@@Steve_Sharpe But I don't think he is wrong about the struggling (or not struggling) on 2k a month. Either she is bad at budgeting or spending it on alcohol or drugs.
Many on benefits elsewhere live on less than 1k month. That woman is rich compared to many benefit recipients. I know one, no tv, no booze, no holidays or new clothes/goods, collect rainwater for toilets, cleaning etc because meter water is very expensive, no heating etc.... This nation was screwed when euro took all the manufacturing and govt invested in cheap short lived goods providers like China and India, instead of business here
That chip shop owner deserves an award. As a business owner he is clearly prioritising the needs of the local people over his profit. You just don't see that kind of nobility anymore. People are far too greedy, self absorbed and inconsiderate to care. He is the kind of man that gives you hope. God bless him.
@@lolakauffmann This" building of a niche" is still more present in Britain than the rest of western Europe. It vanishes at increasing speeds. Family small businesses disappear on daily basis because of political decisions that make them unsustainable and give insurmountable business benefits to multinational companies. All over western Europe and America.
@@indigobuddy yeah, £2000 a month on my ones, I'm alright just about....but my rent in the UK and bills was £1000 on the outskirts of Birmingham! I know live on a paradise island and my rent and bills are 250-300 a month and I share it , so in reality £150 a month, fk the UK
The Fish & Chip shop owner is a great example of True Northern hospitality. Working hard and Helping his local community because nobody else will. Respect
I’m not denying that poverty is a real issue, but I’m shocked that people cannot afford to live on £2k a month? A little over 2k is what many skilled professionals like myself get AFTER paying taxes, pension, etc… And, sometimes I work up to 70 hours per week…Astonishing 😮
@@Mohammadreza-rp8oh The whole world is experiencing poverty whilst the politicians are getting richer and richer. In London, you can’t even live on wages given to junior doctors, lawyers, etc and people have to go to foodbanks.
@@IngramPetersJr-nr7rm It is what it is sadly… And, yet I’m skilled professional with a doctorate… The whole country is going down the hill. Search for senior lecturer salaries. Having said this, if I can’t afford to have kids,I will not have them…
The man with the fish n chip shop blessed my heart! He’s not looking for a profit, and isn’t making one, but he’s very rich! Blessings to him, for his generosity, and kindness!!
@@watchyojet Yes but he will likely only just be breaking even selling food at those low prices. Fish alone probably costs him around £1.50 - £2 a piece when bought in bulk. Potatoes and Peas are cheap especially when bought in bulk however you've also got to account for all of the expenses (utility bills, rent, employee wages etc). Gross Profit is not the same as Net Profit.
I work full time, as a public servant, after tax I get just over 2,000 a month. I own my own home, car, pay health insurance and only have 3,000 in credit union loan debt. What are these people doing with their benefits? My mind boggles on how they cannot manage on 2 grand a month.
The shop owner will be lucky to make 2000 a month alike complaining benefit scroungers and shop daily working hours for an average self employed is 10 hours 6 days a week .
If I owned Matthews chippy I'd be similar. I'd charge £11 for fish and chips. But I'd also give to the peasants so long as they wore a jesters outfit, jumped up and down when I asked, and participates in bum fights.
That highly depends on the cost of living. In England there's a widespread housing crisis where even a small, run-down flat in a poor neighborhood can cost you £1500 a month.
Mathew's chippy being the real hero of this documentary. You can tell that bloke cares about the community getting a warm meal in their belly for as cheap as he can manage. Great example to a community.
The joy in that elderly woman's eyes with the fish and chips box shows that what that business owner is doing is helping these people so much more than just providing a dinner. The condescending social worker who can't believe someone is shouting is more like what they are used to as far as help. Chippy's is giving people a treat that is nourishing and that they can afford. That helps them spiritually and socially not just economically. They are treated with dignity, not like a charity case. The owner knows what he is doing. He can pay his bills and keep his community going for his part.
Cheeky woman says she only gets £2,000 a month and can't afford things for her family. Nike clothing, tattoos etc, it's obvious she's getting too much. I never even saw that much money even while I was working. As a pensioner now, the basic pension is just over £800 a month. I have to pay half of the bills which amount to £280 per month. Not had a holiday in 18 years, hardly ever go out for a meal, (maybe 2-3 times a year) and my car is over 17 years old. Not complaining, just stating facts. I'm just sick to death of the lazy idle moaners who complain when they are given so much. Don't like it? Get a real job.
Donald gets over £2000 per month. Gets UC, PIP, mental health payments for "depression" which can't be proven or disproven. Pulls out the mental health card at every opportunity. Doesn't have to work or make any attempt to work. Rent is already paid. All bills paid. Gets over 2k a month and still runs out of money and complains about not having enough. Squanders it on stupid amounts of alcohol, tobacco, scratchcards, Nike trainers every week, he spends £150 a month on 3 different phone contracts, it's a total joke
I earn less than that from a full time job. I can manage to pay a mortgage and bills, run a car, and still have money left over for holidays and other nice things. If people are struggling on 2k a month they need to learn to budget.
And thats where your taxes are going and they wonder why thgese people dont want to get up at 7am toi work an 8 hour days to be poorer than they are doing nothing!
While i do feel for some of these people, i work full time in a freezing damp factory and bring home almost £500 less a month than the first woman in this video.
That's unkind go by train then , like they do , stop judging , you do not know their situation...and one day you could be laid off work or in a situation as them. .. you begrudged them , there are ventrons who are also on streets no jobs, your very lucky to have one . .
@@Lukydada-15 It has nothing to do with Brexit lol. When you lockdown an economy for 3 years, do you really expect the economy to be in good health, you're dreaming if you think it would be.
They both have - totally agree with you but in truth they are the same party with the same political goals and it's not to represent ordinary working people
Working full time for national minimum wage, you'll get £1792 BEFORE tax and National Insurance deductions. If folks can receive £2000 in benefits, is it any wonder they're out of work?
I'm in Wales I'm disabled I don't get £2000 on benefits, it depends where you live too not everyone will get that on benefits that amounts isnt across the board. Plus that's not the reason why people don't work, its that people want a decent wage to live on and not just exist on.
Here in Canada, a senior gets by on less than £1300 a month. Our property and food is more expensive. This story really brings home what a disgusting situation we are in. 😊
Both myself and my wife are seniors living in Ontario and as you say we have to get by on that ammount. We rarely have our air conditioning on at all in summer, and we only have the heat on half a day all through the winter. No holidays, no restaurants, no fast food delivery, no alchohol, no cigarettes, we both shop at the local thrift store for our clothes . But none the less, I am relatively healthey as is my wife. I never had free dental until I retired. If one of my teeth required attention I could only afford an extraction not a root canal and crown like most people. I lost half my teeth that way. If you wish to get rich quick in life, rob a bank or emmigrate to America.
We are a 6 figure income couple and had very little saved and not much cash lying around the preverbal". '...don't have $500 for an emergency" that was us. The big thing was debt all kinds of it, cars mortgage (although our home isn't a high price one), student loans for our kids, and of course credit cards. One day we just got sick of being broke and went total scorched earth and became frugal overnight. Paid it all off, it took almost 5 years but now we have no debt and this year our savings rate is 50% on basically the same income that had us perpetually broke. So for us it is mainly staying out of debt and watching our spending, at first it was a real effort to save in our HISA and 401Ks but now it's actually fun watching our money grow. No car or vacation or neighborhood is worth being broke or financially unstable.
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Funny thing that working class people don't get enough support from government. If you poor and you don't work government will try help you but if you work you won't get any support. But you are paying taxes. This is madness.
Should be a new class to describe those who do not work. Because when dicsussions about poor and working class people come up, they're conflated with people like this.
Thank you! 2k per month is fine. I wonder how much of that has to go on rent and bills... very little I'm assuming... so her remaining money after expenditures will be higher than a lot of professionals.
just don't 😂 instead of them taking a cut of your money, they can just pay you all of it to do fuck all. me personally i don't like them, or society enough to contribute to it
I used to live in Burnley. It had a brilliant local economy with the mills and engineering. Now, its a shadow of its former self. Who is to blame for the demise of British towns? Politicians, civil servants, activists, selfish big businesses (selling off mills) and business owners getting stuff made in China. People need jobs, not benefits and with jobs comes prosperity. But the political and treacherous don't want the average Brit to be successful.
Jon you are not wrong. I come from coal, steel and shipyard country. Imagine owning a manufacturing company in uk today. Minimum wage, income tax, ni, rates, business tax, health and safety, environmental regs. etc. etc. etc. nothing wrong with these, but why should we have to compete with sweatshops around the world who don’t pay any of it?
I just bought a Harrington jacket, made in Blackburn. Yes it was a bit more expensive than an imported item, it cost £140, but the money stays in UK. My message is simple, shop smart, buy new stuff made here, so money is not sucked out of our country..
@@HarryFlashmanVCanything north of London is the north. I was born in Manchester but lived most of my life in Northumberland and this county might as well be its own country!
Grimsby is receiving 25 million pounds a year for 30 years to level up from this state it’s in. That’s 4 days expenditure on the migrant hotels. In 4 days the government spends more money than it’s willing to give the poorest area of our country in a year
And you think even without those migrants it would be better? Hard reality is now ive heard numbers around 3 billion but thats next to nothing comparing on how much it cost to run a country like the UK for a year.
i lived in a town in the uk which was just as bad. When you got to know people like the 2 you asked, you quickly found out what the issue was - alchohol and drugs. There is also a culture that believes the state owes them a living. Violence and vandalism, the same as in the town i lived in, destroying trust and peace and sanity. When you interviewed the man from the citizens advice there was a person shouting in the background, imagine that late at night, lets say 11 - then another starts at 2 in the morning - thats the real issue. When the restrictions on state payments started in the 80s it had a good effect in my small town - they couldnt afford to get high 3 or 4 nights a week - then it came to only 2 nights a week. The real issue is those who wreck others lives - you can cope with poverty.
@@reinhardvonlohengramm6296agreed! It’s lack of ambition to get out of their conditions. I am saying as someone from a council whose family was getting benefits. If anyone from the community wanted to better themselves and get away from that lifestyle, you’re almost judged for “being up yourself”. I do believe there are exceptions, but the majority of people don’t have the inner drive to leave these conditions. So glad I did
i live in a small town in france , the economy of the town is good due to tourism and industries present in the area but there is still poverty here , we had a family of white gypsies come in our building , they lived above us my god....... When they would close their door they wouldn't close it normally but would bang it and not once a day , like imagine that 20 or 30 times a day , always some mess around them, weird loud music at night , probably listening to it high , people that have nothing to do with our entrance coming in and out at night , (they broke the lock on the door of the main entrance) , i was afraid to go home at night after work you don't know what you can stumble upon....... They also robbed our 90 years old neighbor , a disaster , they finally got forced out but only after 2 years.......I also think i escaped death when i got to their door to tell to stop the noise the father went for something to get me with (maybe a knife or i don't know). Those people are a disease.
Poverty is grinding, it grinds you down to the point where you can’t see upwards, so you can’t blame the majority of these people! In other words poverty causes severe mental health problems, problems that put people on the poverty “merry go round.” And what about those kids watching this happen, what do you think that will do to their delicate minds, I remember sitting on my bed, at 15 years old, considering suicide, because I could never see anything different, thinking what is the point? Children need a Leader, but if that Leader (parent) is ground down in to the dirt🤔
@@wazz1154 you are quite right, but from what i saw many wanted to be there - the telly, the pubs, every time they got a bit antsy - drink till you forget - its not until you take that away that they begin to take responsibility - and yes suicide - thats why we need society to change - we need leaders who people can follow - not the left, not the right - but people who can set an example by what they do - and do. I found several and followed what they did and soon enough - i was there too.
I'm a fulltime secondary school teacher and a single parent of two children and I live on less than £1800 a month after tax, £2k a month on benefits without being taxed is not struggling.
Benefits are taxed. Not by much but they are and go towards NI which goes towards state pension. State pension may not be given in the end though as benefit claimants may not have enough NI points/credits, or they will get the lowest amount. Many will cry when it get to retirement age. Especially, if they’ve not saved towards a personal pension pot.
