Mancs react to terrifying cost of living crisis 

The gentlemen with the feed the needy sign saying this is the worst he’s ever known should scare us all. Well done for standing up! ❤️

The dinner lady story is sickening. Can't find the words for how angry this makes me.

As an American, I see many of the same issues in the UK, that are confronting the US as well. These are issues that must be addressed on both sides of the Atlantic. So as an American, I stand in solidarity with the British people. Good luck with your effort to set things right.

The dinner lady talking about children not being able to eat and having to take the food off them says it all about this government

It shows we don’t have a real democracy when overwhelmingly the public want to nationalise the energy And yet not one political party will Even consider it. We need to decentralise government and open up democracy where we the people get to vote and have a say on public policies instead of voting for career politicians to work against us. The system is corrupt and Britain is broken. Enough is enough ✊

"feed the needy not the greedy", well said

I was born in 1945, so I've lived through many governments and events but the state of the country now and the misery inflicted on millions of us by an incompetent, self-serving and callous government is something I've never witnessed before. I've given up believing it might get better and this has made me feel desperate and helpless. The only way to bring about change for the better is to confront a deaf and uncaring band of incompetents with the power that comes through solidarity in numbers. Reluctantly, I am prepared for civil disobedience.

Re-nationalize utilities. It was working just fine, before Thatcher SOLD them to her friends.

I have never been more ashamed to be British than right now. It is despicable that children are going hungry, energy bills are soaring and that people are having to choose between food and keeping warm. It is absolutely out of order. How can we be proud of such a country? And yet the politicians continue to do nothing but lie. “Fastest growing economy in the G7”… but where is all the money? The rich are getting richer and are profiting from the exploitation of hard-working people. They are so out of touch that it’s unbelievable. I am seriously considering migrating in a few years because the cost of living is so unbearable, and everyone has been affected by it. It is a disgrace to everyone that worked so hard to build this country to what it is, and a disgrace to the working class.

Eddie Dempsey is right. The only way to turn things around is through people power. Sheer weight of numbers. Do you really want to live in a society where you and your family are struggling just to exist whilst the rich and powerful continue to rake in huge amounts of money at our expense? Everyone up and down the country needs to get behind this campaign and fight back while there is still something left to fight for!

Well said to everyone who has spoken out about what is happening now 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼

12 years of tory rule is finally catching up with everyone.

Government knew this would happen but was too busy having affairs and putting money in their own pockets.

This channel needs to grow. Massively. Share their videos. Subscribe. People must wake up and shake their MPs.

This is happening all over the World we need to stand together and put a STOP to it

The dinner lady is bang on, it's the kids and old that will suffer the most. I work 2 jobs I have done for about 8 years I started out doing that to help cover nursery costs but I will have to continue.

energy bill increase from peer nations : Italy 89%, Germany 38%, USA 6%, France 4% : The UK 178% and by the end of the year over 400% increase. There is a lot this government can do and they are doing non of it, because they care more about big business profits some of which are going to the French government as they own EDF. They care more about those profits, than the people of this country of which some will not make it through the winter.

The work and pensions secretary, Therese Coffey, has said she will not publish five official reports into how the department handles helping the vulnerable, or how many people have died as a result of being denied disability benefits. The publication of these reports was promised by Coffey’s predecessors, following claims that thousands of disabled people had died since the Conservatives came into power in 2010. The true number still isn’t known, but it was found that over 17,000 people died between 2013 and 2019 whilst waiting for decisions to be made over their benefit claims. In 2020, we learned that 5,000 disabled people died still waiting to be reimbursed by the government to the tune of £16m in underpaid benefits

It’s nearly a fiver a day for secondary school meals in some parts of the country - schools outsourcing to private expensive food catering companies who are making huge profits

Children are going hungry in our schools and at home, it's been happening before this crisis and spiraling out of control. I know some teachers who have been personally trying to help and pay for children but it shouldn't be their responsibility, they are struggling too. If we can afford to send aid abroad and weapons to Ukraine then we should be able to feed ourselves. This is a scandal and people will take to the streets, there has to be change and quickly.

I try to be fairly dispassionate about politics, try not to make it personal or emotional. But when I hear stories like that woman who works as a dinner lady, what else am I meant to fell other than anger and hatred for those who run this society? To take food from a babe's mouth? Where is the common ground with people such as this?

The government doesn't give a dam there milking there expenses and loving it takes the piss

1000% agree with all of this, people must stand together and change this it is criminal

Put it this way, I used to identify as half-Irish. Now I don't even admit I'm British at all. I've had dual citizenship my whole life, and I this is the first time in my 33 years when I've felt shame over being a British citizen. I love this country, but things are going to just spiral if this goes on. I have a way out, I can just leave and go to Ireland, but it's so awful to see people who are utterly trapped in this mess.

The Dinner Lady makes some important and sensible points. Well done ✅.

The Kettle/Piston analogy was brilliant. We'll need a plan of action to actually help people

Make a stand people in every town and city let’s put a stop to these government criminals

“Something has to give and it shouldn’t be childrens spirits”. Why is it politicians can’t show any compassion?

