Poverty in the UK

[Gnasher]

Big one this imo for Starmer and all opposition.

 

Boris threw the jab about Marcus Rashford being the only one to hold the Tories to account so here we go. 

 

This poxy £20 a week benefit payment needs winning.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-55695301

 

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/ive-report-suicides-universal-credit-17378456

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

 

 

Grim to watch.

 

[Stickman]

21 hours ago, Gnasher said:

Big one this imo for Starmer and all opposition.

 

Boris threw the jab about Marcus Rashford being the only one to hold the Tories to account so here we go. 

 

This poxy £20 a week benefit payment needs winning.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-55695301

 

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/ive-report-suicides-universal-credit-17378456

 

According to the Tory spin doctor @BBCLaurak it’s pretty good anyway

 

 

 

Marcus Chown

@marcuschown

BBC's Laura Kuenssberg used the the word "generous" while describing universal credit. This an opinion and not evidence-based journalism. It gives the distinct impression people receiving the payment, should be "grateful"

@BBCr4today

 

 

 

[Section_31]

4 hours ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

 

 

Grim to watch.

 

 

Blackpool voted for two Tory MPs at the last election yet has been top of the pile for poverty, health problems and the likes for years. Blows my mind.

[Section_31]

36 minutes ago, Stickman said:

 

According to the Tory spin doctor @BBCLaurak it’s pretty good anyway

 

 

 

Marcus Chown

@marcuschown

BBC's Laura Kuenssberg used the the word "generous" while describing universal credit. This an opinion and not evidence-based journalism. It gives the distinct impression people receiving the payment, should be "grateful"

@BBCr4today

 

 

 

She's a cunt and surely a bit mental. Said this before but one thing most journalists care about is their rep, especially with each other, the fact she doesn't seem to care doesn't compute at all. She must have her eye on a job in the long-term, it's the only possible explanation, as she's a laughing stock everywhere else.

[Jairzinho]

1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

She's a cunt and surely a bit mental. Said this before but one thing most journalists care about is their rep, especially with each other, the fact she doesn't seem to care doesn't compute at all. She must have her eye on a job in the long-term, it's the only possible explanation, as she's a laughing stock everywhere else.

I think she's just thick as shit and lives in a tiny bubble full of people who blow smoke up her arse.

[Bjornebye]

7 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

I think she's just thick as shit and lives in a tiny bubble full of people who blow smoke up her arse.

Nah. She a clever wicked manipulative self-serving eye on the prize selfish biased smarmy ugly cunt. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

 

Blackpool voted for two Tory MPs at the last election yet has been top of the pile for poverty, health problems and the likes for years. Blows my mind.

I went to Blackpool for the darts about 2 years ago, stayed in a b&b i said to my missus as we were leaving I am never coming back to this shit hole ever again. Its a shithole that was full of the worst kind of drunken arseholes. How the fuck Manchester won that casino bid when Blackpool has been crying out for regeneration for 50 years.

[Section_31]

2 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

I went to Blackpool for the darts about 2 years ago, stayed in a b&b i said to my missus as we were leaving I am never coming back to this shit hole ever again. Its a shithole that was full of the worst kind of drunken arseholes. How the fuck Manchester won that casino bid when Blackpool has been crying out for regeneration for 50 years.

 

There should have been a department set up to regenerate seaside towns. Local councils seem spectacularly bad at it, Rhyl and to a lesser extent Southport have also gone the same way. They seem to focus on quick fix solutions such as appealing to pissheads and the real money, the money which it takes years to attract but only a day to lose, fucks off.

 

A lot of people love Blackpool still and they'd go back if it was safe and clean. 

[Jairzinho]

20 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Nah. She a clever wicked manipulative self-serving eye on the prize selfish biased smarmy ugly cunt. 

She really isn't particularly clever at all.

[General Dryness]

10 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

 

There should have been a department set up to regenerate seaside towns. Local councils seem spectacularly bad at it, Rhyl and to a lesser extent Southport have also gone the same way. They seem to focus on quick fix solutions such as appealing to pissheads and the real money, the money which it takes years to attract but only a day to lose, fucks off.

