Mental health: the hidden cost of living crisis
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- Опубліковано 13 січ 2023
- Now the cost of living crisis and soaring inflation are piling even more pressure on people who are already struggling to pay their bills. And that's taking a toll on their mental health.
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While the Government has promised financial support for vulnerable people including £2.3 billion over the next year to boost mental health services many are turning to charities for help.
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I don’t think people grasp how bad the north of England is at the moment. The suicide rate for young males in the north is scary. We’ve lost all but a little of our industry, jobs that kept entire councils employed. Gone and with nothing to replace it. Crime in rural and urban areas are at an all time high. We were desperate for help three years ago. We were promised a new north a levelled up north, hence the red northern block broke. Then covid hit and what little bit of Commerce we had died. The cities held on but towns are like cemeteries, with tombstones of once great stores now boarded up and left. It’s always been a hard life up here but this feels very different now, where before you’d see the people push through it no matter how bad it seemed. That fight just isn’t there anymore and it worries me. When young men see more hope in death than living. That’s when a serious Conversation needs to be had
I'm Northern but live down South and I can see how neglected the NORTH is by Goverment that clearly favour the SOUTH X ITS UNFAIR
Well said btw xx Community Spirit is pure in the NORTH though and there is 0 community spirit in the SOUTH .X
Very well put. Thatcher broke our spines; now the Tories are dancing on our dead bones.
I hear that. I said 3years ago, that suicide rates will multiply. Now they are. This is now everybody's job, duty or role. Talk to someone before the crisis occurs.
I am one of them young men
nowt left living for up ere
In my opinion all MP's expenses, second homes etc should abolished and the money they take from this country to fund this should be given to wonderful folk like this and they can set up these fantastic centres all over the country. I for one would vote for that in a heart beat.
There's nothing wrong with these people. It's the sociopaths who put them in this position who need treating.
Are you going to ignore the addic6 and the criminals. It's not my doing if they choose that sort of life style!
@@galegrazutis964 only difference between them an you is they have acknowledged their weaknesses.
theyre bullshitting sissies
@Brhdtn hdbfodns Not stupid, but slightly ignorant. And he has the right to say so.
@J LH lack of vitamins doesnt cause autism. stop promoting quack nonsense
It's a crime what's happening to ordinary people were just surviving
And non-ordinary people too
@@antrewt And extraordinary people. And the inane.
American vet praying for my British brothers and sisters
The north east has some of the most caring people. Great to see working class northern men and women helping each-other get back on track. Massive respect to all the lads and lasses involved and those that have reached out for help.
So sorry this happened to you. No-one should go through something like that
How are you today?
Some communities are well off in terms of care and loyalty.
Yes because the poverty in my bits of North West London which is far greater, makes them less caring compared to Northerners....
@@denzel9086 I didn’t say anyone who wasn’t northern wasn’t caring. I know the whole of the UK has areas that are worse off, London especially. I have no doubt that communities stick together down south, all of the uk does when times are hard.
I moved to the north east and noticed the people there were amazing and caring compared to where I used to live, this story highlighted a programme in the north hence my comment on northerners and their spirit.
But some of the least hardworking.
Mental health will rise up more due to poverty. Its discusting what rishi is doing being a billionaire doesn't matter to him to even have a food bank for the poor.
In the big scheme of things politicians have minimal influence. People can have the biggest effect on their own lives according to personality, attitude, and consequently their own behaviour. It’s about time people stopped complaining because the only true form of welfare is work. No one is going to come and save you no matter how much you complain.
And our wealthy monarchy worth 100Billion? Yet, they demand 300+million yearly for their parasitic upkeep? They own vast properties each among them fully staffed
@@masquarra What about them? Not my king. Get a job.
@@HumansAreShitFactories people are working two jobs which don't pay well. By the way I'm a teacher and see many kids in poverty....
do you really believe this?
Bought me to tears. When governments fail to help people as they should, communities, volunteers and charities like these are the answer 💛 respect to all involved
Yes I appreciate the community participation.
The government we perpetually vote in no less.
please daddy government do everything for me
Unfortunately these programs are to few and far between.
