@@anonomous8719 Bullshit. Removing people from welfare subsidies puts the wage cost correctly on the employer removing it from the treasury burden on taxpayers. If the employer can't be competitive while paying a non poverty wage they should probably not be in business. Capitalism, you either accept it or it's not capitalism it's oligarchy. The poor pay and the rich take, is that what you want? 'cause that's what'll happen 🤣
Unfortunately some people will still think hard work actually works. It doesn't its the biggest myth of all time. Just remember if you work hard enough you will earn yourself a early death whilst the people at the top will replace you before your body is cold.
@@fordprefect4843 the only reason anyone has a job working for anyone else is to make money for the people above them. You can only laugh at the world we live in. I don't tend to take it that seriously and just enjoy the show that is life. Its hilarious if you pay attention to certain things.
@@mrpeterson1481 A big part of realising reality is ego. Truth is success is based on luck not hard work. However getting people to acknowledge this is difficult as we are conditioned to belive that we need to achieve things through hard work rather than luck.
It so saddens me when I hear poor people saying things like the politicians need to do this or that. The reality of the situation is that the politicians could give a toss about people's plights. In fact, they want people in poverty and suffering. Governments have endless pits of money when they need it, poverty could be eradicated overnight. But poverty is one mechanism of government control. When we are in poverty we are dependent on benefits and government handouts, we are not independent. We are less free with no disposable income, travel is restricted, options are restricted, and health is compromised. When we are dependent we look to the government and conform in order to have benefits. There is little opportunity or aspiration when people are trapped at home and in debt.
Agreed. In such circumstances people are just consumers and taxpayers ( everybody pays tax directly or indirectly ). The answer for such communities is small businesses and initiatives which help people to get themselves out of poverty. And, dare I say it, get Britain self sufficient in energy including coal if necessary.
Everyone has the ability of economic mobility. Learn a technical skill in demand become useful for a company. Everyone just wants a handout. If you rely on the government for financial support don't be surprised when your freedoms dissappear
I am sickened by what i’m seeing it is dreadful that the world’s 6 richest country is doing to these families. How do they sleep at night when there are families and the elderly suffering like this its beyond a joke. We all need to come together and support each other. Sending my love and prayers to all that are struggling 🙏💙
Louise Bourne. We are nowhere near the sixth richest country I the world, we are either the sixth or seventh largest economy, but of course the economy includes debt, and it's the two trillion debt that makes our economy large.
Chinese Labour is cheaper. Communities don't need hand outs. They need a hand up. Job security, potential for careers. Also, Westminster will never allow wales to thrive. Its a reminder of the true history of this little island.
@@middleageddadthat was true till Brexit came along and racist nationalist populism conned the poor. Most boomers vote Tory which dictates policy, this lecture is interesting listening: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZuXzvjBYW8A.html
but WHY do people pop out THREE children (at 23!!!) if you re already struggling financially???! The children are very small, so they were already struggling as a couple and not financially secure when deciding to go off birth control....One child can happen "by accident" but THREE tells me they were deliberately planned! This ZERO self-accountability always baffles me....
That's a problem poor people in the US face, living in the old uninsulated, inefficient buildings. Their energy bills are twice as high as newer homes which are twice as big.
MPs get their energy bills subsidised. MPs voted to increase the price cap. Then they create a dodgy loan on us. Fossil energy firms increased their payouts to shareholders this year, that can only happen if profits increased.
And supplies of fossil fuels are reduced forcing the price up while closing coal fired power stations across the world .It is a win win situation for Big Oil.
@@Marvin-dg8vj it's a bigger win for renewables supplying electricity, 0 marginal costs for production and getting the same money per MWh as gas powered turbines. Windfall profits which should in turn be invested in new production capacity. Nobody seems to critique them earning (more!) than the fossil fuel companies we still rely on.
I grew up in poverty in the 90s. It was only as an adult did I realise how poor we were. Debt collectors were always knocking on the door. Clothes were all hand-me-downs. Furniture was rubbish-picked. No electricity. Cold all the time. It’s very easy to become trapped in a cycle of debt. My mum would take out credit cards to pay off other cards. Poverty in this country isn’t new. What is new is the total disregard of a government that puts ideology above reality. There can be no levelling up if there no money to pay for it. Meanwhile they steal billions in public money for dodgy contracts to their mates and then increase taxes by record amounts to refill the coffers. We need to get rid if these Tory criminals once and for all.
My dad also grew up in abject poverty in the 60s. He lived in social housing that was horrendous. There were families in the estate who couldn't afford to feed their kids and lived on the goodwill of small food retailers. This was under a socialist government. A PM who advocated the working class. But didn't give a toss. Both Tory and Labour are the same. Shame on them.
