Millions in UK need to double income to escape poverty

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  • @daysofgreenday65
    @daysofgreenday65 11 місяців тому +1738

    People should remember: poverty is not an accident, a coincidence or an inevitability. It is something which is manufactured by the ruling class.

    • @Mysterkoma
      @Mysterkoma 11 місяців тому

      Of course it's not coincidence - it's mostly your mentality and if you wanna blame government for it you will never take responsibility for your life and rise up

    • @JamesBoslem-fh9gr
      @JamesBoslem-fh9gr 11 місяців тому +64

      The Tory nirvana is back to Victorian times. Brexit was phase 1 and leaving human rights is the final stage

    • @Jonathan-h1w9j
      @Jonathan-h1w9j 11 місяців тому

      @@JamesBoslem-fh9gr Rubbish. You live in a fantasy world

    • @daysofgreenday65
      @daysofgreenday65 11 місяців тому +27

      @@JamesBoslem-fh9gr Exactly, or "the good old days" as they would say.

    • @AndrewMclachlan-hq4jp
      @AndrewMclachlan-hq4jp 11 місяців тому

      No if your poor that’s cause your families lazy or not ambitious or lack intelligence

  • @kenn4973
    @kenn4973 11 місяців тому +1480

    I have lived in the UK until recently. They can pretend all they want, but this country is in trouble. Very big trouble.

    • @johnthompson7105
      @johnthompson7105 11 місяців тому +1

      English people are in trouble yet all illegals live a life of luxury

    • @rm71991
      @rm71991 11 місяців тому +24

      You never lived in the UK so stop lying

    • @thisweekmetaverse
      @thisweekmetaverse 11 місяців тому +170

      It is indeed. I left a few years ago and am in no rush to go back. It's not just cost off living, add in climate, weather, dark winters and crumbling housing in many places and it's grim. UK is becoming a poor third world country at a rapid rate.

    • @carlbland68
      @carlbland68 11 місяців тому

      dnt come back its finished @@thisweekmetaverse

    • @peterlee6148
      @peterlee6148 11 місяців тому +43

      But why is the premier league still going strong? The money spent by handful of clubs is insane!

  • @Prometheus7272
    @Prometheus7272 11 місяців тому +496

    I really hate this term "cost of living crisis", it should be called the government made us poorer crisis.

    • @puppets.and.muppets
      @puppets.and.muppets 10 місяців тому +6

      could be called the 'irersponsibility crisis' ?

    • @artofsam
      @artofsam 10 місяців тому

      @@puppets.and.muppets Yeah starting off with those irresponsible bankers in 2008 who should be in prison.

    • @gabrielsr4791
      @gabrielsr4791 10 місяців тому

      Yes This is pratically everywhere 😓

    • @pip1723
      @pip1723 10 місяців тому +3

      Yes government financial irresponsibility crisis ...

    • @catherinebirch2399
      @catherinebirch2399 10 місяців тому +4

      And yet people still vote conservative.

  • @rosielee938
    @rosielee938 11 місяців тому +807

    Keeping us poor is all by design, my partner & myself work and just keep ourselves above water!! Yet this government squanders our taxes!! I’m sick to death of it. 🤬🤬🤬

    • @dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984
      @dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984 11 місяців тому

      Spare a thought for these illegals coming into the UK. In the next few years, 1M illegals and the Home Office quite happy to fund the invaders over UK homeless. So much for border control and the illusion of Brexit.

    • @ianhill4585
      @ianhill4585 11 місяців тому +26

      Squanders!!?? Don't exaggerate It's only 8 million a DAY (on one subject anyway) .But seriously,
      that's the wastage we know about, other crackpot schemes are available........😤

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 11 місяців тому +16

      I had a well paid job but it simply not enough in my area for buying a property again.

    • @colindavid2078
      @colindavid2078 11 місяців тому

      yeah, but don't worry, all those who weren't even born in the UK have nice big houses, and plenty of benefits!! UK is a joke! with the failing economy and NHS, they better stop taking taxes of the people!!

    • @lucifer6295
      @lucifer6295 11 місяців тому +48

      Yes, work hard so they can free Ukraine with your tax money!

  • @thirteentimes365
    @thirteentimes365 11 місяців тому +1319

    It is outrageous that almost one-third of our population is in poverty.

    • @Jonathan-h1w9j
      @Jonathan-h1w9j 11 місяців тому +52

      It depends how you measure poverty

    • @CharlMarais247
      @CharlMarais247 11 місяців тому +80

      @@artgreen6915 you can only add so much copper to gold, untill your only left with copper. This is what's happening when you demand and don't produce. feels like UK is in a downward education trend and they don't want to work. I had a look at the skills shortages. Basically, if you can breathe, the UK needs U. I find that crazy. Basic well paying jobs are in very high demand. You want to make money. Become an electrician or a plumber or a engineer or a painter. DON'T GO WORK AT TESCO! Make something, do something, earn something.

    • @colindavid2078
      @colindavid2078 11 місяців тому

      yeah, but don't worry, all those who weren't even born in the UK have nice big houses, and plenty of benefits!! UK is a joke! with the failing economy and NHS, they better stop taking taxes of the people!!

    • @DBGE001
      @DBGE001 11 місяців тому +41

      Philip McCann's study (economist professor at the University of Sheffield) shows that half the country today is poorer than the poorest state in Mississippi and West-Virginia and has a quality of life which is about the same as Tennessee or Alabama.

    • @andrewfallon2719
      @andrewfallon2719 11 місяців тому +50

      Poverty is subjective. People 50 years ago would laugh at the notion of poverty today.

  • @LungGore
    @LungGore 11 місяців тому +159

    I lived in the UK all my life and to see this country heading this way makes me sad; especially when some countries are getting people out of poverty and we seem to be putting people in poverty

    • @Rizzzzzzz1-i6j
      @Rizzzzzzz1-i6j 11 місяців тому

      It's sad to see what rapid immigration did to the local population lived and jods.. Doesn't that mak u angry broo.. Real British people can't even get jobs because of migrants

    • @1961-v9k
      @1961-v9k 11 місяців тому

      Don’t believe everything you read and see in the media.

    • @McRedneck
      @McRedneck 11 місяців тому

      dont you feel culturally enriched though?

    • @19dazhogan82
      @19dazhogan82 11 місяців тому +20

      There once was as a time when the husband went to work Monday to Friday 40 hours per week, the wife took care of the home and children. While not living beyond their means and putting money aside, they could Afford to live comfortably, have a holiday once a year and maybe even have savings. All on a 1 income household. What has happened? Now both parents have to work full time just to tread water, kids are going to school hungry, families break up. Everyone is in debt, the banks get richer, the government takes more and more. House prices continue to rise. This has all been a very deliberate plan

    • @Johnemburey-er1hp
      @Johnemburey-er1hp 11 місяців тому

      ​@@19dazhogan82need to stop immigrants especially from Islamic nations. They would seek asylum and live lazily on welfare.

  • @_D1886
    @_D1886 11 місяців тому +495

    I earn a little more than the average UK salary. As a single person, and with the absolutely insane cost of rent in this country, I am barely scraping by. Saving or putting money away into a pension is basically a pipe dream. I reguarly ask myself what is the point? What am I working for?
    I have no idea how people earning under the average salary are surviving in this country tbh. It's a national disgrace.

    • @GeorgeJoubert-id2cv
      @GeorgeJoubert-id2cv 11 місяців тому

      ​@@PGHEngineer dumbass

    • @robtheplod
      @robtheplod 11 місяців тому +44

      You need to work harder, those hotels for our new friends ain't cheap you know!

    • @wilhelmvanbabbenburg8443
      @wilhelmvanbabbenburg8443 11 місяців тому

      ​@@robtheplod oh yeah blame the refugee you poor loser...

    • @danieloliver4558
      @danieloliver4558 11 місяців тому +2

      Exactly that you work so you can eat and be housed. Do you believe you should not have to work for those things

    • @mickeymadmouse
      @mickeymadmouse 11 місяців тому +12

      Find a work through internet, move to countries like Portugal, Moldova and you are set for the whole life. It's about choices nowadays

  • @latinkon3
    @latinkon3 11 місяців тому +783

    £1.600 p/m?!?!? That's actual robbery! how can landlords sleep at night expecting people to pay that much?

    • @salsabila786
      @salsabila786 11 місяців тому +85

      When the house they bought was 400k, they then took 80% mortgage and their interest payment probably over 1k monthly, that's how they justify it. If someone had 400k, it's unlikely they'd buy a house cash, there's much better returns with lower risk and expenses

    • @AndrewMclachlan-hq4jp
      @AndrewMclachlan-hq4jp 11 місяців тому +58

      Mate move to the slums can’t be broke and moan about not affording houses in rich neighbourhoods

    • @yayosadventures
      @yayosadventures 11 місяців тому +39

      Mortgages

    • @yetidodger6650
      @yetidodger6650 11 місяців тому +120

      greedy bastards, getting others to pay the mortgage for them.

    • @user-bi8ko7kc6h
      @user-bi8ko7kc6h 11 місяців тому +26

      @@yetidodger6650yep, my previous landlady had 10flats. At least 3 of them that I know are in mortgages.

  • @tommyfree4736
    @tommyfree4736 11 місяців тому +150

    If I were to stop my overtime at work I'd be in trouble. My basic wage is exactly the same as my outgoings before food and fuel costs. I've cut absolutely everything I can when it comes to bills. I even turn my heating off completely after my son goes home to his mum. This country is screwed

    • @hana26z
      @hana26z 11 місяців тому +6

      Then you will realise oh wait a second, why m I working? Is that not better to have benefit?

    • @Stefan_Dahn
      @Stefan_Dahn 11 місяців тому +8

      The luxury of divorce and single households.

    • @srinfinity5587
      @srinfinity5587 11 місяців тому +2

      I’ve stopped paying the electric bill how they want me to pay. I pay them 2018 rates.

    • @katarinagbajobi6620
      @katarinagbajobi6620 11 місяців тому

      Iflation is actually inflated cost of goods and services by the riches. They want more and more. The elites have created casts like in India where poor people have no chance of getting out of poverty get better for their children.

    • @Solotraveler1422
      @Solotraveler1422 10 місяців тому +6

      I used to go for a capuccino on Friday morning as was the end of the week... I no longer go as it too expensive. -.-

  • @oddities-whatnot
    @oddities-whatnot 11 місяців тому +173

    The UK is a mess. Kids leaving school now can go to college or university, get an apprenticeship, basically train for a well paying career but its simply not enough nowadays. They reckon the average salary is about 37k. Fine if you were on that 25 years ago so you could afford a nice house in a good area, as a single person, but now you need double that or two of you living together on at least 30k each to have a decent standard of living. I was on at least the UK average but im having to share in my part of the country as houses are at least 8x the salary I was on. Ive given up work for the time being because I dont see what the point is, and NO im not claiming any benefits. So many people must be in the same position, why work hard all week if you still cant get anywhere to call home ?