The reality is is the world is going through drastic change for example: China right now has 1.4 billion people and starting this year 2023 those numbers will drop. By year 2030 analysts feel China will have more retired people then those working and by year 2050 China will be down to around 650 million 1/2 the amount of humans alive today in 27 years. China has had largest population on earth since 1950 but sits 2nd place. Now what does that have to do with U.K the poverty and rest of the world. Well just one of 99 examples I'll stick to one. Women worldwide are no longer getting pregnant and producing MORE females into the world. With females lowering in numbers and iphones stopping folks falling in love in 1st damn place over the next 50 years the population is catastrophically lowered. Most would think well great be less traffic more jobs and more global food to throw round, but the reality is is you need YOUTH to create and invent and without new humans being born sure people have babies every few seconds around earth but not at the proper scale. What happens is or what will happen is the earth with have 90% elderly walking around one day and not as many youth. The likes of Klaus Schwab and Rockefeller and the 3 to 5 elites know this as a problem and this is why when you turn on your T.V or watch clips like this video most sit around dumb founded as to why , why has this happened so quickly. The world sits at 8 billion people, it may sound boring but the population has PEAKED and starting right now will began to fade. It will happen slowly. But now that its known it has caused elites to get creative. One of their creations I feel was the CORONA virus. I watched a video 5 days ago 3-5 days ago there are more athletes dying around the world then ever recorded in human history and no one knows why. These are folks trained to be in competition and to win and the new stats say many many MORE than years 2010-2016 have been dying. Hmmmm. Its all a bit strange.
Save lives.. Don't vote tory EVER AGAIN!!
@Annette Gifkind Not true. Just look at spending on the NHS. Or the economy, how people are better off as regards pay rises. No comparison. Labour has the tories beaten hands down. It makes a massive difference.
@Annette Gifkind "they all do the same"
Shyt Ruzzian troll lies.
We need more people protesting against this continued austerity.
If people could organise themselves like Unison have it would be amazing. I'm not sure where we start.
Particularly as it this austerity affects those least able to cope with it .Meanwhile the rich get richer .It sickens me .Ordinary folk supporting ordinary folk as this government is simply not doing its job .
Most people don't care. I try and talk about it with friends and they just shrug their shoulders.
This country is finished. No way back now.
What a fantastic initiative. Amazing.
Before I got run over last year, I used to think that when I saw homeless people with disabilities, I thought the injuries might have happened on the street. Having experienced the after effects of a traumatic injury and broken bones, I see that unless someone has access to proper rehabilitation and help for the emotional impact of the injury, an accident can easily lead to losing everything.
Good luck. It's happened to me 3 times!😶👌
So true
@@johnstallings4049
Run over 3 times?
Were you a cyclist?
Is your name Frank Spencer?
Good luck fella!
Ummm are you serious?
It’s not just a traumatic injury, losing every contact and friends because of illness is just as bad. People do try to keep in touch when they can but it gets longer and longer between calls and you end up feeling lonely and isolated when before you were ok being alone, but then before you could go out to speak to people or interact with them on your own terms.
Blessings for all those suffering with mental health issues
Thank you. I needed this.
Anyone who's dog is that happy and chill can't be a bad soul.
Hilter loved dogs and animals
@@Bunny11344 Yes and if you learned a bit more about him, you'd also know he liked to beat dogs in front of women to impress them.
Hitler may have claimed to love animals, but I don't think you can say they loved him.
Whereas what I ACTUALLY said, before you tried being a hilarious edgelord, was that anyone who's dog is that happy, who is that full of love for their human, cannot be a bad soul.
@@django3422 And because you read this of him it must be completely true? What kind of woman would be impressed by a man beating an innocent, defenceless dog? Maybe you should challenge what you BELIEVE. Nobody can know for sure what Adolf Hitler was like, only those who KNEW him.
@@IntuitionAboveInstitution This information comes from accounts by people who knew him. Not sure what you're going for here chap.
@@django3422 "What is history but a fable agreed upon by many"
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Like I said, you can BELIEVE what you like about Adolf Hitler, but the fact remains that you did not know him and will never know his true nature. Anything else is just pure arrogance or naivety on your behalf. I don't care how esteemed or revered the historian or source is. People lie and narratives are fabricated often.
"History will be good to me for I intend to write it"
- Winston Churchill
Thankyou for the kind comments about the work we do. We will keep supporting our community.