The immediate response from some people is that these people need to get a job and stop being lazy etc etc. I used to work full time and money was good and then I became very unwell and ended up being left disabled and unable to work and I had been working since I was 15 years old. Everyone's circumstances can change at any time and for any reason. People that judge others who are in council estates or are unable to work are so narrow minded and using stereotypes. Everyone is struggling at the moment, even working people who have mortgages. Covid has impacted the economy and now we are all paying the price. Everyone so damn quick to judge others and should really get their facts straight or perhaps look in a mirror before judging someone else. I feel sorry for anyone suffering financially right now.
I'm working and thankfully not in the red and private renting. I'm going month by month. If it gets any higher I will have to stop using things. That I would need to have or work hard for. Then what is the point of working? What's the point if people working are struggling? Every benefit and income needs to change to meet the costs. It won't. I know it won't. Get a job sounds so stupid.
Absolutely agree, you're spot on. But of course the government won't help as much as they need to, little bits here and there thinking one-off payments help with the heating costs, what about next year & following years, what do we do then?.
Energy company Shell recorded their best quarterly profit in eight years. £4.7 billion worth of profit was made by the company in the final quarter of 2021 alone. For the whole year, they made an incredible £14.2 billion in profit, compared to £3.57 billion the year before.
Was that government money? At least have a link to the story before spouting nonsense. Aren't you upset about government waste/fraud? Tory trolls are shite at trolling 🤣
@@vladimirputin4822 Yes - The Welsh Government set up a multi-million pound fund to compensate professional sports clubs when they banned spectators over christmas. I'm not a tory - I'm a green voter.
Don’t blame Boris for everything we have our own talking shop in Cardiff voted in 20odd years back welsh labour promised to change things - have they ??? Only yesterday Drakeford promised care worker £9-98 living wage the superstores pay ,more than that stacking shelves.Philw
@@margaretjanewatkins540 The Tory's don't give money to Labour areas unless they plan to take with the other hand. It might make Labour look good if they have the resources to execute what they want to.
@@PsilentMusicUK FYI the tories do send money to wales and its up to the welsh gov't how its spent, its not the tories fault that dickford cant prioritize where the money goes, all labour do is waste it. and im from wales ta
Any government would be in the same situation given the pandemic and Brexit. The nation was lied to about Brexit. This is coming at a huge cost to families like this. It is what it is. Good luck leaving the EU. Thing will only get worse.
I am in the US and it’s truly sad that this is happening all around the world! Senior citizens, the disabled, and those who are on a fixed income are getting it far worse. This is truly sad!!!!
I'm in full time work and I struggle hyking fuel prices from company's who make millions in profit every year but won't foot the bill when oil prices sky rocket
You called that poor and destitute?? Wait till you see the GENUINE poverty in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, many parts of Africa and South America and Southeast Asia you European British and EU strawberry spoilt brats.
The guy is 23, not working, living on benefits, and fat as a house. Tell me at what point I am supposed to feel sorry for him. I feel sorry for myself because my taxes are going to pay for that lazy pigs lifestyle. That goes for 50% of this entire country.
@@IBTU people are getting weak. They can go out into the forest, chop wood, hunt deer and fish. Do it all the time in Kentucky. Nothing like a good wood fire and deer stew.
@@joetrp-3553 my partner is half Welsh, nicest person, salt of the earth grounded person you guys dont say much but are super. honestly, heating is a basic, is horrible whats happening. MY BEST to you !!! fist✊✊✊
I visited Wales back in 2012, it's a magical, fairy tale-like land. People were so homely and hospitable! My heart goes out to my Welsh friends from Greece 🌹💓🇬🇷
While I agree there is a lot of hardship today, my 2 children were born in 1981 and 1984 and we struggled, maybe because I decided to give up work and look after them. I bought clothes in sales one year that would fit them in the following years. I made loads of their clothes when they were young enough to be able to get away it and not be made fun of. I would never borrow £500 to cover Christmas. One particular year I had to tell our families that we could only afford to buy for our children and not other family members. I allowed my children to pick something to the value of £30 each from a mail order catalogue and even today I will not go into debt for Christmas even though we are much better off now, but only because I have had to be frugal most of my married life. When we got married in 1977 we bought a new bed and a TV. We borrowed 2 fireside chairs off my parents until we could save up for a new suite. That suite lasted us for years, and years, then I had it recovered rather than buy a new one. I ended up giving it my Daughter until she could afford to buy one and I was ashamed at how terrible it looked, but at least it was something to sit on. All the carpets had been left by the previous owner and were not the best. We started off with a car which we had to let go when we couldn't afford the repair bills, tax and insurance. I did my shopping once a fortnight and was lucky to get a taxi to take me home for £2. Sometimes my neighbour would take me. Living so high up on the Penrhys estate must be extra cold. My energy payments have gone up by £80 a month, I'm hoping we have a lovely long summer to offset the winter.