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Bless the chip shop owner, He keeps the price low and just covers his costs but he is helping the local people. When people on benefits are receiving more than working people it's hardly an incentive to work.
@@mikemccaine4229 , Evidently that gent surely knows how to care for himself, knowing that 'hot' meals causes esophagus ulcer and cancer over time, while warm meal does not, besides making one feel warm at the stomach. A rahter sophisticated and mature gent!
Total respect for that Chippy ❤. As a person that lives abroad but grew up in the UK it hurts to see this. It was fishing industries like that one that was the backbone of our nation....shame on those in power😢
@@cormaccarroll don't be stupid. Many restaurants close, very few fish n chips close ....a good portion of fish n chips usually goes for anywhere between 6-8£ depending on portion sizes and quality. He could easily charge the same, so using a brain you can possibly figure out his margins and possibly he owns the premises so costs are bit lower , fish is on the doorstep....so yes at 3£ a portion...it is called kindness and he's probably not even braking even. Don't try to be an arse about it. You see that people are suffering and trying to make ends meat and trying to give back to the community.
It's selfish and irresponsible to have 4 children when you can't even afford to support yourself. Less than 5 min in, and you have two impoverished, unmarried women with four children each. Both women on "benefits," of course. And I'll guess what the child's disability is, for which the parent receives even more benefits: ADHD, which means medicating their child, for what is probably normal behavior.
Absolutely agree it's irresponsible to have children you can't afford. But how about blaming the fathers as well? Shouldn't they take responsibility for kids, or it's only fun for them and sacrifice for the mothers.
Have you ever thought that she might be divorced or that maybe she her kids all have the same father through a long term relationship?? Not everyone with large families do it just to live on benefits
£2000 pounds a month in benefits that is £24,000 a year WOW !, and is considered living in poverty??? Yet pensioners are expected to live on £10,400 plus a few occasional handouts from the government to try to stay warm in the winter. WOW!!! Indeed. I'd like her income without having to work, who wouldn't ?
You really think that all he sells is £3 chips? Im sure there is more on the menu, its just dramatic for this show, nobody works for fun/community but for money, if it wasnt profitable it wouldnt be functioning.
£2000 per month is more then enough for living. The homes in the north of England are fare cheaper to buy or rent, rent is like 500 a month for a 3 bed house. The problem is people use the money for the wrong things.
On benefits and getting £2k per month, therefore will get help with rent, probably won't pay council tax, or get good subsidy, if working you would need to earn £3k a month, take home, to be the same level when all things equal. UK must be the most deprived G7 country.
@neilhands1708 is it possible that this woman or any man is better than you at your job but just weren't given the same opportunities you had? Does this person deserve less?
As far as the rubbish and dereliction, I live in a council estate in Northampton which is a pretty poor town but my small council estate is kept spotless by the people that live there no litter no anti social behaviour, I walked across the nature reserve to an identical estate about a mile from me, it was in lovely countryside overlooking a golf course, rubbish everywhere graffiti, remains of a burnt out car and just looked terrible, people have a duty to look after their own area, I and most others who live by me litter pick and keep our area tidy, you cannot blame the council or politicians for the mess that is made and ignored by the residents, who would want to set up a business or invest in an area that the residents treat as a slum
i agree, I was raised poor in little more than a shack that barely kept out the cold, but we were clean, our yard was clean. I'm not lazy and I bet you aren't either, people need to have some pride no matter their situation.
I’m not originally from Grimsby but moved across as my partner is from here. I’m from a working class family, and town, and so understand the struggles people have and believe I am quite a sympathetic person. Having lived here for a number of years now, I can tell you exactly why the East Marsh is struggling and has such low levels of income; the vast majority of people living there are lazy bastards and they will never look to get a job. The amount of deadbeat dad’s in this town is incredible too. The fishing industry here has been dead for a long time and people would sooner moan about that and do nothing to change their own circumstances, rather than take the work they can. There are some really nice parts of the town, there’s a number of small businesses in the town that have made a name for themselves, and anyone that I have known to be looking for work has found it in a relatively short amount of time. There really are some positives to this town but one of the biggest causes of the issues are the very people that live here. I’d also add, fxxk the tories, they’ve certainly not helped the town.
Thank you for your view. I was thinking when watching the people being interviewed that it would be more interesting to hear questions answered as what education or training did you follow. What made you decide to stay in a town without any prospect. What is the father of your children doing. What made you decide to have four children while the norm in first world countries is one or two children. My old home town also has a residential area as the East Marsh. I decided to leave my border town when I became 18. I was born in a relocation camp to an immigrant family and I knew I would have no future in the town where I was born and raised. I had to work a year in a factory to save some money to move away. My first job after my study was again in a factory somewhere in the capital city. After a small year I finally got a job in the industry what I educated and trained for. I am now 60 years old, I emigrated away but am slowly planning to get back to my home country where I was born too and want to retire too.
The jobs are not paying what the expenses are today. Not the business owners fault, not the people's fault. The elites that can pay any price for their needs are the drivers of the economy. It makes it hardMost assistance is if you do not work or cuts off at a certain amount of income, usually what is less than needed. It is easier for people in better neighborhoods to get employed. I am certain they check people's addresses. Are there retraining programs or are businesses encouraged to come there? Fixing buildings and offering a low rent for a time with the agreement they hire x amount of people from there. What about maker faires, repair cafes, flea/farmers market, community gardens.
The chippy shop is awesome, what a great community spirit, but the issue with benefits is, they are meant to be temporary while people find work. Most are using benefits like a career. The system cannot sustain so many people on benefits.
£22k is a fairly high income for North Wales. Our poverty here is masked by natural beauty and the wealthy Cheshire set. So we can sympathise with Grimsby.
My husband and i worked all our lives , but because we were born before 1953 , we only get the basic state pension , which is one hundred and sixty pounds less than the new state pension per month , for those born after 1953 . We get nowhere like two thousand a month like this lady . 3
@sunshine-qk8qe well I go to work 40 hours a week and don't get £2000 a month. With exception of working in London, £2000 after tax is a salary most people would love to have.
Alas there are millions that are forgotten and when you do get yourself out of a situation you find yourself dealing with issues that have been pushed to one side just to surviive.
@@sunshine-qk8qeWhat is the area like where you live? Because that's the biggest issue here, not individual wealth but the wealth and investment of the entire area.
I was just about to say this too. The 2 of us working full time, I do 40h/w, husband does almost 50h/w and we both bring the total of £3100 a month. I don't think £2000 is little. I wonder if she needs to pay CT/rent etc.
She said she is also a paid carer for her son. If someone with a disabled child worked full time the cost of care would be a fortune. Besides which the value of having a sense of purpose, gained through employment is worth more than money! Don’t blame the people for this travesty of political shenanigans! The EU was a massive problem, blame the corrupt politicians but also blame the people who keep voting for them! Either colour it’s the same old shite
London schools get more money, international investment all concentrated in South East. all those high salaries go into RENT ( the 1% love this). £2500 for a one bed flat.. £1 million for a three bed house.. Greed- o-nomics
@@helmethead72 HS2 didn't do anything for the North. I live in the North, 20 miles south of the Scottish border. The railhead for HS2 is 220 miles south of here.
£2,000 a month on benefits ??? The first woman in this film is getting more money than me and I got work full time , I have to pay full council tax etc etc and I am not getting any cost of living money from anywhere she is better off than me !!!!!
Does she expect sympathy for that? Same as you- I'm working full time, earn about the same as her on benefits, with some luxuries, running a car too, AND living in Leeds, which I can say, isn't cheap... So, no... little sympathy from here. Prices in my city are vastly over-inflated for what the city offers, namely rent and food extortion, so 2k monthly in Grimsby must be luxury. Adidas trainers?? Nice... 🤔🤫
Agree. It comes down to if you want to work or live off the state. You have to work hard for a job and then work hard to keep the job. I came out of the military and promised a job. Got home the company I was going to work for told me that there was no job for they were laying off. I looked around and found work. At first, it was not much but gave me a leg up to find a better job. I eventually ended up being a structures technician and am now retired. My wife worked as well. Never looked back. Still being offered jobs even though retired.
They aren't poor. I'm shocked to hear people getting benefits of F* 2K a month, and we don't get a single penny while still working hard enough to earn a mere £1500-£1600 a month.
You need to retrain and try and increase your income. Sorry but 2k is a very low amount for 4 children. You should not be envious of that You should be mad at companies that think paying you 1500 a month is ok while they make huge bonuses.
They know poor people just spend it on drugs and booze. If they let normal people, the 30 million have 2000 a month inflation would go insane. Unfortunately they need to control that 30 million by making it look like we need all your money to support these people. It's bs really just about controlling the average man just you wait in 10 years time when there's another 7 million people chasing what you want to buy each month.
Why do you work for half the national average income? You need a better job, not complain that other people don't suffer enough. If you must complain, take it to your boss, and to whoever it is that writes laws allowing people to be paid slave wages.
After my travel cost to work im on less than 2k a month and I pay a mortgage and council tax.. UK benefits are a disease for the economy and an insult to the hard working class
Unless that woman's child is so severely disabled that he/she is confined to bed as like a child I once knew with cerebral palsy (known as a spastic back in the day) then the child will still attend school. And she didn't mention that was the case. I too have a disabled child but we don't use that as an excuse.
Exactly, I'm a student, living alone, working and studying full-time. After paying my bills, I'm left with just £250 per month. I survive on chicken nuggets and ready-made salads. No holidays, no drinks, no going out at all. And these people are getting £2000 tax-free, they don't work, they don't pay rent and yet have the audacity to complain that they are poor? Put these people to work, a bunch of lazy benefit leeches
Generally poorer households have more kids because of their higher death rate. We typically associate more kids as more free time, which can be true in some circumstances, but in general cases it is to mitigate the number of kids lost.
If I got $4000 AUD a month, I'd have my own business set up and have finished uni by now. I'd actually be contributing to society if I was given that kind of leg up
2,000 a month, l do not receive that as an old age pension. Turn the heat up because of the damp and the heat is causing the damp. If these people started to help themselves their lives would be better.
@@CillBill94Women and men can get contraception for free. Family planning clinic give free condoms, i've had bags from them. Female contraception is free, as is vasectomy, which I have now had on NHS and was painless and went smoothly
It's almost as if a lack of a quality education and upbringing can lead to poor life decisions.... Repeat and rinse over many generations and here we are.
Children = child benefits = money. She wouldn't get £2000 a month without children. Then when she has the children, she can complain about not being given enough to look after them to play the victim card. It's the Utopia of the Soviet Union. No one has to work, but everyone gets fed. Weirdly, the Soviet Union collapsed while working towards this Utopia, so I'm not sure what went wrong. Maybe, just this crazy theory I came up with, maybe, not working and getting everyone fed requires more than a belief in this left-wing ideology.
Her £2000 a month in benefits is more than I get each month for working 40 hours a week. I get no help to pay the heating bill or anything else, it stinks.
Not everyone on benefits will get that amount, it depends where you live, plus she has kids too, if she didn't have kids she would not get that amount. I'm disabled and I don't get that much, not even close to that amount and I have no kids.
22.200 is nearly the double of what you get as a pensioner in Germany as basic 'security' - so what?! THIS is the sad truth. Your rent is paid but only, if it is a social housing - you have to pay all energy costs yourself and for that and everything else, food, clothing, TV, for everything else you have 300,- euros a month - and that means, by luck, 50.- euros per week.
I live in East Marsh, and I 100% agree. However, I do hope, for my kids' sake, that when they are my age, Grimsby will be back to its glory. It's a beautiful place, but we feel forgotten, and all the money the council puts into the town seems to be wasted. It's never put where it actually needs to be.
I live on the east marsh to I personally love Grimsby it really saddens me that half the shops and buildings have become derelict or unkept freshney place used to be such a great shopping centre along with the market it's gone so far downhill nothing left in the town now and the amount of homeless people here is forever getting more and more
Such places generally do not recover. But people can and should move to seek out chances elsewhere. Once the place has shrunk to a sustainable size, new things can grow.
