Andrew Marr talks to a single mother on Universal Credit 

Truss was questioned about this. Zero, that is a disgrace!

@@camsmith931 Indeed she was questioned. And she claimed she couldn't remember how many had been built. How do you forget 0?

@@camsmith931 that's shocking.

....typical nonsense....

@@chatham43l accept you can never convince a fool with the facts,so enjoy your idiocy

It’s cruelty beyond belief. Marr spent 20 minutes prior to this banging on about how fantastic the spectacle of the Queens death has been. It’s abhorrent

@@BillyHayes79Music I wasn't watching....so much life to live 🤔.

@@andrewrobinson2565 I was driving home from work with the radio on mate

@@BillyHayes79Music +1

You think it was better 50 years ago? Or 100? Most people live in a fantasy world receiving free money for existing.

you've picked the right name for yourself there.

If he payed his inheritance tax we'd most likely be able to fund our way out of the cost of living crisis we're all facing. Unfortunately we're ran by austerity ideologs and royalist sycophants.

The BBC has be co-opted by the right wing nutjobs in the tory party. The senior bods have been replaced by tory cronies.

It’s the BBC’s official policy to generally take on trust whatever the government asserts. That means that when you have a very right-wing government, particularly one with no compunction about brazenly lying, it pulls the BBC to the right as well.

Boris Johnson put his mate in charge of the BBC

@@phueal Excuse not explaination?

How was she found in order to be interviewed?

@@andrewrobinson2565 I don’t know mate. Her agent perhaps

@@andrewrobinson2565 LBC is phone in.

@@BillyHayes79Music Possibly 🤔.

@@Dylanesque ...but it's a landline, so no facetime possible. DOH!?

It's pretty much illegal to be homeless in Central London.

I had no idea that such a thing existed. This is no accident.

That is only a temporary solution and only gets authorized when the person is almost on the street.

the information is available to everyone, a quick google search should suffice

I have administered DHP. It is anything but guaranteed or permanent. Quite the opposite. It is also cash limited so by the time that April comes around the budget for the previous year will have been spent

I'm very sympathetic, but can you explain about your job you left or are not in at the moment?

Warning, there's a band of nasty daily mailers in the comments that'll probably jump on your comment like fleas on a cat. Hope something is done about this soon for everyone's sake.

You're not a bad mum, Kerry. Look after yourself and stay positive if you can.

@@Craig121000 It was probably someone like you that got her pregnant then didn't like the responsibility. And pray tell, why are rents so obscenely expensive in the UK?

@@Craig121000 Back under your bridge, troll.

@@Craig121000 ahh, I suppose that explains the empathy issues. Just as a heads up - you're coming across more like someone with a full blown borderline personality disorder. I understand that reading the room can be challenging, but it may be worth looking into. Hope that helps. Thanks for the context though, it does actually explain a lot.

I'm Irish. Our government provided a euro 200 credit against energy bills to all households earlier this year. They are about to repeat this (probably euro 400 this time). Think about the total cost of household energy bills in England alone (not incl business energy use). Now divide the available Budget resources by the number of households. It's not realistic. If the government borrow to pay for the shortfall, your government's ability to borrow on international markets will evaporate long before remotely enough money could be borrowed.......and citizens will have to pay that back anyway over decades. Better to cap total bills AND levy a windfall tax as well.

It's called nationalisation, and some do, but the daily mail has its tenticles deeply embedded in the brains of the many - and a true conflict of interest. Not to mention energy companies in part fund the tory party

All Electric and Gas were Nationalised Industries until the Great Maggi Milk Snatcher gave them away.

@@CaminoAir We have an estimated trillion+ worth of untapped resources here. I’m sure everybody (except the billionaires causing this) wouldn’t mind a slight increase in tax in order to cover the expenses. Sounds a lot cheaper than monthly energy bills… The worst thing about all this, are the people who think this is all an accident, or happenstance. If only the greediest people alive weren’t the ones making the decisions for everybody 😔

because wholesale energy prices are not in our control. if the government paid for domestic energy only it would cost around 98 billion a year.

Is France any different. Or the EU it's all capitalism

@@bg1616 Yes... There is no comparison! You will never be evictected during winter by law, and if you do get evicted during the summer you will be provided with a council house, energy bills increased have been capped to 4 percents and you won't be cut off during winter, there are no such thing as prepaid meters...

@@gregoire59 doesn't sound like you're changing class

@@bg1616 Stil there is no comparison...