People in debt struggling before are struggling more due to inflation printing more money during the pandemic has helped make our money more worth less.
The penrhys estate is high on top of a mountain in the Rhondda valley and should have been demolished decades ago, these people are being housed in very poor condition houses and I have the deepest sympathies for them. I used to deliver meat to Woody's shop on the estate in the early 2000s and it was bad up there then so it must be really bad up there now.
@@cockayne747 I'm from Bristol but I live in Oldham .I'm like peace and quiet but you don't get that in Oldham it full of chaves that sell drugs and carry knifes and the town is racist it's a dump .
Lol no it's not. I moved to Ireland 2 years ago, try living there if you think the cost of living is expensive in the UK. Glad I packed up and left that dump.
I was slightly stunned when the guy said that all the furniture and the TV was on hire purchase. For 20 years I only had second hand furniture and no TV because it was too expensive to have these things new. I'm not unsympathetic, but I do wonder how he budgets for such things.
You nasty condescending little s***if you buy electrical items from a charity shop what happens if they blow app and a lot of charity shops don't sell electrical items because they are dangerous and yet people like you comment about things you probably don't know anything about I do because I've been there
Where are the jobs?? Why are young lads on benefits?? It's just plain wrong when folk can't get jobs and are left watching TV all day. When young couples cannot find employment. Create jobs, invest in communities, give people back their pride.
This was a community obviously built around an industry which had now gone. It’s a community removed from a major city. You can’t jump on the motorway to get anywhere with better prospects so in reality what is it’s purpose….? It’s a real difficult quest to answer because you could inject so much money in these communities but the fact is there is no opportunity there.
Lot of people that live here haven't been to the next valley, never mind Cardiff or Swansea.. but its a ludicrous situation. A community on top of a mountain where a wind farm could be installed and provide nearly free energy, essentially, to the residents. Where is the innovation ?! We need a Elon Musk in Wales to provide solutions and he would find them
I'm from Wales a small town, I eventually left, I miss it a lot but I've done well in Australia. Its really sad to see the poverty but it was poor when I grew up in the 70s 80s and 90s and still is, and it's because they're isn't any local industry or prospects.
The first couple with the 3 children will be claiming a minimum of £600 a week in benefits so how can they claim to be struggling? Why are they buying furniture on HP when they could be getting it off gumtree, market place etc and have great quality things at an affordable price? Yesterday I bought a second hand hotpoint condenser tumble dryer that cost just £50. Some people are just silly with money no matter how much or how little they have.
@@cobraunit9679 Their excessive profits are not being made through hard work or excessive skill. They are capitalizing on the very high price of fuel that is putting families into extreme debt and forcing families to choose between heating and eating. They are capitalizing on the MISERY of circumstance. The excessive profits, therefore, should be immediately redistributed (via a windfall tax) among the people whose misery they have been levied from.
@@lellyparker Fuel prices are going to get worse and worse due to the switch to "green energy". The oil and gas sector is freefalling due to workers refusing to get retrained. Me and most people i worked with don't wont in the oil and gas sector anymore. So I don't blame oil companies milking profits before they give up and leave all together.
@@joannekelly5132 Good business planning means you put away savings in good times (almost always) for the bad times. But we're not talking about that. We are talking about the shareholders taking billions in profits for their private bank accounts. I don't see any of them paying money back into the company when the company makes a loss. Usually they go to the government for a handout of taxpayer's money. Socialism for the rich.
Their are charity's attached to energy providers that can pay off up to 90 per cent of energy arrears. If you have a support worker, health visitor or are with a social housing provider. Please reach out to them as many housing associations now have welfare teams attached to them, as well as the energy company you are with. Water rates are set to rise in April too. Again, water rebates can be claimed either through the water company in your area or through your housing associations. I hope this information helps. We all need to help each other in these difficult times ahead.
Would be beneficial if the community made a community garden and grow their own vegetables. Looking at the aerial view they have enough land around their homes.
It's really cold they said, so maybe in the summer. Maybe they could build a small green house out of old windows. /shrug probably need a permit for all of it.
Exactly community goes a long way. I live in nz we have a community pantry that gets a huge dump of fresh food daily from the food Forrest and bakery in town and the food just goes. That’s helps people. Electricity well you can get up solar here which helps.
