Food poverty on the Tyne 

You should have claimed Council Tax benefit. {:o:O:}

Take care. X hope you're getting information about what support you can claim .

The last line of your comments broke my heart. Please try and get some help, you seem like a good & kind person. You matter, you are important, please remember that.

@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 Pretty much word for word from a council tax letter back in August: "We have worked out the amount you have to pay monthly and even if your circumstances change in the next 6 months, there is nothing that can be done to change the amount to be paid". I was totally unaware of this policy, and I bet most people are unless they find themselves in a similar situation to mine. I have tried hard to return to work soon, but it's taking some real time to sort my head out. So basically, my circumstances DID change, but that mattered not at all to them. I phoned the council in January as paying this much based on my income was brutal. Seeing over £100 go out when I needed it for food was bad. The council told me I wasn't eligible for any help other than reduction. The lady I spoke to was nice and asked: "aren't you on council tax reduction?". I read her the letter and read back what I quoted above. She said "oh, well then there's nothing to be done". To her credit, she sounded like she agreed this policy was BS and sounded almost ashamed that there was nothing she could do. PS: The amounts they worked out was based on just 3 months previous earnings since I started my job. Anyway I somehow survived the winter, and thanks for the reminder, I'm going to have to phone them again now that the new tax year is here. Hopefully I'll be able to get a reduction until I return to work, and heck maybe even get some kind of a refund for overpayments (one can dream).

@@peterhill8398 Thanks. I feel like I don't matter at all, and it's often a struggle to just bother carrying on. Your words are appreciated.

Happening across the West. Both Left and Right have embraced open borders Globalisation and have no solutions.

People need to STOP 🛑 voting for them..

@@misslanapaulford People outside city centres in England need to stop voting Tory all the time at every local elections and GE's.

​@Miss Lana Paul Ford 💋 or maybe the police need to start arresting them.. blaming voters is a cop out to use a pun.

@@DJWESG1 Well it's only the voters keeping them in poor. Plus people believing the scaremongering that Labour would be worse. People would rather believe The Foul Tory lies spewed at them..

@left_blank Housing benefit?

It depends on how many assets you have and your safety net. Capital in terms of money and assets and social capital in terms of family and friends. There is no community in countries like UK everywhere is so individualistic and many people aren't close with their families

Brexit

All the time these tory crooks are in power, they'll continue to squeeze the poor and give more to the wealthy. They took £20.00 a week from tax credits last year and then what did jeremy unt give the wealthy people towards their pensions? £6000 per year, that's £115+ per week. They don't and will not need that money. This government need to be replaced asap. They line their own pockets and real workers are beneath them. They are totally corupt and have no empathy for the poor whatsoever... vote them out.

@@unknown_name_389 No one objects to their making a profit, but they are making record profits. After all, companies should have a sense of social responsibility. Your country provides them with the infrastructure, environment, and workers they need to operate. Companies are basically amoral. They exist simply to make money. So they should be tightly regulated to serve the best interests of society and country.

​@left_blank yes but not to the exstent when it takes the piss and who has shares in energy companies MPS anough said

@left_blank well have you heard millions are in fuel poverty food poverty can't pay through corporate GREED have you got any morols

@@unknown_name_389 Of course, they should but not obscene amounts of money at the expense of the poor.

The reason for that is the Tories. For decades before may, average annual cost of the asylum system was £200-300 million due to a low backlog. It is now over £2 billion.

Temporary emergency food banks going strong for 40 years in Canada.

@@myleshagar9722 Hi from CANADA SK.

@@myleshagar9722 are things bad in Canada like here in ENGLAND

yep, thanks to low grade tory brexit

@@1292liam tory or labour makes no different all corrupt bastards

The Left have embraced open borders Globalisation and have no solutions.

Do not vote Tory either locally or nationally.

Absolutely

​@Norman Christie that's not the problem. The police are allowing psychopaths to pick us off one by one. Its not actually the toryd fault if they are allowed to do it, they can't help themselves , it's their mh condition

Good luck, I will no be there protesting with you. Especially with the met there (I'd not bother).

If boris gets back in ??????

He should of accepted the result of the Referendum. He was anti EU all his political life just like his hero Tony Benn. He became leader suddenly flipped flopped and crashed in the Old Labour Leave seats.

If Johnson gets back in (which he won't) would the last person to leave turn the lights off? Ta

Stop reading the rightwing tabloids would be a start.....

Corbyn offering decent broadband for the whole country would have been handy during the lockdowns..

They put like 9 times the funding into working class benefit fraud than chasing the tax dodging/evading.

@left_blank damn you’ve cracked it! Why did it never occur to me before!

@left_blank From someone who has reached state pension age today, and was able to take early retirement years ago, because she has an excellent private pension and paid her mortgage off 20 years ago. What an empathetic little ray of sunshine you are, clearly young, well wakey wakey you will be a pensioner one day. By which time there will be no pensions and you will be on social credit. Good luck with that .