@@gregoire59 ah right you mean it's the same

When she runs out of electric they let her run an overdraft of 20 pounds. Now when she tops up 4 pounds, they take 1 pound as interest and give her 3 pound electric - until she clears the debt. She literally pays 25% more for her electricity because she can't afford to pay for electricity.

It’s been this way since rich people started making the decisions for our politicians…. Or our politicians making decisions for rich people. Whichever way you want to put it. We could say No to all of this, but everyone is either too lazy or too scared🤠👍

@@WotsisFace or to distracted by daily mail headlines, I'd say articles but I'm not sure they have the attention span to actually follow though as all you hear are the headlines repeated over and over as arguments and nothing of actual substance.

@@cleebe823 lol, i like this comment

@@WotsisFace the SCOTS last voted Conservative in 1955 the english otoh...well....... base/superstructure the materialist conception of history gawd save da king

There is it's called council housing but after Maggie's self of the council's were not allowed to use that money in any way. It's just sitting in the bank FFS. Why can't they use it to build council houses politics.

there is build more council houses but they won't councils constantly selling their properties off to housing associations

Don’t be silly. A more cost effective way would lead to rich people raking in less… The route to every single problem in this country.

@@jebusgod property is one thing that holds its value and as much as I like the right to buy scheme the 70% of you can get is insane. People buy it wait 7 years and sell it for profit

I'm a landlord in France. None of this chicanery is allowed here. We have a government with a social democratic heart and head. 🇨🇵🇪🇺

Yep, really unfair.

Yep, and it's nothing new. Same goes for many things when it comes to the poor.

That’s the way this country has always worked with everything. If you can’t afford it, the price rises for you. It’s how our government make sure you have nothing and stay depending on them. Rich people will be the targets as more people sink into this woman’s position. So atleast we’ve got that to look forward to 🤠👍

Get a job then she can afford it

@@TheGazza636 while a divorcee and looking after 3 kids with mental health / learning issues. So simple. What learning difficulties do you (blatently) suffer? I mean other than being under the influence of the daily mail.

@@TheGazza636 Typical Tory reply.

Why isn't their father contributing?? Why are you so quick to put the sole responsibility onto the mother.

3 kids so let’s blame the tories, let’s blame everyone apart from the woman who has 3 kids whose on benefits

@@lmiller5307 Oh right there's no financial crisis in UK at all, just a woman with 3 kids. What a plonker!

@@lmiller5307 You sound like a tory

@@lmiller5307 How do you know that she didn't have a husband to start with who was working. You don't know her or any ones story. Do you?

This is what they clearly wanted. It’s funny how many people think all of this is an accident. Having billions or trillions isn’t enough anymore. Now, they want the last £20 from your bank account too. And you pathetic fools are going to let them take it aswell 🤠👍 People don’t want change. They just want to complain while staying compliant.

UC will never pay towards a mortgage and only a percentage of your rent if you are lucky.

She decided to have 3 kids and now it’s the tories fault?

they boast while knocking the rankings down. We're now behind India.

@@lmiller5307 No she decided to have 3 kids when she was able to work and could afford to live comfortably. But you already knew that.....

@@dc--6462 these people are brain dead, don't bother engaging. They don't understand that life is a dynamic thing that occurs over time unless they have a personal grievance or issue. They only look at the world through the lens of self importance and spite.

@@lmiller5307 I imagine the man she married decided that too....

She should but the council (even though a court case pre covid found that councils should not be doing this) will tell her to stay put until she is evicted - thus putting her further into debt with court, bailiff AND rent arrears. An eviction can cause massive problems for years down the line. But if she leaves before this, the council will say she is ‘voluntarily homeless’ and will refuse to help. Councils are cut to the bone and rather than say there’s a problem, they punch down to force Tory cuts to work.

They will put her and her kids into B&B. There are no council houses. They sold them and built none.

@@mrfluffyminstrel not to mention council tax they’ll come after her for that too

I don't think it's that they're slow to see it, they're scared to admit it because it puts brexit in a bad light and that will anger the mob.

3..........2..........1 now you're wide awake back in the room

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BANK CRASH...AUSTERITY.....COVID...PUTIN..UKRAINE..QE2 king Charlemaigne.....phew..!!!!!!!!!!!!!! back to normal Yikes !!!!!

W e have the pigeon brained daily failers in these comments going on about how she should "learn from her 3 mistakes". It's absolutely sickening.

@@cleebe823 Yes,I agree. When these Negative People have any problems,THEY expect help. They just do not want others to get needed assistance.

@@lisacollins3304 absolutely.