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It is possible to produce superior performance provided you do something different from the majority. However most of us tend to pay more attention to the shiniest position in the market to the cost of proper diversification.
@@emm_arr How am I selfish, I'm not the one having 3 kids when the world is overpopulated and the worst thing you can do for the environment is have a child. Have 2 kids that's more than enough.
I feel sorry for anyone who struggles with debt. However some people don’t think! They have large families with absolutely no way of supporting them and rely on handouts and income support from working families …. If I couldn’t afford fuel I wouldn’t buy a v8.
That’s an incredibly general rule to apply to a very nuanced situation. Say one of them had kids but got laid off by some completely unforeseen global situation and can no longer afford them? Or maybe they had poor sexual education (you know, the poor standard that’s commonly linked with poor areas) or weren’t taught how to budget properly? Just remember, quite a few people (admittedly mainly the old and infirm, but still people) will die from these price hikes on gas.
@@harpsailorharp6716gg before calling others stupid you may want to learn to string a coherent sentence together. Other than that, yes, they might be stupid. Does that means they deserve to freeze to death in their own homes or that they have to choose between keeping the house above literal freezing temperature and feeding their children? If you answer yes to that, you’re a psychopath.
@@danieljames6044 Hi Daniel thank you for correcting me on my spelling and Punctuation. Please read my initial response. I Genuinely do have sympathy for anyone who’s struggling financially. would you not least agree that having three or more children is a financial burden that we all need to think seriously about before we decide on the size of ones family. Personally I believe we can equip, and give our offspring the best start in life by being sensible adults… I have a question for you! I may be showing my age but I remember being young and my parents wouldn’t buy anything on the never never. They saved and made the purchase through sacrifice. We live in a throwaway society now where it’s let’s get it now We will worry about it later. Do you think families that are financially struggling are in the best position to enlarge the family? Again apologies for my poor grammar…. Ps. I never called anyone stupid!
@@harpsailorharp6716gg Europeans countries have already low birthrate that they had to import refugees and pay refugees and immigrants for their kids. So it’s better for Europe to work on helping poor europeans than paying non europeans to live there.
I live in Penrhys, there are a lot of people needing support during these last 2 years. Llanfair Church has been helping people with food bank, toy bank (over Christmas) and children clothes.
family from pontypridd, moved to arizona decades ago, for all that i have learned of the cultural disparities travelling the globe, if my word is worth anything, i'd say sharpen a stick and put as many masons on it as possible, start with ol john boy thar.
I am so sorry, but as a child I had very little, but we made do as best as we could. I am talking about mid 70's. To feel the need to borrow £500 for Christmas and buy stuff on hire purchase is insane. They really need to get their priorities in order!
When the UK was the "sick man of Europe", yeah I remember it too, it was shite. brexturds/tory supporters have taken the country back there to a point where it's shite now too, thing is back then there was the EU to trade and cross invest with.....now what will little britain do? Sell what's left is my guess. Well done on destroying yourselves.
Lot's of folks are struggling we tend to forget about middle earners who can't get any help whatsoever and shoulder the burden of tax and national insurance plus costs of getting to and from work those that earn 25k a year who are barely better off than those on benefits unfortunately politicians and the wealthy ain't bothered
People who are struggling love to have kids. If you start to struggle after you had kids, then there is nothing you can do, but also have no more. But having kids when you know you are struggling is even cruel to the kids.
Yeah they voted for brexit and the blonde serial liar. Not sure they knew what brexit was, but they certainly knew that the blonde serial liar was a serial liar
It's so sad watching it. There's many places across country put in similar, dramatic situation. 2022 UK and very little has been done to improve peoples basic needs.
@@peterlangbridge4286 I was just being kind. It's been evidenced that the Welsh voted predominantly for brexit/tory. Lol, the turkies that voted for Xmas.. tbh, good, f.. em.. they voted to f.. me over, they hate the 'metropolitain elite/working class, couldn't care less if they all starve to de..h
@@stoufer2000 you can't spell Turkey and make assumptions about people you do not know. I thought Remainers were smarter than that, you need to man up.
When are people going to take responsability for their actions. If you cannot afford 3 children then you should not have them. The assumption that you are entitled to a certain style of life is delusional at best and stupid at worst. I would imagine they have not given any thought to what their children will be doing for a job when they get older.
Myself and my family were in this situation, we fell into debt while my son was on chemo and we went from supporting us as a family unit into a split family making money stretch further, we were and still are in debt, its not for everyone but the best thing we did was take up an Iva, what we were struggling to pay a month on one bill now covers the payments on all of them, some of our debts were also written off, yes it affects your credit score and no we can no longer get credit but I see it as a good thing.