Labour have opposed the stopping of boats 7 times, paying 8m per day to house the illegal chancers. Imagine what could be done for towns like Grimsby!!!!!!!🤬
It's the Tories that can't be bothered to process applications and put them all in Hotels instead. They are the ones that want the cheap labour and that's why they haven't stopped the boats. They would rather give money to business people like hoteliers, pretend PPE providers and other Tory party donors than spend it on the likes of Grimsby, Stockton and Stoke-On-Trent.
Hello rayvinloony I can imagine how you feel nearly , but I don’t get why you’re blaming The Labour Party, their not in power, the Tories have a massive majority, Labour can’t stop them from doin whatever they want ? Of course the conservatives want you and everyone else to hang the blame on someone other than them , Imagine if the Government used that 8 million to sort out if the refugees are genuine or not, then the ones that are they can put them to work , I’m from Birkenhead, I live now in the Netherlands, here the authorities have accepted 123,000 refugees by interviewing them, every one of them have to find a job and feed themselves , Britain’s wonderful Government won’t let the refugees look for work , instead they use them to stir up bad feelings amongst people as yourself, and in the meantime the Tories get a trouble free ride ,
The poverty is shocking in the UK but people should not be reproducing when they can't afford to provide for so many children. £2K is more than people receive on a minimum wage. There should be mandatory classes in budgeting.
They live on 22.000 a year trying to live on less. My wife and I have to live on 15.000 per year, and we can't claim any benefits, not even council tax reduction. we get nothing.
Same in Poland. People earn e.g. 6000 for a 4-people family and some other family earn 5000 (PLN) but then they get 2000 benefits because they are poor. And they get free kindergarten near home, etc. whereas the 6k family has to travel around the city or choose a 1000PLN private kindergarten. SOCIALISM!!!
I adore small towns in Britain. Maybe they are not so fancy but I like that people are so kind and understandable there, I like food, I like to see the usual life. I am from Norway, and it`s something common in people. We all living and struggle for life, we try to do our best for children and to pay bills. I guess we are normal, even if we are poor.
- 650K is LEGAL migration, 50K illegal (boats and lorries) - the Mainstream Media and govt distract the public from the real issue - always talking about boats !!!!!
As a pensioner in Devon, I have to survive on £213 a week = £10,565 a year. Half the average wage of this place. Must be a struggle being able to afford tattoos, smoke and booze.
@@blackthornhealing I appologise that you missed the point of my comment. You will notice in a lot of these programs that these people either drink alcohol, smoke or take drugs, or have tatoos, all the above cost a lot of money.
Hi I’m from Australia we also have a homeless population here and people just a pay check away from being on the streets it’s world wide just sad and shouldn’t be tolerated if you have something extra you should try to give it too less fortunate people especially the kids too the fish and chip guys your bloody hero’s god bless you your family. And your business thank you !!!
I left Grimsby nearly 40 years ago because of lack of employment, I moved down South and I’ve had a lovely life, however I’m not far from retirement and will be heading home in the next 18 months. I left Grimsby but it didn’t leave me, and the need to move back home has got stronger and stronger! I grew up on the East Marsh and it’s a small area, but believe me so has everywhere else, Grimsby and Cleethorpes has a lot to offer and I can’t wait to get back.
It’s such a shame I remember Grimsby when it was thriving. The government gave away our fish and lost the industry. The EU rules made it impossible. I am sad our government has done this to our country and Grimsby is just the sign of it.
@@AustralianQldDadNah mate, this decline set in long before that idiot got in I remember the fish docks in Hull as a kid in the 70's. Now you wouldn't even knew they existed.
The first woman gets 2k a month and she's poor? That's the equivalent to 32k a year and with her council tax and house paid for, that's about another 10k after tax, so she's on about 45k a year. That's a manager salary and she's still poor?
"The UK spends more than anywhere else in Europe subsidising the cost of structural inequality in favour of the rich".This was the headline from the Equality Trust’s cost of inequality report and analyse which came out couple of weeks ago,inequalities of income, wealth and power cost the UK £106.2bn a year compared with the average developed country in the OECD.Britain in the 1970s was one of the most equal of rich countries. Today, it is the second most unequal, after the US
I'm in Lancashire and almost the same case can be made for Fleetwood. Some of the old fishing ports have managed but they often have a tourism element to them such as Whitby and Brixham. But most struggle because they relied so much on fish. Joining the Common Market played a part, but fishing would have taken a huge hit regardless because of the over fishing one of the ex-trawlermen referred to in the piece and leaving the EU will help, but again it will not happen over night, it will be over the next 2 decades and it also needs governments following the right policies. But the main problem isn't the decline in fishing, it's the increase in apathy, again touched on in the film. People need a reason to get up in the morning, a purpose in life. In the old shoe factories of East Lancashire where I grew up late 60s, the bloke with a poor education that used to bail the rubbish, or manage the boiler; the traditional labourer could still take a pride in his work, and the ability to provide for himself and his family. They played a part in the local community and had respect, standing. They grafted and just about managed, paying for the few luxuries and treats by taking overtime when it was available at time and a 1/4 or more. Two generations later how things have changed. Rather than overtime, the system rewards less work. 20 hours a week is common place, topped up by in-work support, with cash incentives for kids especially ones with issues. I've seen people fight to have their child statemented as kids have become a revenue stream (again touched on in the piece) and if benefits are ever removed "they've cut *our* money". Employers are also incentivised to keep the low-paid in part-time work. Employers National insurance is roughly 0% for up to 20 hours a week, and then 13.8% on all pay beyond that. So if you employ 1 x full time 40 hours, it costs about 6% more than employing 2 x 20 hours and the employer knows the welfare state will top them up. To a small supermarket that saving is worth 10s of 1000s a year. So being realistic, the issue in Grimsby is little to do with fishing and it's decline. Maybe 10%. It's more to do with the Governance of our country over the last 30 years which has created a welfare trap which in itself demoralises and disincentivizes folk. The way out of this is to roll back the State and to use some imagination. So using Grimsby as an example, just down the road in Lincolnshire we apparently have had to bring in 1000s of migrant workers to allow the agri industries to survive. So we can bring a bus load in from Bucharest, but not from Grimsby? So no work visas for migrants under £50k per year and I'd actually set a "two out, one in" immigration policy for 5 years to reduce pressure on housing and services. But for the folk of Grimsby and elsewhere we need to almost abolish benefits and instead have a "Guaranteed Job" based on minimum wage and 37.5 hours per week. If you are out of work, but of working age, you will not get something for nothing and you will not get more than those working full time and on minimum wage. If that means the people in Grimsby have to get on daily buses to Boston so be it. It might be an hour each way, so what? I know plenty of folk who commute an hour each way every working day. I'd stop pushing up the minimum wage as much. I don't think it helps. Instead I would add unsociable hours uplifts, such as: MW+20% for working Saturdays and Sundays. MW+20% shift allowance for contracts that require different rotas each week. NB. Just consider the erosion in family units these days when Mum and Dad, if they are still both at home, end up almost never being in the home together as weekend working has become common place. The effect it has on kids and family life is huge. Most of the public sector and higher paid jobs have such unsociable hours uplifts, so that should be extended to the lower paid. One other point. When I was young both my parents had set hours Monday-Friday. That meant that one of them could take an additional job working a couple of evenings a week in a pub. It's practically impossible for a 25 hours a week supermarket worker to take second job, because their hours change every week. Employers; you want to juggle rotas about and inconvenience your staff, then you will pay them more for that. One more - the Employers National Insurance rates mentioned above are a throwback to the 90s and efforts to move unemployed to part-time and give incentives for employers to offer part-time work. Now we have a shortage of labour, 10 million part-timers and 6 million economically inactive, we need to rebalance the system. So Employers NI over 3 years move form 0% / 13.8% it is now, to £5 on every employee + 10%. That will be an incentive for employers to have more full-time and less part-time workers. We need our politicians to look at the problems and work out ways to solve them. Too few do that.
@@secretarchitect288 having helped campaign in local politics in the 90s I decided that it was just full of BS. Thanks for your kind comments though. I prefer lobbying politicians with my thoughts and some do respond positively. Strangely never my own MP.
I'm a dairy farmer in Sweden. We have a similar problem of benefits and unemployment benefits being too high for people to work in agriculture. And the government just put a floor on wages for people from outside the EU. Now they have to have the equivalent wage as a farm manager delegating and overseeing other employees. We had(have technically but I doubt he will turn up to work before he finishes) an employee from Uganda, our only employee, we're not a large farm. It became so much discussion, stress and searching for methods to not be forever forced to give a manager wage to someone who after 2 years with us we knew would never be good at machinery and doesn't think in terms of planning with the cattle, that he decided to resign. Why have someone from Uganda? Well, we've had about 20 Swedes saying they have always dreamt of working on a farm only to give up within a month. Point is, will the bus load of Grimsby folks actually do the work well enough to not put the farmer in bankruptcy? Or in hospital with chronic stress and over work?
@@rachelnise2473 I chat with the local farmer now and again, in Skåne. The amount of complete bullsh*t from the authorities you lot have to put up with is staggering. I'm hugely surprised there's anyone at all left. One comes to the conclusion that they don't want you to work.
The first 2 women both have 4 kids each ! Really ! Maybe Education is required ! Who has 4 kids when they don't have 2 penny's to rub together ?! Unbelievable
@@billdoorscapePerhaps look again to the government, because they introduced LASPO which prevented legal aid for contact cases in the family courts. The average private solicitor costs will be £12k. If those costs are unfeasible, the only other option is self litigation which often results in a "mother knows best" approach, and as a result, estates full of single mums.
I once worked with a woman who had 1 child. She told me he and her husband worked out that they could only afford 1 child and to give it a good life. They both worked in professional jobs and made that calculation wisely. Seems like a lot of people don’t think logically about this important subject.
You have to admire the Grimsby folk,they are going through a hard time,the place looks run down,and the lady with the house issues,my heart goes out to her.I hope with a tidy up,Grimbys could be put on the map,as a place people want to go and spend their time,and their money,so someone needs to sort this out,for the Grimsby people.ASAP.
An absolute legend that chippy charging only £3 for what looks an awesome fish n chips & he deserves an award for at least trying to help the needy..... Top man 👍
Yes those chips look like the ones we used to eat back in the day at school break chip pattie etc , he as a huge demand for his food so i guess that compensates for the low price he charges.
£22K a year is £356 a week. We as a family live on half of that, I never realised how poor we are. Its a struggle but we don't drink, smoke or do drugs so I guess that helps. 🤔
HI im just curious..you say you live on half that which is £170 a week, are you saying that's all the money you receive or are you also getting help with benefits etc?... im not trying to be disrespectful im just stunned you can make that work. Where are you in the country? How many of you are there in family? What is your rent/mortgage?
@montyloads That's correct, 3 over 18 in family, partner died, heating only goes on 1 hr late evening 1 hr early morning if that. 1 meal a day, walk or cycle. My tax credits ended in August. 2 of us work part time due to health issues, 1 just gone on universal credit. That's what we live on. Told we can't get extra help. Previously worked all my life & raised 3 kids & 4 stepkids as my late partner was widowed. All grown up now & doing well for themselves. He died Christmas 2009. None of us ever drank or smoked, I've sewn & upcycled all my adult life, grow veg etc. Always bought in sale or made myself/diy. House & garden clean & well looked after. Always cut our own hair etc. clip my own dogs etc. I've not had a day or night out in years but live right near a lovely beach. Lovely in summer, freezing Sept-May. I was gobsmacked when this lady complained she only got double what we live on & the other has the heating on all day due to black mould. That mould is probably due to condensation from drying all her washing on the radiators. I don't know anyone who has the heating on all day these days so obviously she's not on a smart meter. Not criticising just when she said how much in benefits she gets & yet cant manage, that was a real eye opener for me. I worked upto 5 part time jobs when kids were younger including 3 eves nighshift to fit around being there for my kids. 1 son has adhd & had leg hip probs from birth, never got a penny dla kept getting declined. His legs have since been straightened. Like I said I never realised we were so poor til I watched this. We can't afford a take away they have £3 fish & chips. That bloke is a credit to his community. I guess we are all always learning which is good I guess..GRATITUDE it turns what we have into enough. I rent btw. 👍
In Canada we put plastic over drafty windows in winter. You can also deal with mice, get a cat or lay traps. There are a few things the mother of 4 could do to help her situation.