@left_blank You do not fund my state pension, that is not how it works, where as I fund yours.

@@colonelcrackerz2320 Love how the sarcasm went completely over his head, he thought you were agreeing with him lol.

I -ave done tat your komments motivate me

It will only change when we unite and say enough is enough. The good news is that day is coming very soon.

Politicians see us as cattle, not as human. Fact.

@@LabRat6619 It's not just the politicians who see us as cattle.

Then stand up and do something! If we all stand together?

@@franrowe8696 Well said.

That became life for many people - beyond what we could ever imagine in their worst nightmares.

Food is not a human right.

​@@bengardener8928yes it is

Speak up, I got your cash

bless all these kind people@@angelachanelhuang1651

Especially when she said women shouldn’t be on the streets. I volunteer at a soup kitchen in The Netherlands, the abuse of women and young men is horrible. I can’t believe governments allow this to happen. We can do better than this!

Volunteers are the best people in the World.

They wouldn't get a seat cos their decent honest marvellous people they couldn't stomach the corruption they,d witness

What do we do now?

I am in a rural area and kar free. I am ok I ave bike and use p transport

It’s bloody criminal! Shouldn’t be happening in the UK. Government are robbing us blind

GB = Grim Britain

If you’re referring to the new tune from Sleaford Mods of that title - it says it all!

It is the old people who voted Tory and Brexit. The young don't bother to vote. And now thanks to voter ID coming in soon it will probably stay Tory. I don't have any valid ID. Getting a new passport costs around £80. That isn't factored in in my budget currently.

@@daviniarobbins9298 if you want to vote the Tories out, can’t you apply for a postal vote?

The old people and those that remember what it was like before joining Europe voted for Brexit. I work in manufacturing, it was the migrant worker situation and the housing situation that made me vote for Brexit and i would vote the same way again.

Vote Conservative,Let more Migrants come in,Labour wont do no better,You people can go living with the Migrants next

Finland is nowhere near the scale of the problems the larger countries face. The lockdown was a choice .You were warned at the time how disastrous this would be for the economy. And guess what ? It turned about to be an economic disaster with inflation it will take years to bring under control.

@Marvin66 UK and Finland are relatively wealthy developed countries. The point is Finland developed an actionable plan to end homelessness and it's working. The UK has similar resources but lacks the political will, larger population counts for naught if the resources are available. Food banks, low wages, cuts to local services, boarded up high streets, homelessness have been increasing since 2010 when the conservatives came into power long before lockdowns.

Exactly: austerity is a choice. We should stop voting into power those who impose austerity on the rest of us.

Well done for actually having the guts to say that. People who are genuinely doing everything they can and still struggling, I do feel sorry for. People who are heavy smokers/drinkers and complain about being "skint" all the time get no sympathy from me at all.

I'm the same!.. I'm on universal credit and have a 15 year old. I'm not rich, but I'm not poor either. I don't smoke, drink, go out for meals or buy expensive things. In the Summer I put £100 on my gas/elec so its topped up until Winter. I buy second hand clothes and always look very presentable. My food cupboards are full, I can afford petrol and I live in a beautiful house... so please explain to me how people who are working cannot afford anything!!!... it drives me up the wall.

@@sp-1973 I work full time down here in the south-east Tory heartland and my life sounds just like yours!

@Reds Leather so what you're saying is that you're not currently feeling the major panic that most people are??

@@sp-1973 quite the opposite, that northerners voted Conservative in 2019 to ‘level up’ the the supposedly rich south, when a 40 hour a week in one of the most safe, right-wing constituencies of the south-east gets you the same as a life on benefits up north! 😂😂

@@Abitofsanity 100% agree !

Mick for Labour leader 👏

​@Abitofsanity That would guarantee a Labour loss at the election. Starmer has to attract those that voted for Johnson last time as well as keep Labour voters onboard. Mick Lynch would get the Corbyn treatment from the media, leading to the same result as 2019.

He supports Brexit and pressured union members to vote for it. So he enabled the current Tory regime.

@Abitofsanity But Starmer isn't a clone of Sunak. Only someone pushing Tory propaganda would make such a ludicrous comparison. So why do you do it ? Also, your focus on personalities is also the problem. Last General Election it was Boris Johnson that people voted for but then got Truss and now Sunak. People voting for Starmer now could also get a different leader if he doesn't do what people want him to do. The Labour Party is bigger than Starmer and the sooner people grow up and accept that the better for all of us. You choose not to see the difference between Sunak and Starmer, but Labour doesn't have all the other Tory ERG pushing their agenda. Wake up.

Yeah a lot of Southerns are moving further north to places like Preston .Leeds .Carlisle .Newcastle such as to survive and the numbers are increasing year on year .if I was from London I would be doing the same .😠😡

So you are committing benefit fraud. You have to declare everything. You are not entitled to that money. You a are criminal 😮

Ur rent is cheap, mine was 1200 and jumped to 1400 and he wanted 1600.

