“Non posso permettermi di accendere il forno”: 7,4 milioni di famiglie faticano ad acquistare beni di prima necessità
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglj9685nj0o
di WillingHome9072
“Non posso permettermi di accendere il forno”: 7,4 milioni di famiglie faticano ad acquistare beni di prima necessità
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cglj9685nj0o
di WillingHome9072
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A wealth tax will do nothing to help this situation, that is what people keep telling me anyway
£50 a week in petrol is a 300+ miles per week – does she need to drive that much as retired person? Why can’t she downsize into a smaller house if it’s just her? It seems like there are things here that don’t quite add up
Sorry lady, the 1% are worth more than you and the other 7.4m people
She spends £200 a month on petrol and nobody is saying anything. I don’t get how the older generation, if they didn’t have Netflix, phones, new trainers, no takeaways or foreign holidays, don’t have any savings.
Zoe can’t afford food but all good on the tox and lip filler!
Elaine if she’s spending £50 per week on petrol, giving other people lifts, and saying she can only afford toast – stop giving people lifts, save £40 per week…buy food.
“I can’t afford groceries!” says person living alone in £1m fully paid-off 4 bed house they bought in 1982 for £23,000.
1. Cut all funding for migrants in the UK
2. Stop immigration from countries which are deemed to not be net contributors to the UK economy
3. Cut corporate tax below EU levels, and invite investment and global European offices to be opened in UK, and offer 5 year of no corporate tax if they hire a certain amount of British citizens for jobs
Per the article, she lives somewhere rural, the petrol is probably being used to take her to the shops and back.
I can believe that a woman would be unprepared for retirement. When a person expects their husband or partner to be the owner of that job, things change. They did unpaid labour for years and years, thinking everything should be covered. Then husband dies. They discovered there was no safety net. It’s a complete tragedy that is remarkable and common.
From experience people that live like this and complain while generally looking at this life style love to live frugaly and moan while having 1m in assets and more than that in portfolio.
As others have said, £50 a week on petrol whilst not turning the oven on is very weird. Almost as weird as the number of national news stories Elaine has been in over recent years :
[https://onecall24.co.uk/ministers-in-denial-over-state-of-social-care-funding-say-mps/](https://onecall24.co.uk/ministers-in-denial-over-state-of-social-care-funding-say-mps/)
[https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1999593/pensioner-forced-keep-heating-winter-fuel-labour](https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1999593/pensioner-forced-keep-heating-winter-fuel-labour)
[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/desperate-wife-caring-dying-husband-24080318.amp](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/desperate-wife-caring-dying-husband-24080318.amp)
[https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1083441/scandal-health-people-die-waiting-for-carer-vulnerable/amp](https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1083441/scandal-health-people-die-waiting-for-carer-vulnerable/amp)
[https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/state-pension-doesnt-cover-cost-leaking-roof-lost-hope-3146901?srsltid=AfmBOoogK8nAUhNX0veE8JhBe_u_CowEecZ8cnmKFCnurt7-bIjavosr](https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/pensions-and-retirement/state-pension-doesnt-cover-cost-leaking-roof-lost-hope-3146901?srsltid=AfmBOoogK8nAUhNX0veE8JhBe_u_CowEecZ8cnmKFCnurt7-bIjavosr)
[https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-8247071/amp/Stories-reveal-plight-vulnerable-people-stranded-homes.html](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-8247071/amp/Stories-reveal-plight-vulnerable-people-stranded-homes.html)
[https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/saving-and-banking/what-people-uk-want-budget-3317494?srsltid=AfmBOopCrWIav0JO-85BaBCYriohnCUm4Wz6974VeWdR-M83eLDY1KgF](https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/money/saving-and-banking/what-people-uk-want-budget-3317494?srsltid=AfmBOopCrWIav0JO-85BaBCYriohnCUm4Wz6974VeWdR-M83eLDY1KgF)
I know it’s rude, but I really don’t believe old people when they tell me this now. I hear my mother’s friends talk about how they can’t afford to wash the dishes and then spend thousands having their bathrooms refitted.
I know there’s shit situations and I’ve seen real struggling, but I also see rich old women talking about free toast and coffee at the coffee morning as if they were broke.
Bored of hearing about this entitled most privileged generations woe is me bullshit, you lived in the best job market, housing market, stock market, you had final salary pensions the lot if you’ve no money now, I don’t care
*”I spend about £50 a week on petrol, which is more than my food bill.” Elaine often gives lifts to others in her village who don’t have transport, only to find herself unable to shop alongside them.*
Either she should ask for money towards the petrol, or stop giving so many lifts.
She’s clearly a kind soul but sounds like she’s lighting herself on fire to keep others warm.
The article is contradictory in places- £50 on petrol per week but can’t put her oven on.
But never mind, I’m sure the 0% VAT for 6 months, saving 80p per week on average, will give her ‘breathing room’
>Elaine often gives lifts to others in her village who don’t have transport, only to find herself unable to shop alongside them.
“I’ve got one friend who buys clothes and I sit outside the shop because I can’t afford to go in,” she says. “I can’t remember the last time I treated myself.”
Elaine needs to get better friends
>Elaine Yates, 77, says she can’t remember the last time she used her oven to cook a hot meal.
Do what everyone else does and use an air fryer, it’s basically a mini oven that’s better for your energy bill and the environment.
lol according to https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-8247071/amp/Stories-reveal-plight-vulnerable-people-stranded-homes.html she lives in Irchester. Which is right next to Wellingborough and Rushden. All three are very well served by public transport.
She wants to save money? Get rid of that car and start using the very, very cheap public transport.
Considering how many articles she’s in, I’m of the opinion that there’s something weird going on.
has she tried turning the knobs? that’s what i do and it turns on xxxx
Having worked in insolvency, I’m always cynical with these sob stories but why do they pick such weird examples?
If she is happy to disclose those petrol costs, there is no doubt even more extravagant waste if you pulled her bank statements.