@@captainawesome12345 You do have a point ...Where's the father, why isn't there work ...But hey ...lets try to be charitable .. As a Brit I'm disgusted that whilst these people are allowed to rot the government imports savage rapey men from abroad and look after them in great comfort ....At least she ( maybe ) and her parents and grandparents paid tax into the system and that system is there to support people in times of need but not as I m sure you agree as a lifestyle .
@@captainawesome12345 yep and bleach is cheap also buy distemper I don't think that costs much either 🤔. It's better to scrub the mould off for a few ££. Make savings elsewhere if need be but the kids and her own health are far more important.
Dont get a cat! Food, vets bills etc is an extra expense. Lots of traps...having said that I lived in a city centre tenement, with restaurants and pubs on the ground floors of the surrounding blocks, and neighbours who obviously were not that bothered and I had a hell of a time with mice infestations. It was awful. Mould is also very difficult when the whole property has ventilation problems. I'm no stranger to bleach, bow grease, anti mold spray and constantly wiping condensation, but sometimes it's not just localised and keeping on top of it, it's a wider problem across the property's structure, exacerbated when you simply cannot afford to keep the heating on enough to drive it off. Many older buildings have the problem, have had cavity wall insulation, double glazing and the buildings dont breath because the ventilation is inadequate now that this type of modification has been made, sometimes the insulation actually wicks moisture to the inside walls. Nightmare.
Poverty? In a land where scroungers bring in more monthly than the people who work in cold heat or rain bringing in average £20k per year? Are we sure we can call it poverty? Free healtcare, help with housing....a plethora of other "benefits" also available. Poverty? Is that the correct word?
@@Ukipmiddleleft UK poverty to many across the world is a gold mine. That's why everybody tries to come here. The OPPORTUNITIES available that are not even a possibility where they are scrambling to get here from. You see poverty but they see Nike and Northface, food banks, free money for you, free money for having kids you cannot afford, doctors surgeries in every borough and free to visit, free school where they get free meals and education, car parked outside the free house you got, freedom to express yourself, all they see is the glorious land of freedom and freebies I'm pretty sure they'd love to swap your misery for thier misery, why don't YOU try that and come back and tell us how much fun you had experiencing REAL poverty?
She’s not struggling on £2k a month, that’s more than most people make a month working full time
This is why I'll never work 😅
What, complaining with 2k£ a month? A pension. So entitled.
As the video says - average household income in Grimsby £22,200/year = £1850/month.
@@Steve_Sharpe But I don't think he is wrong about the struggling (or not struggling) on 2k a month.
Either she is bad at budgeting or spending it on alcohol or drugs.
Many on benefits elsewhere live on less than 1k month. That woman is rich compared to many benefit recipients.
I know one, no tv, no booze, no holidays or new clothes/goods, collect rainwater for toilets, cleaning etc because meter water is very expensive, no heating etc....
This nation was screwed when euro took all the manufacturing and govt invested in cheap short lived goods providers like China and India, instead of business here
Respect to that chippy, it's doing more for the country than our polititians.
So well said
Better do something and go to prison than living on the streets!
It’s doing more for the country than me and my mates who served in the army
@@_islamization No, it's worse. For your soul. One reason why there's so many rough sleepers in Grimsby is because the people are generous.
@@s.l669 that's not your fault, you signed up to protect the country in good faith.
That chip shop owner deserves an award. As a business owner he is clearly prioritising the needs of the local people over his profit. You just don't see that kind of nobility anymore. People are far too greedy, self absorbed and inconsiderate to care. He is the kind of man that gives you hope. God bless him.
He absolutely does - what a top bloke.
Absolutely, but it's also capitalism - as soon he takes 9£ he doesn't have any business anymore.
@@lolakauffmann This" building of a niche" is still more present in Britain than the rest of western Europe. It vanishes at increasing speeds. Family small businesses disappear on daily basis because of political decisions that make them unsustainable and give insurmountable business benefits to multinational companies. All over western Europe and America.
Truly is a prime example of a good Samaritan
A decent man
2000 pound per month for not working is a staggering amount. That’s nothing to complain about.
when rent and bills are £1200 and then you have kids etc, it's nothing
if you live alone, yeah! but not with children
@@indigobuddy yeah, £2000 a month on my ones, I'm alright just about....but my rent in the UK and bills was £1000 on the outskirts of Birmingham!
I know live on a paradise island and my rent and bills are 250-300 a month and I share it , so in reality £150 a month, fk the UK
Where rent is cheap too! That's tax free income!
@@culturevulturepapi8948she ain’t working.
The Fish & Chip shop owner is a great example of True Northern hospitality. Working hard and Helping his local community because nobody else will. Respect
At that price how can you not help him keep his business running.
Without the improper usage of random higher-case, I'd agree with the OP.
Exactly
Can somebody please explain whats the point of having 3-4 kids when you can't provide for yourself? Whats the idea behind it?
He is good one, for sure. Keeps your faith in humanity alive. 💖💖
I’m not denying that poverty is a real issue, but I’m shocked that people cannot afford to live on £2k a month? A little over 2k is what many skilled professionals like myself get AFTER paying taxes, pension, etc… And, sometimes I work up to 70 hours per week…Astonishing 😮
Living in London on 2k is abject poverty
We have this in iran too 🇮🇷
@@Mohammadreza-rp8oh The whole world is experiencing poverty whilst the politicians are getting richer and richer. In London, you can’t even live on wages given to junior doctors, lawyers, etc and people have to go to foodbanks.
@@IngramPetersJr-nr7rm It is what it is sadly… And, yet I’m skilled professional with a doctorate… The whole country is going down the hill. Search for senior lecturer salaries. Having said this, if I can’t afford to have kids,I will not have them…
And they get their rent for them aswell.
The man with the fish n chip shop blessed my heart! He’s not looking for a profit, and isn’t making one, but he’s very rich! Blessings to him, for his generosity, and kindness!!
Don't be naive, he WILL be making a nice profit. That was his 71 plate Audi SUV outside the chippy.
@@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb a 3.5 for a fish supper he could be making a lot more profit. Good on him for having a nice car.
The cheaper it is the more sales he makes hes a smart business man but who knows
@@watchyojet Yes but he will likely only just be breaking even selling food at those low prices. Fish alone probably costs him around £1.50 - £2 a piece when bought in bulk. Potatoes and Peas are cheap especially when bought in bulk however you've also got to account for all of the expenses (utility bills, rent, employee wages etc). Gross Profit is not the same as Net Profit.
@@Dee_Ultimate_islamapho_bist true
I work full time, as a public servant, after tax I get just over 2,000 a month. I own my own home, car, pay health insurance and only have 3,000 in credit union loan debt. What are these people doing with their benefits? My mind boggles on how they cannot manage on 2 grand a month.
I work full time and make less than £2000 a month and I get by.
Fair play to the chippy. That guy needs more recognition. Top man.
Absolutely
💯
The fish n chip shop family has hearts of gold.
And pocketsful as well
Bless the chippy owners! Feeding people over greed for money.
Respect ❤
@@youngbess1 So,...free chips then...?
The shop owner will be lucky to make 2000 a month alike complaining benefit scroungers and shop daily working hours for an average self employed is 10 hours 6 days a week .
3 quid for fish, chips and mushy peas, wow.
What a wonderful thing to do to help those struggling, well done that man, what a legend 👏
I'm sure he's still making plenty of profit. Other places charging £9 are just ripping people off.
In a world so full of greed, that man is truly inspirational 👏 👏 👏
3 quid you'll never find it in London for less than a tenner
I live in Clapham I'm on around 40,000
@@michaelharrison360240k Is nothing in London
That fish and chips businessman providing the community with cheap/quality takeaways is a real hero and decent guy with a heart of gold.
The chip shop owner is an angel.
A real caring gentleman.
A bit like Sunak
he is for sure . £3 is a very good price but some buy it daily which is then quite dear hence how do people afford it
They could make a home-cooked healthier meal for £2.50
He chats with the people too, with no judgement. He's like a priest bless him. Nice you noticed the positive, that say alot about your personality ❤️
@@blackporscheroadster-yw8hb explain how exactly?
Mathews chippy deserves a medal 🥇
Honestly touched my heart to see such an honestly out for his community business owner in this day and age!
If I owned Matthews chippy I'd be similar. I'd charge £11 for fish and chips. But I'd also give to the peasants so long as they wore a jesters outfit, jumped up and down when I asked, and participates in bum fights.
@@ciaranoreillly3898dude
If you cant survive on £2000 a month tax free ....there is something seriously wrong with your priorities
😂😂😂
Tattoos!
tobacco, booze, takeaways, and "other substances"??😱
It ain't going to dentists that's for sure
That highly depends on the cost of living. In England there's a widespread housing crisis where even a small, run-down flat in a poor neighborhood can cost you £1500 a month.
So she's getting £2k per month in benefits plus the rent paid? Don't present her as a victim.
Getting paid more than I do after tax I pay my own rent work full time and yet she struggles...... give me a break
Take me to Britain please, affordable housing free healthcare paradise please
Where do you live?
she's doing ok
My brother just died in Blackpool the violence there is shocking and disgusting
Mathew's chippy being the real hero of this documentary. You can tell that bloke cares about the community getting a warm meal in their belly for as cheap as he can manage. Great example to a community.
The joy in that elderly woman's eyes with the fish and chips box shows that what that business owner is doing is helping these people so much more than just providing a dinner. The condescending social worker who can't believe someone is shouting is more like what they are used to as far as help. Chippy's is giving people a treat that is nourishing and that they can afford. That helps them spiritually and socially not just economically. They are treated with dignity, not like a charity case. The owner knows what he is doing. He can pay his bills and keep his community going for his part.
true words
She is wearing nike t shirt, 😮 how you said that she is poor?? Fake news
Well said
@@patelparthyou can get a second hand Nike t-shirt from oxfam for 3 quids. Drop the ignoramuses bs 🙄
@@jennajewert well said .said the s---- t head 🚾🚾🚾🚾😅😄😄😎
Cheeky woman says she only gets £2,000 a month and can't afford things for her family. Nike clothing, tattoos etc, it's obvious she's getting too much. I never even saw that much money even while I was working. As a pensioner now, the basic pension is just over £800 a month. I have to pay half of the bills which amount to £280 per month. Not had a holiday in 18 years, hardly ever go out for a meal, (maybe 2-3 times a year) and my car is over 17 years old. Not complaining, just stating facts. I'm just sick to death of the lazy idle moaners who complain when they are given so much. Don't like it? Get a real job.
Had a 180 to spend for Christmas n managed to save n keep 85 of it while that lady gets 2000 a month n universal credit is 320 a month
That’s with her housing and council tax but still alot
lol @@manosanastasiou4405
Take away Chinese food everyday is expensive.
Yes sir , true !
Natalie gets £2000.00 per month in benefits. I work 40 hours per week and take home less than that per month … disgraceful.
Donald gets over £2000 per month. Gets UC, PIP, mental health payments for "depression" which can't be proven or disproven. Pulls out the mental health card at every opportunity. Doesn't have to work or make any attempt to work. Rent is already paid. All bills paid. Gets over 2k a month and still runs out of money and complains about not having enough. Squanders it on stupid amounts of alcohol, tobacco, scratchcards, Nike trainers every week, he spends £150 a month on 3 different phone contracts, it's a total joke
I earn less than that from a full time job. I can manage to pay a mortgage and bills, run a car, and still have money left over for holidays and other nice things. If people are struggling on 2k a month they need to learn to budget.
And thats where your taxes are going and they wonder why thgese people dont want to get up at 7am toi work an 8 hour days to be poorer than they are doing nothing!
We scrape by on £1,300 per month. Both pensioners no benefits.
