“it’s like living in a nightmare”
Hey, look over there: immigrants arriving in small boats, muslims praying in public, Prince Andrew, anti-semetism, trans people, pedos after your children…
… don’t mind those people running off with bags filled with your money. They’re billionaires and they’re entitled to ransack the UK and hide it in offshore accounts. Nothing to see here… just keep your eyes on those Turkish barbers on your high street…
Furriners? Small boats? Where’s my outrage bib?
I like that the image for poverty in the UK is a railway bridge in the rain, in black and white. We do have colour photography, sometimes.
lol that’s just the digital works team being creative 🌈
You can see the bridge in colour here:
Britain has become a broken, poverty-riddled ‘living nightmare’ | 7.30
Inequality really needs addressing. Our “benefits” are very low for a country of our wealth, not enough to live on and a contributor to poverty. There are plenty of disabled people who will never be able to work which the government just halved their universal credit payment from today. The other side is people stuck out of work unable to get and keep work in places where there just isn’t enough and we do extremely poorly at giving them opportunities and skills instead of just punishing them. The country needs a complete attitude adjustment or the situation is just going to get worse.
If you remove 1/4 of the populations jobs the uk is poor. No shit.
Places like australia and the us really cant understand what having almost all a nation within daily travel distance of a single city means.
What does it mean?
Places like australia and the us really cant understand what having almost all a nation within daily travel distance of a single city means.
Moving to the UK from Canada was a trip. People at work losing their mind when I say my wife and I are driving to Edinburgh from London in a oner, meanwhile the time/distance from my perspective is a reasonable expectation for a weekend camping trip.
London to Edinburgh is a 7-8 hour drive, right? If you’re going over the weekend then surely you’d be spending most of your time driving there or back again?
Genuinely not trying to be combative, I just struggle to understand how you justify that as reasonable.
Economy of scale is way different. The entirety of the UK fits into British Columbia almost 4 times… https://www.comparea.org/GBR+CA_BC
I’d happily leave work at noon on Friday, get to my camp site at 8 or 9pm. Do camping stuff Saturday, wake up hung over Sunday and be home for 8 or 9pm and be fine for Monday morning. Works better if you’ve got someone to switch out driving every few hours.Did something similar regularly when my dad was in a 2-year death decline. Leave work on the Friday, drive up to Scotland, spend Saturday making sure he had food, etc, drive home again on Sunday. But I wouldn’t do that for funsies.
We moved from London to Edinburgh mid 2022. We uhhhh…have a lot of shit… Turned out cheaper to rent a small Luton van and just do multiple trips ourselves. Rental and fuel came to just under £900, hiring movers was going to be £2200 for the cheapest quote we got. I did 6 roundtrips in 5 days. It was brutal.
Sorry about your dad mate. My wife’s dad is in a slow decline, dementia, and both my parents are in quite poor health. It’s tough, especially when they’re not close by.Cheers, mate. My mum died a couple of years before him and he followed the same pattern as my uncle and both my grandfathers. Outlived their wives but died within two years after. Basically they all died of grief.
My wife’s younger than me so I keep telling her I’ll outlive her!
Anyway, I’m a plucky orphan now. I keep expecting Dickensian high jinks and a pick-pocketing mentor with a heart of gold.
And sorry to hear about your old people. It’s tough when you get to a certain age and can see the decline. My father-in-law is suddenly massively doddery compared to how he was just this time last year.
I keep expecting Dickensian high jinks and a pick-pocketing mentor with a heart of gold.
Uhhhhh…mind putting in a good word for me when they turn up?
Yeah, it’s rough. My dad’s been on extended medical leave, in and out of hospital, but is having to consider going back to work before he’s actually appreciably better because he’s not able to afford just living on the benefits he’s receiving. If I could send money his way I would but we’re struggling ourselves, so it’s not an option on a regular basis.
The thing is, you’d easily be on a beach on the med having your first cocktail in less than that.
Thing is, in under 4 hours…you can’t even get out of Canada!
Kinda a bit of flight path shenanigans, Vancouver to London Heathrow is around 10 hours, but that’s over the top. Edinburgh to Toronto is around 7 hours.
Wild. My best friend lives on the west coast of Ireland. It’s a 3.5 hour drive and I consider that a massive trek.
I mean, in a way it is. But sometimes 3.5hrs doesn’t even get you from London’s ring road in the east straight through to the west side of the ring road. Bit different if you’re able to do 70mph(or the Canadian limit of 110kmph, so like…68ish?) the whole time.
Yeah it’s mostly motorway for me so I’d be averaging somewhere over 80 kph for the journey as a whole. Upper limit here is 120kph but I’m rarely arsed going that fast tbh. The last bit is country roads so slow enough.
Yeah, the slowest part of my last camping trip back home was getting out of Vancouver, and then the bit at the end up an old logging road.
Yes people who travel that far for work use the train or fly.
But i understand why a canadian would drive ;)
Yeah, if I was living in one and working in the other then I’d fly or take the train obviously. No way I’m doing that drive daily, that’s insane. But for a few days trip, no sweat.
UK’s hidden shame is widespread child sexual abuse, the poverty is just “meh” in comparison
Good news! They’re part of the same thing
No, “poverty is the root cause of all crime” is ridiculous distriaction bullshit. There was child grooming in the soviet union. Being poor doesn’t make you do bad things and saying that is a massive discredit to the tens of millions of poor people in this country that do their best every single day. Horrible narrative.
The same ruling class that does the noncery is also the one making you poor
Oh the shade thrown by the former convict colony. At least we got Jeremy Clarkson, Nigel Farrage, Boris Johnson and Prince Mountbatton on the way out.
