Più britannici che mai lottano per sbarcare il lunario, avverte
https://news.sky.com/story/more-britons-than-ever-struggling-to-make-ends-meet-report-warns-13388026
di topotaul
Più britannici che mai lottano per sbarcare il lunario, avverte
https://news.sky.com/story/more-britons-than-ever-struggling-to-make-ends-meet-report-warns-13388026
di topotaul
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This story has been posted for something like 20 years.i can’t remember when families weren’t struggling.
People rolled the dice with brexit, then Boris and now Labour. If Labour don’t make real progress in improving ordinary lives then people will roll the dice with Reform next.
Food price high
Utilities high
Rent mortgage on inflated housing high
Fuel price high
I’m feeling the pinch and we do well comparatively well. Also, I’ve been asked to lend friends /neighbours money about 6 times this year – this never used to happen.
I’ve been working on a little side project, solo, in spare time.
Hoping to have it ready for r/Unitedkingdom in a couple of weeks.
What if I told you that a tiered wealth tax which will only affect the top 10% of the most wealthy individuals and 50mln+ corporations, at rates of 0.5-3% could be allocated to a new national sovereign wealth fund focused on improving education, the NHS, public transport, nationalisation of water gas and leccy, with young adult one-time £10k grants as well as yearly citizen dividends, growing SMEs, improving mental health, improving apprenticeships, reducing homelessness, and all at the same time increasing GDP, foreign investments, lowering bills and costs of living with results seen in as little as 3 years.
AS WELL AS INCREASING LONG TERM PEOFITS FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED UHNI AND CORPOS.
This country can 100% fix a lot of the problems, without affecting the common people. It just doesn’t.
For short term profit.
When I was in my early 20s, so 12-14 years ago- almost everyone I knew was going a third in or halves in on alright house shares near city centres, would go out 6 or so times a month for full blown nights out, save for an annual abroad holiday, have new clothes, be able to eat well…
And this was on working 35 hours a week in graduate/minimum wage/entry level jobs. You could do this as a Morrisons worker at 21 back then.
That was the early 20s culture. Now those jobs would barely cover the rent share plus bills.
And it’ll get worse if the fuckwits of this country continue to vote for Reform.
It doesn’t matter who is in government. They all have a worsening ratio of working : not working people in the country.
22% of adults under the age of 65 are not working.
19% of the adult population have retired.
Since 1980, job seekers allowance, income support, disability benefits and the state pension have all risen with respect to the average wage for a worker.
Many workers have not seen a wage rise that matches inflation.
As a result, the lowest paid get inflation rises, the middle is squeezed by lower pay rises and higher taxation and benefits get closer to the average pay.
In the last few years my weekly shop has gone from £30 to nearly £50. I’ve bought approx the same basket the entire time.
15 years of tories gutting the economy for personal gain and you reckon people were “rolling the dice” with a sensible Labour govt? The problem is that too much of the population is addicted to social media and just read headlines or stick with entertainment outlets such as gb”news” for their information.
Look at labours disability benefit changes. People got all mad saying labour are cutting benefits (while voting for tories because they wanted to cut benefits, lol hypocracy), but didn’t read what labour actually changed.
Labour are making changes and improvements, but after 15 years of intentional sabotage, you can’t expect a utopia overnight.
In other news: “WORK HARDER, SCUM”, says tough PM Starmer to workshy layabouts who only do a 50 hour week or don’t have any arms.
The only thing not increasing anywhere close to inflation in the last 10 years are above minimum wage salaries. And even if your salary did increase, the lack of movement with the income tax brackets will always leave you behind the cost of living.
Reform is incredibly close to leading this country, and people above the breadline don’t seem to understand this undercurrent of unrest. The news doesn’t talk about it enough because even the outlets don’t understand the feelings of the people who are voting reform.
If they get in, things won’t get any better. Its the despair of there being no clear good choice in this country that is forcing people to act drastically. We aren’t collected in any way shape or form.
Why isn’t there a minimum allowance for utilities?
Like the tax free allowance, based on people registered at the property, with their national insurance number, a quantity of water in litres free, a quantity of gas and electricity free. Bare minimum that wouldn’t include any electrical appliances above those needed for survival, and enough water for bathing and drinking, not filling hot tubs, swimming pools, or using the hose pipe.
At least then they could justify cutting benefits and fuel payments if the cost is knocked off the bill to begin with. Also stops the money being used for other things, for example gambling and/or booze, then the claimant saying they can’t afford their utilities.
Actually that’s impossible we’ve had ridiculously high levels of migration therefore we should be ridiculously rich!!!
It’s because we let the rich hoard all the wealth. I don’t mean the people with very good salaries I mean the super super rich who don’t work and own a load of stuff that makes them money. We don’t tax the very top enough.
Yup, I work 9 hour days, start at 5 am, full time and can not afford new clothes, I wear my work gear at the weekend and pretend I have been working. I am 50, single. I have to check the reduced section at supermarkets most days and they decide what I eat, that or just a sandwich. And I am not on minimum wage. I haven’t had a boiler for three years, literally. No heating in winter, the only hot water is because of my small electric shower, if it wasn’t for that, I might as well bathe in the river. Again, I work full time, have NO social life, work, home, sit there then go to work again. No Netflix, no nothing. I hate this country.
Hmm. We should probably do tax cuts for the rich about it. (I’m trying to get into government).
^(/s)
There is a lot of wastage in projects. How can we spend billions on hs2 without anything actually being built?
How can it cost £300,000,000 to build a new road, the Thames crossing?
Why has Thames water been so badly run that they need a £3,000,000,000 bail out using tax payer money?
The shares the government bought off the banks using tax payer money for £45,000,000,000 were sold back to the banks at a massive loss.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. If we actually invested this money wisely into education, police, healthcare, subsidies etc there wouldn’t be as many people struggling.
But in real terms education funding is being cut, police services are cut. Isn’t Birmingham literally a dung heap because there’s no one collecting the rubbish? Surely rather than wasting billions on giving minister and their friends contracts for useless PPE, we could have given bin men the pay rise they deserve for decades?
Gov needs to stop creating inflation by increasing the money supply
It’s insane how everything from groceries to energy bills feels like a never-ending squeeze, and yet wages just aren’t keeping up. At this point, it doesn’t matter which party’s in charge, if things don’t improve soon, people are going to get desperate. We need real solutions, not just another round of political musical chairs.
8 people own more wealth than 50% of the worlds population.
There, solved the problem.
I switched jobs a few years and got a big pay rise that I was ecstatic about.
Cost increases in, well, everything has more or less eaten most of it up.
Some of it is a bit self inflicted as I’m now able to pay a lot more into my pension than I was previously, but I have to do that to have any chance of having a comfortable retirement (and eventually pay for care home costs one day).
It feels like every time I make any real progress in life something out of my control kicks me in the testicles.
And I’m saying this as someone who can still keep paying the bills, people less fortunate than me are completely screwed.
All to do with debt expansion. Funding anything they dream up to keep the propping going. One day it will break apart and then we will see what struggling really means
Whatever the less well off come to suffer, the wealthy will always thrive.
Why, perhaps because those we elect are wealthy to always have more interest in serving themselves.