This is so sad ,, we as a country need to do more
Of course but we can't seem to help ourselves. We're letting these problems pile up on top of us.
When do we sack the government?
Give them a bit more time, they are doing their level best, man
@@aj8108 They have had 12 long years?!?
Is it 2 years left or longer 🤔?
@@megotango5703 2
@@megotango5703 yeah I'm not interested in labour or the controlled opposition parties. I think we need a different system now, something like DIRECT DEMOCRACY. I honestly believe they should have been sacked about ten years ago. So in my eyes, they are living on borrowed time already. I just hope the UK demands and believes enough that they deserve change, in time before the country is ruined, oh wait. It already is.
After working all through the pandemic on the front line i became homeless while pregnant, I've never suffered with mental health before and its been relentless while sleeping on couches and staying with friends with a newborn
Katie, I am sorry to hear that you became homeless, but while pregnant it must have been worse because you don’t need any extra stress. I hope you are getting some support now and wish you a nice safe home soon.
I wish you well. Hope things improve for you soon.
This was my mom. She had to leave me behind with someone and the last time I saw her she broke down saying her dad wouldn’t let us stay with him. She’s still looking for a place for us and a job while I’m here. Bless you and good luck with you and your baby!
If they cared about mental health, it wouldn't take over a year to get an appointment, my friend has waited a year and 3 months just to get a video appointment.
Uhm ok Putin
I've been waiting for 9 months for a video appointment. Covid and politically motivated violence have ended face to face appointments here in Maryland! 😶
And the chances are when they finally get that appointment, they will be told their problem is not serious enough. Why do I say this? Because although there's 1.6 million on the adult mental health waiting list, another 8.1 million were told their conditions weren't serious enough. I wish I were making this up. And unfortunately, these figures came out last year: undoubtably it has gotten even worse. I'm sorry to have to share this and wish the best for your friend, I really do. I know the suffering this has caused so many people - there are people with really very serious suffering, to the point that you wonder how they manage to go on. If you go back and see the psychiatric literature of the early 50s and before, there was nothing like the burden of poor mental health then there is today, and they were far, far less likely to be chronic. When the drugs came in from the mid 50s onwards you would have expected an improving picture, but things have become catastrophically worse, and few are really trying to understand why. They call it mental illness - I prefer to call it social illness. These illnesses, their severity, their capacity to cause disability has transformed and increased in scale beyond any credible medical model explanation. Sorry, this is going on and on, will shut up now...
@Leonard McCormick I'm not actually Putin. 😉
Yeah, there are serious mental health issues that exists in UK, but 70% of them are literal bullshit. People these days just want a tag of anxiety depression. They medacalize normal normal human stress response. Mental health service is dealing with children who are having anxiety because they have to sit on an exam. That's why they can see seriously mentally ill people.
Thank you to all those wonderful volunteers and another thank you to C4 News for reporting real, essential news that many providers fail to do.
So glad he got help but alot more help is needed its so bad the government needs to go ..... my mental health is so bad because off the cost living
sending love from australia ♥ congratulations for reaching out for help and to all the mental health and social support workers
Watching list makes me have some faith there is good people in the world that help people.
That's awesome to see he's actually doing something more than the entire British government... lolz
Plus the Royals who are valued at £28 BILLION and all King Charles and the family do is walk around and shake hands. Disgraceful....
That's why we need to extend democracy into the economic sphere, seize power away from the wealthy and bring it under control of the citizenry. The way it's currently being handled, free markets don't work as we've had repeated to us time and again. Now it's time to try something new!
You think politicians do anything but talk?
Thanks to the austerity policies put in place by the Conservative party since 2010.
More we reduce the funding for public services (NHS, schools, ...) and we reduce welfare, more we will see the rise in mental health, misery, food banks and homelessness.
