Pensioner Poverty | Living on your own | 1970s Britain | 1970s Worthing | Social Care | V Eye | 1970 

The system is rigged.

We'd rather look after folks from outside of the UK than our own, grim.

@@alexanderjames6328 Yup that about sums it up. We need to put up signs on the coast " Piss off we are broke!"

She was actually doing really well, considering she was coping mainly on her own!

Television today caters for the brain dead

Is UK 3rd world now?

@@SciMoTeArit’s on the way to becoming third world

such a shame that mate, where did you move away to? where do you live now?

@@ravenhill_the_cryptic_of_1968 Bradford.

Live in east sussex also drugs crime bad here now .

Don't,keep fighting until your last dying breath my friend,crying is giving up,I know it's not easy ❤

@ cute little doll, Those Tavistock change agents would like us to think that life has progressed but it hasn’t in any way at all, in fact We are degenerating, society is declining, very sad but God has promised a new heaven and new earth to all who place their trust in his only begotten Son, Jesus Christ for their Salvation ❤

The ten pound pensioners ' Christmas Bonus is now worth 136 pounds !

I was honestly just thinking that and it brough me here....crazy poor childhood and I yearn for it....

Back then family was your social care network, failing that the workhouse.

It doesn't seem like she has children. That might be the issue. It will only get worse in the future, it's already much worse. We will all have to revert back to being family-oriented and relying on family over the state. People will have to have children and invest in the future more than they currently do. And before then young people will polarised against the old, as the state burdens them more and more, and they are outvoted. So family ties might not properly recover in the end anyway. A society that exists only for the elderly is not sustainable or healthy, for many reasons. Generally-speaking, it is a problem of long life expectancy, past birth booms, and unprecedented collapse of birthrates worldwide.

You are quite right @john07973 life has been perfect under a conservative government 😀👍

Empire in decline. Britain was skint after the war, had to borrow money from the US, built crap everywhere, still didn't stave off decline, Thatcher and her mob came, gave us Capitalism - the rest is history. Today Labour are really no different from Tories, two cheeks of the same arse. Nothing Rose tinted about the past, just illusions of grandeur, which, for many, this wasn't the case, and that still is the case in the present day.

Stats show that virtually all get the state pension. While things are far from wholly adequate, pensioners unquestionably are better off financially on the whole than in 70s (which also had rampant inflation). Today the breakdown of the family and increased longevity - and thus frailty - are greater problems than in 70s but I can't say things are generally worse for pensioners now than then and suspect they are better (inc financially).

@@marcusstewart3044 Interesting points.

Do you know any pensioners then ? Because if you did you would know they are no better off now than they were in 1970. The cost of living is now so high that pensioners are dying from the cold, cannot afford food and are treated very poorly by the NHS ....​@marcusstewart3044

There was a man once who cared for his people a world war 1 hero and a water colour artist of Austrian decent i believe.....

Short sentences. Are. Great.

Japanese 🇯🇵 pensioners are committing crimes to get into prison. Better cared for in there.

As a kid used to shout at fast cars who do you think you are - Stirling Moss? Or said sarcastically at slow ones

Posted in a new comment above for visibilty, but she appears to have lived for almost a year after the report with the death of Ada Florence Stedman being recorded in Sept 1971.