@@cleebe823 BUT WE HAD TO BAIL OUT THE BANKERS.......& not tax the poor old oil companies $ocia£i$m for the rich is OK for the Brits......it must be they keep voting for it ah ha ha ha ha ha ha

Estates next to you I assume?

@@SirHargreeves happily, with community centres and proper funding please. You do understand in the past people of all walks of life lived side by side in council estates. The current state of them isn't inherent to the fact they're council estates, its because they've been more or less turned into ghettos. Stand by and watch the striping away of the social fabric and forget it ever existed in the first place...

@@SirHargreeves i don't know if you realise this, but for a lot of people getting a council flat would be like a lottery win. When housing is 40 - 60% of your income your life is incredibly stressful and precarious, so the idea of affordable and secure accommodation is the stuff of dreams

Hi Davey, I agree. A few years ago I participated in a national study to determine why house building is so small and slow in comparison to most other Countries. There are dozens of contributing factors, but ultimately the far-and-away number one reason was LAND. Not just for private housing, but social housing too. Most British land is foreign-owned by big investors for purposes of tax-planning. So they cannot sell and they cannot approve building.

@@susansmith9903 indeed, and to a vast amount of foreign "investors" it's hoarded like gold bullion, just sitting their gaining value as available land becomes more scarce, while being completely unutilised. As I've said in other threads it's about protecting assets while ignoring the actual needs of the people.

As harsh as it sounds , not in london it’s far too expensive for most working class people , up north far more affordable but not the appeal of the london life

AGAIN THIS IS MEANS TESTED IF THE FATHER IS ON LOW INCOME AND HAS HIGH EXPENCES WITH NO RISDUAL THEN HE CAN NOT PAY AND DOES NOT HAVE TO. SO LIKELY WILL NOT HELP IN THIS SITUATION AS HE IS LIKELY STRUGGLING HIMSELF NOW LIKE MILLIONS ARE.

Another Johns smith how lovely, she recently lost her job she has not chosen not to work for one, and yes three kids in education that limits the roles she can do because she is a mum that needs to also raise kids. Bye bye Mr Smith.

So did a test mini shop Tescos online, easliy done a week with the beginnings of larder stock. I'm sure Lidl/Aldi would be even better. If this lady is spending £5 per person, per day we can really see where she is going wrong economically. I am one person employed family of 3 and would never dream on spending that to eat.

Could be various reasons lack of jobs in the area and on low income you can not afford to travel outside the area. Like she said she was working in the current environment debt mounts very fast and with 3 kids I hardly think she had much of a safety net. I will give you an example I changed jobs for better pay about two months back the job went bust 3 days later due to them not be able to afford to stay open. It took just 6 weeks for my own buffer to go it was a 6 month buffer but as prices have raised fast rapidly the few months before that started eating in to it. Now I have been looking for a new role that will pay the bills for the past 4 weeks, I rent private like most these days as no social housing and I am facing eviction in about a week myself due to it. I have never been in this position before it happened fast regardless of my own planning. That said I am also working might sound weird But I also own an NGO providing free computers for underprivileged Children which I take no money from, but set up in January 2021. I am now looking at other ways to support families as we have helped thousand since I set it up. We get 0 funding so I have had to build a network of supporting businesses to keep it going. So now I am working 40 hour weeks and more free to help those in need although I face a bad situation myself and I can honestly tell you the situation is impossible right now for many. And I normally have decent Jobs with what would normally be a decent income higher than average. And so if it can happen to me it can happen to those that were less well off. Now here is the thing I would not take a job at 18k a year for instance or 24k a year when bills come in at average now close to 30k that is just to live as a single adult. Now I am highly experienced from very senior roles and have had better luck than quite a lot. So if I add 3 kids to my bills what would my costs be? Bills to just live are now higher than the average household income in the UK. So before you jump to a conclusion about her not working think of all circumstance as she said she has not long lost her job. And maybe business local to her who are also struggling can not afford to take on more staff due to not being sure they have a future themselves. You talk about critical thinking yet you lack any yourself really in your own statement and not really thought the situation through. Maybe she was on low income in work topped up by UC and a recent job loss would almost instantly put her in a very dangerous situation with housing and food etc. This so the reality for many and also for many of us that have not been there before and would not normally be. So consider all the grounds before making a statement and ensure you actually listen as you clearly missed the part where she said she was working but then something happened with the work place and the job went. So she was working till recently. But you just assumed because you did not actively listen which is wrong. And some jobs do not offer flexibility for School hours that will make it harder for her to find work. The father is not there to support so that limits her options massively also. Now that is critical thinking based on the facts of the conversation something you lacked to do yourself and accused Andrew of not doing.

he was known as "RED ANDY" whilst at the yoonee remember" CATHY COME HOME"

It is means tested so if he is struggling he will have to pay 0 the system is bad that way. And to be honest millions are struggling so he likely is.