We live in dark times😞
will be the way its going
Poverty itself would not be nearly as bad if it weren't also for the isolation and social/familial fragmentation that has become a norm in this appallingly dysfunctional and unhappy society. And the worst part of it is that there are 1.6 million on the NHS adult mental health waiting list but another 8.1 million who were turned away because their problems weren't deemed serious enough - and those were figures that came out last year, so it's undoubtably worse. And what is even worse still is that all the treatment modalities offered are patently ineffective. Psychotherapeutic approaches are only marginally beneficial, though their benefits do at least appear to be real and without known harm. But this treatment modality has been in serious decline since the advent of psychiatric drugs in the 50s and then the second generation in the 80s. Yes, according to drug company funded research, all the approved psychiatric medicines are shown to be marginally to moderately effective over 4 or 8 weeks, but all the long-term studies show a brief initial benefit followed by a progressively worsening condition in every single class of psychiatric medicine, and when compared to people who gave up taking their medications, the latter had lower rates of disability due to mental health and better long term outcomes. If you don't believe me, look up the research compiled by Robert Whitaker either in his meta-analysis entitled 'Anatomy of an Epidemic', or one of his many excellent lectures and presentations on UA-cam where he presents all the evidence, or go to the Council for Evidence Based Psychiatry website which is produced by psychiatrists trying to expose the appalling effects of psychiatric drugs on treatment outcomes over the long term. Also, it is known that atypical (modern) antipsychotics cause enlargement of the amygdala and atrophy of grey matter and overall brain atrophy. They are widely known to also cause obesity, type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and all this for a drug that actually makes long-term outcomes much worse, and which results in an average life expectancy 25 years less than the general population.
Also, you can look at the exceptional, world beating recovery rates produced by Finland's 'Open Dialogue' treatment for Schizophrenia which produces an 76% cure rate without chronic medication: in the UK and US, 80% of people with this same diagnosis will be on disability for the rest of their lives. And if psychiatric drug prescription helped any kind of mental health problem over the long term, you'd expect the introduction of the first- or second-generation medications to have produced an improvement in the burden of mental health. Quite the reverse: disability rates due to mental health in the US and UK have increased about 4-fold over that period, and for children in America, who are prescribed more psychiatric drugs than anywhere else in the world, it has gone up 39-fold over the past 40 years. The only disease we should be worrying about here is the disease of psychiatry and psychopharmacology. They are responsible for one of the most shocking, widespread and destructive corporate crimes against humanity ever to come out of the Western world. See the evidence and decide for yourselves.
I COMPLETELY agree, it’s time we change societal norms including the pharmaceutical industry that fails us massively
if you say things like this then psychiatry could put you inside a hospital maybe 🤔
The pharmaceutical industry isn’t interested in making people better they want return customers,there is no money in healthy people,just look at the last 2 to 3 years to see how they have manipulated the masses through fear and propaganda.
@@zcharged8294 I've been in one, and believe me, I gave them a piece of my mind: I was going through something extraordinary which I could see plainly that they had not the slightest bit of insight into, only disproven theories about chemical imbalances (disproved in the 80s and widely admitted to being false including by the American Psychiatric Association): if you strip away the theory and supposition and prejudice and opinion and all the other non-facts from psychiatry, there is absolutely nothing left besides psychopharmacology, which doesn't target any known disease process (there are no known psychiatric disease processes and therefore no biological markers that can indicate the presence or absence of any disease): so what do the drugs do? They produce clinically useful effects. If my telephone is driving me mad in the office because it keeps on ringing, and I call the maintenance team, if the psychiatric method was to apply then the maintenance person would 'help me' by cutting the telephone wire. Not really what I had in mind. It is honestly not a dissimilar method to the former psychosurgery (lobotomies etc): they mutilated the brain in the hope of producing clinically useful results, largely by disrupting communication between brain regions. It is a fucking scandal. Not just the facts I outlined, but the appalling human and social consequences. The research radicalizes all those who look into it: an understanding of the scale of the human harm makes you want to destroy the society that gave birth to psychiatry, a society while at the same time is destroying the Earth and all our children's futures. Let's destroy the system that's destroying the Earth I say.
My mom died during the first covid spread around the world, she's was diagnosed many years before with bipolar disease and had been taking psychiatric drugs since that.
These drugs took my mom's health away, she went too early.
I’m praying for everyone
LOL thoughts and prayers
This guy is a decent guy.
@The smoker you tried, and failed.
Still have a room but no health care or electricity. Walking to the food bank now. 😶
What items do they give? Out of curiosity 😉
@@svenkamog2232 Food, mostly?!?
@@_Meng_Lan
Volunteer to help - then they'll have to have a roster where you're there more than three times
That’s some amazing and badly needed help you are providing, thank you so much.