    • @patricia_1303
      @patricia_1303 11 місяців тому +13

      Exactly that’s my point, I work 40 hours a week with better wages, living at my mum’s flat but still not enough to be accepted for a property because the prices are ridiculous! And landlords expect you to earn double of that! UK went downhill!

    • @aaronbrown7217
      @aaronbrown7217 11 місяців тому +13

      My wage is way bellow the £37K. I just about earn without tax removed £21k per year and there is no suprises that I can't even get on the property ladder at all.

    • @lifegamerpro4033
      @lifegamerpro4033 11 місяців тому +3

      Don't worry we indians take care...you in our factories in india 👍

    • @murdock6450
      @murdock6450 11 місяців тому +1

      Move to somewhere cheaper then?

    • @catherinebirch2399
      @catherinebirch2399 11 місяців тому +4

      @@futoooob I did that for most of my life because I could see the futility of the 9 to 5 existence. I'm retired now but I'm far better off than I've ever been in my life. I've been on two holidays to the continent last year. A lot of people who've worked hard for 40 years plus can't afford that.

  • @daniethturnereth4868
    @daniethturnereth4868 11 місяців тому +106

    It's just assumed by those in government, or those who are doing okay that we're struggling because we're not working hard enough. In actuality, we're working ridiculous hours in dead end jobs that we hate and have very little time and resources to find anything else. The game is rigged. I've listened to these Tories constantly bashing the working class, Liz Truss even had the audacity to suggest we need to graft more. Meanwhile, they are laughing it up in the house of commons every week, like some ridiculous pantomime show, claiming expenses from the tax payer and blowing our money on pointless schemes that no one believes in or cares about. The image of Rees Mogg with his feet up in the commons is one of the most offensive things I've ever seen. Do not vote these ridiculous people back in.

    • @davidazure1539
      @davidazure1539 11 місяців тому +4

      So Glad to hear this. And glad to see can also see the problem isn't us not working hard enough.

    • @Soundpj
      @Soundpj 7 місяців тому +1

      Correct

  • @charlotterayeee
    @charlotterayeee 7 місяців тому +107

    This administration is putting many families in difficult situations. A lot of people are financially struggling to live, put a roof over their head and put food on the table. Things are getting worse these days, if you don't find means of multiplying your money you might wake up a day to realise you didn't plan well for yourself and family.

    • @coolben854
      @coolben854 7 місяців тому +1

      I agree with you and I believe that Professionals are currently dominating the market since they have access to both the necessary strategy for making money in this industry.

    • @divlweb
      @divlweb 7 місяців тому

      I invested 5k in Robin hood about a year ago and it steadily went down, now my portfolio is down to $800. I don't know what to do and i am in between jobs

    • @charlotterayeee
      @charlotterayeee 7 місяців тому

      @@divlweb Understanding your financial needs and making effective decisions is very essential. If I could advise you, you should seek the help of a financial advisor. For the record, working with one has been the best for my finances.

    • @divlweb
      @divlweb 7 місяців тому

      I’m Glad i stumbled on this. Please, if its not too much of a hassle for you, can you drop the details of the expertise that assisted you and how to get in touch.

    • @charlotterayeee
      @charlotterayeee 7 місяців тому

      @@divlweb I get guidance from *Susan Tori Davis* Most likely, the internet should have her basic info..

  • @Stuark54
    @Stuark54 11 місяців тому +312

    This is what happens when the minimum wage doesn’t keep up with the cost of living. In my day if you lived frugally you could easily afford a nice roof over your head, three meals a day and a holiday each year.

    • @Heaven-dy9lj
      @Heaven-dy9lj 11 місяців тому +29

      The minimum wage is a fallacy. It was introduced to be the maximum wage.

    • @rosalindchrister
      @rosalindchrister 11 місяців тому +8

      There is no minimum or living wage it is an hourly rate

    • @deangelisdata
      @deangelisdata 11 місяців тому +5

      there is no minimum wage there is only the serf allowance

    • @Em-im1yz
      @Em-im1yz 11 місяців тому +8

      You need 35k a year for that now if ur single no kids and living in the north. If you're couple with kids better both be earning 35 - 40k each.

    • @yofinance1777
      @yofinance1777 11 місяців тому +1

      This is what happens when the sheeple society full of electorates become distracted, divided and manipulated. Lazy and pathetic, society does not hold those they elect accountable and let them get away with absolute fraud! Society is getting absolutely everything it deserves! Disgusting what we have become!

  • @dulceoliveira9901
    @dulceoliveira9901 11 місяців тому +353

    I work from Sunday to Sunday, I have two daughters, I'm a widow, I'm not entitled to benefits and I'm surviving, but I wanted to live and not just survive.

    • @hmq9052
      @hmq9052 11 місяців тому +28

      You need two incomes really.

    • @Robby334
      @Robby334 11 місяців тому +6

      Well done xx

    • @cidamed
      @cidamed 11 місяців тому +16

      My solidarity. As a Buddhist, I will send my sincere practice to you to reach the immeasurable and ilimmited benefits. 😊

    • @SA-ff9uc
      @SA-ff9uc 11 місяців тому

      Needs to get herself out there.@@hmq9052

    • @thebritishbookworm2649
      @thebritishbookworm2649 11 місяців тому +16

      Wow am so sorry for you. May God bless your life deeply. 🙏

  • @Riggsnic_co
    @Riggsnic_co 3 місяці тому +246

    THANKS. Just what I needed to watch. My wife and I are administrators of our farming business and our own properties, as well as small pensions. I am almost 56, my Wife is 52. We have started saving for retirement from the farm and maybe live off rental income, I would really appreciate it if you would do a video on how to earn passive income online and retire comfortably let's say 1 million bucks.

    • @kevinmarten
      @kevinmarten 3 місяці тому +3

      I agree! That's why it is advisable that you have to invest while you still have a regular job or earning a regular income, and do it constantly. You still need to have something that will keep you going even if you're investing. Good financial planning and money allocation is the key.

    • @Jamessmith-12
      @Jamessmith-12 3 місяці тому +2

      The best course of action if you lack market knowledge is to ask a consultant or investing coach for guidance or assistance. Speaking with a consultant helped me stay afloat in the market and grow my portfolio to about 65% since January, even though I know it sounds obvious or generic. I believe that is the most effective way to enter the business at the moment.

    • @JacquelinePerrira
      @JacquelinePerrira 3 місяці тому +2

      please who is the consultant that assist you with your investment and if you don't mind, how do I get in touch with them?

    • @Jamessmith-12
      @Jamessmith-12 3 місяці тому +2

      'Carol Vivian Constable, a highly respected figure in her field. I suggest delving deeper into her credentials, as she possesses extensive experience and serves as a valuable resource for individuals seeking guidance in navigating the financial market.

    • @JacquelinePerrira
      @JacquelinePerrira 3 місяці тому

      She appears to be well-educated and well-read. I ran an online search on her name and came across her website; thank you for sharing.

  • @JohnHuxleySavage
    @JohnHuxleySavage 11 місяців тому +299

    A small handful of people own nearly all the land and generate passive income from it by gouging the workers who actually generate all the goods and services in society. Land ownership is the root of this problem.

    • @lbunnygordon1133
      @lbunnygordon1133 11 місяців тому +40

      It s called modern feudal system...

    • @josemengelez6947
      @josemengelez6947 11 місяців тому +25

      @@greg6126 they clearly do, that's why you feel threatened and lash out.

    • @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp
      @OnlineEnglish-wl5rp 11 місяців тому +16

      It's certainly a big part of it. Deindustrialisation, hyper-financialisation and mass immigration also

    • @otinanai5439
      @otinanai5439 11 місяців тому

      @@S.Tradesno actually he is right. Cadogan westminster grosvenor. Google those 3 names and you will find out that majority of land is owned indeed by handful people

    • @AndrewMclachlan-hq4jp
      @AndrewMclachlan-hq4jp 11 місяців тому

      I hate this yiur broke cause your family’s is either lazy or stupid like my family people have money cause there smarter or work harder if you aren’t born into money it means your family failed financially it’s not the Governments fault

  • @DBGE001
    @DBGE001 11 місяців тому +213

    Millions to be cut off from gas and electricity this winter as energy bill debt continues to rise
    The number of people in debt to energy suppliers has reached 5.3 million, says Citizens Advice, as its figures show 800,000 people went more than 24 hours without gas or electricity in 2023 because they could not afford top-ups.

    • @GMT439
      @GMT439 11 місяців тому

      It's all by design.. This is a CULL.

    • @babajaga158
      @babajaga158 11 місяців тому +12

      Vote tory for few more decades and will get even better.

    • @lbunnygordon1133
      @lbunnygordon1133 11 місяців тому +13

      I was cut off although bills inc by rurhless llord backed up by council in 2022 to 23 especially during snow period no heat light gas etc. He got away with it all. 😢

    • @gmanlee575
      @gmanlee575 11 місяців тому

      Brits have been done bad have been reduced to be being poorer than the poorest us state misssippi per gdp per capita

    • @b.nichols3255
      @b.nichols3255 11 місяців тому +20

      And it costs almost £350 per year just to be connected, before switching on a kettle.

  • @markkilley2683
    @markkilley2683 11 місяців тому +139

    This is happening everywhere, in USA, Australia. Maybe not as quick but it is happening.

    • @Johnemburey-er1hp
      @Johnemburey-er1hp 11 місяців тому +10

      It sure 8s happening. Add newzealand to that list.

    • @danielmcarthur9004
      @danielmcarthur9004 11 місяців тому +11

      Yeah same with canada. Probably faster than the UK due to the housing crisis here

    • @markkilley2683
      @markkilley2683 11 місяців тому +9

      @@danielmcarthur9004 We also a housing crisis here in Aus. Most people don't care, if you do care, you're called 'woke'. I really don't know why being cruel is the answer.

    • @charabotte1
      @charabotte1 11 місяців тому +14

      Happening in France too. It's wanted. Probably all mapped out at G20 events. It's basically everywhere so not a coincidence.

    • @markkilley2683
      @markkilley2683 11 місяців тому +2

      @@charabotte1 It's posible.

  • @papichuckle
    @papichuckle 11 місяців тому +241

    Nothing will get better
    You can always rely on the British public to vote for the same people and do nothing

    • @STTC
      @STTC 11 місяців тому +11

      So true

    • @Jay_Richardson
      @Jay_Richardson 11 місяців тому

      And make stupid choices that screw us all for the next 25 years example like being dumb, ignorant and brain washed by right wing propaganda voting to leave the EU for a start. God i so badly want to leave this country. Its just endless promotion of racial instability, dumb and ignorant society, people constanlty moaning but do nothing to help themselves, right wing controlled media and Government, soical media warped everyone, no one helps the helpness in the event of an emergancy instead take pictures or videos to post, bad boy attitude youth, youth talk like tards saying like, like, like every 2 seconds. Is that a country to be proud of? I'm so done with this.