@@denisescutt1865 isnt the state pension a benefit?
While i do feel for some of these people, i work full time in a freezing damp factory and bring home almost £500 less a month than the first woman in this video.
its because they claim a disability on their kids - usually adhd or autism - and then they get paid as care workers for their own children
Two grand a month?I work all the hours lcan and don't make that much, what's she complaining about.
I agree, 2k a month and she can't survive
Get a better job then. "There are plenty out there!"
@@RichardSFord If it was that simple, why are there so many people on benifits?
Many of us work and get not a single benefit, no help with fuel, no cost of living, no support at all!!
You need 4 kids!😂
That's unkind go by train then , like they do , stop judging , you do not know their situation...and one day you could be laid off work or in a situation as them. .. you begrudged them , there are ventrons who are also on streets no jobs, your very lucky to have one . .
@@traceyunknown3677Well said.
Why are you complaining? You voted for Brexit. That’s Brokeit for you
@@Lukydada-15 It has nothing to do with Brexit lol. When you lockdown an economy for 3 years, do you really expect the economy to be in good health, you're dreaming if you think it would be.
The guy with the chippy is a genuine bloke hats off to him
A full belly is so warming I agree but cut out smoking and one is happier still COUGHIN' NAILS
Why do they ALWAYS have more kids than they can afford ?
£2k a month is more than a lot of people earn ! Sorry idle and reckless
Coz every kid by different fathers are a money maker for them
The Tories and Labour have destroyed everything.
No they haven’t
Both are wef controlled
They both have - totally agree with you but in truth they are the same party with the same political goals and it's not to represent ordinary working people
Both parties have been fed with a silver spoon/privallaged background.
Only tories in power
The man who owns the chippy is a hero 💙
Working full time for national minimum wage, you'll get £1792 BEFORE tax and National Insurance deductions. If folks can receive £2000 in benefits, is it any wonder they're out of work?
Exactly
I'm in Wales I'm disabled I don't get £2000 on benefits, it depends where you live too not everyone will get that on benefits that amounts isnt across the board. Plus that's not the reason why people don't work, its that people want a decent wage to live on and not just exist on.
That would include the amount they pay for her rent , The producer should have made that clear ,
I'm on sick benefit and only get 420 a mth wish I did get 2000 amth I'd be living like a queen I live in Wales also we must be the forgotten.
I agree. Why bother getting out of bed on a frosty morning when you don't need too. Let some other hard working mug do that.
Here in Canada, a senior gets by on less than £1300 a month. Our property and food is more expensive. This story really brings home what a disgusting situation we are in. 😊
Both myself and my wife are seniors living in Ontario and as you say we have to get by on that ammount. We rarely have our air conditioning on at all in summer, and we only have the heat on half a day all through the winter. No holidays, no restaurants, no fast food delivery, no alchohol, no cigarettes, we both shop at the local thrift store for our clothes .
But none the less, I am relatively healthey as is my wife. I never had free dental until I retired. If one of my teeth required attention I could only afford an extraction not a root canal and crown like most people. I lost half my teeth that way. If you wish to get rich quick in life, rob a bank or emmigrate to America.
yep the brits are luckier than canadians
We are a 6 figure income couple and had very little saved and not much cash lying around the preverbal".
'...don't have $500 for an
emergency" that was us. The big thing was debt all kinds of it, cars mortgage (although our home isn't a high price one), student loans for our kids, and of course credit cards.
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Funny thing that working class people don't get enough support from government. If you poor and you don't work government will try help you but if you work you won't get any support. But you are paying taxes. This is madness.
And will be even worse under Labour and Starmer
Should be a new class to describe those who do not work. Because when dicsussions about poor and working class people come up, they're conflated with people like this.
2k a month in benifits? Jesus Christ, why am I in full time employment?
Exactly, sometimes it feels like the government does stuff like this as some kind of divisive tactical ploy.
I agree. but please respect the name of JESUS CHRIST. Thank you.
@@marilynbrown5274Why?Jesus lives in all of our hearts, we need him more then ever. AMEN.
2 thousand a month. Disgraceful, this is why the country is in such dire straits, people don’t respect the word WORK or JOB anymore.
I disagree. How did he disrespect Jesus Christ?@@marilynbrown5274
Two grand a month for not working?? Why do I bother to even get out of bed and work for a living??
Thank you! 2k per month is fine. I wonder how much of that has to go on rent and bills... very little I'm assuming... so her remaining money after expenditures will be higher than a lot of professionals.
just don't 😂 instead of them taking a cut of your money, they can just pay you all of it to do fuck all.
me personally i don't like them, or society enough to contribute to it
@@feelzgoodmane6517 she has subsidy on rent
They have money for tattoos of course
Self respect.
So the lady with 4 children gets £24 Grand a year in pocket, that the same as earning a salary of £31k a year, that's not poverty
I'm on 30k as an flt driver and thats a well paid FLT job where I live and yeah Im not skint and I'm a stoner
24k a year is very low. If you earn less than that in your job, then that is your problem. You need to know your value and what you are worth
Don't forget they also get exemptions from council tax free destist etc etc
That's 24 grand a tax in pocket along with other benefits@@jamesd5767
£700 Rent
£180 council tax benefit
£250 energy costs
Hmm leaves £870 for food and costs for 4 kids . She truly living the highlife xP
I used to live in Burnley. It had a brilliant local economy with the mills and engineering. Now, its a shadow of its former self.
Who is to blame for the demise of British towns? Politicians, civil servants, activists, selfish big businesses (selling off mills) and business owners getting stuff made in China.
People need jobs, not benefits and with jobs comes prosperity. But the political and treacherous don't want the average Brit to be successful.
You are so right
English towns and cities not British.... They are the ones in power and have destroyed our country.. Time to wake up
You are spot on sadly pal
Jon you are not wrong. I come from coal, steel and shipyard country. Imagine owning a manufacturing company in uk today. Minimum wage, income tax, ni, rates, business tax, health and safety, environmental regs. etc. etc. etc. nothing wrong with these, but why should we have to compete with sweatshops around the world who don’t pay any of it?
I just bought a Harrington jacket, made in Blackburn. Yes it was a bit more expensive than an imported item, it cost £140, but the money stays in UK. My message is simple, shop smart, buy new stuff made here, so money is not sucked out of our country..
So much for levelling up. When they said levelling up the North, they meant North London.
I think the word up was a typo. They just meant levelling the North.
Their north is Leeds and Manchester
@@3D_PrintingLeeds and Manchester isn't the North.... Northumberland and Cumbria are the north
@@HarryFlashmanVCanything north of London is the north. I was born in Manchester but lived most of my life in Northumberland and this county might as well be its own country!
Well said 👏 👌 👍
2 bloody grand a month!!!!!!!!!!!!! what the fuck is going on, no wonder no one wants to work
Grimsby is receiving 25 million pounds a year for 30 years to level up from this state it’s in. That’s 4 days expenditure on the migrant hotels. In 4 days the government spends more money than it’s willing to give the poorest area of our country in a year
And you think even without those migrants it would be better?
Hard reality is now ive heard numbers around 3 billion but thats next to nothing comparing on how much it cost to run a country like the UK for a year.
i lived in a town in the uk which was just as bad. When you got to know people like the 2 you asked, you quickly found out what the issue was - alchohol and drugs. There is also a culture that believes the state owes them a living. Violence and vandalism, the same as in the town i lived in, destroying trust and peace and sanity. When you interviewed the man from the citizens advice there was a person shouting in the background, imagine that late at night, lets say 11 - then another starts at 2 in the morning - thats the real issue. When the restrictions on state payments started in the 80s it had a good effect in my small town - they couldnt afford to get high 3 or 4 nights a week - then it came to only 2 nights a week. The real issue is those who wreck others lives - you can cope with poverty.
2k amonth is loads I wish I had that I can't afford aholiday or weekend away and I work a 36 t 48 hour week I might some afford a cheap bottle of wine
@@reinhardvonlohengramm6296agreed! It’s lack of ambition to get out of their conditions. I am saying as someone from a council whose family was getting benefits. If anyone from the community wanted to better themselves and get away from that lifestyle, you’re almost judged for “being up yourself”. I do believe there are exceptions, but the majority of people don’t have the inner drive to leave these conditions. So glad I did
i live in a small town in france , the economy of the town is good due to tourism and industries present in the area but there is still poverty here , we had a family of white gypsies come in our building , they lived above us my god....... When they would close their door they wouldn't close it normally but would bang it and not once a day , like imagine that 20 or 30 times a day , always some mess around them, weird loud music at night , probably listening to it high , people that have nothing to do with our entrance coming in and out at night , (they broke the lock on the door of the main entrance) , i was afraid to go home at night after work you don't know what you can stumble upon....... They also robbed our 90 years old neighbor , a disaster , they finally got forced out but only after 2 years.......I also think i escaped death when i got to their door to tell to stop the noise the father went for something to get me with (maybe a knife or i don't know).
Those people are a disease.
Poverty is grinding, it grinds you down to the point where you can’t see upwards, so you can’t blame the majority of these people!
In other words poverty causes severe mental health problems, problems that put people on the poverty “merry go round.”
And what about those kids watching this happen, what do you think that will do to their delicate minds, I remember sitting on my bed, at 15 years old, considering suicide, because I could never see anything different, thinking what is the point?
Children need a Leader, but if that Leader (parent) is ground down in to the dirt🤔
@@wazz1154 you are quite right, but from what i saw many wanted to be there - the telly, the pubs, every time they got a bit antsy - drink till you forget - its not until you take that away that they begin to take responsibility - and yes suicide - thats why we need society to change - we need leaders who people can follow - not the left, not the right - but people who can set an example by what they do - and do.
I found several and followed what they did and soon enough - i was there too.
I'm a fulltime secondary school teacher and a single parent of two children and I live on less than £1800 a month after tax, £2k a month on benefits without being taxed is not struggling.
tbf she has 4 kids and one is disabled who knows
Benefits are taxed. Not by much but they are and go towards NI which goes towards state pension.
State pension may not be given in the end though as benefit claimants may not have enough NI points/credits, or they will get the lowest amount.
Many will cry when it get to retirement age. Especially, if they’ve not saved towards a personal pension pot.
Exactly.
I am a single pensioner and i live in a little remote village with 1.400 £ in Germany, we are getting told: in one of the richest countries of the world. I raised 3 children as the sole breadwinner. With this little money I could not live in the big towns where I once earned my Money like Frankfurt, Freiburg, Berlin. I don't complain on my life but I feel there is increasing injustice and misery all over Europe at the moment.
No you're not. Teachers aren't that thick to judge people based on a video from one of the Murdoch media outlets.
Retirees who struggle to meet their basic needs are the ones who could not accumulate enough money during their active years to meet their needs. Retirement choices determine a lot of things. My parents both spent same number of years in the civil service, but my mom was investing through a wealth manager, and my dad through the 401k.
I agree with you and I believe that the secret to financial stability is having the right investment ideas to enable you earn more money, I don’t know who agrees with me but either way I recommend either real estate and stocks..
I’ve been diligently working, saving and contributing towards early retirement and financial freedom, but since covid outbreak, the economy so far has caused my portfolio to underperform, do I keep contributing to my 401k or look at alternative sectors to meet my goals?
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Bless the chip shop owner, He keeps the price low and just covers his costs but he is helping the local people. When people on benefits are receiving more than working people it's hardly an incentive to work.
I agree. He is feeding the hungry, Those of us who aren't should aplaud him for his goodness.
I like the way he says "people can get a warm meal" not "a hot meal" lol
@@mikemccaine4229 , Evidently that gent surely knows how to care for himself, knowing that 'hot' meals causes esophagus ulcer and cancer over time, while warm meal does not, besides making one feel warm at the stomach. A rahter sophisticated and mature gent!
@@resnica3557 I doubt he meant that lol 😆 probably though warm sounds more comfortable in general.
The fish and chip shop owner has a heart of gold ❤
Total respect for that Chippy ❤. As a person that lives abroad but grew up in the UK it hurts to see this. It was fishing industries like that one that was the backbone of our nation....shame on those in power😢
If he charged any more he wouldnt have any customers. Doubt hes doing it out of kindness.