This is the stark reality. I think so many of just bury our heads in the sand and knuckle down but It’s times like this we need to come together more than ever 🥺
If it wasn't for amazing organisations like this this country would be in a much worse state than it is now. They are doing work the Government should be doing.
No. The govt does too much
The only reason l have had good mental heath care and being ble to go to in to hospital. Was because my parents pay fir me to have private health. Feel very fortunate.
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Just wait until jobcentre staff get the order to go hard again.
Civil servants will be on strike themselves by then, I think.
Wait until they get hard on jobcentre goblins
as nice as this is, it's exactly what the tories want. they've stripped the NHS bare, to the point where relying on the good will of communities and the charity of others becomes the only option.
The UK overspends on the public sector. The NHS was a rotten institution at the core
If it wasn't for high rent prices there would be no cost of living crisis.
Well my rents really cheap but I'm still struggling ...so that obviously wrong !
How much do you pay and what kind of accommodation do you have? Rent is by far the biggest expense for most people.
@@nottingham1 yes, because of the minimum pay is just too low. The market and the economy need this labour to grow, its a capitalism evil growth model. Looks like Scandinavia is the only decent place where people can at least afford their studies
@@rayclam8079 I have a one bedroom flat ...own front door and terrace I pay half what most would because it through an old boss/mate ...but I'm always still skint with all other Bills ect
Talking about your mental health does not require money…… Talk is free and do let anyone tell you it isn’t
The uk is the most dear sweat loving country. I love to see videos like this where I can see just how caring and wonderful loving and sweat the citizens of this country are.
Very emotional film. Communities come together as the government fails them.
well put.
If only it was as graceful as what we’d actually see on tv, this is rage inducing to say the least.
I love to see videos like this gives me a warm fuzzy feeling
Heart lifting kindness ❤
It saddens me deeply to see fellow human beings struggle when it is so unnecessary. This is not their fault & they are scared at what tomorrow might bring. Our mental health should be our main priority, as a species. Otherwise we sicken & die.
Truth be told; this is a global problem which is deeply embedded in our surroundings. After all, it is difficult going to bed in the evenings, knowing that the world shall be in a worse state upon awakening.
Still reading?! Ok, well allow me the opportunity to address you to point out where we all are currently. This is uncomfortable to hear so steel yourself! Our economy, the Free Enterprise System - (money) has allowed, condoned & rewarded humans to carve up nature, abuse other lifeforms, enslave the population, pollute our drinking water, contaminate our food, reduce or obliterate entire ecosystems in our oceans & the like in a way which makes no rational sense whatsoever.
Consider it for a moment if you will? We used to be custodians of our wonderful world. Our ancestors, Hunter Gathers, would only take what is required for all life to flourish. All life has a natural instinct to Survive, Thrive, Multiply & Perpetuate its species. With me so far? Jolly good!
Well there is nothing natural about the system which we refuse to reconsider as obsolete. The economy has to keep growing 3% per year, meaning it doubles roughly every 25 years & yet the planet does not double in size. So we are depleting resources. This sick system has over-ridden our very basic instinct to survive; thus a 6th great extinction event.
My teacher & lecturer sadly passed away in 2017, but he tried to warn us that conditions would worsen if we did not change it ASAP. Not just for the lower class, though they will be hit harder sooner, but for all life on this precious planet. Talk like this out in the streets & they assume you are mad or an extremist! Ha ha!
Our children are suffering greatly, because they feel written off along with their non-existent futures. They are insecure, depressed beyond reckoning, most are self-harming - cutting themselves, & suicide is rife in schools. All hands should be on deck for this, no?
Now, some of you maybe starting to puncture your conditioning by asking questions. I commend you! Never stop asking questions.
How is free will a thing, when it is clear we live as prisoners?
Is Democracy a lie when any choice is an act of separation?
What good are borders & Nationalism at a time when we need Global cooperation?
If Politicians are a slave to Billionaires - who are all enslaved to Greed, what do we do?
If Politics is defunct & the economy is a Self Destruct Button.. What else can we use?
Now, I realize this is all a bit too much to take in, & it probably feels very frightening to even imagine what I am saying as the reality. I am sorry. It is not my intention. And although there is no way for me to realistically explain the solutions to these problems which will soon escalate beyond all imagination, in a few paragraphs... i hope it will stir some vestige of humanity in you to go & find out.