 

A lot of people love Blackpool still and they'd go back if it was safe and clean. 

In Blackpools defence, it isn't Morecambe. That really is the seaside town that time forgot. 

[Bjornebye]

33 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

She really isn't particularly clever at all.

Sorry mate you don't get to be the BBC Chief Political Correspondent without being clever. 

[VladimirIlyich]

Just now, Bjornebye said:

Sorry mate you don't get to be the BBC Chief Political Correspondent without being a devious cunt.

 

[Bjornebye]

4 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

 

Yeah that too 

[Vincent Vega]

The 20 local authorities with the highest proportions of children aged under 16 in Relative low income families, United Kingdom, financial year ending 2020

The proportion of children in Relative low income families was highest in Middlesbrough (39%), increasing by 3 percentage points since FYE 2019.

Local Authority	Proportion of children (%)	Change on year (percentage point)
Middlesbrough	38.6	+3.1
Oldham	37.7	-0.6
Bradford	37.6	+2.7
Pendle	37.3	-0.8
Birmingham	36.9	+3.2
Blackburn with Darwen	36.5	-0.6
Stoke-on-Trent	34.4	+3.8
Sandwell	34.3	+3.2
Manchester	33.8	-0.8
Hyndburn	33.1	-0.7
Burnley	33.1	-0.9
Bolton	32.7	+0.5
Kingston upon Hull, City of	32.2	+2.1
Walsall	31.8	+3.1
Wolverhampton	31.6	+3.2
Leicester	31.4	+2.4
Newcastle upon Tyne	31.1	+2.8
Rochdale	29.8	-0.2
Hartlepool	29.4	+3.2
South Tyneside	29.2	+3.7

 

Middlesbrough - 1 Tory MP from 2

Oldham - 0 Tory MPs from 2

Bradford - 0 Tory MPs from 3

Pendle - 1 Tory MP from 1

Birmingham - 2 Tory MPs from 10

Blackburn with Darwen - 1 Tory MP from 2

Stoke-on-Trent - 3 Tory MPs from 3

Sandwell - 3 Tory MPs from 4

Manchester - 0 Tory MPs from 4

Hyndburn - 1 Tory MP from 1

Burnley - 1 Tory MP from 1

Bolton - 2 Tory MPs from 3

Hull - 0 Tory MPs from 3

Walsall - 1 Tory MP from 2

Wolverhampton - 2 Tory MPs from 3

Leicester - 0 Tory MPs from 3

Newcastle - 0 Tory MPs from 3

Rochdale - 0 Tory MPs from 1

Hartlepool - By-election imminent, Labour won in 2019

South Tyneside - 0 Tory MPs from 2

 

Absolutely incredible that the Tories have so many MPs in these areas.

[VladimirIlyich]

26 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

The 20 local authorities with the highest proportions of children aged under 16 in Relative low income families, United Kingdom, financial year ending 2020

The proportion of children in Relative low income families was highest in Middlesbrough (39%), increasing by 3 percentage points since FYE 2019.

Local Authority	Proportion of children (%)	Change on year (percentage point)
Middlesbrough	38.6	+3.1
Oldham	37.7	-0.6
Bradford	37.6	+2.7
Pendle	37.3	-0.8
Birmingham	36.9	+3.2
Blackburn with Darwen	36.5	-0.6
Stoke-on-Trent	34.4	+3.8
Sandwell	34.3	+3.2
Manchester	33.8	-0.8
Hyndburn	33.1	-0.7
Burnley	33.1	-0.9
Bolton	32.7	+0.5
Kingston upon Hull, City of	32.2	+2.1
Walsall	31.8	+3.1
Wolverhampton	31.6	+3.2
Leicester	31.4	+2.4
Newcastle upon Tyne	31.1	+2.8
Rochdale	29.8	-0.2
Hartlepool	29.4	+3.2
South Tyneside	29.2	+3.7

 