I'm on my 5yr of a debt relief order because I had my DLA stopped for a year. It had changed to pip and they wouldn't assess me properly. I had to go to court for them to give me the money. But now I'm being reassessed again. The government love hassling the poor and disabled.
When i was his age 25 years ago, i lived in an almost identical building in Falmouth with my gf. I had no problem working part time and small student loan to live well. ( No kids mind). Its terrible how hard things have gotten for poor people.
@@theoilandgasresourceportal2132 Why do you think it suits the left. The left had a planned extensive house building programme in their last manifesto. The electorate was pretty well convinced by tory media that the country could not afford this.
@@adambrickley1119 the left feed off racial and economic division. Turning the green belt and farmland into housing estates will not solve this problem. I bet you'll be opposing planning applications near where you live
It's covid measures, not brexit. Inflation is an international phenomenon. Look at the Euro area countries and the US, then ask yourself if this is also due to Brexit.
I was raised in a council house in a Northumberland pit village, average secondary modern education, worked all my life, never taken benefits and I now live in my 4 bed pool home in Florida. I don't say this to impress, but to impress upon those willing to listen and not to rely on government to fix everything, anything is possible.
Gosh what's wrong with this world, it's looks globally around world life everywhere getting more and more expensive, sky high, prices go up, house market increasingly raising everywhere, it's starting getting unaffordable live everywhere. It's time for revolution.
3 children under 10. Children are an expensive conscious decision. I’m not excusing the cost of living rises but some people will always have problems due to their life choices.
I think the point you are missing is that people often have children and become poor later, its not as simple as you think. For instance if the main breadwinner has a well paid job then loses it. Outgoings are much more than they were say in the 70s, 80s etc, energy fir example can make up for 40% of some peoples outgoings.
The 2 most important laws of social development that Marx discovered in his scientific enquiry into capitalism were " the tendency for wealth to accumulate at one pole and for poverty and misery to accumulate at the other". His 2nd law was for "the general rate of profit to fall" . Thus the tendency therefore for finance capital to dominate economic and social life and for the irresistible rise of credit and thus debt. These very 2 laws are manifest in the present decay of world capitalism. On the one hand the disgusting social inequality that has post 2008 risen to new heights. Where billionaires have increased their combined wealth by $2 trillion during the Pandemic , whilst the misery we see ' here in Wales' has become common place and unrelenting as inflation wreaks havoc . All this in a world where post the 2008 banking crisis the combined level of world debt has hit staggering heights. In the US alone it now stands at $30 trillion. However as humanity toboggans towards war and irreversible climate change , the science that explains this trajectory is still treated as if it is a pariah . Given the 'silent treatment' to make it look like it doesn't even exist. Yet today it haunts the bourgeoisie as did the ghosts of Xmas past haunt Scrouge. No doubt you will delete this as well Channel4.
Except the communist solution that I suppose from your remarks you support/propose is FAR FAR FAR worse than the current corrupted capitalist system. Under communism 1) the poor are much poorer than under capitalism, 2) inequality is much higher, given the authoritarians in charge of the system inevitably plunder the nations wealth. Also 3) communism requires the eradication of freedom to enjoy the fruits of your own labour and sovereignty over your own property... and inevitably the eradication of democracy, freedom or speech etc... What we need is a mixed economy; capitalism as much as possible but also good public services where the market fails to adequately provide, and a reasonable social safety net to protect the needy, unlucky, without dissincentivicing productive work. The capitalism aspect of the economy should be meritocratic, where more productive people are incentived to produce/innovate and enrich their fellow man by the prospect of wealth accumulation... corruption (where people acquire unearned wealth) needs to be completely eradicated Socialist/communist sympathisers like I suppose you are tend to think corruption is just a capitalism issue... could not be further from the truth... its a HUMAN issue. Every economic system ever has been plagued by it. Modern Liberal democracies in the west have done a better job eradicating it than any of your favourite communist/socialist nations ever did
It's a "paraih" because Marxist utopianism resulted in 100 million deaths. Marxism always leads to totalitarianism, collectivization and some of the most barbaric barbarism the world has ever seen and should be outright ostracized from society in the same way Nazism was.
Marx also predicted that poor people would one day realise that they were cash cows for the rich and powerful and rise up once they’d had enough, unfortunately he was wrong. Aldous Huxley had a better understanding of the down-trodden human psyche.
this hits home, it really is a kick in the teeth, many of us survived 2008 recession to work many years just to get out of the massive hole, we have basically gone back to how we were in 2008 and whats worse is the bills have gone past what we can afford, we have also turned of all heating in the house, only hot water is turned on when needing shower for the kids me and the misses use a bucket and water to save on water and energy, not to mention my wife cuts my hair now just to keep above having some money for emergencies, at last week was a big shock when both our accounts where overdrawn and i had to for the 1st time as friends if they could lend me some money. and i feel worthless as its as though the last 12 years have just gone up in smoke within 2 years. i came to this country to make a better living for me and my family but its just been uncertainity after uncertainity with the goverment and the economy.