    • @lasttango7522
      @lasttango7522 11 місяців тому +19

      ​@@STTC Totally agree. We are voting for our demise.

    • @papichuckle
      @papichuckle 11 місяців тому

      @@chrisviking7807 they will vote in labour next and be surprised when nothing changes

    • @andrewwalsh2755
      @andrewwalsh2755 11 місяців тому

      Zionist Labour in... more lies, deceit and dishonesty... and ANOTHER bogus war then!...😱

  • @lamb1168
    @lamb1168 11 місяців тому +217

    Double the income just to meet the poverty line? My goodness.

    • @hc1897
      @hc1897 11 місяців тому

      No worries there are “only” 6 million people in that position. Not quite 1/10!of the total. The politicians are in no danger, they can continue to play with the country for many years.

    • @starlightgirl8863
      @starlightgirl8863 11 місяців тому +18

      It's a disgusting joke

    • @jessicasaunder6965
      @jessicasaunder6965 11 місяців тому +10

      Everyone needs income as their tool, emergency fund as their security, investments as their hope, and budget as their control. Get those in place and you'll feel at peace with your financial picture.

    • @mulizimustapha4406
      @mulizimustapha4406 11 місяців тому +7

      Our economy struggling with uncertainties, housing issues, foreclosures, global fluctuations, and pandemic aftermath, causing instability. Rising inflation, sluggish growth, and trade disruptions need urgent attention from all sectors to restore stability and stimulate growth.

    • @HelliotTomson
      @HelliotTomson 11 місяців тому +6

      I retired at 53 thanks to my husband . It wouldn't have been possible without his company stock plan because it far exceeded the 401k we both have. He is six years older than me and was sick of the day to day grind but we had no clue if our savings and investments would be sufficient, we finally went to a financial management meeting and we make all decisions for a profitable Investment and prepared a plan for our early retirement. We should have done that years ago but never considered that we might ever have enough to retire early and I thank God and my husband for the ability to do investment . We are now financially stable with everything paid for and we have a good health insurance ! Don't wait time is something we have in short supply and no amount of money will buy you more, I pray that anyone who reads and held to these words will be successful in life too 🙏🙏🙏

  • @thomasfreddie9235
    @thomasfreddie9235 9 місяців тому +193

    Even if you don't see any other reason to get into good and profitable investment but for the sake of securing a better life for yourself and family

    • @thomasfreddie9235
      @thomasfreddie9235 9 місяців тому

      I'm favoured financially with Bitcoin ETFs, Thank
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    • @rosemarypeterson7442
      @rosemarypeterson7442 9 місяців тому

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    • @kimberlycobbs9303
      @kimberlycobbs9303 9 місяців тому

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    • @kimberlycobbs9303
      @kimberlycobbs9303 9 місяців тому

      Cathie Wood analysis on trades are 100% perfect

    • @davidsonleo9487
      @davidsonleo9487 9 місяців тому

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  • @danmahon127
    @danmahon127 11 місяців тому +141

    Something I hear all the time is "I've worked so hard for everything I have and that's why I'm well off" - well in my opinion, many people have inherited money, or they've had luck in life. There's plenty of hard working individuals who deserve more.

    • @Turanic1
      @Turanic1 11 місяців тому

      For some people working hard is collecting rents off 12 properties once a month, and putting it all into spreadsheets while projecting future profits 😂 I bet those are the f##kers that defend capitalism and teach everyone how to work hard

    • @kaptinbarfbeerd1317
      @kaptinbarfbeerd1317 11 місяців тому +19

      The people who say that we're born 70 years ago. It's a way different time now but they just don't get it

    • @danmahon127
      @danmahon127 11 місяців тому

      @@kaptinbarfbeerd1317 totally

    • @diannevenner-kc6gu
      @diannevenner-kc6gu 11 місяців тому +14

      Yes the baby boomers age in their 70s now we're the last generation that were able to say this along with the job for life quote. Nowadays it's difficult and different world.

    • @pistopitpit
      @pistopitpit 11 місяців тому +8

      I’m an immigrant who came to UK 15 years ago with one backpack and around £200 in my pocket. Now I have my own home and good salary. It was luck and hard work together which got me to this point.

  • @jtrevm
    @jtrevm 11 місяців тому +94

    I am one of the lucky ones who worked over decades and have my own home. I am retired and now most of my income is State Pension. Not enough of course. I have now to sell my home. No choice. Plan is somewhere cheaper and smaller. Until I die. But still lucky. I have a roof and food on the table. At my age, nothing more needed. And - no one is going to throw me out.

    • @G4RY1159
      @G4RY1159 11 місяців тому

      All about timing, and sometimes hard work

    • @kanedNunable
      @kanedNunable 11 місяців тому +20

      yours will be the last generation where most owned their home. no chance for most young nowadays.

    • @jtrevm
      @jtrevm 11 місяців тому

      Seems very likely. Except. We need some politicians who do understand supply and demand. Build. Build. Build. Good luck with your future. Truly. You deserve better.@@kanedNunable

    • @todorkolev7565
      @todorkolev7565 10 місяців тому +6

      and when you sell your house, it will be taxed so MUCH, that you have nothing left after buying the smaller house!

    • @jamesb312
      @jamesb312 10 місяців тому +5

      @@todorkolev7565 No, a sale of a main residence in the UK does not attract Capital Gains Tax.

  • @damienroberts7735
    @damienroberts7735 11 місяців тому +23

    This makes me feel very sad because it is the constant topic of conversation at home on a weekly basis, and seeing these videos just amplifies the awareness of how people are suffering in quiet desperation.
    I worry about everyone around me on a weekly basis, forever concerned about my family and friends financial and psychological wellbeing. The hurt and struggle behind closed doors is soo real that I've slowly developed some mental health struggles surrounding this stark external environment that is eating away our soles.
    No torch of leadership is being carried to draw us out of this dark that is consuming us, and mothers and fathers are barely surviving their own unhappiness just to feed their children.
    Love and happiness are dissipating into loneliness and slavery of a system built on greed and corruption.

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому +4

      Councils across the country going bankrupt hasn't helped, plus councils on the brink of bankruptcy,means severe cuts, sackings and depleted services all across the board for years to come, yet we can find 10s billions to give away for free to other countries.
      Our interest rates for our national debt is 100 billion annually 😢
      I heard some councils are having a 3 weekly bin collection to cut costs, imagine what it will be like in summer.
      Then i read in South Africa they receive 2 bin collections a day 😢

    • @Nanan-he9om
      @Nanan-he9om 11 місяців тому +2

      Same sadness in France, people have the same problem of survival cost of living. the Real danger is the lonelyless who Can destroy strong mind, if you are bless to have family and Friends the love you Can share with them will protect you to any mental disorder.

  • @freddycook630
    @freddycook630 11 місяців тому +112

    can you imagine what will happen when the average wage in China is close to or more than a UK wage, that’s when the wheels will come off. If you send all the money to Amazon and all the work to China, then what do you expect. Our factories close our work drys up and we get poorer and poorer while the rich get richer, someone other then me must see how obscene it is that one man can have a net worth of $229 billion he made from all of us giving him our hard-earned cash.

    • @lbunnygordon1133
      @lbunnygordon1133 11 місяців тому +13

      Try tory govt having a shareout with pals and richest 1 per cent of 73 trillon in 2023. . 😢

    • @person.X.
      @person.X. 11 місяців тому +23

      This is exactly what is slowly throttling the UK. The imported stuff the UK needs gets steadily more expensive as China, E. Europe etc get wealthier. If the UK still produced stuff then it could switch back to local suppliers but they no longer exist so the UK is now stuck in a trap. It was pretty obvious this was going to become a problem back in the 90s after the industrial bloodbath of the 80s but everyone just pretended that everything was hunky dory and spent the oil income, borrowed money and sold the family silver to foreigners. Hopefully at some point the UK will redevelop its economy and become more self sufficient as well as developing more competitive export industries.

    • @scetchport
      @scetchport 11 місяців тому +3

      Same in Australia.

    • @wmoule
      @wmoule 11 місяців тому +1

      That would never happen as there is literally not enough resources in the world..

    • @AndrewMclachlan-hq4jp
      @AndrewMclachlan-hq4jp 11 місяців тому +1

      You have little understanding of economics 😂😂😂

  • @jordanlepage3322
    @jordanlepage3322 11 місяців тому +160

    My whole life, like many others, has been this way. I'm struggling so much at the moment and don't know what to do. What an existence we have, eh..

    • @Amrit_Love
      @Amrit_Love 11 місяців тому +2

      That is why we need a Creative Society where people's life is the most precious thing in the world. We, as a society, are on the brink at the moment, so unity is the only thing that can help us.
      Global Crysis forum on YT shows a way out.

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades 11 місяців тому

      Something fishy about this..... 🤔

    • @Amrit_Love
      @Amrit_Love 11 місяців тому +2

      ​ @S.Trades Bro, our whole life we've been divided and treated like cattle.
      We all have family, friends, relatives and etc. whom we always welcome to help.
      So why don't we do the same for every person in the world?
      We can hate and kill but can't love and live in piece?
      That is not true and you know that as well.
      Look at climate change, look at this world with open eyes and this world is what we've created. And if we are the reason for the world to be like that, we can be the reason to create the opposite world, but only together

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades 11 місяців тому

      Do I smell a religious cult? 🤔

    • @incredibilis4024
      @incredibilis4024 11 місяців тому

      It is all part of the plan, have you ever wondered why invaders are at the top of the housing and benefit list? Have you ever wondered why we are left in squalor while invaders get 5 star hotels for free? It's all about replacing us with a new people who will work for peanuts and who can be controlled more easily!

  • @bannol1
    @bannol1 11 місяців тому +33

    We have been led to this situation over the past four decades and this is exactly where politicians and the wealthy want most people to be. When economic uncertainty and poverty becomes the norm, it easier to manipulate a population. There is no real benefit to governments and the rich to have a large, comfortable and financially functional middle-class. Middle-class people are too much of a bother the more of them there are.

    • @skymanifest8339
      @skymanifest8339 11 місяців тому

      Good job mass immigration and multiculturalism have made us a richer, more dynamic, place to live, huh?

    • @d.dr.v42
      @d.dr.v42 8 місяців тому +1

      @@skymanifest8339This is not immigrants fault is always the rich bastards that profit for people misery

    • @JI7NKJ
      @JI7NKJ День тому

      Not that they don't want you to be rich they just don't want you to be richer than them.

  • @kokliangchew3609
    @kokliangchew3609 11 місяців тому +158

    As a Malaysian who used to live in the UK as a British Permanent Resident from the 1970s to the 1990s, I didn't expect things will be worse than at the height of the early 1980s recession and record unemployment in Maggie's Britain. Yet, I'm wrong.

    • @damianbutterworth2434
      @damianbutterworth2434 11 місяців тому +22

      I thought the 80`s was good. I had a nice job in a Space semiconductor factory and driving a 5.7 litre Camaro. Full motorbike test was £28. Beer was cheap. You could smoke in pubs. There was no wokes. Cheap houses. All the people on the dole was also working on the land so they was not that hard up.