Really good to hear it coming from the heart as it does ,enough is enough 👍👍

Enough is enough. Government and opposition don't care. We need unions to stand up for us.

Welcome to the Great Decline. Over the next 2 decades we're gonna see living standards significantly drop. Politicians will tell you this is working as intended, and will relish telling you to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. Happiness declines, security declines, civil unrest rises.

UK needs to have public ownership of the *"means of production & supply"* of water, energy and food. SIMPLE.

the biometric card system for school dinners is f cin disgusting , im crying a tear with that lady ,

School meals should ALL be free. Nourishment & eating & producing proper foods needs to be part of the caricullum. If as a country we can afford to give millions away for a fake war - We can afford to pay for free school meals to ensure our children are properly nourished.

Smash it guys. Solidarity with all my uk brothers and sisters 💪

We need to take a stand against this government!

Imagine being that kid at school who can't have a meal not only do they have to go hungry the shame & embarrassment they must feel the government knew this would happen & still carry on as if nothing has happened my only wish is everyone them who is responsible for this I hope they lose everything.

Meanwhile BJ is doing a farewell tour telling everyone what a great job he’s done.

Unfortunately there are just too many people in this country who just do not care.

Shame on the worthless government.

That por dinner lady and her whole team shoudl just give the kids the food, following a system that means kids starve is just wrong! I'm sure she is scared of losing her job but her whole team shoudl make a stand against it

People of the UK we are millions they are few, let's all stand together and rid our country of all these corrupt traitor politicians!

Thatcher's privatisation. It should never have happened. Competition will keep prices down we were told. At that time on holiday near York I could go to York but the last bus back was 6.30pm. The privatised bus companies didn't want to run a service for a few people. Not even one bus an hour. The bosses get top money and bonuses and shareholders make money and we struggle to pay bills.

DON'T PAY OCT 1st.. People have the power when they stand United..This needs to happen.. SUPPORT OUR WORKERS NOT COMPANIES OR GOVERNMENT..STAND UNITED AND MAKE CHANGE 🇬🇧

Well done for everyone that turned up. Also that lady looks amazing for 70!

The old gentlemen is spot on.

I work in a secondary school kitchen and we never let a child go without a main meal or sandwich, even if they have no money. We have student services which can help and our prices haven't changed in the 7 years I've been there, costing £1.90 for a main meal. We have seen more students struggling and it certainly isn't going to improve.

Having just heard LBC blatantly advertising BP on their station I thought I’d ring them to express my disgust at their hypocrisy. They’ve spent months correctly vilifying the company but are more than willing to dance with the devil when it suits. Needless to say I didn’t get on air 😡 Anyone who listens to the station regularly would have had the misfortune to hear ‘Sean’ from consett in North East as I am too in Middlesbrough. He can barely string a sentence together yet constantly allowed on, and the reason imo is to perpetuate the narrative that people from the North East are knuckle dragging monosyllabic buffoons. Definitely isn’t to have a coherent debate. ????

Power to the people!!!

Well Done to Everybody who has Spoken Out!!! ✊🌹❤️

No political party has the want or the balls to challenge corporations,unless we have a top down redistribution of wealth taxes and a living wage that is actually a living wage we will be fighting for decades to come

It really is horrendous. You look at these interviews and it looks like the whole country is becoming a downtrodden developing nation. The same look of resignation in peoples eyes.

We need a revolution

Energy should never have never have been privatised!

If things carry on like this much longer there’s going to be a revolution, and the tories will only have themselves to blame.

My heart goes out to the dinner lady. This huge disparity, people who own and earn millions and dont give a flying f*ck about the rest - and then regular people who struggle on their own and also see others struggling even more. How did humans come to this ffs

I completely agree with everyone in this video. We’re all struggling with life. Having to get food banks and being lied to by our government. But nothing will be done no matter what we say or do. I really have utter contempt for our government!! They literally have zero clue about life!

Come on people we need to march

Renationalise all services, so that they serve people instead of making the rich richer.

We really need to have more community action like this, if people actually spoke to their neighbours we might all get together as communities and demand better, then if those local communities band together into regional groups you have a national movement that can’t be ignored.

It's time that people come together on common ground to better improve our lives as whole. There's far too much meaningless division which is getting forced down people to weaken any movement, time that we all mass together with the objective to get this government out and to re-nationalise our public goods! Time to end Thatcherism in the UK! Unregulated Capitalism doesn't work.

‘We need a reset’ Not sure about that one. Revolution is probably a better idea

Whatever your feeling are on Labour right now, may the tories never ever see power again after this. Whether you want to argue the case that ‘they are all the same’, nothing will ever remotely come close to the scum that the Conservative party represents.

Enough is Enough. 42 years on the Laissez-faire economic model of neorealism has clearly not seen the money trickle down at all. Sir Saintly Starmer is only willing to continue the same philosophy if he gets into power. And I am sad to say that as a Labour voter.