Amazing how this government can send billions in aid abroad and most recently to the Ukrain but refuses to help its own people. I always believed that charity begins at home, seems I was wrong. I pray for the Welsh people and the rest of us Brits struggling to keep warm and eat, these are basic necessities. 🙏🙏🙏
they hope that by allowing all these people into the UK that they will work .my answer to that is WORK WHERE ,soon,there won't be any jobs .at all .because businesses cannot afford to keep open , this government needs to stop spending on other people and look after their own people first .
Social housing providers make such a big deal about insulating roofs but they ignore the fact that the windows are thrown in with wide open chasms hidden behind window sills and the window seals are always perished.
Fix it yourself it's a five minute job. Seems these people who live in council houses can't flush the toilet without ringing the council up for help...
@@MrTuxy Unfortunately, they did! Check the data, the majority of people in Wales voted for Brexit. Bojo and co used them, these people were and still are desperate. They thought their situation would change. When will people learn, it's only going to get worse.
@@MrTuxy I’m from there,, the Rhondda had a lot of EU funding. I was disgusted when I heard the result. It was designated as one of the poorest places in the EU and received a lot of funding as a result.
How can Tories, with their privileged Eton backgrounds, understand or care about this poverty? This is happening all over the U.K. The Tories refused to implement Marcus Rashford's demand for more free meals. They're more concerned with saving Bankers' bonuses.
23 with 3 kids, on benefits and complain about a free house. Meanwhile I’m working 5 days a week as an engineer, I’m 27 and can’t afford a flat. The idea of a family is unthinkable. People who can’t afford kids having kids, not working means this working pay for these peoples mistakes. Their idea of a normal life is a family and life of buying anything they want without working
My business has gone from £50k turnover a year to £4k as people only have money for essentials now. I have burnt through my savings on surviving & by Christmas there'll be no heating for my kids.
I think that is really difficult. Maybe move to a smaller home or buy a narrow boat. I am switching the heating off and use it for one room only. You may need someone to talk to about this. I think kids don't mind as long as the family are together, wear lots of warm clothes. I recommend winter sleeping bags in bed... they are great and keep out the draft.
The Welsh Government is Labour. Furthermore at the last General Election, Wales primarily voted Labour. There are Conservative seats in Wales, however these are mostly rural areas and often mainly English speaking with a high English immigrant population.
Plenty of things wrong with this. They have three kids when they couldn’t even afford the first one. Being poor is no excuse for living in a freaking mess. Hire purchase on furniture?! There is such things as free and charity shops. Training to be an HGV driver well that costs about 2 grand so I can assume he’s borrowed even more money. Some people are poor because they live beyond their means.
There is an element of not having kids if you can not afford them, but there is also the element of circumstances changing for people. I have had this happen to a massive extent in that my husband walked out when our son was 10 months old. My son went on to be diagnosed with a developmental disability, plus later still autism. I have not been able to work as a result and my son was in receipt of disability living allowance. That stopped when my son was 16 and I applied for Personal Independence Payments for him. This was initially refused and we were living on £44 income support plus £20 child benefit per week for 10 weeks. Luckily, I have some savings that I could turn to tide us over until the DWP had done its mandatory reconsideration. But the reality is if it had gone on for the 6 months plus, that some of these situations go on for, then I would have had no choice but to put my son into care, which would have cost the state £100K per year. The reality is that I am 52 and my parents are 82, there would have been no way that I could have met the Universal Credit claimant commitment of searching for work for 37 hours a week and manage to look after my son. The DWP has awarded PIP at the highest level now and I now have a battle to re-establish income support, carers allowance and tax credits.
@@AHK4680 I will blame them. They’ve caused a lot of their own issues. Who has no money and no means of paying things back to borrow more money and not be able to pay it back. Doesn’t take a genius to work out what will happen.
Heres a thought. How about don’t start a family if you can’t afford to take care of yourself. 3 kids and 2 adults living together whilst being dead broke is mind blowing to me. How unresponsibable can you be.
Quote: (money U.K. sends abroad) “In 2020, Britain spent 14.5 billion pounds ($20.18 billion) on aid, meeting the 0.7% U.N. target, according to preliminary data released in April. “ It’s disgusting that British citizens pay tax’s to fund benefit provision for when our families and citizens fall on hard times, yet it is handed to foreign countries while our own people struggle to survive like this, and in all parts of the U.K. Something to consider before the next general election ?