@@cormaccarroll don't be stupid. Many restaurants close, very few fish n chips close ....a good portion of fish n chips usually goes for anywhere between 6-8£ depending on portion sizes and quality. He could easily charge the same, so using a brain you can possibly figure out his margins and possibly he owns the premises so costs are bit lower , fish is on the doorstep....so yes at 3£ a portion...it is called kindness and he's probably not even braking even. Don't try to be an arse about it. You see that people are suffering and trying to make ends meat and trying to give back to the community.
£2000 per month on benefits, no wonder this country is broken
That's very good money, i wouldn't be struggling on that, where is she spending thar cash, there's another side to these people's lives here.
I don't get that working full time
It's selfish and irresponsible to have 4 children when you can't even afford to support yourself. Less than 5 min in, and you have two impoverished, unmarried women with four children each. Both women on "benefits," of course. And I'll guess what the child's disability is, for which the parent receives even more benefits: ADHD, which means medicating their child, for what is probably normal behavior.
They figured out how to game the system.
Absolutely agree it's irresponsible to have children you can't afford. But how about blaming the fathers as well? Shouldn't they take responsibility for kids, or it's only fun for them and sacrifice for the mothers.
Government loves your children one way or another
That was all planned, get as many kids as possible with different fathers and claim every possible benefit and never work in your life
Have you ever thought that she might be divorced or that maybe she her kids all have the same father through a long term relationship?? Not everyone with large families do it just to live on benefits
That chip restaurant is fucking incredible. Really makes me proud to be human to see people be nice to each other.
Full respect
£2000 pounds a month in benefits that is £24,000 a year WOW !, and is considered living in poverty??? Yet pensioners are expected to live on £10,400 plus a few occasional handouts from the government to try to stay warm in the winter.
WOW!!! Indeed. I'd like her income without having to work, who wouldn't ?
That chippy owner isn’t making much on what he’s selling. A real hero feeding people who need it without sticking his arm in
Hi from aussie
You really think that all he sells is £3 chips? Im sure there is more on the menu, its just dramatic for this show, nobody works for fun/community but for money, if it wasnt profitable it wouldnt be functioning.
£2000 per month is more then enough for living.
The homes in the north of England are fare cheaper to buy or rent, rent is like 500 a month for a 3 bed house.
The problem is people use the money for the wrong things.
Some people working full time don't get that £2,000 a month . Wow .
4 kids so I reckon that's low.
@@Dave4444424 then don't have 4 kids .
2 grand a month I could live good on that I know people that work and get 1300 a month so 2 grand easy
On benefits and getting £2k per month, therefore will get help with rent, probably won't pay council tax, or get good subsidy, if working you would need to earn £3k a month, take home, to be the same level when all things equal. UK must be the most deprived G7 country.
@neilhands1708 is it possible that this woman or any man is better than you at your job but just weren't given the same opportunities you had? Does this person deserve less?
As far as the rubbish and dereliction, I live in a council estate in Northampton which is a pretty poor town but my small council estate is kept spotless by the people that live there no litter no anti social behaviour, I walked across the nature reserve to an identical estate about a mile from me, it was in lovely countryside overlooking a golf course, rubbish everywhere graffiti, remains of a burnt out car and just looked terrible, people have a duty to look after their own area, I and most others who live by me litter pick and keep our area tidy, you cannot blame the council or politicians for the mess that is made and ignored by the residents, who would want to set up a business or invest in an area that the residents treat as a slum
There's no such thing as a bad area, just bad people in them
Spot on!
Exactly my mum lives in flat 10 min walk away the area dirty, i live near a station but my road is suprisingly clean depends on the people anywhere.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s the people that make the place, from my own experience.
i agree, I was raised poor in little more than a shack that barely kept out the cold, but we were clean, our yard was clean. I'm not lazy and I bet you aren't either, people need to have some pride no matter their situation.
I’m not originally from Grimsby but moved across as my partner is from here. I’m from a working class family, and town, and so understand the struggles people have and believe I am quite a sympathetic person. Having lived here for a number of years now, I can tell you exactly why the East Marsh is struggling and has such low levels of income; the vast majority of people living there are lazy bastards and they will never look to get a job. The amount of deadbeat dad’s in this town is incredible too. The fishing industry here has been dead for a long time and people would sooner moan about that and do nothing to change their own circumstances, rather than take the work they can. There are some really nice parts of the town, there’s a number of small businesses in the town that have made a name for themselves, and anyone that I have known to be looking for work has found it in a relatively short amount of time. There really are some positives to this town but one of the biggest causes of the issues are the very people that live here. I’d also add, fxxk the tories, they’ve certainly not helped the town.
One hundred percent agree with you. I used to live in Grimsby and left many years ago because I was offered a job in the South.
Thank you for your view. I was thinking when watching the people being interviewed that it would be more interesting to hear questions answered as what education or training did you follow. What made you decide to stay in a town without any prospect. What is the father of your children doing. What made you decide to have four children while the norm in first world countries is one or two children. My old home town also has a residential area as the East Marsh. I decided to leave my border town when I became 18. I was born in a relocation camp to an immigrant family and I knew I would have no future in the town where I was born and raised. I had to work a year in a factory to save some money to move away. My first job after my study was again in a factory somewhere in the capital city. After a small year I finally got a job in the industry what I educated and trained for. I am now 60 years old, I emigrated away but am slowly planning to get back to my home country where I was born too and want to retire too.
The jobs are not paying what the expenses are today. Not the business owners fault, not the people's fault. The elites that can pay any price for their needs are the drivers of the economy. It makes it hardMost assistance is if you do not work or cuts off at a certain amount of income, usually what is less than needed. It is easier for people in better neighborhoods to get employed. I am certain they check people's addresses. Are there retraining programs or are businesses encouraged to come there? Fixing buildings and offering a low rent for a time with the agreement they hire x amount of people from there. What about maker faires, repair cafes, flea/farmers market, community gardens.
What's the difference between Grimsby and Birmingham?
Grimsby voted Brexit... Says it all.
The chippy shop is awesome, what a great community spirit, but the issue with benefits is, they are meant to be temporary while people find work. Most are using benefits like a career. The system cannot sustain so many people on benefits.
£22k is a fairly high income for North Wales. Our poverty here is masked by natural beauty and the wealthy Cheshire set. So we can sympathise with Grimsby.
My husband and i worked all our lives , but because we were born before 1953 , we only get the basic state pension , which is one hundred and sixty pounds less than the new state pension per month , for those born after 1953 . We get nowhere like two thousand a month like this lady .
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@sunshine-qk8qe well I go to work 40 hours a week and don't get £2000 a month. With exception of working in London, £2000 after tax is a salary most people would love to have.
Disabled Child
Alas there are millions that are forgotten and when you do get yourself out of a situation you find yourself dealing with issues that have been pushed to one side just to surviive.
@@sunshine-qk8qeWhat is the area like where you live? Because that's the biggest issue here, not individual wealth but the wealth and investment of the entire area.
£2000 a month on benefits! thats more than people take home on a 30K salary
No one gets two grand a month on benefits.
I was just about to say this too. The 2 of us working full time, I do 40h/w, husband does almost 50h/w and we both bring the total of £3100 a month. I don't think £2000 is little. I wonder if she needs to pay CT/rent etc.
@@MissAndrandesimilar numbers in my house. Not to sound harsh,but has she ever heard of family planning ?? 4 kids this day and age? Mental.
She said she is also a paid carer for her son. If someone with a disabled child worked full time the cost of care would be a fortune. Besides which the value of having a sense of purpose, gained through employment is worth more than money!
Don’t blame the people for this travesty of political shenanigans! The EU was a massive problem, blame the corrupt politicians but also blame the people who keep voting for them! Either colour it’s the same old shite
That was my first thoughts , it s a wonder she doesnt have a brand new invalidity car as well
24k a year not working 1 day in that year let that sink in
Sickening
What is that the benefits they get lol
And they have the audacity to moan about it aswell country is a joke
Tax Free !!!!!
It’s for population growth, use your brain
I work full time in Kent and I don’t have £2000 a month. My rent only is £1350. Disgraceful
@@marcefromage it is Disgraceful to type that when other people are without finance. Shameful behaviour.
Is it? How disgraceful is it to be able to work but choosing to stay on benefits and applying for council houses?!
Read the comments.
@marcefromage absolutely disgraceful
I love the first guys humour. "The seagulls have flip knives. That's how rough it is!" 😂
My mate Robbie,fu×ked his back up while in the army, now can't walk without crutches, he's a very funny bloke 😂
@@marcdenniss43 You tell Robbie that's he's a top bloke. I wish him all the best and I hope life treats him well. ☺️
The dogs round this way won't go out without crash helmets
@@marcdenniss43Did he get bummed?
Vote reformuk 🇬🇧🇬🇧
You mean flick knives.
Meanwhile London gets billions spent on new tube lines that make the journey 4 mins faster from paddington to the city
And then there's HS2...
When the line isn't having work done on it, or something has broken, or they're on strike.
London schools get more money, international investment all concentrated in South East. all those high salaries go into RENT ( the 1% love this). £2500 for a one bed flat.. £1 million for a three bed house.. Greed- o-nomics
@@helmethead72 HS2 didn't do anything for the North. I live in the North, 20 miles south of the Scottish border. The railhead for HS2 is 220 miles south of here.
I live in London and my pay doesn't even come near the benefits that woman is receiving for having four kids.
£2,000 a month on benefits ??? The first woman in this film is getting more money than me and I got work full time , I have to pay full council tax etc etc and I am not getting any cost of living money from anywhere she is better off than me !!!!!
And she admitted that she spends the money set out for her disabled child on other things and not the child!!! That's criminal.
The problem is your awful wages, not overgenerous benefits. Grow a backbone, stop picking on the weak, and join a damn union.
@@laaluu8765the easiest solution would be to deduct the money from the Grimsby people and give it to the working class
2 grand a month? Disgraceful. I work full time and I don't get that.
Same here..its soul destroying
Nobody gets 2 grand a month on benefits lords however get that a week
Does she expect sympathy for that? Same as you- I'm working full time, earn about the same as her on benefits, with some luxuries, running a car too, AND living in Leeds, which I can say, isn't cheap...
So, no... little sympathy from here. Prices in my city are vastly over-inflated for what the city offers, namely rent and food extortion, so 2k monthly in Grimsby must be luxury. Adidas trainers?? Nice... 🤔🤫
And you pay for the lords hotels and meals daily
Maybe that includes rent,housing benefit, child allowance? I don't think she gets 2k cash.
Shameful, meanwhile the NHS is recruiting from abroad and the construction industry does the same.
Agree. It comes down to if you want to work or live off the state. You have to work hard for a job and then work hard to keep the job. I came out of the military and promised a job. Got home the company I was going to work for told me that there was no job for they were laying off. I looked around and found work. At first, it was not much but gave me a leg up to find a better job. I eventually ended up being a structures technician and am now retired. My wife worked as well. Never looked back. Still being offered jobs even though retired.
Shameful is your government. They f***ed this up, and them alone!!
@@robertdavies8305would you sooner be a structure's technician or a rock star
shameful that young people in this country have no interest in working, and would rather in on the dole their whole lives
That’s because we don’t train the people here and the wages and conditions are bad
They aren't poor. I'm shocked to hear people getting benefits of F* 2K a month, and we don't get a single penny while still working hard enough to earn a mere £1500-£1600 a month.
You need to retrain and try and increase your income. Sorry but 2k is a very low amount for 4 children. You should not be envious of that
You should be mad at companies that think paying you 1500 a month is ok while they make huge bonuses.
They know poor people just spend it on drugs and booze. If they let normal people, the 30 million have 2000 a month inflation would go insane.
Unfortunately they need to control that 30 million by making it look like we need all your money to support these people. It's bs really just about controlling the average man just you wait in 10 years time when there's another 7 million people chasing what you want to buy each month.