Yes let everyone stay at home and live on the backs of workers, she should get a job .

That is a fallacy.

@@sandrafinbar :correct and another fallacy "a rising tide floats all boats" err not if you don't have one!

always trust the english to do the right thing keep voting tory.... eye thenk yo AA

@@rabburns1382 not guilty

abs x six packs +/- tik tok = Voter 2022 style

I'll help as if you've never been exposed to the poor it may seem strange She would have been in emergency ~(-£5 to -£10),with a 20 pound loan(-£20) and an additional charge for getting out of emergency, along with the standing charge for the privilege of having a meter. Quite realistic to be fair, and probably why Andrew didn't press her on it

no, it doesn't make sense, but that's the way it is. The per-unit charge is higher than plain meters too.

@@cleebe823 Well explained 👍.

@@cleebe823 these extra charges are terrible and unfair.

@@sandrafinbar couldn't agree more.

I thought growing up under the grey bleak deprivation of Thatcher was bad, and it was don't get me wrong but there was only a fraction of the despair and hopelessness in the Air then as of now. Winter is truly here and its going to be a very long one i feel.

@@bigdaz7272 completely agree, how long have the Tories been in power? I genuinely do not understand the electorate and their desire to inflict self harm..

@@PD12345ish I have known too many people over the Years who consider themselves as Middle Class because they own their own Home. Not taking into account they are paying a Mortgage on it and it would only take a matter of months from them losing their job to be overwhelmed with debt and not being able to keep their home and lifestyle. Millions took the bait off Thatcher and snapped up those cheap Council Homes to become owners and take this perceived step up on the social ladder not understanding the cost to their community and their Children and Grandchildren and social cohesion of the entire society. One of if not the main reasons Thatcher gave people the opportunity to buy council Houses and become owners was to increase support for the Tories but also too get people indebted and so far more fearful of striking or raising their voices to demand better in the workplace.

@@Barbara-yj5tl I heard that myself but even if she left him doesn't mean a man then has nothing to do with his children just because the mum leaves him does it?

As the parent of a child with (diagnosed) autism, I can tell you that the challenges and additional costs you face are identical whether you have the diagnosis or not.

@@phueal is the funding for, and treatment of, the child the same? Because I can tell you unequivocally that it is not. Otherwise why did you bother to get your child diagnosed in the first place if the diagnosis means literally nothing? Why do they bother to diagnose if it means literally nothing?

@@cleebe823 you’re absolutely right, the child is treated very differently after a diagnosis, and in particular they usually receive more support. Although sometimes you are just replacing one challenge for another. What I was calling out was OP’s assertion that “it’s not a thing until it’s been diagnosed”. I was pointing out that it most definitely is “a thing” regardless of whether you have a diagnosis or not.

take the money from the father first :)

You wont. Its a daily mail myth.

😏

It can literally take months/years to get adhd/autism diagnosis as well as others on the NHS

There's normally a women involved somewhere & a man.

The fathers should help, but I guess they won't if they aren't made to.

Very true,sit on back side. every thing for nothing.

You can buy a pack from primark like this for a quid.

@@DD-jm5ug Thanks. The next time I can afford to go into town to a Primark, I'll check them out.

@@WickedDandelion You must have extremely bad pay if you can not afford £1 for fake primark nails. May I suggest perhaps finding another job before trying to make people turn against a woman clearly in a desperate situation. Sounds like you will be in the same one as well or you would be if your account was not fake and designed to troll. Enjoy the rest of your day now.

Tory lover.

@@theferret390 Oh bless. So wrong. I'm a Union representative and Labour to my core. Nice try though.

Firewood 😂

she should get a job

I'm waiting for someone to say ' where's the dad?' Doesn't he have some responsibility to financially support his children?

@@dot872 maybe he's dead. Maybe he's in prison. Maybe he use to beat her. Maybe he himself is on Universal credit. Probably shouldn't judge her until you know the facts.

All her children are undiagnosed . Being a father of two autistic children i can tell you that we had to wait 6 years for one to be diagnosed and have waited 14years to be seen for a diagnosis for the other one . You cannot claim pip for the child without a diagnosis . Carers allowance is £62 pw .you cannot claim uc if you claim carers allowance .

She can't unless the educational psychologists have assessed them and sent them for diagnoses.