Labour won't help you, they're only interested in LGBT and people of colour, same as Johnson, and also would send the same abroad, little difference other than they'd be even worse as wasting money, although that Indian bloke has broken the bank
@@jimspencer6677 I totally agree with your point about Labour, particularly if Dianne Abbott ( who has the dagger out for white people) has a say about it. It’s a hidden subject which I think politicians, whatever party, would rather not discuss because it could harm international relations, but it needs the spotlight on it. If voters make enough noise about it to their parliamentary reps the message will get through. In fact I believe cuts have already been made to overseas aid, but I don’t know the figures. More importantly, that money needs to be channelled back into OUR welfare system.
@@jimspencer6677 and what have LGBT and people or colour have literally anything to do with the comment or with this video… you people come up with any excuse to blame minorities for all that’s wrong in this country.
He’s 23 with three kids, and he doesn’t have a steady job!? Why are they living in a single family home, why don’t they try to live in a group house. Also, why are they living in such a sparse place, and not somewhere more densely populated where jobs and opportunities are more available?
People in the United States have buckled down too, we are not getting haircuts we aren't coloring our hair we aren't getting our nails done we are not going to the movies we are not buying Christmas presents or birthday presents we are stopping the consumerism we are becoming frugal and minimalists, we are shopping at the Goodwill second hand stores and yard sales only. We are staying at home. And we are saving every dime we can, for whatever something breaks and we have to have the money. We don't buy things we don't have money for we don't use credit to purchase Christmas presents that's ridiculous.
Reminds me of what I went through as a single mother, zero child support and no help. It's a hard way to have to live but keeps your heads up. Get some cats for the rat problem and remember ... everything changes. Nothing stays the same forever. It will get better. It may get worse before then but it WILL get better.
stop crying princess - you are probably milking your ex from money (child maintenance ). Single mum still can get a council house , benefits an everything that male can not! Your ex probably needs more help than You !
@@lmc5955 Which means absolutely nothing when the sociopaths in Westminster control the amount of funding availability. Can't provide enough funding for the devolved administrations, but have no issue funding phony wars against Russia.
Everything is on hire purchase because they cannot afford to buy anything. They cannot afford to buy anything, because everything is on hire purchase. Do they really need a fancy glass table though? I was once a single parent on benefits caring for two disabled daughters (they are 17/18 now). For the first seven years of their lives, I used a table that the Social Worker gave me, it was cheap with green legs, and it only had three chairs with it. The flooring in my dining room, was originally from someone else's house, rather then waste and throw it away, it was given to me. The sofa in my living room was fifteen years old. Up until four years ago, I still had an old CRT television. All appliances were bought from 'New To You.' I could not afford a proper mattress for my bed, so I used an inflatable mattress instead. I grew up in the care system, so had no family help. The first couple will be forever in debt because they have very poor money management. Paying for energy on the meter, is the most expensive way to pay for energy. Purchasing items through hire purchase, is the most expensive way to buy anything. Their story is not unique though, over the years, I have met countless families in exactly the same situation, robbing Peter to pay for Paul, getting one loan, just to pay off another. Getting themselves needlessly into debt purchasing 'aspirational' furniture. I myself could have fallen down that rabbit hole, instead, I choosing a much lower standard of living - no smoking, no drinking, no drugs. Bills, food, roof, and children were the only things that mattered. Do not get me wrong, I am not diminishing anyone's struggle, it is fucking tough when you are at the very bottom, but there are things that you can do to help yourself.
I'm impressed by your intelligence and education. BTW, that's why you make good decisions and so many others don't. But people don't get to choose their IQ any more than we get to choose our parents. I wish you the very best.
Food is cheap if you shop at the right places and gas is a luxury. The only bill I have ever strugged with at my poorest was the rent and that's because the cost of keeping a roof over your head is artificially overpriced. Most people can't manage money well.
but you know it was more important to end free movement... keep brown people out. At least for welsh and english people. I strggle to empatize with the racists
I don't want to sound like a jackass...and I do care about their situation, but there are some discrepancies. Last Christmas we had to tighten our belts as a family too, and we decided to not do Christmas gifts, as november/december are usually expensive months. That is 500 pounds they could have saved up for more vital things.
@@MatthewChapmanYT That's exactly what those eton schoolboys want. The poor and the very poor fight about christmas cards. Whilst they waste billions on a regular basis. Guys, please be smarter then that. Your problem sits in Number 10, not in an unheated house.