The biggest hurdle seems to be in convincing the general public that we need to supersede money entirely. That part always destroys their identity. But we cannot continue as we are. We are suffering on the whole. Our mental health is a reaction & representation of just how detrimental our culture, our values & our entire society of "Profit before People" has become.
We need to band together & push for change. Don't waste your time trying to convince politicians, bankers, lawyers, etc. They have been utterly consumed by their aberrant culture, & would quite frankly rather destroy an entire civilisation than to try for a new one. Talk to those who are in tune with their humanity.
There are many communities around the globe who support positive change, such as The Venus Project, The Zeitgeist Movement, Moneyless Society, etc who have the support of the Scientific community, but they need public support. If you think you can help spread the word, & give our species a fighting chance to adapt as nature now demands of us, then please.. I beg you to at least consider my words. Don't waste your life believing that these problems shall never affect you directly. Thank you for reading. I am open to questions.
*“If you think we can't change the world, it just means you're not one of those who will.”* ~ My teacher, Jacque Fresco, 1916-2017
Cyberpunk 2077 has elements of it.
So many people in the same boat, it's overwhelming. Well done to this guy for trying. The govt Warm Home Discount is a disgrace this year - as it would seem many people have been excluded from this, which is ludicrous.
I relied on the Warm Home Discount, but it has been taken away from me.
Amazing 👏👏👏👏👏
The tortes have taken austerity too far, have absolutely no compassion for humanity
We should all take the initiative. I do. And we can get the ship to the shore.
As for the retail price index, we'll we are all feeling it. How did this happen?
Rishi is going for gold in the game of geopolitical victory whilst the people suffer. Oliver Cromwell will be turning in his grave.
Tory need to be off
Yes my brother. Great idea just love it
What a lovely man saying his dog comes first I’m same with my cats there food as gone up so much ! It’s so wrong I work full time and live a a lone I’ve got cancer and luckily do get a basic wage whilst off but my bills have also gone up I’m really struggling and chemo is rough but don’t have the heating on like I should
Keep your cats close,they are better than hot water bottles 😉wish you good health and peace
Governments do not care about the peasants, as the cost of living crisis, recessions, tax hikes, or inflation impact on ministerial salaries, and expenses ❤️🔥👍
i wish i lived near somewhere like this , i need help
When I was depressed, taking care of my mom and had no one to talk to I joined a private facebook group for people taking care of their elderly parents and it was so helpful to share with people who understand your problems, they were very supportive. Maybe their is a group with similar problems you can join.
Shocking, yet unsurprising.
This has been happening for decades.
God bless
BZ's to everyone involved ... massive respect ... 👍❤👍
I’m approaching my 30s, disabled, living alone, in debt, currently unemployed, chronically ill, skin diseased, in horrific and unsuitable social housing, female, ethnic minority, British born but mistreated and assumed an immigrant, a previous volunteer and employee, being harassed by a perverted and racist male neighbour,
Most people don’t know what poverty is.
I’ve had many unsuccessful suicide attempts.
I have no support.
I don’t understand how the government of a supposedly rich country are allowing its citizens to literally die and rot of poverty yet it still allows refugees who have better housing handed to them rent free for nothing.
Don’t ask how I’m typing on a device. I’ve worked previously. I bought my contract when I was working. I’m unable to work right now. I’m constantly on the phone negotiating with utility companies, the housing association, mobile phone company and more to whom I apparently owe money.
Foodbanks aren’t exactly a solution nor easily accessible to all.
I’m in agony right now with a plethora of afflictions.
I don’t know what to do.
Please help me, somebody.
With no exaggeration, I can confidently but suicidally say I must be the poorest woman in the UK in every aspect.
I hate humanity.
What's your skill set ??
You had plenty of time to study, and obtain a real skill. Why don't you have one ? One can be disabled and a MD. Or an attorney. Or anything. What are you ??
There is nothing that emasculates a man more than not having a woman or a family. The effects of debt and lack of money.
Some people are working for food. No hope.
News like this makes me grateful that I'm doing perfectly OK in my own country (Norway).
Charles and William what have you done destroying the country like this?
Good man.
