder what he was left with? She's not doing that bad.

  • @Icemanr85
    @Icemanr85 Рік тому +2

    It didn't mention that across the road houses going for nearly a million. Such a mad state of affairs

    • @thetruthk5138
      @thetruthk5138 Рік тому

      Probably because they worked hard it's basic economics

  • @fredwaller3234
    @fredwaller3234 Рік тому +2

    There's places like this all over Britain not just Liverpool

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    • @Danielleheather1648
      @Danielleheather1648 Рік тому

      @@Thomas-ko8mq I strongly advise you against self trading, it's really dangerous and had brought so many investors down, you need someone with the knowledge and strategies, someone dedicated to the crypto currency market business, and I will strongly recommend expert, Mrs Janet

    • @juniorwilly1548
      @juniorwilly1548 Рік тому

      Wow I'm just shock you mentioned and recommended Expert Mrs Janet,I thought I'm the only trading with her

    • @jerrypaul2062
      @jerrypaul2062 Рік тому

      YOU DON'T NEED TO BE SHOCK BECAUSE I'M ALSO A HUGE BENEFICIARY OF expert MRS JANET

  • @jgreed5
    @jgreed5 Рік тому +50

    I am of color from Ohio USA. And i wish some of my counterparts would see how some ppl of European descent struggle also

    • @caine7024
      @caine7024 Рік тому +2

      sure you are

    • @greek9244
      @greek9244 Рік тому +12

      Do people in America not think that everyone in the world can struggle or something? 🤨

    • @jgreed5
      @jgreed5 Рік тому +6

      @@greek9244 most ppl aren’t concerned with what someone else is going through unfortunately

    • @d0c_5u11y
      @d0c_5u11y Рік тому

      Literally a video on your channel showing your arm. You are not "of color".

    • @jgreed5
      @jgreed5 Рік тому +5

      @@d0c_5u11y 😂 huh? I am. But what difference does it make, all countries and races struggle. Therefore we should sympathize with other ppl

  • @johndavis7210
    @johndavis7210 Рік тому +1

    I can’t turn the heating on these days it costs me £1.50 a hour I’ve been watching it today cost me £4.94 for 4 hours today i can’t put them on tomorrow just got to use one room with electric heater

  • @garlicandchilipreppers8533
    @garlicandchilipreppers8533 Рік тому +2

    @7.50 "Have you ever known times as bad as this?" Where did this woman grow up? as I am 57 and can remember the 70's we lived in army Quarters up and down the country so more than one house, one open coal fired hearth in the living room and that was it, steel framed single pane windows, that were covered in a sheet of ice in winter, coats on the beds and to add to that we were piss poor.

    • @laszlopunaflex6625
      @laszlopunaflex6625 Рік тому

      "I had a shit upbringing, so you should too!"
      Seriously? Think about the shite you're saying.

  • @neilmckay8649
    @neilmckay8649 Рік тому +19

    Saving for a rainy day is wiser than replacing likely adequate furniture with new. Cycling to work might be wiser than the cost liability of a car.

    • @seanolaocha940
      @seanolaocha940 Рік тому +4

      Unfortunately many countries have such poor cycling infastructure that using a bicycle as you're only form of transport my not be possible.

    • @8G00SE8
      @8G00SE8 Рік тому +4

      Buy an old used car for a fraction of a new one on finance.

    • @neilmckay8649
      @neilmckay8649 Рік тому +2

      @@8G00SE8 totally agree. I bought an 05 VW Polo for £425, totally reliable car. Point I was making is that in the UK cars are often inappropriately seen as an essential, and as you point out, more expensive than what the pocket can afford. In the UK, a car is expensive before it moves a wheel.

    • @hassyg4083
      @hassyg4083 Рік тому +1

      cycling doesn't work in many places in uk due to gradients. how can you carry shopping on a bike? you dumb

    • @raypitts4880
      @raypitts4880 Рік тому +2

      @@neilmckay8649 called keeping up with the Jones's

  • @MrRobertFarr
    @MrRobertFarr Рік тому +4

    Proper deprived, with a car parked outside and, a giant fridge freezer in the kitchen !

    • @gumusluk05
      @gumusluk05 4 місяці тому

      You just won an idiot of the year gold medal

  • @raninazreen5718
    @raninazreen5718 Рік тому +2

    I have helped many people this year also as I do every year.

  • @deehitem
    @deehitem Рік тому +2

    People look up to bezos musk gates, but look at this man.
    Goat

  • @keiranrobertson6491
    @keiranrobertson6491 Рік тому +29

    As a fellow charity worker its not right that we're having to do the work at all, but just glad we can help some families to get through this, but this is a shambles how we are even doing this at all.

    • @Boo-pv4hn
      @Boo-pv4hn Рік тому +5

      Same as most things tho mental health in the last few years social care how has its own mental health support hay can be referred to. Drs surgery’s now have the same and 111… because the service isn’t providing the support they need to when I had my stroke it was headway that helped me physically recover and gave me physio when the nhs failed me. It’s sadly the reality

    • @keiranrobertson6491
      @keiranrobertson6491 Рік тому +2

      @Boo1 no wonder a and e levels are at bursting point doctor surgeries are a shambles, only way people are getting seen to is by waiting hours at a and e, but hope your all well after the stroke, take it easy and relax :)

    • @adamweston4152
      @adamweston4152 Рік тому +2

      And i wonder how many MP's will be putting their hands in their pockets and donating money to charities this Christmas... nowhere near enough if they even bother to.

    • @keiranrobertson6491
      @keiranrobertson6491 Рік тому +1

      @@adamweston4152 thing is glad they really aren't doing that as every single one would just claim it back straight away,

    • @adamweston4152
      @adamweston4152 Рік тому

      @@keiranrobertson6491 very good point you have there, sneaky fxxkers that they are.