Children should never be turned away from the canteen at school ever! All children in school should be given free school meals, even if it's sandwich fruit crisp and a drink.

permanent solutions are required. not appeasement to utility companies. they are making lavish profits let them pay for the rise in energy markets which is manufactured anyway by themselves.

You can always depend on manchester to stand up for what is right,a day away from manchester is a day waisted,keep fighting on folks,from a scottish man from edinburgh❤️👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"They are not interested". Dead right love, they only care about their bank balances - which we fund, directly.

Thats what you get for voting tory. Labour may be far from perfect, but a least people don't have to choose between food and dying of cold.

Many thousands will be unable to pay their energy bills very soon which will put them in debt and at the hands of debt collectors who have been retained on mass by the energy companies. Their other threat is to change to pre payment which will take up 90% of any credit put on it to clear debt.

Ok lets all stand up together and level up the country ourselves by forcing our leaders to tax the rich to help the poor and cap profits of big companies to help the smaller businesses.

Love his sign. Feed the needy not the greedy.

This makes me so angry, how can we even let this happen.

This is so heartbreaking

Most of what these peole are asking for was in the Corbyn manifesto of 2019. But they decided "Let's get Brexit done" was more important and voted for that instead.

Eddie dempsey speaks the truth and says it like it is.

Its a price the UK government is willing to make to keep the meat grinder grinding.

Feed the needy WITH the greedy!

This is Thatchers legacy

I'm watching You Guys from America. It's THE SAME HERE. DO NOT GIVE UP, EVER!!! LOVE TO YOU ALL ACROSS THE POND🌼🌼🌼

dinner lady is amazing. we need more advocates kids

Enough is Enough. Time to unite workers all over the country and if possible the world, We have the power, not the CEO's or MP's.

We want a quality UBI to end poverty, combat inequalities and empower all workers Robin Hood tax system and totally end any and all tax avoidance

The guy at the end hit the nail on the head.We need people power and organisation to stand up and fight the fat cats who are systematically destroying people’s lives thru uncontrolled greed.

As a young person there is nothing I love to see more than the elderly generation standing with us in solidarity, even one condemning capitalism. These are true heroes who grew up in times where things were much easier than today yet they still have the compassion to stand with the less well-off. It's a huge difference to the overwhelmingly conservative over 65s found throughout England

Absolutely brilliant reporting, and great attitudes of the ordinary people there👏✌

Honestly, hearing people talking openly about nationalising services, acknowledging the disastrous, real world impact privatisation has had on far too many people while it benefits far too few for all the wrong reasons chokes me up, just a bit. This isn't about ideology any more. It's just pragmatic steps that need to be taken if we want a country that prioritizes compassion, humanity and dignity over greed and profit. Human and animal life over a profit line, is what this boils down to.

In the 2021/2022 fiscal year, over one third of the UK's GDP was produced from tax and other receipts. The total was 915Bn. This is 39% of the UK GDP. Income tax was the largest individual contributor to that number with NI contributions in second. However, there are so many other things that are taxed. VAT on goods, Council Tax, Fuel duty, Capital Gains Tax. Those are the four biggest things that affect individuals after income and NI taxes. People are struggling to pay for fuel! If fuel does not get addressed then how the hell are people supposed to live in order to work and pay enough to keep the country and it's infrastructures running!? Gov will be moaning about future net GDP if they do not check themselves and will know thier days in power are numbered when people simply can't even get access to the basic needs in order to live. But right now they're too busy vying to gain power with only empty words that will only mean something when action is taken with results to benefit the people that they represent, which is everyone! Dispicable

Rise up!!

Send the children around to all mps houses for food

Billionaires royal family can help out period! Kate can sell her dresses!

"Feed the Needy not the greedy" superb banner.

I'm on disability and haven't eaten for 3 days...I'm ashamed to be British.

The school dinners are another thing that needs bringing back, private companies ain't got the kids best interests at heart, it's all about profit.

All children should have free school dinners. All children.

Britain had its chance with Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnel and chose knowingly what Johnson and his cronies are like , Mind boggling still now that people knowingly chose the far right Austerity and corporate billionaires over the Progress of equality and putting the country back to public ownership three years and an unelected tory to walk into downing street , Jeremy would still be in number 10 now and non of this happening 40 year career in standing up for the working class and those in need with an accolade of global peace awards first standing up in the commons to Thatcher about the very things this video speaks of still this today , what next Liz truss voted by 150,000 tory members Jeremy has the record for highest amount of party members in all of Europe man of the people that was only at the last general election , people got what they voted for ?

Thank you for this. I want to join something as such in London. We need to stand up. The greedy are getting more and more and poor are taken away from more and more.

and people will continue to vote Tory.................

Enough is enough

I've so many comments to make on this but I can't say what I would like to say, or what I think. That poor lady having to say no to a child eating food is heart breaking! What the hell is going on here.. We feed people that come into this country illegally, we keep them watered and warm, I'm not denying that they don't need help, yet here we are, can't take care of our children or the elderly.. This government should be ashamed of themselves!