Middlesbrough - 1 Tory MP from 2

Oldham - 0 Tory MPs from 2

Bradford - 0 Tory MPs from 3

Pendle - 1 Tory MP from 1

Birmingham - 2 Tory MPs from 10

Blackburn with Darwen - 1 Tory MP from 2

Stoke-on-Trent - 3 Tory MPs from 3

Sandwell - 3 Tory MPs from 4

Manchester - 0 Tory MPs from 4

Hyndburn - 1 Tory MP from 1

Burnley - 1 Tory MP from 1

Bolton - 2 Tory MPs from 3

Hull - 0 Tory MPs from 3

Walsall - 1 Tory MP from 2

Wolverhampton - 2 Tory MPs from 3

Leicester - 0 Tory MPs from 3

Newcastle - 0 Tory MPs from 3

Rochdale - 0 Tory MPs from 1

Hartlepool - By-election imminent, Labour won in 2019

South Tyneside - 0 Tory MPs from 2

 

Absolutely incredible that the Tories have ANY MPs in these areas.

The 'stupidification' (probably not even a word) of the UK is complete. Brexit and successive Tory governments have proved that. 

[Section_31]

I remember some helmet in Leigh being interviewed when they elected a Tory saying that the Labour MP hadn't done anything for them. I'd say that marked a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of 'opposition'. 

 

It's telling that most people are actively discouraged from reading about, being interested in - or taking part in - politics. People have been dummed down and their appreciation for politics comes down to whether or not they like the man or woman at the helm. A lot of these people, inexplicably to my mind, like Johnson - possibly because he's racist. 

[VladimirIlyich]

3 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

I remember some helmet in Leigh being interviewed when they elected a Tory saying that the Labour MP hadn't done anything for them. I'd say that marked a fundamental misunderstanding of the concept of 'opposition'. 

 

It's telling that most people are actively discouraged from reading about, being interested in - or taking part in - politics. People have been dummed down and their appreciation for politics comes down to whether or not they like the man or woman at the helm. A lot of these people, inexplicably to my mind, like Johnson - possibly because he's racist. 

When divide and conquer has worked so well for thousands of years to protect the status quo,why change it? You just have to keep inventing new bogeymen. But there are plenty of 'others' left to go around.

[Anubis]

The older I get the more I realise that not much has changed since the days when the local Laird would take your bride to his bed on your wedding night, to break her in for you.

[VladimirIlyich]

8 minutes ago, Anubis said:

The older I get the more I realise that not much has changed since the days when the local Laird would take your bride to his bed on your wedding night, to break her in for you.

It seems to be more of a dry bumming these days.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

11 minutes ago, Anubis said:

The older I get the more I realise that not much has changed since the days when the local Laird would take your bride to his bed on your wedding night, to break her in for you.

And you doffed your cap for him and paid him for the privilege. 

[Bruce Spanner]

21 minutes ago, Anubis said:

The older I get the more I realise that not much has changed since the days when the local Laird would take your bride to his bed on your wedding night, to break her in for you.

 

But think of all the munters he had to deflower.

 

That's the problem with this country, no empathy.

[Strontium]

The problem with this country is how readily people believe misinformation, such as the invented feudal right of ius primae noctis.

[TheHowieLama]

3 hours ago, Section_31 said:

People have been dummed down 

[Anubis]

 

 

The story here is not the bill. My understanding is the customer didn’t complain but posted the bill online and someone took it and had a go.

 

The story here is not that Salt Bae has found a grift taking £850 off gullible morons for a gold leaf steak (which won’t be a patch on Lifey’s). If the gullible fuckers pay up then somebody is going to take their money.

 

But consider this, the current universal credit rates for a month are:

 

Your circumstances	Monthly standard allowance
Single and under 25	£257.33
Single and 25 or over	£324.84
In a couple and you’re both under 25	£403.93 (for you both)
In a couple and either of you are 25 or over	£509.91 (for you both)

 

That means if you added the single figures together for what two single people (one over and one under 25) get to live on for a month, it’s less than the price of a single steak. 
 

When you consider that there are many families in work still relying on some form of Universal Credit top up, the disparity between the upper echelons of wealth and the bottom is stark.

 

And we are apparently a rich country so imagine being poor elsewhere. The game isn’t straight.

 

I’m not sure where I’m going with this other than feeling despair.