In other news, the obesity epidemic shows signs of improving.
And while this crisis is happening the Tories have decided to push along with plans for forcing the disabled to leave Legacy Benefits while knowing a third of them will be financially worse off and all of them risk debt due to the broken system forcing at least a month of no money.
We’re the fattest nation in Europe and intermittent fasting is great for the metabolism and weight loss etc so there is a positive spin to this…
I haven’t had a lunch in months! Only breakfast and dinner! So much easier and cheaper though!
Every other person I see in this country is obese so… It’s probably a good thing.
Bearing in mind most people in this country are ‘starving’ whenever they’re not entirely satiated.
The opposite of “levelling up” with this government.
Maybe I am out of touch, but how are people so poor they cant afford to eat? Where is their money going, I don’t understand so don’t flame me
You would assume that if these families who are skipping meals are that poor, they are on the highest level of benefits available to them, which is ample to live off. So where is the money going?
If they are experiencing in work ‘poverty’ then they have more money available to them than those on the highest level of benefit, which is ample to live off. So where is the money going?
At some point, the harsh reality of ‘you are the fucking problem’ needs to be said.
Listening to some of the stories on LBC about this is heartbreaking. People in work with a grand total of £60 for food for the month, having 1 small meal a day to ensure their children can eat, terrified of what happens when the fuel price rises come before the winter, genuinely distraught about the thought that thus simply will not get better.
These are people working who can’t afford to LIVE. Some who can no longer work not given the support needed to eat at least something every day. And some people are saying it’s their fault? When it’s 1 person, 1 family, I can accept that. A hundred households are now below the poverty line? The argument could be made they made some bad decisions. A 57% increase? Something is utterly wrong with governance, a fault at the very top with what decisions were made, something utterly unacceptable. And some would try and say this is OK, this is a good outcome, that these people deserve it. I refuse to accept anyone truly believes that.
Really not a fan of the phrasing for survey purposes
I routinely skip meals but definitely not in financial trouble
What baffled me the most was the Martin money super saver, whatever his name was, (or someone like him) suggested that people should look at the reduced section….
Who the fuck doesn’t do that anyway? I’ve been doing that for 15 years. I rarely drink, no kids, no debt.
My friend has been so poor multiple times that he used camping gas to cook his dinner, had no power, he has the time of his life, just finds it funny and keeps going, no complaints.
The fact that some people have their house on at 20c is fucking mental. Hardly turn my heating on, even in winter. Just put multiple jumpers on.
I’ve done this for years.
I know this kind of thing gets bandied around a lot, but who the fuck is voting for the Tories at the moment? Who feels their lives are being made better by this government and wants to keep them around on that basis?
Currently in at the 2nd of a 5year apprenticeship BEng civil engineering degree trying to change my life as a 40 something y/o individual, full time work and paid just above minimum wage, actually trying to figure if i need to go and work a 2nd job. Should probably say with partner and 1 boy.
It is an inflation spiral, it is because salaries follow the inflation that makes inflation rise even more which makes salaries follow and inflation rise again.
The only escape is to if not cut then at least freeze salaries
The government are always telling us we are too fat so is this their idea of a national diet.
in the US we call this “**Intermittent Fasting**”…societal fail masked as trendy diet
in the US we call this “**Intermittent Fasting**”…societal fail masked as trendy diet
Yeah my shopping bill has been reduced to 25% and I am now actively on 1 meal a day.
I’m all for throwing bricks at Downing Street at this point.
Oh well as long as the oil and gas giants are making record profits….
Just to point out that means before it was 1/11, that was horrendous before the news paid attention.
And that was in part why free school meals were so important, because in part both it secured the kids food and meant that maybe the parents could eat at least something.
Mine skipped meals in the austerity years(when it was talked about, even if it still exists but is now quiet), which I only realised later.
Frankly I wonder if some sort of state ration system wouldn’t be awful. Not a limitation but some sort of guaranteed access to x fruits, ygrams bread, 2l milk, 0.5kg meat per week might be reasonable.
I don’t care if the wealthy use them, and it might even be a good opportunity to subsidise independent butchers and greengrocers at the expense of major (National and foreign owned) supermarkets. And ease some fo the downward pressure on farmers by essentially subsiding the purchase of food, and if you break the National supermarkets power a little you limit their use of monopsony power.
Of course that would be paid for out of general taxation, as per usual. Which is mildly progressive in its rates(at least until the to tip top post-toff extreme), but could be much more so, if you wanted. The net result would be improving nutrition for the working class, subsidising smaller food businesses to whatever degree you choose, having the potential to decrease price pressures on farmers in rural areas, and decrease inequality which is damaging the British social fabric.
Furthermore that net improvement in nutrients could be captured by the government in productivity gains, from reduced stress, and better physical performance, and act as a cost saving measure on the Health system long term, and particularly help the elderly remain independent as we age as a nation.
So when do we march on No 10 and physically drag the blonde, sex-addicted ape out of the driver’s seat? Or are we waiting to just crash into a wall?