    • @das5813
      @das5813 11 місяців тому

      I still call her the EVIL thatcher.

    • @lovejoypeace6174
      @lovejoypeace6174 11 місяців тому +8

      Damian: And that's the problem. People wasted money when they had good jobs.

    • @damianbutterworth2434
      @damianbutterworth2434 11 місяців тому +10

      @@lovejoypeace6174 I`ve semi retired now at 53 due to not wasting money. House paid off. Free Wood heating. Solar panels. My monthly bills are £250.

    • @das5813
      @das5813 11 місяців тому

      @@lovejoypeace6174
      Totally disagree.
      The evil thatcher milked the people and treated it as just another money making racket.
      Did you know that she copied Augusta Pinochet by forming a special branch of the police like his Death Squads ? They are still barracks near the Conservative HQ and they're there just to protect Neoconservatives.

  • @thomaspowell2043
    @thomaspowell2043 11 місяців тому +89

    This is what being a human being, being human, is about. I'm pretty sure we've got it wrong as a species somewhere along the line.

    • @303octavian
      @303octavian 11 місяців тому

      We're a virus. End of.

    • @SPHau
      @SPHau 11 місяців тому +8

      To feel alive should be the norm for humans not dreading another groundhog day of the same old same .

    • @murdock6450
      @murdock6450 11 місяців тому +5

      Human needs to stop trying to accumulate so much and just be.. like zen.

    • @CLOCKCHASER2222
      @CLOCKCHASER2222 11 місяців тому +1

      Big time wrong, we’re doomed

    • @dhanyrafael
      @dhanyrafael 11 місяців тому +1

      In Romania, and Eastern Europe, we always have been poor. So it's easier for us to endure the terrible times that are coming. I survive with only 350 euros per month. I eat mostly vegetable soup. I don't go out, I don't buy new things, only second hand things, I don't have AC in summer to reduce electricity, I don't travel, etc.
      I consume electricity only about 70KW per month (20 euros).
      I consume water only about 10m3 (2 euros).
      I eat for 200 euros per month.
      I am lucky to have my own 3 room apartment (living room, kitchen, bathroom) and I pay only 40 euros per month.
      And that's my life. Of course, it could be worse. People in Burundi, Africa are living with only 10 euros per month. So, I am blessed in many ways. I accept my destiny.
      Stay safe, hard times are coming.@@murdock6450

  • @gooderspitman8052
    @gooderspitman8052 11 місяців тому +39

    I found an old pay slip from 1973, I was then aged 17 years old. The payslip was for a week’s pay and my pay aged 17 was £27.50 which equates to £485 in today’s money. Now imagine if youngsters were receiving that kind of amount and then think on that at aged 18 I would have been on even more money. So tell me again how bad were the 70s and Pre-Thatcherism.

    • @0w784g
      @0w784g 8 місяців тому +7

      Thatcher didn't advocate uncontrolled migration that suppressed wage growth, that came with Blair.

  • @mikecahill3989
    @mikecahill3989 11 місяців тому +71

    People have no idea what’s coming and many will be swept away or have to leave the country.
    Owning your own home is also ridiculously expensive with the fees on top of fees charged by estate management companies and service charges

    • @damianbutterworth2434
      @damianbutterworth2434 11 місяців тому +2

      I found it strange you have to pay all these fees and surveys to buy a house but if you buy an expensive car there are none.

    • @Red_1976
      @Red_1976 11 місяців тому +2

      I left 5years ago and haven’t looked back. I got a full time job within three weeks of arriving and in three months bought my own house. Single parent, one income. You can do it, but just not in the UK.

    • @EmilyGloeggler7984
      @EmilyGloeggler7984 11 місяців тому +2

      @@Red_1976What country did you move to?

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому

      ​@@Red_1976yep if i get or won any money I'm off, but where to, most of the world is in turmoil

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому

      ​@@EmilyGloeggler7984probably somewhere in Eastern Europe

  • @misterpositive9337
    @misterpositive9337 11 місяців тому +74

    How long are people gonna put up with this. Surviving is not living.

    • @Moscow_Will_Burn
      @Moscow_Will_Burn 11 місяців тому +14

      The poor don't have the luxury or the time too do anything about it because you're too busy struggling to stay afloat.

    • @jacksoncrate
      @jacksoncrate 11 місяців тому +2

      what she have kids for?

    • @Moscow_Will_Burn
      @Moscow_Will_Burn 11 місяців тому

      @@jacksoncrate For the same reason no female wants to give you kids.

    • @mikefoster5277
      @mikefoster5277 11 місяців тому +2

      Thinking about it, survival has been the primary aspect of human life for millions of years (and still is, of course, among other living species). With the general increase in technology driven living standards around the world, it seems our individual expectations have changed - and possibly become unrealistic in many cases! Life, at its core, is still first and foremost about surviving - anything over and above that is (in reality) a luxury. Of course, the inherent inequality created by modern capitalist systems doesn't help matters, because we witness first hand how much 'better' things might be, 'if only'. But that is merely an illusion. We shouldn't lose sight of life's primary existential reality - if you're alive, then you're succeeding.

  • @davidbowie2046
    @davidbowie2046 11 місяців тому +15

    This whole poverty thing started with Cameron/Osbourne. They changed everything from benefits to taxes and all for the worse!

    • @kevoreilly6557
      @kevoreilly6557 10 місяців тому +1

      Austerity killed growth in the UK (stopped all the investment) - GDP per capita fell for a decade - and then Brexit kicked small business growth in the nether reasons

  • @99fruitbat94
    @99fruitbat94 11 місяців тому +59

    I am a health care assistant in the UK , private nursing home . I earn just a few pennies above the minimum wage . I could earn more in other jobs but I actually love what I do . 46 years doing this job . I am very lucky that I don't feel the cold easily . So can keep heating low . However I have to live a HMO because I can't afford to rent anymore . House of Multiple occupation . Luckily this HMO is a good one .

    • @anthonystuartjones
      @anthonystuartjones 11 місяців тому +3

      I think what you mean to say is "I could earn more in other jobs but after 46 years of doing this I can't be bothered learning a new skill and it's easier to do what I know, I know this is my fault but I like to blame everyone else for my situation".

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades 11 місяців тому +4

      Be happy. A lot arent! And you are very lucky to love your job!

    • @99fruitbat94
      @99fruitbat94 11 місяців тому +2

      @@S.Trades Thanks 👍 Best wishes.

    • @ameliajones7292
      @ameliajones7292 11 місяців тому +7

      ​@anthonystuartjones it takes time and money to change careers. If you don't have any spare money you can't afford to work less to study. Some courses are funded, yes, but rarely with enough to live off. Also, there is no guarantee that having the skills or qualifications gets you the job.

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades 11 місяців тому

      @@ameliajones7292 yup... always excuses. Change your mindset. You want something to change, you havd to make it change. No one will do it for you.

  • @Abraham_Tsfaye
    @Abraham_Tsfaye 11 місяців тому +105

    When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere.
    Homeless people sleeping in doorways. A women with cat whiskers makeup casually walking into Tesco with her pajamas. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets.
    It's a sad declined country.

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому +9

      Councils across the country are going bankrupt, 2024 is the year of cuts,sackings and lack of services for years to come

    • @monacophotographyevents2384
      @monacophotographyevents2384 11 місяців тому +11

      @abraham_tsfaye Looking at your completely ridiculous Pro Russian, Pro Hamas propaganda channel, I would be amazed if you have ever been to Europe, let alone the UK.
      Try to be less obvious.

    • @Istroops
      @Istroops 11 місяців тому +1

      True!

    • @Prometheus7272
      @Prometheus7272 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@@monacophotographyevents2384It is genuinely true though, some places are wastelands.

    • @Jalleur14325
      @Jalleur14325 11 місяців тому

      ​@@monacophotographyevents2384there's no doubt that Putin wants to flood the west with migrants to try and sink it.

  • @ocswoodlands
    @ocswoodlands 11 місяців тому +15

    i have never been to UK but my daughter is studying in London.
    what amazes me is how expensive London is and yet the wages in UK is not high at all.
    How did UK become so expensive??

    • @Itsmetheworldsgreatest
      @Itsmetheworldsgreatest 11 місяців тому

      It’s all done on purpose to stop people owning homes …. Welcome to 2030 you will own nothing and be happy ‘ WEF’

    • @Awaatif-k9t
      @Awaatif-k9t 11 місяців тому +5

      GREED

    • @underground9560
      @underground9560 11 місяців тому +4

      BREXIT

    • @9595luke
      @9595luke 9 місяців тому

      Because of all the foreign investment

  • @Lordtrainman
    @Lordtrainman 11 місяців тому +63

    Agreed. 70% of my income goes on necessities. It’s ridiculous.

    • @janetmalcolm6191
      @janetmalcolm6191 11 місяців тому +1

      Some are working but in a deficit. Not everything covered from week to week.

    • @r-urbex1611
      @r-urbex1611 11 місяців тому +3

      So you still have 30% as a disposable income then. You are a lot better off than a lot of people

    • @Lordtrainman
      @Lordtrainman 11 місяців тому +2

      @@r-urbex1611 sure, but hair cut, Netflix and debt payment payment then put you into a negative. The point is that necessities should be lower than 50% but it’s just not possible in the current Environment. Certain businesses that thrive in the necessities bracket are taking advantage.

    • @Lordtrainman
      @Lordtrainman 11 місяців тому +3

      @@janetmalcolm6191 me included, this does not include debt payment, student loan or a hair cut.

    • @saturationstation1446
      @saturationstation1446 11 місяців тому

      if you make that much you are literally in the top 1% lol. but not for long. they have to get those numbers you know

  • @LukaPanik
    @LukaPanik 11 місяців тому +40

    Poverty in the UK increases after leaving the EU. Really? Who would have thought that....

    • @grbbbc
      @grbbbc 11 місяців тому +9

      So where in France, Germany, Italy cheaper?

    • @bobjames6622
      @bobjames6622 11 місяців тому +15

      Ahh, didn't take long to find the remoaner!

    • @ianhill4585
      @ianhill4585 11 місяців тому +2

      As subtle as a kick in the nads aren't they!?

    • @rodstawaa
      @rodstawaa 11 місяців тому +3

      Why can’t we just vote ourselves back into the EU

    • @tedcrilly1
      @tedcrilly1 11 місяців тому +2

      As many Australians in the comments will testify, they are struggling too.... maybe they should rejoin the EU to fix their pro....... oh?!

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  • @stuartsutherland7664
    @stuartsutherland7664 11 місяців тому +127

    Housing, lack of and cost is the biggest problem for this country.

    • @lbunnygordon1133
      @lbunnygordon1133 11 місяців тому +13

      Always has been but now worse than anyone could imagine.. 21 to 25k doesnt cover anything.