What policy makers in London don't seem to realise is that the per capita GDP in the UK has plateaued and is falling dramatically in the North and Midlands. I come from the North, lived in London and now in the West Midlands. I have reached the highest level of education and used to have a very high powered and high paid job but now live in a town with very low income per head. I can see the depravation all around me. There are no jobs here except the public sector or drug dealing. A very large proportion of households have no job but are pensioners or on benefits. People really do want to work but there is no economy.
So start a business. That's how it works. Stop whining
Wow....being poor is stressful.. whodunit have thought..... nice discovery...
Wasn’t that guy on Sunderland til I die
Yes, this is my day job.
😢 in my country nobody actually cares for these group of people..
Isn't it funny how the world mobilized over covid 19 from east to west south to north. The gears were changed so so very quickly. Rich men's sons and daughters mother's and father's could be affected by it. There was no discrimination. It was a very democratic virus.
Scot should find solace and happiness in Sunak's 5 promises
Please use a mask when using spray paint
The mean-spirited and anachronistic means-testing regime should be replaced with a guaranteed basic income that lifts people out of poverty, instead of leaving so many lower-income individuals & families struggling way below the poverty line, barely scraping by on a meagre Income Assistance that doesn't even pay the rent.
there is a cost for that assistance you receive and it as long as it continues to come from government hard working and financially pressed households similarly struggle and fail. Tax system requires restructure with employers give tax break for volume of employees ie business keeps more of the profits for larger number of people it employees even if excessive to actual needs. Also consider that ultimately has to be a three tier wage structure for all.
I've had mental problems for 35 years manly depression anxiety but I find it very hard to reach out and ask for help when you don't know who to trust I hate being taken advantage of it's hard to explain
Stop whining.
Something is wrong with this system. I am Eastern European, I'm single. I always paid my taxes, Never claimed any benefits until so called pandemonic. I developed agoraphobia and virtually became afraid of living.Yes,I am on benefits. I started university course,just before February 2020. I asked if I could get any support with that,to carry on,to have chance to get a job.
No,The job centre wouldn't help you with your education. Well,I don't even have enough for food now.
I applied for a cleaner,warehouse operative, nothing..too many applicants.
Yet,I personally know people,who have everything they need,only because they have kids
God Bless Us All 😘 💝 💖 💕 🙏
Fing disgusting benefits system 🙁🙁🙁 £77 a week UC should be at least £100+ per week
Everyone should claim benefits, it's our money in the first place and they stole it from us
@Annette Gifkind ^^Ruzzian
Why work then
Record mumber of job vacancies !
Have you got a bike ? Then get on it and stop whining !
Oh yeah ? How much have you contributed to Society .?
Have you ever actually had a job or
just sponged off others ?
You all want to come to Cornwall and watch all the people spending money on meals out in January!!!! The cost of living isnt affecting everyone but the poor are not being helped at all
I'll never vote Conservative
I can relate
Oh conservatives ! what have you done to the country 😢
Years ago, a study found that the British (read: English) were the loneliest people in Europe. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they are the loneliest in the western world. There are other communities (such as in Minnesota, perhaps) where people live very insular lives but that seems to concern relatively small pockets, not an entire country. To combine this with immense inequality and the resulting deep poverty, that's horrible.
Now I am going to watch this, if my hacking entity will let me. He wanted me to watch something about the NHS instead, that old-fashioned underfunded organization where women are still too often seen as not part of the human species.
Oh. It's a documentary about the lack of care for veterans because the NHS cannot provide that. Now my hacking entity's interference makes some sense. That might be the first time. He's mostly just immensely disruptive.
That country is led by clowns.
They send billions in foreign aid and to nazis in ukraine, money that down down a black hole of corruption
Yet look how pathetic their ppl live.
Most brits did this to themselves.
Pass Algebra 2 and don't pop out a kid. Do those 2 things and you won't face poverty
2:15 I'm a hands-on guy all my life now 62 working in construction and machine fabrication, etc.
I think these people making craft products is good but what would be better is iv they were building something useful.
Not just to look at but something functional.
People need real jobs.
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Grass routes initiatives are the most effective in my view. Sadly so many ''official'' sources of support seem to be more about supporting those who run these large bureaucracies, CEOs etc and very little often filters down to make a tangible difference to the lives of those they are supposed to be helping. Mentioning no names, some of these ''charities'' are the worst offenders and it's hard not to be cynical. It's a sweet business model when you think about it - free stock and labour, subsidised tax breaks and prime town centre locations. Talk is cheap, what makes a difference is a more equal share of resources.