Why do you work for half the national average income? You need a better job, not complain that other people don't suffer enough. If you must complain, take it to your boss, and to whoever it is that writes laws allowing people to be paid slave wages.
I made 1600/month working full time as a doctor in my first few years
Petem is talking through his ar.. 😂😂😂😂
After my travel cost to work im on less than 2k a month and I pay a mortgage and council tax..
UK benefits are a disease for the economy and an insult to the hard working class
I would love to have £2000 coming in every month and other things paid for on top of that. All for doing virtually nothing. Absolutely ludicrous.
So is sending BILLIONS to Ukraine, Israel & Rwanda! 😂
You do realise that woman full time carer for disabled child she not sat home doing nothing
@@rachelkristine4669 So is what?
Unless that woman's child is so severely disabled that he/she is confined to bed as like a child I once knew with cerebral palsy (known as a spastic back in the day) then the child will still attend school. And she didn't mention that was the case. I too have a disabled child but we don't use that as an excuse.
Exactly, I'm a student, living alone, working and studying full-time. After paying my bills, I'm left with just £250 per month. I survive on chicken nuggets and ready-made salads. No holidays, no drinks, no going out at all. And these people are getting £2000 tax-free, they don't work, they don't pay rent and yet have the audacity to complain that they are poor? Put these people to work, a bunch of lazy benefit leeches
What blows my mind is why these poor folks have so many children if you can’t afford them don’t have them 🤯
"I thought I was in lurrrrve"
every kid
Been to Africa? 😂
Generally poorer households have more kids because of their higher death rate. We typically associate more kids as more free time, which can be true in some circumstances, but in general cases it is to mitigate the number of kids lost.
@@pauljansen6650 yoiu do know that africa is a continent and not a country and there are rich people in african countries aswell.
They have time on their hands so naturally mate together multiple times a day.
Excuse me, did I hear well £2000 in benefits and struggling to make ends meet?!
If I got $4000 AUD a month, I'd have my own business set up and have finished uni by now.
I'd actually be contributing to society if I was given that kind of leg up
Yes. That is the sort of crap that people believe .😢
2,000 a month, l do not receive that as an old age pension. Turn the heat up because of the damp and the heat is causing the damp. If these people started to help themselves their lives would be better.
I just don't understand why these people keep having kids if they cant afford to look after them.
Contraception is expensive too...poor people generally have more kids than rich people
@@CillBill94Women and men can get contraception for free. Family planning clinic give free condoms, i've had bags from them. Female contraception is free, as is vasectomy, which I have now had on NHS and was painless and went smoothly
It's almost as if a lack of a quality education and upbringing can lead to poor life decisions.... Repeat and rinse over many generations and here we are.
Exactly
Children = child benefits = money. She wouldn't get £2000 a month without children.
Then when she has the children, she can complain about not being given enough to look after them to play the victim card.
It's the Utopia of the Soviet Union. No one has to work, but everyone gets fed. Weirdly, the Soviet Union collapsed while working towards this Utopia, so I'm not sure what went wrong. Maybe, just this crazy theory I came up with, maybe, not working and getting everyone fed requires more than a belief in this left-wing ideology.
The woman makes 2000 pounds a month in benefit for doing nothing, and still complaining? No wonder this country is going down the drain.
yeah, "makes"
Ok boomer.
You make, I make, she doesn't make. She lives off whay we make.
that's more than the average wage here in Sweden for someone working 9-5. this is ridiculous
she should use that extra money to buy a toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste... apparently she get enough calories eh?
Her £2000 a month in benefits is more than I get each month for working 40 hours a week. I get no help to pay the heating bill or anything else, it stinks.
Well said. The entitlement of the woman was off the scale.
Not everyone on benefits will get that amount, it depends where you live, plus she has kids too, if she didn't have kids she would not get that amount. I'm disabled and I don't get that much, not even close to that amount and I have no kids.
Im getting £1650 a month in full time job after tax ( £11,24 per hour ) and I struggle living in Hull. Food horrendously got more expensive for sure
@@adamglu20 I'm going to play your tory world game.. Get a better job then..
Paulaxism tell that to those poor farmers living on the breadline and working 120 hours a week for 2000pounds a year.
22.200 is nearly the double of what you get as a pensioner in Germany as basic 'security' - so what?! THIS is the sad truth. Your rent is paid but only, if it is a social housing - you have to pay all energy costs yourself and for that and everything else, food, clothing, TV, for everything else you have 300,- euros a month - and that means, by luck, 50.- euros per week.
I live in East Marsh, and I 100% agree. However, I do hope, for my kids' sake, that when they are my age, Grimsby will be back to its glory. It's a beautiful place, but we feel forgotten, and all the money the council puts into the town seems to be wasted. It's never put where it actually needs to be.
I live on the east marsh to I personally love Grimsby it really saddens me that half the shops and buildings have become derelict or unkept freshney place used to be such a great shopping centre along with the market it's gone so far downhill nothing left in the town now and the amount of homeless people here is forever getting more and more
Such places generally do not recover. But people can and should move to seek out chances elsewhere. Once the place has shrunk to a sustainable size, new things can grow.
Yes move, I moved from Lincolnshire up north and I'm way better off financially.
You know that it will not be. it will be absolute mayhem. 50 million pound limit to wealth. 100,billion is literally UNSPENDABLE
Labour have opposed the stopping of boats 7 times, paying 8m per day to house the illegal chancers.
Imagine what could be done for towns like Grimsby!!!!!!!🤬
Exactly!!
@@roslynaubrey7766
They think more of grooming gangs. 🤬🤬
It's the Tories that can't be bothered to process applications and put them all in Hotels instead. They are the ones that want the cheap labour and that's why they haven't stopped the boats. They would rather give money to business people like hoteliers, pretend PPE providers and other Tory party donors than spend it on the likes of Grimsby, Stockton and Stoke-On-Trent.
Hello rayvinloony I can imagine how you feel nearly , but I don’t get why you’re blaming The Labour Party, their not in power, the Tories have a massive majority, Labour can’t stop them from doin whatever they want ? Of course the conservatives want you and everyone else to hang the blame on someone other than them , Imagine if the Government used that 8 million to sort out if the refugees are genuine or not, then the ones that are they can put them to work , I’m from Birkenhead, I live now in the Netherlands, here the authorities have accepted 123,000 refugees by interviewing them, every one of them have to find a job and feed themselves , Britain’s wonderful Government won’t let the refugees look for work , instead they use them to stir up bad feelings amongst people as yourself, and in the meantime the Tories get a trouble free ride ,
650K is LEGAL migration, 50K illegal (boats and lorries) - the Mainstream Media and govt distract the real issue - always talking about boats !!!!!
Why shouldn't the people that work get a cost of living payment too? We're struggling just as much with all the increases on bills, food etc
Yeah agreed and we’re also on less than 2 grand a month, living alone is extremely hard. It makes you laugh, doesn’t it.
Universal basic income?
@@WiiggzIt's just a joke. I'd still rather work but it's just....🤷🏻♀️
@@geena_gee I’d rather work too, but they don’t half make it difficult for us.
@@Wiiggz They really really do
Sadly , we seem to have system that supports folks who don’t work and penalises people who work hard and pay taxes…
The poverty is shocking in the UK but people should not be reproducing when they can't afford to provide for so many children. £2K is more than people receive on a minimum wage. There should be mandatory classes in budgeting.
Very good idea and fin spending TOO We are all just emptying our pockets on TAT
The net is killing the streets just as supermarkets killed the small shops
Child allowance .....
They live on 22.000 a year trying to live on less. My wife and I have to live on 15.000 per year, and we can't claim any benefits, not even council tax reduction. we get nothing.
Same in Poland. People earn e.g. 6000 for a 4-people family and some other family earn 5000 (PLN) but then they get 2000 benefits because they are poor. And they get free kindergarten near home, etc. whereas the 6k family has to travel around the city or choose a 1000PLN private kindergarten. SOCIALISM!!!
It’s possible to live on 15k. Not luxurious but you are not gonna starve to death
That Council tax is the worst thing Thatcher did to the ordinary people of Britain.
Same
15k ?? Don't we have minimum wages in this country?
Can't say a word, we have Mississippi in the States, neglect for decades, the poorest state.
I adore small towns in Britain. Maybe they are not so fancy but I like that people are so kind and understandable there, I like food, I like to see the usual life. I am from Norway, and it`s something common in people. We all living and struggle for life, we try to do our best for children and to pay bills. I guess we are normal, even if we are poor.
Shout out to Stan Mathews. What a legend!
Don’t help these actual Brits , but house random migrants who could care less about the country.
Just as screwed up as the States.
- 650K is LEGAL migration, 50K illegal (boats and lorries) - the Mainstream Media and govt distract the public from the real issue - always talking about boats !!!!!
Better do something and go to prison than living on the streets!
Couldn't care less! Could care less means they do care some and they don't.
And Canada! It’s time our government s take care of their citizens.
You reap what you sow.
As a pensioner in Devon, I have to survive on £213 a week = £10,565 a year. Half the average wage of this place. Must be a struggle being able to afford tattoos, smoke and booze.
She never said she smoked or drank.
@@blackthornhealing I appologise that you missed the point of my comment. You will notice in a lot of these programs that these people either drink alcohol, smoke or take drugs, or have tatoos, all the above cost a lot of money.
@@blackthornhealing Oh come on, just look at her face.
Well, thats the reason, W H Y lots of thosr people are poor for other things........
Did you not think to plan ahead for your older years?
Hi I’m from Australia we also have a homeless population here and people just a pay check away from being on the streets it’s world wide just sad and shouldn’t be tolerated if you have something extra you should try to give it too less fortunate people especially the kids too the fish and chip guys your bloody hero’s god bless you your family. And your business thank you !!!
Well done to the fish shop owner. Hes doing more fore his community than any mp. 👏
4 kids and no job, 2k in benefits a month is more than some earn, and they don’t have to pay tax
Nor rent
She can afford tattoos though , or do they qualify for benefits as well ?
My Scientist colleague have 1 kid but the child care is too much so they struggle while who do not work have an easier life ! what a world
Can afford tatoos,rings,and not working,great if you can get away with it.
It's a joke.
I left Grimsby nearly 40 years ago because of lack of employment, I moved down South and I’ve had a lovely life, however I’m not far from retirement and will be heading home in the next 18 months. I left Grimsby but it didn’t leave me, and the need to move back home has got stronger and stronger! I grew up on the East Marsh and it’s a small area, but believe me so has everywhere else, Grimsby and Cleethorpes has a lot to offer and I can’t wait to get back.
It’s such a shame I remember Grimsby when it was thriving. The government gave away our fish and lost the industry. The EU rules made it impossible. I am sad our government has done this to our country and Grimsby is just the sign of it.
2K Month is not nothing!
@@irenedavo3768 And who gets that.
Tony Blair did this
Still blaming the EU
@@AustralianQldDadNah mate, this decline set in long before that idiot got in
I remember the fish docks in Hull as a kid in the 70's. Now you wouldn't even knew they existed.
I think that gentleman who owned that chip pie is an absolute star God bless him x
The first woman gets 2k a month and she's poor? That's the equivalent to 32k a year and with her council tax and house paid for, that's about another 10k after tax, so she's on about 45k a year. That's a manager salary and she's still poor?
Was that the lady who was shouldering a Louis Vuitton bag?……….
32k….??…….dont you mean 24k….??
@@jerrywallop5647 no, I mean 32k before tax
I thought the maximum any family can claim was reduced to 26k?
£2000 a month plus housing benefit sounds like a generous budget to me !
Its such a run down area. Its so sad to see. Sign of the times. Also Mathews chippy is amazing, what a top chap, lots of reapect to him ❤
"The UK spends more than anywhere else in Europe subsidising the cost of structural inequality in favour of the rich".This was the headline from the Equality Trust’s cost of inequality report and analyse which came out couple of weeks ago,inequalities of income, wealth and power cost the UK £106.2bn a year compared with the average developed country in the OECD.Britain in the 1970s was one of the most equal of rich countries. Today, it is the second most unequal, after the US
Boom!
can we blame the foreigners it must always be some one else's fault
We follow the us into everything. I’m just waiting for guns to be legal in our country and then we will be the full mini me. Once the nhs is gone
I'm in Lancashire and almost the same case can be made for Fleetwood. Some of the old fishing ports have managed but they often have a tourism element to them such as Whitby and Brixham. But most struggle because they relied so much on fish.