    • @wmoule
      @wmoule 11 місяців тому +27

      If we keep letting in over 700k people in one year, what do you expect? Unless you want to throw planning regulations out the window and just start building on countryside where ever a developer wants.

    • @salsabila786
      @salsabila786 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@wmoule we actually need more labour, just not cheap labour. The wages also have gone down in real terms in last 2 decades. Immigration is just a smokescreen, unemployment is still low levels, there's more jobs than available in the job market and health sector, service sector and many other sector the wait is so long not due to Immigration but not filling roles after years of advertisement. Which doctor wants to work in UK at 50k before overtime when they could make 4 times that tax free in Dubai or more in the US

    • @stuartsutherland7664
      @stuartsutherland7664 11 місяців тому +22

      @@salsabila786 Why pay more wages when you can get cheap labour and doctors from overseas! Immigration is a real problem! It has a negative effect on the working population here and the countries that the cheap labour force is taken from.

    • @salsabila786
      @salsabila786 11 місяців тому +9

      @@stuartsutherland7664 we don't have enough qualified doctors or nurses to cover current vacancies. Just the human health sector in the UK has 215,000 vacancies. We don't have the staff, increasing wages is important to cover the cost of living, Germany and other developed countries have higher wages than UK. Problem isn't immigration but greed within UK, the inequality is shown in the video. In a service sector developed country, there's shouldn't be 14 million people in poverty, most who are working.

  • @thomHD
    @thomHD 11 місяців тому +85

    Our obsession with home ownership, landlords who actually contribute nothing to the economy, our lack of modern smart apartment buildings - together with an almost-American disregard for public transport and the social mobility that brings - means we feel the squeeze more than so many other developed nations.

    • @salkoharper2908
      @salkoharper2908 11 місяців тому +18

      @@futoooob Britain now has the high taxes of a Scandinavian country, with the services and infrastructure of West Virginia in many places. Worst of both worlds.

    • @thomHD
      @thomHD 11 місяців тому +6

      @@futoooob Nah the UK does at least have European quality ingredients etc...

    • @Creep2freak
      @Creep2freak 11 місяців тому +12

      The UK is no longer a developed nation, it's a nation of slaves in engaged in heavy action. Peace could have been had a long time ago. Technology has been used to enslave us when it was meant to set us free. The greedy few have been planning this for a long time.

    • @lovejoypeace6174
      @lovejoypeace6174 11 місяців тому

      American food looks good but it is full of bad stuff and hormones.

    • @lovejoypeace6174
      @lovejoypeace6174 11 місяців тому

      Food is America is horrible and full of bad stuff.

  • @glennhopkins2643
    @glennhopkins2643 9 місяців тому +6

    Tony Blair is to blame.

  • @Kavala76
    @Kavala76 11 місяців тому +139

    The UK labour force appears to be following in the footsteps of the US labour force.

    • @gmanlee575
      @gmanlee575 11 місяців тому +6

      Care to elaborate, is this regarding zero hour contracts

    • @wmoule
      @wmoule 11 місяців тому

      Americans don’t even work that hard compared to Asians..

    • @mollusckscramp4124
      @mollusckscramp4124 11 місяців тому +8

      I mean I wasn't gonna do the classic American thing and derail a thread to talk about American issues... but when I saw a comment stating how outrageous it is that anyone's rent could be £1600 (thereabouts in $ converted), I really had to restrain from replying "First time?🪢"

    • @nixic_
      @nixic_ 11 місяців тому

      Right my rent here in Southern California is £1900 and that's a great price....@@mollusckscramp4124

    • @gmanlee575
      @gmanlee575 11 місяців тому +2

      @@mollusckscramp4124 i heard ny rent prices are crazy like more than londons

  • @ashwilkinson889
    @ashwilkinson889 11 місяців тому +42

    It's insane that they're still using the *get a job, just work and you'll be fine* rhetoric...business costs have risen and they're using that as the reason for not increasing wages..yet the natural monopoly of housing food and energy expenses rise too and we're stuck in the middle sinking under it all!!!

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades 11 місяців тому

      Some people can't even afford a hair cut. What's a "natural monopoly of housing, food and energy"? The only natural monopoly there, is National Grid? There's no monopoly on the others.

    • @ashwilkinson889
      @ashwilkinson889 11 місяців тому +2

      An individual must eat, be warm and sheltered in order to stay alive.. There aren't many other alternatives to that in my understanding.

    • @rainerschmid9965
      @rainerschmid9965 11 місяців тому +2

      What rhetoric is useful,then? Do nothing, don't work, give up, it's pointless, eat the rich, it's the government's fault, bohoohoo I am homeless, etc. etc......that rhetoric?

  • @kevintravis1807
    @kevintravis1807 9 місяців тому +3

    ❤ I was deported back to South Africa after six years in Britain. Grand parents from Britain. Did not claim benefits. Don't take drugs don't drink alcohol. Christian South African's not welcome to Britain.
    High unemployment rate in South Africa 2024 . Was not a leech on British tax payer. Slept rough in Glasgow.

  • @Tanvaras
    @Tanvaras 11 місяців тому +34

    Australia is in the same boat, every day people living on the streets heading to work carrying all they own and then back on the streets after work due to housing/rental crisis coupled with cost of living. And all our government does is talk, talk, and more talk and zero action.

    • @rennmaxbeta
      @rennmaxbeta 11 місяців тому +6

      I agree mate, also trying to survive here in Queensland. Rent and costs are insane. It's depressing seeing more and more people living in tents, out of cars etc in the area.

    • @mariotaz
      @mariotaz 11 місяців тому +2

      You guys earn so much more money than the rest of the world. I lived in Melbourne for 2 years, damn you guys get insane pay
      I don't understand how Aussies can be poor.

    • @sandrafinbar
      @sandrafinbar 11 місяців тому +4

      @@mariotaz the rents have gone up and we had 13 interest rate rises in the last couple of years. It all adds up.

    • @christinefiedor3518
      @christinefiedor3518 11 місяців тому +2

      Depends on where in you are. I’m in South Australia and it’s not too bad here. But it’s not as good as it used to be.@@mariotaz

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому +2

      All roads lead to demand for accommodation, leaving lack of accommodation and pushing up the prices because of greed. The demand needs to cease

  • @andrewmacaulay9272
    @andrewmacaulay9272 11 місяців тому +39

    GOVERNMENT MADE IT LIKE THIS

  • @violetagira5128
    @violetagira5128 8 місяців тому +3

    In United states, housing is even more expensive. For a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment, my boyfriend and I pay $2480 a month. That's without electricity or internet. I could never afford living here by myself. 1 bedroom apartment goes for $2100 a month. Horrible. I see more and more homelessness on the streets. I often wonder, is it all by design?

    • @Whatt787
      @Whatt787 8 місяців тому +1

      US has a higher standard of living, bigger apts and houses

  • @scottgresham6759
    @scottgresham6759 11 місяців тому +73

    Having been in middle class and lived in poverty for some years and returned to the middle class, I feel for this woman's situation and others like her. I haven't seen it look so tough in the UK for a long time.

    • @anthonyfaucy2761
      @anthonyfaucy2761 11 місяців тому +1

      Its sad how many disgusting posters there are here so your post providing empathy is refreshing. What has humanity come to when there is so much vile and nasty comments to others who did nothing to them

    • @scruf153
      @scruf153 11 місяців тому

      America is worse

  • @mrumarGTA
    @mrumarGTA 11 місяців тому +47

    Cost of living wont end anytime soon

    • @krob2327
      @krob2327 11 місяців тому

      Why you say that? What’s the cause of it?

    • @Alibo400
      @Alibo400 11 місяців тому

      @@krob2327because it’s the planned demolition of the western economy.. covid was the starting point, it wasn’t for nothing , there’s no turning back now. We just have to prepare best we can.

    • @chiccabay9911
      @chiccabay9911 11 місяців тому

      New checks at Dover. ;)@@krob2327

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому

      ​@@krob2327supply and demand, war in Ukraine losing all that access to cheap energy, what Europe was built on especially Germany, who are in a recession because of it, farmers revolting because subsidies being cut because of the recession. Supermarkets won't pay them a fair price, if they do they'll pass on the cost to consumers, its all a vicious circle

    • @waza-sm1mf
      @waza-sm1mf 7 місяців тому

      ​@@krob2327 because of brexit

  • @vanessachapman4868
    @vanessachapman4868 11 місяців тому +12

    I'm so confused. This woman used as an example of "poverty" works only part-time. She has a flat filled with furniture, and a kitchen packed with supplies. She has a smart phone, a laptop, and I would guess, a wi-fi connection in her home. She and her son are both well dressed. This is "poverty"? Meanwhile, in other countries, three generations share one mattress in a shack and have to walk 1 mile to a public well to fetch water. We have people in the first world whining and complaining that their part-time job isn't paying enough to pay for all the luxuries they feel they deserve. Try working 12-hour days all seven days of the week in a rice field and then tell me how hard you have it. We don't have a poverty problem. We have an attitude problem.

    • @Dealingwithidiotsonadailybasis
      @Dealingwithidiotsonadailybasis 11 місяців тому +2

      She lives in Surrey and pays £1600 per month🤣😂 Some people believe everything they see.

    • @Southpaw2198
      @Southpaw2198 11 місяців тому +1

      You forgot to add the expensive looking smart watch. UK is still awash with opportunities compared to much of the world. I mean, she does not look under fed or anything right

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому

      Those countries you talk of are 1.4 billion, ie ,India,Africa people and you expect them all to be well off? Over population has severe consequences,just because someone has clean clothes, laptops dosent mean anything, comparing those countries isn't right. She's got 1 child, compared to those countries with numerous broods causing their own demise. With one child she should of been ok, being responsible

    • @vanessachapman4868
      @vanessachapman4868 11 місяців тому

      @@moosky7344Where did I say that I expect people in India and Africa to be well-off? That's such a strange conclusion to draw from what I wrote. Having "clean clothes" and "laptops" DOES mean something. The woman in the video is warm, comfortable, well-fed, and lives in a beautiful country in a peaceful time of history. My problem is calling her "poor" and trying to get others to pity her and others like her. I feel like these types of videos are trying to get people upset for no reason.

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому

      @@vanessachapman4868 she's about to be evicted in a housing crisis never seen before in this country,150 k children live in insecure accommodation i hostel's and b and bs, surrounded by awful experiences with no hope
      It might be a beautiful country in your eyes,but that image is untrue for 10s of millions of us,are you serious haha,you obviously still living back 30 year's ago
      If she gad half a dozen children she'd be way worse off, especially all of us having that many children, we'd bankrupt our country, most people can't afford any children or afford to buy a house etc I'm alright Julie,but but let's compare the situation where people live 1.4 billion strong who have it worse for self inflicted situations having far too many kids hence the situation there.
      The UK only credit rich borrowing to keep the status quo, while paying 100 billion annually in interest rates on our spiralling debt,with many councils going bankrupt like never before!