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In other news, the obesity epidemic shows signs of improving.
And while this crisis is happening the Tories have decided to push along with plans for forcing the disabled to leave Legacy Benefits while knowing a third of them will be financially worse off and all of them risk debt due to the broken system forcing at least a month of no money.
We’re the fattest nation in Europe and intermittent fasting is great for the metabolism and weight loss etc so there is a positive spin to this…
I haven’t had a lunch in months! Only breakfast and dinner! So much easier and cheaper though!
Every other person I see in this country is obese so… It’s probably a good thing.
Bearing in mind most people in this country are ‘starving’ whenever they’re not entirely satiated.
The opposite of “levelling up” with this government.
Maybe I am out of touch, but how are people so poor they cant afford to eat? Where is their money going, I don’t understand so don’t flame me
You would assume that if these families who are skipping meals are that poor, they are on the highest level of benefits available to them, which is ample to live off. So where is the money going?
If they are experiencing in work ‘poverty’ then they have more money available to them than those on the highest level of benefit, which is ample to live off. So where is the money going?
At some point, the harsh reality of ‘you are the fucking problem’ needs to be said.
Listening to some of the stories on LBC about this is heartbreaking. People in work with a grand total of £60 for food for the month, having 1 small meal a day to ensure their children can eat, terrified of what happens when the fuel price rises come before the winter, genuinely distraught about the thought that thus simply will not get better.
These are people working who can’t afford to LIVE. Some who can no longer work not given the support needed to eat at least something every day. And some people are saying it’s their fault? When it’s 1 person, 1 family, I can accept that. A hundred households are now below the poverty line? The argument could be made they made some bad decisions. A 57% increase? Something is utterly wrong with governance, a fault at the very top with what decisions were made, something utterly unacceptable. And some would try and say this is OK, this is a good outcome, that these people deserve it. I refuse to accept anyone truly believes that.
Really not a fan of the phrasing for survey purposes
I routinely skip meals but definitely not in financial trouble
What baffled me the most was the Martin money super saver, whatever his name was, (or someone like him) suggested that people should look at the reduced section….
Who the fuck doesn’t do that anyway? I’ve been doing that for 15 years. I rarely drink, no kids, no debt.
My friend has been so poor multiple times that he used camping gas to cook his dinner, had no power, he has the time of his life, just finds it funny and keeps going, no complaints.
The fact that some people have their house on at 20c is fucking mental. Hardly turn my heating on, even in winter. Just put multiple jumpers on.
I’ve done this for years.
I know this kind of thing gets bandied around a lot, but who the fuck is voting for the Tories at the moment? Who feels their lives are being made better by this government and wants to keep them around on that basis?
Currently in at the 2nd of a 5year apprenticeship BEng civil engineering degree trying to change my life as a 40 something y/o individual, full time work and paid just above minimum wage, actually trying to figure if i need to go and work a 2nd job. Should probably say with partner and 1 boy.
It is an inflation spiral, it is because salaries follow the inflation that makes inflation rise even more which makes salaries follow and inflation rise again.
The only escape is to if not cut then at least freeze salaries
The government are always telling us we are too fat so is this their idea of a national diet.
in the US we call this “**Intermittent Fasting**”…societal fail masked as trendy diet
in the US we call this “**Intermittent Fasting**”…societal fail masked as trendy diet
Yeah my shopping bill has been reduced to 25% and I am now actively on 1 meal a day.
I’m all for throwing bricks at Downing Street at this point.
Oh well as long as the oil and gas giants are making record profits….
Just to point out that means before it was 1/11, that was horrendous before the news paid attention.
And that was in part why free school meals were so important, because in part both it secured the kids food and meant that maybe the parents could eat at least something.
Mine skipped meals in the austerity years(when it was talked about, even if it still exists but is now quiet), which I only realised later.
Frankly I wonder if some sort of state ration system wouldn’t be awful. Not a limitation but some sort of guaranteed access to x fruits, ygrams bread, 2l milk, 0.5kg meat per week might be reasonable.
I don’t care if the wealthy use them, and it might even be a good opportunity to subsidise independent butchers and greengrocers at the expense of major (National and foreign owned) supermarkets. And ease some fo the downward pressure on farmers by essentially subsiding the purchase of food, and if you break the National supermarkets power a little you limit their use of monopsony power.
Of course that would be paid for out of general taxation, as per usual. Which is mildly progressive in its rates(at least until the to tip top post-toff extreme), but could be much more so, if you wanted. The net result would be improving nutrition for the working class, subsidising smaller food businesses to whatever degree you choose, having the potential to decrease price pressures on farmers in rural areas, and decrease inequality which is damaging the British social fabric.
Furthermore that net improvement in nutrients could be captured by the government in productivity gains, from reduced stress, and better physical performance, and act as a cost saving measure on the Health system long term, and particularly help the elderly remain independent as we age as a nation.
So when do we march on No 10 and physically drag the blonde, sex-addicted ape out of the driver’s seat? Or are we waiting to just crash into a wall?