My mum wouldn't have coped with the virus and cost of living crisis would put her back in mental hospital horrible to say this but glad she's not going through this nightmare like i am and others too😭😩
Nightmare?
If you had a skill, none of this is hard
The price of getting back control
These vetrans living like this and people arriving on dinghies illegally living in 5 star hotels getting more money than them free heating 3 meals a day,immediate health checks ,and more money than pensioners who lived on rations,lived poor,thier houses blown up,children sent away,and if lucky got a freezing prefab to live in after..worked past retirement.and until this day die because thier scared to put thier heating on.....our government is a disgrace.....time to follow irelands lead
From Sunderland ‘tilI die documentary!
Yes he is, this is his day job
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It was 13 years ago I went without food for 3 months. The Vet refused to give me donated food because I had no money. My cat and dog starved along with me and bless their now passed away hearts they endured it better. When Ai could feed them I did. I went without they didn’t. My mental health was in the toilet. If it wasn’t for my now late dog and cat I would’ve given up. When ai hear fellow Americans griping about the high cost of food I get mad. Not one of them ever went a day hungry let alone three months and almost died without food. We Poor, whatever country, deserve to eat. It’s not a luxury. We deserve to have a roof over our heads. Asking for help isn’t easy. We deserve to have our pets. Those who criticize what Poor from any country has to beg for help and wait endlessly to get and keep it are clueless. And sadly politicians do everything not to help Poor. They act like we don’t exist. Thank you to others for helping them.
You don't deserve a roof. You deserve the right to work ,and pay for the roof you wish to have. That's all.
No work, no roof.
You don't deserve to have pets.
You didn't help yourself. You're whining like others are responsible for your existence. They're not.
@@seventhcompactor1505 Everyone deserves a roof over their head. Now that my checks are better I can pay my utilities and property taxes. I deserve to eat too. And I worked LONG before your behind was even born!
They hand out the Prozac like 🍬.
Hot take. Legalise cannabis on the NHS for people with anxiety and depression/sleep disorders. Right now the only medication for these are SSRIs that don't work well for some people. Since I went private my outlook on life changed completely. I'm only fortunate I can afford the private medical care, for now.
YAY! Government approved GMO Frankenweed for all!
@@themole24 1. almost all weed you ever find is genetically modified. That's why we have so many different strains.
2. I'd rather have government approved cannabis than some dodgy paint smelling dogshit I got down the back of an alley from a bunch of violent turks.
3. It fixes my disorders so it doesn't matter what you barely have the intelligence to think about it.
The guy with the dog 😔
I've been waiting 10 months now for a referral! Not even treatment just to be referred, then iam told after the referal IL have another 2 months at least. 12 years of suffering and there's pretty much no help out there, I live in northern Ireland. Pretty much have to deal with it on my own. Thanks to fascist Tory government.
This is great but how long will this last hope they don’t run out money
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One bag of groceries that would have been £20 now costed me £30 💀🤗
They all screwed around in school, failed to get real skills, and now live the consequences.
Should be a lesson. Most won't heed it
Eat the rich
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Don't expect the government to help you. They don't care. I've started in a company so can't rely on traditional jobs only. Anyone need support let me know
I’m nhs keyworker (dyslexic) Emergency at nhs On lockdown day 24.03.2020…I was Evicted to Lock up Garage by North Ayrshire Council 24.03.2020 @ 11am 24.03.2023 @ noon 💀🏴
And ?
Wow Paul Stanley looks so different without the wig and make up
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The end user should have the ultimate veto on which service receives their contributions, and the NHS isn't always it. The NHS needs to lose default taxpayer funding in favour of people subscribing to health insurance and services that can include the NHS as just one of many alternative providers on a price comparison website.. only the risk of losing future funding to competing providers can force the NHS to cut waste and focus on the basics of healthcare.
The NHS isnt efficent because we have too mucn top heavy management and because its understaffed.
Understaffing drives down performance.
Delays in care cause the inital issue to eventually be worse at the point of intervention.
Systems fucked. But imo it not because it needs to be "privatised"