@@shazanakhan9807 hes is also committing benefit fraud. Hes getting benefits when he shouldn't be.

@@robertjones2053 I've been off sick for 5 months, my gas and electric were up to £250 a month late last year to early this year and that's with me turning the heating on for just 2-3 hours a day, which really isn't much when you live in Northern Scotland. If you're rich enough to not need benefits then good on you but with everything so expensive, I'd rather get a bit more if I can than not even being able to put the heating on or buy food for me and my rabbit

@@shazanakhan9807 I'm honestly lucky. I've lived in this flat for 6 years and I'm really good friends with my landlords so they keep my rent low. Before that though I had a landlady that wanted to increase the rent after the mains water pipe burst in my flat and it was costing her an arm and a leg to fix. I was already paying £600 and she wanted £750. I bolted out xD

👀

You're right..

As I see it, no progress since Charles Dickens England 1823. Give it 200 years moore, who knows? If you are poor, leave UK and never look back.

It's serfs, not surfs***

​@@fridaber6069 But serfs can surf!

Is Challenge Anneka still going? I don’t have tv so I didn’t know lol

The Government have done plenty. They intend to crush the working class and steal from the public purse. They are criminals. They are CRIMINALS.

@@lemongrabloids3103 she’s just made a comeback.. wish I was in such good shape at her age 😂

The same right-wing Anneka Rice who’s supported the Conservatives openly in the past

A Tory

Lee Anderson

@ L wo really you have to imagine i can tell you People who dislike this video are obviously Tory's They don't like to be confronted with the truth

A politician.

💯Tory voting Pyhcopaths 👹

Maybe that comment will work nice one,after all we bought records back then,and were is mr Branson? He scored big time.

Bono is a tax exile.

The Irish don't owe us anything but disdain

@@nektekket852 I agree but Bono definitely owes us an apology 😁

I made a comnent just a min ago about the Royal family. I think they the Royals need to make a huge donation lets say 2million every year..to help. But sadly they probably wont.

The royal family needs to cut down on their pomp and splendor

@@donnajones-od9qs they do. it's called income tax. turds in the 90s whined the Queen didn't pay income tax. She offered, Her govt (Tony the Turd Blair) declined. alright, now the King pays income tax. What happened before was the old City of London sits on land the RF has inherited/bought over 1100 yrs. private property like any other. they lease it. the leasehold rents were turned over yearly to the Exchequer in lieu of taxes. Gratis. Here, have it. it exceeded several tens of million pounds at one time, far far more than ever would have been gotten by the RF paying income tax... Now it's gone. thanks, complainers - you're all such swell mathematicians and critical thinkers.

@Tracchofyre The "being happy" part is meant to be sarcastic. People didn't understand what the author of that piece was trying to say.

Nearly 13

More than that.

Happening across the West. Both Left and Right have embraced open borders Globalisation and have no solutions.

yep,Yet again more Migrants,Nearly 13 years now

Mooncups are good too 👍 (or other brands for a reusable cup)

World war 3 just around the corner. Putin threatening nuclear war. It isn't promising is it?

British people seem to hold on to the idea that their country is still some kind of empire or at least somehow 'special'. The truth is - as much as Brits don't want to hear it - that it's not. The UK is not even one of the wealthiest countries in the world anymore. If we look at GDP per capita, the UK is not even in the top 10. Countries like Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium etc. have a much higher standard of living for the average person. The UK is just a poor country with some very, very rich people in it.

@@fridaber6069 it still seems to irritate people abroad the word “empire” as I’ve already pointed out the wealth in our nation is being spread thinly as we are a nation who seem to want to help others, the countries you have mentioned as being far wealthier than the UK don’t have the same record as the Uk at providing help for other nations, hence their ability to provide better services for their people, perhaps it’s time we take on the same stance as they.

@@annette1765 As a result of Brexit, the British lost many thousands of workers from Central and Eastern Europe in agriculture, transportation, hospitality sector, elderly care etc. From areas where the British did not really want to work.

@@salala4412 Your last sentence said it all where the British did not want to work… maybe if the British took those jobs 🤷‍♀️ I work in manufacturing every factory I’ve been in has migrant workers some as many as 99.9 % of the work force. They are still here still working don’t believe everything you are told.

@@happybunny8704 I know that they are still there, but also thousands left to The Netherlands, Germany, Austria etc

Not all parents presume their kids owe them, but when do kids become adults ? If they can’t survive without the support of mum and dad ? You obviously don’t have kids yourself and with that attitude sounds like you never will.

Agree!

I hope you get the psych help you need.

yes

Neo liberalism

Hell on earth and we've see nothing to what the evil bastards have planned for us down the road in 2025 Mr Klaus and Mr gates next scamdemic spars virus so depressing for the future of humanity💯😠😡

It voted Tory

Refugees get excellent support.

I always used them but you couldn't afford to boil them now like we did, or dry them in bad weather

You are absolutely right.