Cost of living: solved

[Seeker]

Just get a job...

https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/17/tory-...-job-16295485/

...or, if you're a Tory MP, presumably get several jobs. (Boris has just reneged on his promise to limit MPs having second jobs).

Naturally I wrote to my MP suggesting he informs Boris what the word "promise" actually means because I don't think it's taught at Eton.

[EssEllTwo]

I knew I was going wrong somewhere. How does one get a "job" then? should I ask Pater if one of his Eaton chums can help me out?

[Bibio]

years ago the media and Gov turned the public into "benefit claimer" hatters. now some of these people that threw stones have been made redundant there is a bit more sympathy so MP's now get the slating they deserve.

its a funny old world at the moment. could be worse it could be the 70's.

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Bibio

years ago the media and Gov turned the public into "benefit claimer" hatters. now some of these people that threw stones have been made redundant there is a bit more sympathy so MP's now get the slating they deserve.

its a funny old world at the moment. could be worse it could be the 70's.

Yes, the 70's had their problems, but at least we didn't have a bast*rd like Putin then.

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by svenrico

Yes, the 70's had their problems, but at least we didn't have a bast*rd like Putin then.

ermm Mao, Brezhnev....

difference is back then you had the TV, Newspapers and Radio that was all controlled and spoonfed propaganda. no internet...

[Seeker]

It's only taken 12 years...

https://news.sky.com/story/cost-of-l...nding-12570830

How about paying MP's by results? When poverty is on the decline, living standards on the rise and the national debt is dropping, then they get paid.

[embee]

Originally Posted by Bibio

ermm Mao, Brezhnev....

difference is back then you had the TV, Newspapers and Radio that was all controlled and spoonfed propaganda. no internet...

Then Idi Amin and Pol Pot ......
then Yugoslavia, Rwanda, .......

[svenrico]

Originally Posted by Bibio

ermm Mao, Brezhnev....

difference is back then you had the TV, Newspapers and Radio that was all controlled and spoonfed propaganda. no internet...

I would rather have the BBC than propaganda fed to the Russian people by Russian state controlled tv .

[Seeker]

Dragging this back onto a cost of living related subject...

Food banks:
"Leading foodbank the Trussell Trust handed out 41,000 food parcels in 2009-10, the year Cameron came to power. By 2016, when he exited office, that number had risen to 1.2m. The latest figure stands at 2.5m."

This quote came from an article showing Cameron helping out at a foodbank which opened through his government's unnecessary austerity policy.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...b0c727d47e1b73

[Bibio]

Originally Posted by Seeker

Dragging this back onto a cost of living related subject...

Food banks:
"Leading foodbank the Trussell Trust handed out 41,000 food parcels in 2009-10, the year Cameron came to power. By 2016, when he exited office, that number had risen to 1.2m. The latest figure stands at 2.5m."

This quote came from an article showing Cameron helping out at a foodbank which opened through his government's unnecessary austerity policy.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...b0c727d47e1b73

simple fact is that if its free people will take it especially food. people would rather have their phone, fancy clothes etc.etc than food. there are people round my way that would rather look good than feed their kids properly so if free food parcels are there they will take them.

better teaching people to budget or heaven forbid cook.