People need to wake up! The government does not care, I left the UK many years ago because I knew the country was going under after 2007. There is no investment in the UK if you can leave!
Yes, but t uk is getting t worst of it. I have relatives in europe & ireland & ya bills have gone up, there has been t odd shortage of this & thar, but it pales in comparison 2 what we r seeing in t uk
A rebate is something than does not have to paid back yet this rebate has to be paid back The spin doctors need to read a dictionary and call it the ENFORCED LOAN that it is
It's the same all over Wales, I'm from Wales a part called Swansea, even tho it's a city, we struggle just the same, cutting down where we can, in the summer months I turn of my central heating trying to keep bills down even tho I'm disabled & don't turn it back on til November when it's gets bitterly cold here. You have to do what you have to do to cope.
They're not struggling they're all on PIP and ESA and get all their rent paid. They have a wide-screen TV, Smart Phone and transport. That's not struggling....
You need a smart phone to even be able to access benefits as they text your appointments and you update work searches online, if not your money gets stopped!so judgemental!
Just a suggestion. Don't buy furniture (or anything that doesn't increase in value) on hire purchase. Half my furniture comes from a charity shop, so it cost almost nothing. In my last couple of houses, I picked up furniture off the street. And if he's a qualified chef, couldn't he get a cheffing job while he's studying for something else? They make their own misery, it seems to me.
It's not funny to watch it however I just want to point out that I have come to UK in 2004 and been working ever since. Employed for 14 years and self employed for 9 (for some years I was working full time and also setting up my 1st business doing cleaning of offices with my wife so basically working 2 jobs). Right now we got 2 business and I'm actively working in the roofing business I provide. Some days I work in the rain and wind, still able to finish to cover the house from further damage. I worked in the dark, snow, and some days in summer from 8-21 been on the roof, pressure cleaning, repointing and fixing issues than cleaning all around till sunset or longer. Now, I see people saying it's hard but they say it from their sofa, not happy that they have to borrow money for bills, or wait for government for even larger hand outs. These hand outs are partially from my money. I have 4 kids and am more than happy to provide for them as well as care about the house bills whatever they are. I don't have much compassion for young dads been happy to make kids but not happy to look after them. We are not in the middle of Africa, the jobs are there, lots of my friends say they simply can't get people to work as the job is either to heavy, too long or they simply can't come to work (drinking, drugs over weekend or just happy to take 1 day off extra where my friend runs building business can't afford that). I had the same problem ended up doing jobs for 2 or 3 people myself and finishing at night missing my kids and family (worker got too drunk and was too tired on the morning next day so couldn't turn up). Yes, it's not easy now but there are plenty of people who simply don't want to work or put extra effort in finding a job. Just my honest opinion.
Time to start growing fresh vegetables to save a few bob,supermarket costs are more than worrying to say the least and even more concerning, it will not be getting any easier. Good luck out there folks, Peace love.
@@peterpisspotty3052 not true, I lived in England before 7 or 8 years ago.. minimum wage was £6.30 .. I was working full time and single.. was getting £240 a week after the tax man.. pay rent + council tax + bills + transportation end up with nothing. It was a joke man.. don't tell me about the system I know it and I know how to make money out of it. Having 3 kids is average. . My advice don't blame the people, otherwise welcome to the third world, your seat is empty and you are always welcome 😃
@@peterpisspotty3052 blah I am web developer and crypto trader now 🖕. Also you can't expect all people to be able to study. You are LGBTQ I think and you don't like having kids .. English people will be minority in England if they listen to you 😂 very smart lad
I'm completely scared to death by the rise in the prices of fuel, gas, food ...the prices of basic needs have risen exponentially If you're a person who has been struggling with mental health issues like it's my case (and that often implies not having a stable job) it's even scarier and of course it takes a toll on your mental health. What is this world/society becoming??
Such a shame. With a little bit of maintenance and modern isolation these houses could be great. Perhaps some stimulation for the availibility of work, What a beautiful location! These people could be very happy here.
But don't these cost a fortune?! We insulated our home. It was done by a friend, who worked hard for a relative small wage. It cost us 25.000 Euros. It will save that amount in heating in about 10 years time. But you do have to have it at the start. And you only do that, when the house is your own property.
@@gardenjoy5223 "LONDON, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Britain is likely to spend 69 billion pounds ($82.95 billion) on schemes to protect households and business from soaring electricity costs, half of the original estimate, a UK spending watchdog said, as a mild winter softened energy costs." So, perhaps instead of just trowing money at energy companies, they could make some more long term investments. If you divide that amount by the costs you mention the UK goverment could isolate 2,760,000 houses.