  • @niptodstan
    @niptodstan 11 місяців тому +46

    I retire this year. The worry of how I'm going to live makes me ill. I've not worked for the past year due to ill health. But I've contributed for 50 years. I started at 15 and have never stopped. Yet I have nothing. Fuel bills are the biggest drain. Diesel, gas and electric. After those and council tax, I have under £100 a week to feed myself, internet/tv. Phone/insurances, Water etc. It's a horrible thought of what is to come. Yet someone who have never contributed can come here and be warmer. Eat better than me and get more help. What a disgrace

    • @mariotaz
      @mariotaz 11 місяців тому +1

      Who can come here and get that?

    • @niptodstan
      @niptodstan 11 місяців тому +13

      @@mariotaz Boat loads. They're filling our hotels up while our homeless freeze and starve.

    • @FaceFcuk
      @FaceFcuk 11 місяців тому +4

      Boat ppl

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому +1

      You get free bus pass, free tv licence, 500 quid towards electricity. Pension and universal credit etc you'll be fine

    • @niptodstan
      @niptodstan 11 місяців тому

      @@moosky7344 Free TV license? That ended ages ago.

  • @GavinROfficial
    @GavinROfficial 11 місяців тому +163

    Everything feels just so hard at the moment

    • @mirabella2154
      @mirabella2154 11 місяців тому +10

      Well, it's not like they didn't announce it, right ? WEF...

    • @mollusckscramp4124
      @mollusckscramp4124 11 місяців тому +1

      It is.

    • @SA-ff9uc
      @SA-ff9uc 11 місяців тому +3

      In Bangladesh?

    • @adiintel1
      @adiintel1 11 місяців тому +2

      Well 1% interest rates basically very cheap money could be a big reason.

    • @RYANLEWIS-pd7zs
      @RYANLEWIS-pd7zs 11 місяців тому +1

      Zesty guy, chill out there are kids on youtube.

  • @jamesvillegas877
    @jamesvillegas877 11 місяців тому +36

    It's the same all over the world now.

  • @NottinghamForest24
    @NottinghamForest24 11 місяців тому +51

    Guys just look on High streets in Towns
    Banks branches gone,Argos gone , Wilko gone. Facilities stay empty more than year already.
    But Landlords ask from work class peoples to pay rent 1k.

    • @lollollol234
      @lollollol234 11 місяців тому

      Landlords your sugar daddy?

    • @RYANLEWIS-pd7zs
      @RYANLEWIS-pd7zs 11 місяців тому

      Shut up.

    • @Turanic1
      @Turanic1 11 місяців тому +1

      I remember I saw statistics that majority of UK population own their own house, so they are the owner class, the rest ( working class) are essentially milked , because someone has to do all work and feed the owner class as well 😂

    • @skymanifest8339
      @skymanifest8339 11 місяців тому

      Good job mass immigration and multiculturalism have made us a richer and more dynamic place to live, huh?

    • @RYANLEWIS-pd7zs
      @RYANLEWIS-pd7zs 11 місяців тому

      More farts for you to sniff huh?@@skymanifest8339

  • @becky2235
    @becky2235 11 місяців тому +25

    Im living around abuse as i cant find a place to live privately due to me being severely disabled and in and out of hospital im out of work, social housing have told me to go to a womans refuge but its over 200 miles away and thats the nearest i cant do that due to my hospital appointments being in this area id have to join a new waiting list. In the middile of all this im trying to help where i can another 2 relatives with health issues. Some days im so sick i struggle to leave the house. I was doing a lot of volunteer work until my health took another turn for the worst and i cant get to see my specialist for months. When i do they seem to pass it back to the G.p. who then passes it back. This country is just unbelievable. So many times by the time things get serious im waiting for a ambulance for 14 + hours then have seen myself in the carpark for another 8-16 hours! It really is unbelievable.
    To go private for somewhere to live you need a few thousand for first months rent depoist etc. but most of all a co signer! Thats the difficulty who wants that responsibility? Someone to say yes ill cover the rent if that person cant.
    So health gets worse living around abuse.

    • @jo18533
      @jo18533 11 місяців тому +11

      So sorry you are going through all that. I hope things improve for you soon X

    • @Abbyyena
      @Abbyyena 11 місяців тому +4

      Is there other family or a friend you can possibly stay with instead (where you feel safe)? Your story breaks my heart. I’m so sorry about what you’re going through.

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому +1

      The abuser should move out not you

    • @becky2235
      @becky2235 11 місяців тому

      ​@@moosky7344unfortunately it's not my house it's horrendous. Trapped

  • @hyperstarter7625
    @hyperstarter7625 11 місяців тому +13

    Single mum, working part-time, living in Surrey. If she needed to double income, she needs to work full time, live with others with an income and probably move? You can't rely on the Government for anything, so why are we pretending they can help?

    • @janetmalcolm6191
      @janetmalcolm6191 11 місяців тому

      Govt policies need changing. Yes UN said this can be sorted ASAP when they looked into things. People need to think about that. Very telling.

  • @cbrashsorensen
    @cbrashsorensen 11 місяців тому +18

    The British support and adore their Oligarchy--just as we do here in the U.S. UNTIL you stop turning on each other and DEMAND that the British Oligarchy pay their fair share you may need a third income.

  • @julianshepherd2038
    @julianshepherd2038 11 місяців тому +63

    American style freedom.
    Freedom to work 12/7

    • @stum7396
      @stum7396 11 місяців тому

      Would you join a fight to raise the minimum wage?

    • @halfpint90
      @halfpint90 11 місяців тому +2

      Thats only your first job

    • @preferanonymous
      @preferanonymous 11 місяців тому +1

      Except for the part where it's nowhere near this bad in the USA.

    • @suntzu94
      @suntzu94 11 місяців тому

      At least we have guns unlike the peasants of the king

  • @عبداللطيفمزوز
    @عبداللطيفمزوز 11 місяців тому +5

    Few years ago Europeans were playing with food in their streets enjoying by throwing milk and tomato and wheat while other nations are starving ,not thinking that they may suffer one day ,cause nothing is guaranteed in this life

  • @hushhana4022
    @hushhana4022 11 місяців тому +60

    Poverty in Great Britain

    • @dinkdankdoo3035
      @dinkdankdoo3035 11 місяців тому +8

      Britain. Shitain more like

    • @RYANLEWIS-pd7zs
      @RYANLEWIS-pd7zs 11 місяців тому

      The place smells like a wet fart and you call it "Great".

  • @TheAdamRawks
    @TheAdamRawks 11 місяців тому +52

    2 in the flat, 50 mugs in the cupboard. Laptop, mobile phone, Car keys hanging on the flat keys. 10 boxes of branded cerials on the counter that cost three times the alternatives.
    I have sympathy for people on renting cost, electric/gas, council tax. But there's so much evidence of bad spending if you actually watch the background as opposed to listening to the interview.
    But I'm yet to see anyone with a BMI of less than 40 on one of these poverty snippets. Nobody's starving and the heating's on as being as there's no jumper in sight.
    It IS tough out there, but not enough people take responsibility for their part in the situation to ease the pressure that comes from the things that are out of their control.
    Living without luxury isn't poverty.

    • @ronuss
      @ronuss 11 місяців тому +1

      so true. so many just dont get educated about how to live day to day properly. eating pre made foods, getting take outs, buying fizzy drinks that cost stupid money. drink water, make ur own food , its so much cheaper. stop eating cereal , its not even good for you. just buy what you need from day to day.

    • @Artix13
      @Artix13 11 місяців тому +16

      Also, Apple Watch on the wrist. That’s a totally unnecessary luxury. I believe she’s struggling because the cost of living crisis is real and everything HAS become a lot more expensive but your own spending also plays a part.

    • @travisdingolaite6184
      @travisdingolaite6184 11 місяців тому +1

      @@Artix13if she wasn't spending money on the things you pointed out, yes she would have more money, but she would still have nowhere near enough to actually truly thrive

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades 11 місяців тому +2

      @@travisdingolaite6184 nobody owes her a living. She is master/mistress of her own destiny. Her life choices, are hers alone.

    • @S.Trades
      @S.Trades 11 місяців тому

      @@travisdingolaite6184 it's kind of an indicator where her priorities lie. You won't even find a tv in my house.

  • @D_e_n_i_s_e_B
    @D_e_n_i_s_e_B 10 місяців тому +4

    I grew up in Brazil during the 80s ("The Lost Decade", due to hyperinflation). The only advice I can give is for the young generation: when you get your first job, save the most you can while you still live with your parents because it will be difficult to save when you live by yourself. This way you will have a good down payment towards your place.

  • @freddieventura4382
    @freddieventura4382 11 місяців тому +53

    the problem is housing. We need more public housing otherwise we cannot offer our full potential to the society. We are living in the mud

    • @originalunoriginal4055
      @originalunoriginal4055 11 місяців тому +20

      It's not about the lack of it.
      It's just all public housing stock is going to the wrong people.
      E.g. illegal migrants entering the UK without any documents.

    • @Chisel_Chest
      @Chisel_Chest 11 місяців тому

      @@originalunoriginal4055 and druggies.

    • @patriciarowe6685
      @patriciarowe6685 11 місяців тому

      ​@@originalunoriginal4055Agreed 🤝

    • @marumaru6084
      @marumaru6084 11 місяців тому +1

      Mass immigration is the problem, 14 million people! 48% of London social housing is taken up by foreigners can you imagine going abroad and getting a house???

    • @marumaru6084
      @marumaru6084 11 місяців тому +5

      @Ardwick-Crome After more than 12 million immigrants its just not true.

  • @user-jgn1944
    @user-jgn1944 11 місяців тому +30

    You are not alone. I've not been out for ages/ months.

    • @francocanuck
      @francocanuck 9 місяців тому

      So do somethings move ,and next times vote intelligently

  • @weepingangel6805
    @weepingangel6805 11 місяців тому +13

    As a delivery driver I work 7 days a week but save £2k a month. I am single no dependents but how many single men like me are pretending they can’t save? They’re lying.

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому +10

      Who wants and can find work 7 days a week, depends also where you live too, you're just the exception. Why don't you leave the work for the other unemployed who can't find work

    • @realest-12
      @realest-12 8 місяців тому +1

      Its everyone for themselves

    • @weepingangel6805
      @weepingangel6805 7 місяців тому

      @@moosky7344 The point is to work 7 days a week to save 2k a month so that in a couple years I can start my own thing. But most people don't want that, they want to be spoon-fed to financial success. And work 4 days a week. Unbelievable.

  • @danleary123
    @danleary123 11 місяців тому +28

    You know it's broken when your better off doing nothing with yourself and fundamentally being provided social housing with a guaranteed tenancy than going to work paying nearly all your earnings back into the property (for most) and constantly being at risk of eviction from selling up.

    • @salkoharper2908
      @salkoharper2908 10 місяців тому +8

      I know a young man who was working, he dropped out and quit. He lives at home with his parents and does odd cash in hand jobs. He told me he has more money now than when he was working full time and paying rent. It is now more profitable for a large segment of the population to literally not work and pay taxes. Any system like this will collapse, it is only a matter of time now.