@@robert6106 that’s exactly what I meant, if she’s secured a diagnosis for her children she can apply for DLA

@@oreocookie3743 That's the problem, diagnosis can take years due to waiting lists. So there are families with children on the ASD spectrum and ADHD undiagnosed and struggling like she said.

Both

@@colinhill9439 I don't think it's both, universal credit pays just over £100 per week for rent, that's way more than a mortgage, so the private rent sector are taking the mic is the truth of it.

My thoughts exactly.

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Yes, the Dad's should help more.

She left the dad for a reason and the kids do not see him. Have you considered that could be maybe because he may have been bad for kids perhaps hit them you do not know. Please keep your wholly lacking of any intelligence comments to yourself thank you.

@@colinhill9439 if we don't know the circumstances then why make such a statement? Who said she left him? What if he left her for cheating and she won't let him see them (very common) did you ever considereal that Mr unintelligible? the kids can't stay with her as she is un capable to do do, it is a totally justifiable comment from me

Benefits are not capitalism. Neither are this government. You can blame fascism from the corporatocracy.

@@tonydalton6756 If we had capitalism, house builders would be competing in price, quality, quantity and location. They dont and instead they drip feed the market to keep prices obscene, and in collusion with the banks who chose to lend into them at these prices. If we had capitalism, the landlords would also have to compete on the same criteria but they dont. Corrupt crony capitalism and a 3rd world government imposing 3rd world solutions on us.

Socialism creates the very poverty it tries to solve.

...or the company could have moved back into the EU like so many others.

The Child Support Agency only chases fathers who genuinely cannot pay.

I don't think apportioning blame has any place here. This woman is in need now, her kids are in need now. A lot of us need help, and no help is coming

There is no blame to lay this is a situation many are finding themselves in for no fault of their own. 80 percent of people in the UK had less than £500 savings in the bank before all this and she is a single mum 3 kids meaning limited on jobs she can have so likely low paid topped up with UC so would not even have a safety net in the first place very easy to get in trouble when things go wrong. The company could have closed loads are they are struggling as much as people well small and medium sized businesses are. This is going to become a very common story very very fast and will snowball with the way things are right now. This lady represents one of 10s of millions in the UK this is going to happen to by February of next year. The only people to blame are government and greedy energy and oil companies profiteering from this. So if you must assign blame then lay it where it rightly should at those that caused the situation to start with.

OK for the second person on here who did not listen to her, she was working till recently but the job went. So do not be nasty for the sake of it because you are and unfairly. She is a single mum with 3 kids likely had a low wage job topped up by UC, likely as a single mum with 3 kids did not have much of a buffer. And three kids with School etc limits the jobs she can have as she has to look after the kids also. If it takes her say 8 weeks to find a job or 12 which is more likely due to her circumstance she can lose her home fast as likely a private landlord by the sounds of it. Learn to listen before commenting it shows your lack of intelligence and decency. And the fact you were just out right nasty tells me you are just trash. And actually UC is lower than a pension so you obviously have no idea what you are even talking about yourself. So just keep quiet and let intelligent people talk constructively without your idiocy thank you.

Huh? No we are giving 130 billion to energy firms that are already making 170 billion profit due to their price hikes. We are then target most of the remainder for the richest people. That is not a blanket 170 billion at all that is giving away peoples taxes to the already wealthy that is huge distribution of wealth from the poor to already super rich. I am sorry but I did not even understand what you are saying so thought I would just correct you on the blanket 170b of support which really it is not.

Which job might that be? contrary to popular belief, employers are not desperate for workers. Part time McJoblets maybe but not enough to pay £800 pm rent and feed 3 kids with needs.

@@stephanguitar9778 It's just that she never mentioned that a getting a job was possible or not. Didn't seem an option.Just complaining about not getting enough taxpayers money.

Why are you not doing the same, instead of posting comments on RU-vid during working hours?

Arise sir Tony of Blair 👏🏻

You do realise we just spent 10 years at war under a Tory government? I would much prefer the living conditions of 35 years ago

@@terrysmith5168 I have my criticisms and misgivings with the man but I have to admit that we wouldn't currently be in this sorry state of affairs.. Still can't believe he got a job as peace envoy though...

@S A one of my many misgivings.

@@cleebe823 Do you lot not understand sarcasm 😂

My thoughts too. No real man would see their children go homeless, regardless of whether they're in a relationship with their mother or not.

@@mattd5073 Yes, just as well B.J has lots of free money flowing in or his half dozen kids would be in the same situation. Take away his unearned money and privileges and he is just another negligent dad in Wetherspoons or in the betting shop.