Joining the Common Market played a part, but fishing would have taken a huge hit regardless because of the over fishing one of the ex-trawlermen referred to in the piece and leaving the EU will help, but again it will not happen over night, it will be over the next 2 decades and it also needs governments following the right policies.
But the main problem isn't the decline in fishing, it's the increase in apathy, again touched on in the film.
People need a reason to get up in the morning, a purpose in life. In the old shoe factories of East Lancashire where I grew up late 60s, the bloke with a poor education that used to bail the rubbish, or manage the boiler; the traditional labourer could still take a pride in his work, and the ability to provide for himself and his family.
They played a part in the local community and had respect, standing. They grafted and just about managed, paying for the few luxuries and treats by taking overtime when it was available at time and a 1/4 or more.
Two generations later how things have changed. Rather than overtime, the system rewards less work. 20 hours a week is common place, topped up by in-work support, with cash incentives for kids especially ones with issues. I've seen people fight to have their child statemented as kids have become a revenue stream (again touched on in the piece) and if benefits are ever removed "they've cut *our* money".
Employers are also incentivised to keep the low-paid in part-time work. Employers National insurance is roughly 0% for up to 20 hours a week, and then 13.8% on all pay beyond that.
So if you employ 1 x full time 40 hours, it costs about 6% more than employing 2 x 20 hours and the employer knows the welfare state will top them up. To a small supermarket that saving is worth 10s of 1000s a year.
So being realistic, the issue in Grimsby is little to do with fishing and it's decline. Maybe 10%. It's more to do with the Governance of our country over the last 30 years which has created a welfare trap which in itself demoralises and disincentivizes folk.
The way out of this is to roll back the State and to use some imagination.
So using Grimsby as an example, just down the road in Lincolnshire we apparently have had to bring in 1000s of migrant workers to allow the agri industries to survive.
So we can bring a bus load in from Bucharest, but not from Grimsby?
So no work visas for migrants under £50k per year and I'd actually set a "two out, one in" immigration policy for 5 years to reduce pressure on housing and services.
But for the folk of Grimsby and elsewhere we need to almost abolish benefits and instead have a "Guaranteed Job" based on minimum wage and 37.5 hours per week.
If you are out of work, but of working age, you will not get something for nothing and you will not get more than those working full time and on minimum wage.
If that means the people in Grimsby have to get on daily buses to Boston so be it. It might be an hour each way, so what? I know plenty of folk who commute an hour each way every working day.
I'd stop pushing up the minimum wage as much. I don't think it helps. Instead I would add unsociable hours uplifts, such as:
MW+20% for working Saturdays and Sundays.
MW+20% shift allowance for contracts that require different rotas each week.
NB. Just consider the erosion in family units these days when Mum and Dad, if they are still both at home, end up almost never being in the home together as weekend working has become common place.
The effect it has on kids and family life is huge.
Most of the public sector and higher paid jobs have such unsociable hours uplifts, so that should be extended to the lower paid.
One other point. When I was young both my parents had set hours Monday-Friday. That meant that one of them could take an additional job working a couple of evenings a week in a pub.
It's practically impossible for a 25 hours a week supermarket worker to take second job, because their hours change every week.
Employers; you want to juggle rotas about and inconvenience your staff, then you will pay them more for that.
One more - the Employers National Insurance rates mentioned above are a throwback to the 90s and efforts to move unemployed to part-time and give incentives for employers to offer part-time work.
Now we have a shortage of labour, 10 million part-timers and 6 million economically inactive, we need to rebalance the system.
So Employers NI over 3 years move form 0% / 13.8% it is now, to £5 on every employee + 10%. That will be an incentive for employers to have more full-time and less part-time workers.
We need our politicians to look at the problems and work out ways to solve them. Too few do that.
Some good ideas there KiRichardTaylor. Have you thought of becoming a politician?! I say that sincerely and not sarcastically.
@@secretarchitect288 having helped campaign in local politics in the 90s I decided that it was just full of BS.
Thanks for your kind comments though.
I prefer lobbying politicians with my thoughts and some do respond positively. Strangely never my own MP.
This was an amazing comment and wonderful to read and very eye opening
I'm a dairy farmer in Sweden. We have a similar problem of benefits and unemployment benefits being too high for people to work in agriculture. And the government just put a floor on wages for people from outside the EU. Now they have to have the equivalent wage as a farm manager delegating and overseeing other employees. We had(have technically but I doubt he will turn up to work before he finishes) an employee from Uganda, our only employee, we're not a large farm. It became so much discussion, stress and searching for methods to not be forever forced to give a manager wage to someone who after 2 years with us we knew would never be good at machinery and doesn't think in terms of planning with the cattle, that he decided to resign. Why have someone from Uganda? Well, we've had about 20 Swedes saying they have always dreamt of working on a farm only to give up within a month.
Point is, will the bus load of Grimsby folks actually do the work well enough to not put the farmer in bankruptcy? Or in hospital with chronic stress and over work?
@@rachelnise2473
I chat with the local farmer now and again, in Skåne. The amount of complete bullsh*t from the authorities you lot have to put up with is staggering. I'm hugely surprised there's anyone at all left. One comes to the conclusion that they don't want you to work.
The first 2 women both have 4 kids each !
Really !
Maybe Education is required !
Who has 4 kids when they don't have 2 penny's to rub together ?!
Unbelievable
It's not pennies they've been rubbing.. you have to question where are the fathers of the children as the state always seems to pick up the slack.
@@billdoorscapePerhaps look again to the government, because they introduced LASPO which prevented legal aid for contact cases in the family courts. The average private solicitor costs will be £12k. If those costs are unfeasible, the only other option is self litigation which often results in a "mother knows best" approach, and as a result, estates full of single mums.
What if they had money when they had the kids then their situation changed ?
I once worked with a woman who had 1 child. She told me he and her husband worked out that they could only afford 1 child and to give it a good life. They both worked in professional jobs and made that calculation wisely. Seems like a lot of people don’t think logically about this important subject.
You have to admire the Grimsby folk,they are going through a hard time,the place looks run down,and the lady with the house issues,my heart goes out to her.I hope with a tidy up,Grimbys could be put on the map,as a place people want to go and spend their time,and their money,so someone needs to sort this out,for the Grimsby people.ASAP.
2K a month for doing nothing, I've worked for 25 years and my pension is less!! and im supposed to feel sorry!!!
Well said - £2000 a month for sitting on their @rse all day when they should be working & still they moan!
Only 25 years?
@@FrostekFerenczy don't know why I said 25 years, i'm nearly 70 and worked since i was 15😂
An absolute legend that chippy charging only £3 for what looks an awesome fish n chips & he deserves an award for at least trying to help the needy..... Top man 👍
I agree. He should be praised highly
Yes those chips look like the ones we used to eat back in the day at school break chip pattie etc , he as a huge demand for his food so i guess that compensates for the low price he charges.
Someone with a heart like that needs to be in charge of this country
Lovely man, good on him
@@montyloads Dont be silly
£22K a year is £356 a week. We as a family live on half of that, I never realised how poor we are. Its a struggle but we don't drink, smoke or do drugs so I guess that helps. 🤔
HI im just curious..you say you live on half that which is £170 a week, are you saying that's all the money you receive or are you also getting help with benefits etc?... im not trying to be disrespectful im just stunned you can make that work. Where are you in the country? How many of you are there in family? What is your rent/mortgage?
@montyloads That's correct, 3 over 18 in family, partner died, heating only goes on 1 hr late evening 1 hr early morning if that. 1 meal a day, walk or cycle. My tax credits ended in August. 2 of us work part time due to health issues, 1 just gone on universal credit. That's what we live on. Told we can't get extra help. Previously worked all my life & raised 3 kids & 4 stepkids as my late partner was widowed. All grown up now & doing well for themselves. He died Christmas 2009. None of us ever drank or smoked, I've sewn & upcycled all my adult life, grow veg etc. Always bought in sale or made myself/diy. House & garden clean & well looked after. Always cut our own hair etc. clip my own dogs etc. I've not had a day or night out in years but live right near a lovely beach. Lovely in summer, freezing Sept-May. I was gobsmacked when this lady complained she only got double what we live on & the other has the heating on all day due to black mould. That mould is probably due to condensation from drying all her washing on the radiators. I don't know anyone who has the heating on all day these days so obviously she's not on a smart meter. Not criticising just when she said how much in benefits she gets & yet cant manage, that was a real eye opener for me. I worked upto 5 part time jobs when kids were younger including 3 eves nighshift to fit around being there for my kids. 1 son has adhd & had leg hip probs from birth, never got a penny dla kept getting declined. His legs have since been straightened. Like I said I never realised we were so poor til I watched this. We can't afford a take away they have £3 fish & chips. That bloke is a credit to his community. I guess we are all always learning which is good I guess..GRATITUDE it turns what we have into enough. I rent btw. 👍
@@Gypsygal23 how on earth do you pay for rent?
@@itemushmush rent is £102 pwk
There's a video on yt where a 60 yr old is living on £30 a month
The chippy man is doing more for his community than any government was
Good man much love from Canada
In Canada we put plastic over drafty windows in winter. You can also deal with mice, get a cat or lay traps. There are a few things the mother of 4 could do to help her situation.
Wow ... Bet that'll improve her life no end ! FFS
That's what we do in South. So sorry for the many homeless veterans. We volunteer at food bank. Often their stories are horrible.
Stay warm.
@@captainawesome12345 You do have a point ...Where's the father, why isn't there work ...But hey ...lets try to be charitable .. As a Brit I'm disgusted that whilst these people are allowed to rot the government imports savage rapey men from abroad and look after them in great comfort ....At least she ( maybe ) and her parents and grandparents paid tax into the system and that system is there to support people in times of need but not as I m sure you agree as a lifestyle .
@@captainawesome12345 yep and bleach is cheap also buy distemper I don't think that costs much either 🤔. It's better to scrub the mould off for a few ££. Make savings elsewhere if need be but the kids and her own health are far more important.
Dont get a cat! Food, vets bills etc is an extra expense. Lots of traps...having said that I lived in a city centre tenement, with restaurants and pubs on the ground floors of the surrounding blocks, and neighbours who obviously were not that bothered and I had a hell of a time with mice infestations. It was awful.
Mould is also very difficult when the whole property has ventilation problems. I'm no stranger to bleach, bow grease, anti mold spray and constantly wiping condensation, but sometimes it's not just localised and keeping on top of it, it's a wider problem across the property's structure, exacerbated when you simply cannot afford to keep the heating on enough to drive it off. Many older buildings have the problem, have had cavity wall insulation, double glazing and the buildings dont breath because the ventilation is inadequate now that this type of modification has been made, sometimes the insulation actually wicks moisture to the inside walls. Nightmare.
Poverty? In a land where scroungers bring in more monthly than the people who work in cold heat or rain bringing in average £20k per year? Are we sure we can call it poverty? Free healtcare, help with housing....a plethora of other "benefits" also available. Poverty? Is that the correct word?
Why don't you try it and see?
@@Ukipmiddleleft UK poverty to many across the world is a gold mine. That's why everybody tries to come here. The OPPORTUNITIES available that are not even a possibility where they are scrambling to get here from. You see poverty but they see Nike and Northface, food banks, free money for you, free money for having kids you cannot afford, doctors surgeries in every borough and free to visit, free school where they get free meals and education, car parked outside the free house you got, freedom to express yourself, all they see is the glorious land of freedom and freebies I'm pretty sure they'd love to swap your misery for thier misery, why don't YOU try that and come back and tell us how much fun you had experiencing REAL poverty?
You obviously have had the luxury of never experiencing it, don't judge people 😒 especially if you've never been in their shoes
@@ajsutton6426professional victims
Its the wrong word. There are many other negative words though. The area seems to be infected with some sort of mass psychological pathology