    • @CarlBland-tn1jo
      @CarlBland-tn1jo 8 місяців тому

      It is broken I don't work flat gets paid for pip a UC every two weeks only skint a day or 2 of the month not better or financially if I worked but at least I would have sum thing to fill my days up with

  • @Truthseeker1977
    @Truthseeker1977 11 місяців тому +12

    I totally feel u. This is not right we live in UK. 14 million in poverty. This is sickening. None of the politicians worry about heat or eat. Come on UK re organise and make life easier for your people

  • @32ukneil
    @32ukneil 8 місяців тому +1

    Living crises has been going on for years for many people, not just a recent thing. I work full time, but don't go out either. I don't buy furniture or go on holiday in the UK. I don't buy new clothes. I don't see my friends out of my local area as travel is too much. I've had to sell my car, learn how to cut my own hair. I walk or cycle to work which is just as well since I've had to stop going to the gym. I don't go to the dentist. I don't have a TV. I am forced to share a flat with strangers and argue over cleanliness and noise, sometimes there is no hot water or heating. I have to live next to a A road that is polluted because it is cheap. I've had a Landlord evict me once so she could use my room for Air BnB. All of these things are on going for a long time. I can not get a council house or flat. As I am a single working male.

  • @sb-fc6uj
    @sb-fc6uj 11 місяців тому +19

    Private landlords are making a killing from vulnerable people. Its totally unfair for a basic human right - to be able to have shelter. My council flat is £400 a month but if I went private in this rural area it would be about £800-900 for the same thing. My daughter rents a bedroom in a bungalow in Bristol and pays £1000 a month for the privilege. My elderly parents rent a small 3 bedroom new build on the outskirts of Taunton - nothing much there and its £1200 a month and that air flow/mould maintenance is shocking. Come on government why are you not building more good quality council properties. The rental market must burst at some point, like this lady has seen many landlords are selling up (including. a friend of mine who owns a couple of buy to lets, she says she just gets what the estate agents say she can get) and then there are even less properties to rent if it goes to a private buyer.

    • @sb-fc6uj
      @sb-fc6uj 11 місяців тому +3

      @@issei4561 they are not free as I said I pay £400 a month and it's a flat not a villa.

    • @SnakePliskin762
      @SnakePliskin762 11 місяців тому +3

      Landlords are bailing out in record numbers due to unfair s24 and interest rate rises. A lot are trapped,renting out at a loss.

    • @moosky7344
      @moosky7344 11 місяців тому +1

      They can charge what they want when the demand is high, there's no rent regulation to speak of because the government don't care, their policies abroad and at home caused the dire situation

  • @josephhoward3558
    @josephhoward3558 11 місяців тому +37

    Maybe I can just get a directorship or two at a banking group doing twenty hours a year to tie me over until I get my peerage??

    • @jjefferyworboys8138
      @jjefferyworboys8138 11 місяців тому +1

      If you are prepared to do whatever it takes to improve yourself, anything is possible.

  • @HaggisMuncher-y2u
    @HaggisMuncher-y2u 11 місяців тому +16

    I moved to Romania over a year ago but went back last week for work.
    I was shocked at how expensive EVERYTHING is now.
    I’m glad I left. The UK doesn’t deserve qualified people.

    • @AdrianSams
      @AdrianSams 10 місяців тому

      Part of the current problem of low wages is down to freedom of movement when we were EU members. Flooded with EU citizens from Eastern Europe who were more than happy to work for the low wages which suppressed the wages of millions,. Ever tried asking for a pay rise when your boss says, "If you don't like it then leave,plenty of Bulgarians,Romanians and Poles happy to have your job". No? well you were very lucky.
      An extra 10million people have come to the UK in the past 12yrs, more immigration in the past 20yrs than we saw in the previous 2000yrs and yet we were told and still are told that immigration can only be a good thing.

    • @mimi64231
      @mimi64231 10 місяців тому

      This is UK after Brexit 😱 ua-cam.com/video/R6hsJ7h8t5w/v-deo.htmlsi=H8GJLOZscqWvvKKL ua-cam.com/video/pMTZaOrDk-c/v-deo.htmlsi=1udwLZhRHeDyREa7 I and my famili moved to Poland one year ago. Leaving the UK was a very good decision. All the best from Zakopane.

  • @Mariabouke35
    @Mariabouke35 11 місяців тому +28

    I absolutely hate going grocery shopping now 😫😫😫 i would do less shopping if im by myself, but i have 2 kids 🤣🤣

  • @jasperedwards2713
    @jasperedwards2713 11 місяців тому +21

    shops are closing no ones spending money

    • @Runningformylife1983
      @Runningformylife1983 11 місяців тому +1

      Shops are closing cos everyone's buying on line now!

    • @jasperedwards2713
      @jasperedwards2713 11 місяців тому

      but lots of shops dont sell what you want@@Runningformylife1983

  • @LilyIglesias
    @LilyIglesias 9 місяців тому +3

    UK is poor now and it's bbecoming a 3rd world country. Ppl from 3rd world countries like me we're used to "survive", but in UK, a country that has being rich for such a long time, the change it's going to be hard. I'm so sorry about this, this is really sad.

    • @untouchableghost6757
      @untouchableghost6757 25 днів тому

      100% true! Ever since the two world wars Britain has been getting poorer and poorer 😢

  • @lee9650
    @lee9650 11 місяців тому +57

    She is right so many of us are struggling to do anything with our lives simply because we can't afford to do anything. I can't afford to move out of my parents living room, can't afford driving lessons, I can't afford to "up-skill" or "level up", go to college as an adult to better myself. I can't get a job because I simply have nothing going for me. All jobs want references and employment history which I don't have and the longer i'm out of work the more difficult it becomes. I'm fully capable but there is so much red tape thwarting my chances in life. Relationships are non-existent as who would want to date a nobody. It really does destroy your self esteem and causes anxiety. It's a waist of a life and miserable.

    • @paulhank7967
      @paulhank7967 11 місяців тому +4

      Join the military. They're short in all services.

    • @animal79thecat
      @animal79thecat 11 місяців тому +6

      Stop making excuses

    • @lee9650
      @lee9650 11 місяців тому +15

      @@paulhank7967 Funny you should say that but even the military require all sorts of qualifications depending on role and then there is the issue of references and the fact i'm in my late 20s and not achieved anything might go against me. Also, they have to be satisfied with your GP records and I have had a few medical issues which I personally don't think would effect my ability to do the job but I have heard stories of people being rejected due to certain medical/health problems. So even the joining the military isn't an answer for everyone.

    • @lee9650
      @lee9650 11 місяців тому +19

      @@animal79thecat How am I making excuses? I would be making excuses if I hadn't tried, but I have and to no avail as yet. These are real problems and obstacles that don't just go away because you want them to.

    • @COBAIN_94
      @COBAIN_94 11 місяців тому +4

      I'm on the same boat bro. I'm living in a different part of Europe but being in the late 20s nowdays it's a curse. Anyway, be strong and hopeful. ❤

  • @susanpeters5392
    @susanpeters5392 11 місяців тому +21

    2 incomes are better than 1
    So at 63 living alone on 1 income
    NOW !! It is so impossible it's the
    high rise of utility bills and food I
    cannot see a way out.

    • @jjefferyworboys8138
      @jjefferyworboys8138 11 місяців тому +1

      If you have a space bedroom, rent it out. You can earn up to £625pm tax free under the "Rent a Room Scheme".

    • @_D1886
      @_D1886 11 місяців тому +8

      Two incomes are better than one of course. But it shouldn't be necessary. You shouldn't *need* to have a working partner just to survive.
      If you work a full time job - any job - you should be able to afford to feed, clothe and independently house yourself without getting into financial stress.
      It's a national scandal that this isn't the case.

    • @mingmingyip19
      @mingmingyip19 11 місяців тому +2

      ​@_D1886 Why? when has it been any different? I was born in the 80s and remember lots of people living much worse than today. And staying with people that they'd rather not just to survive.. that's life. Look across the globe, pretty much the same everywhere, some places worse.

    • @tedcrilly1
      @tedcrilly1 11 місяців тому

      @@_D1886 Humans have lived in shared dwellings since we first dug out a holes in cliff faces. Not saying things are perfect living with others but it sure helps.

    • @christinaedwards5084
      @christinaedwards5084 11 місяців тому

      @@tedcrilly1on condition you haven’t got a mentally deranged tenant living with you.

  • @SubjectiveFunny
    @SubjectiveFunny 11 місяців тому +24

    I was homeless and living in my car with my husky 7 years ago.
    1 year we spent living in a 2007 Ford Ka.
    Maxed out credit card, no parents, no siblings, nobody to ask for help.
    No degree, no college, nothing.
    I worked as a delivery driver for Dominos, whilst i looked for a proper job.
    Took me a bit, but now i have my own place, and I have a job with a company car and £37k per year.
    YOU need to drag yourself out, nobody else can do it for you.

    • @playthegame7445
      @playthegame7445 11 місяців тому +4

      Nice, it looks like u got the message.
      It's seriously beyond me how grown up adults behave like they're owed something by the government.
      Nobody gives an f about u, these days if u don't work to improve your life nobody will

    • @bharath2508
      @bharath2508 11 місяців тому

      Are you from UK?

    • @drago1943
      @drago1943 11 місяців тому +7

      @@playthegame7445 Hang on, most people don't want handouts they just want the government to do the job they was put into power to do. They could do many things to help the people with the cost of living and none of them would require any handout, like sorting the cost of energy and the supermarkets profiteering and so on.

    • @playthegame7445
      @playthegame7445 11 місяців тому

      @@drago1943 Well it doesn't look that way

  • @healing682
    @healing682 11 місяців тому +112

    This is all so depressing. I'm out of the UK and can't even imagine how to survive there today. Last time I visited I was spending over 50 GBP a day on next to nothing. Families need to stick together and pool their resources, budget and plan ahead. I was shocked when a friend told me she earns almost 40k as does her husband. I was shocked that she could barely afford anything for her family, works hard and even keeps an allotment.

    • @jo18533
      @jo18533 11 місяців тому +54

      I'm 29 and single, work full time and can't even afford a shitty 1 bedroom flat in my area. What's the point in even working?

    • @tremblence
      @tremblence 11 місяців тому +1

      Its all by design
      Designed to impoverish native British people, so they are more easily replaced by muslim migrants

    • @Spidey-2002
      @Spidey-2002 11 місяців тому +18

      ​@@jo18533Now that is depressing. What a mess our country is in

    • @QuestForGood
      @QuestForGood 11 місяців тому +19

      I'm having to sleep on my friends couch after getting kicked out by my parents. The average rent price in my area is £1600 a month, which is just too much, despite having a good wage.
      PS: May plan to relocate somewhere outside london.

    • @wmoule
      @wmoule 11 місяців тому +25

      If she earns 40k and is not the only earner in the household then she is wasting money somewhere…

  • @Clare0116
    @Clare0116 11 місяців тому +22

    Please remember that most of the single parents didn't choose to be single parents, their marriage/ partnership broke down, the other parent deserted them❤ and they were the the parent who tried everything to care for their children. Yes, the problems are magnified if you have more than 1 childm. It is another ruthless way of the WEF obeying Gov to reduce the population and keep people in poverty.

    • @jenniferparry8709
      @jenniferparry8709 11 місяців тому +3

      Even if you split up it is still the fathers duty to pay an allowance. Too many don't

    • @kathleenwade7826
      @kathleenwade7826 11 місяців тому

      how right you are@@jenniferparry8709

    • @kathleenwade7826
      @kathleenwade7826 11 місяців тому +2

      fathers should be made to pay for their kids - FULL STOP!

  • @twofarg0ne763
    @twofarg0ne763 11 місяців тому +14

    Welcome to life in the US. I hate seeing this happen in the UK too.

    • @kevoreilly6557
      @kevoreilly6557 10 місяців тому

      It’s far worse on the UK (I’m from UK and live in US and so get to see both)

    • @ChelseaChfy-ex1po
      @ChelseaChfy-ex1po 4 місяці тому

      @kevoreilly6557 Don’t worry, the U.S. will come around.

    • @twofarg0ne763
      @twofarg0ne763 4 місяці тому

      @@ChelseaChfy-ex1poAh, no. The US is not coming around, it's getting worse.

  • @beaulieuc8910
    @beaulieuc8910 11 місяців тому +20

    Having kids is a very expensive hobby. It is not as if you can sell them. Having kids sounds such a money drain.Luckily Having kids is a choice

  • @miriam2909
    @miriam2909 11 місяців тому +13

    I really feel for this lady. Having been a carer for my husband for years before he died and years before I was pension age and unwell myself I was in a pitiful state. Now on an aged pension my health has improved including mental health but I’m still well below the poverty line. I pray nothing breaks that needs replacing and budgeting is a nightmare. 68 and in Australia.

    • @pappuchak8605
      @pappuchak8605 11 місяців тому

      😂😂😂😂😂... You people actually do not know what poverty is!!

    • @pappuchak8605
      @pappuchak8605 8 місяців тому

      @@Inge-99 You people are nail to hair fkn racists!!

  • @smithlenn
    @smithlenn 8 місяців тому +372

    I was advised to diversify my portfolio among several assets such as stocks and bonds since this can protect my portfolio for retirement. I'm seeking to invest $200K across markets but don't know where to start.

    • @latanyaconlontl5849
      @latanyaconlontl5849 8 місяців тому +1

      I thought about investing in the financial market, I heard that people make millions if they know the tricks of the trade, but I lack good knowledge and a strategy to outperform the market and generate good yields. I have $160,000 but it's hard to bite the bullet and do it.

    • @dawsondanny990
      @dawsondanny990 8 місяців тому +1

      This seems like the worst period.Even the markets are very unpredictable.started investing recently when the market prices were a bit high,today i am more than 60% down

    • @rannyorton
      @rannyorton 8 місяців тому +2

      The best course of action if you lack market knowledge is to ask a consultant or invest-ing coach for guidance or assistance. Speaking with a consultant helped me stay afloat in the market and grow my portfolio to about 65% since January, even though I know it sounds obvious or generic. I believe that is the most effective way to enter the business at the moment

    • @dawsondanny990
      @dawsondanny990 8 місяців тому +1

      Fantastic! can u share more details?

    • @rannyorton
      @rannyorton 8 місяців тому +4

      She's known as Julia Hope Marble''. One of the finest portfolio managers in the field.
      She's widely recognized; you should take a look at her work.

  • @beepme911
    @beepme911 11 місяців тому +27

    This is heartbreaking. So sad. Is this what life has become?

    • @_D1886
      @_D1886 11 місяців тому +6

      In Britain, under the Tories, yes.

    • @yofinance1777
      @yofinance1777 11 місяців тому

      LOL always the tories, Brexit too? Nothing to do with Nixon taking us off the gold standard and turning their back on the Bretton Woods act? It's puppets like you who are to blame@@_D1886

  • @Dublinireland5
    @Dublinireland5 11 місяців тому +15

    It's universal credit that has created this the councils must pay 100% of people's rent wherever they live in England or build social housing, the government have allowed investment landlords to take over the rental market the old benefit system worked better....

    • @asher5722
      @asher5722 10 місяців тому

      Get a job and stop leeching off the rest of us. You are the problem.

  • @simpso0ns
    @simpso0ns 9 місяців тому +2

    The only way out is Brexit .
    Imagine all the billions saved for NHS every month and no immigrants either .
    Vote for Brexit , reclaim sovereignty.

  • @fghjjjk
    @fghjjjk 11 місяців тому +9

    The state of the country is becoming disgusting. Being made poorer daily!...

  • @RG-sv4qb
    @RG-sv4qb 11 місяців тому +30

    Its interesting then that if you claim jsa after losing a job, you are basically automatically in very deep poverty

    • @Moscow_Will_Burn
      @Moscow_Will_Burn 11 місяців тому

      People on JSA \ Universal Credit are rolling in money compared to those on ESA disability benefit. ESA never got the £20 per week increase during Covid. Or any increase since. The government said they didn't have the money while feathering their nests with PPE money. FCKING TORY CROOKS.

    • @jasonbaxter3658
      @jasonbaxter3658 11 місяців тому

      most countries you wouldn't get anything though@@Julie-wx2gf

  • @myrskylintu1
    @myrskylintu1 11 місяців тому +8

    It is getting harder now in Finland too, but not that hard. Rents have actually come down a bit recently. I lived in Manchester back in 1994, and it was not that bad. Now it looks really bad in UK.

    • @Jalleur14325
      @Jalleur14325 11 місяців тому

      Finland is a beautiful country.

    • @loadapish
      @loadapish 11 місяців тому +1

      U got a spare room mate?

    • @rackin9594
      @rackin9594 11 місяців тому

      @loadpish I was going to ask the same. I will be visiting there or hoping to live there for 6 months or so. I don't mind splitting the rent. I come from the Caribbean, and I work in Tech too. However, I am doubting it is hard to find accommodation in Finland unlike the UK.

  • @endlessglizzys_.0233
    @endlessglizzys_.0233 11 місяців тому +34

    Taxes in the UK are way too high. The wages do not cover the cost of living.

    • @chrisyoung9653
      @chrisyoung9653 11 місяців тому +4

      This varies drasticly. For example scotlands gets free prescriptions due to their better government

    • @PatIsaac-w7z
      @PatIsaac-w7z 11 місяців тому

      Not better government and it’s not FREE it’s paid for by our tax like everything. If people stopped breeding or over breeding and started working two days a week in a care home then poverty would stop but they don’t want to and pop out their 8th child expecting others to pay for everything. If men worked for their families, if single parents expect a room in both houses for their children, if people lost weight and died at a certain age.
      It’s a pyramid scheme- it all is. It’s slavery from Roman times and the buying and selling of slaves but they don’t pay we do.c

    • @jamessproston2115
      @jamessproston2115 11 місяців тому +3

      I live in Scotland and trust me mate the government isn’t better. 42% tax on over 43k is absolutely rank.

    • @deeannh17
      @deeannh17 11 місяців тому

      We are over taxed by the government.

    • @andrewwalsh2755
      @andrewwalsh2755 11 місяців тому +3

      Now, do people appreciate the true cost of cheap imported labour, chasing gdp growth... while people get poorer?...
      (don't mention Brexit!)

  • @dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984
    @dr.impossibleofcounterpunc1984 11 місяців тому +23

    Seem like it's all about leveling up! Time to deminish the class system and return society to a new modern feudilistic way of life.

  • @venki1349
    @venki1349 11 місяців тому +3

    UK becoming like Eastern Europe. Only difference is Eastern Europe has less immigration than the UK.

  • @Metal05
    @Metal05 11 місяців тому +26

    I need to find £5k a month to survive. Everything gone up, mortgage, electric, oil, diesel, for two vehicles, (before you start, we need two vehicles as we work totally separate industries at different times of the day/week). Food gone up £400 per month. Crazy.

    • @colinb8103
      @colinb8103 11 місяців тому +18

      Who are you feeding the Grenadier Guards

    • @harryharry970
      @harryharry970 11 місяців тому +6

      😂

    • @oddities-whatnot
      @oddities-whatnot 11 місяців тому +14

      Are you expecting sympathy for that ? Sounds like you’re living beyond your means. Do you live in a castle and have a banquet every night ?

    • @SA-ff9uc
      @SA-ff9uc 11 місяців тому

      @@colinb8103 Jimmy nine belly's.

    • @beaulieuc8910
      @beaulieuc8910 11 місяців тому +7

      We have no car and save money by not having one

  • @janiceellis5461
    @janiceellis5461 11 місяців тому +8

    This country's a mess. Some people don't know when their next meal's will be some mothers go without so their children get enough.

  • @eechaze12
    @eechaze12 2 місяці тому +1

    It appears housing crisis is at the root cause. In developed countries we need to rethink housing. Need to invest in smaller and affordable homes and make that a priority. Thats the only way to make housing more affordable

  • @seiwarriors
    @seiwarriors 11 місяців тому +15

    I lived in a house share or in one bed all the time with my single mother in order to cut down on rent

  • @bernierose719
    @bernierose719 11 місяців тому +7

    The strange thing is that every western nation have the same problems !

  • @lucydawson1344
    @lucydawson1344 11 місяців тому +6

    £1600 pcm is insane. Unfortunately it sounds like they’re going to need to move out of Surrey but even here in Nottinghamshire you’re looking at about £1000 per month rent for a 2 or 3 bed house. Maybe £800 if it’s a bad/poorer area

  • @JugglinJellyTake01
    @JugglinJellyTake01 11 місяців тому +26

    The government needs to impose a rent freeze , an end to no fault evictions, serious increase in benefits and minimum wage, and higher tax in the top income earners. It then needs to close tax loopholes for corporations and the wealthy and start building social housing on a large scale. There is much land locked up by land banking that should be procured at reduced rates in the same way people's homes were procured by HS2.

    • @harryharry970
      @harryharry970 11 місяців тому

      Please no

    • @Nikolay061
      @Nikolay061 11 місяців тому +3

      Spot on. Although, that amounts to a major shift of power to the working class. No government will allow that. We have to find a way to force it.

    • @stum7396
      @stum7396 11 місяців тому +1

      Would you folks join a real fight to raise the minimum wage and do the rest?

    • @davidwasilewski
      @davidwasilewski 11 місяців тому +6

      Rent freezes will just accelerate the landlord sell off. Are you going to freeze interest rates too? The only real answer is a massive house building programme.

    • @healing682
      @healing682 11 місяців тому +2

      If they stopped funding wars and foreign aid first that would already make a big difference.