Q2: if yes, how long do you think the recession will last?
Yeah but airports can’t cope with holiday makers
We’ve already stocked up on about 20 blankets and two hot water bottles between us. The other day my partner returned home with a portable radiator given to him by his mum, so we can spend most of winter together in one room.
I grew up poor, in houses that suffered from persistent issues with black mould due to my mum not being able to afford to put the heating on, and being too afraid to open windows lest the little heat that was there escaped.
Growing up in poverty, I think you get used to the absence of most things, like lack of food, the second hand clothes, the never going on holidays, books for birthdays and Christmas’. But not the cold. Never the cold. It’s the one aspect I can’t abide. I can’t stand cold hands, your fingers so stiff and numb that you can’t write, draw or read, cant do anything to occupy the time. Sat under a thin duvet, miserable, too frozen to move, too frozen to think.
I thought that at this point in my life I’d finally escaped that sort of lifestyle, that I would never have to face another winter in a cold home ever, ever, ever again. And now I’ve found myself right back there.
Gotta love living in Tory Britain.
Food prices have gone crazy.
I’ve seen 20%-50% increases on many items in the last few months.
How the ONS states food inflation is 10% for the last year?
Absolute shite.
> and the findings suggest more than eight in 10 people (81%) are worried about the rising cost of living.
Here we go, heard this this morning and instantly knew it’s arguably bollocks.
Because you just know the survey was “Are you worried about the rising cost of living, Y or N.”
Instead of ACTUAL DETAIL like “Well no not right now but I am in 6 months when my mortgage gets renewed”, is that a Y or N? Or “I’m not but X in my family is and is struggling, I worry for them”, is that a Y or N?
But nah, let’s keep it as simple as possible so we can throw “official” %ages in the news and make it look as bad as possible.
If 80% of people are worried, why are so many booking flights for holidays? Why are pubs so full? Why are there so many people on the high street?
Turning things off when they’re on standby? Way to “save” like 10p a quarter? You seriously think 60% of the UK are switching off standby lights? Bollocks.
How many filled this in trolling it too, just to make it look awful so the government takes note and makes changes.
Sorry to hear that, hope it improves. life can get better.
We have nothing left to cut back on. No car. No subscription tv.no holidays, no mobile phone. Just food and bills. I am on disability and have found electric and gas already barely affordable. My pre-payment meters are daylight robbery.
I can’t afford a smartphone and really need one as it is a necessity to be able to fully participate in modern life. If I had one, I could join apps where people give away unwanted food, like on Olio. Or too good to waste, from Morrisons.
We have added an extra layer of glazing by sticking perspex sheets with Nano tape over our windows. But to do this I am now in debt, having gone overdrawn.
Last winter, my daughter and I only heated one room and lived in there. I would like an electric oil heater but yeah too expensive even second-hand.
I am poor but YES I can cook and budget, there just isn’t anything left to stretch.
Likewise, I am hoping to somehow acquire some hot water bottles and extra blankets, but it means beating the competition from all the other people trying to get them too. (second-hand on Facebook or eBay)
As for food,I have been collecting recipes from depression area times and frugal website.
We do have internet, and it is our biggest and only luxury, but I am stuck with my ISP for another year so can’t switch to a cheaper tariff. (If there is one we are with talk talk).
I am writing all this out, so people see that poor or on benefits does not equal stupid or uninformed or feckless.
I also live in the north of Scotland and winter is going to be utterly awful once heating will be a necessity.
And yet I am one of the lucky ones. My daughter is a young adult, there are no nappies to buy or baby food. I have no idea how folk with wee ones will cope. Will we see children malnourished and sick due to inadequate food, cold and damp because heating is no longer an option? Rickets?
At what point will the government realize the scope of this crisis, especially for the very young and old?
Will the government keep suggesting people eat more venison and salmon while young families count the price of a can of beans? Do MP’s who have heated stables for their horses have any chance of understanding what is really going on with ordinary people?
Will our PM who said let the bodies pile high when people died of COVID-19 feel any different when deaths are caused by cold?
What is it going to take, how low does this country need to sink before something will be done?
What can be done? Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Or is it just an oncoming train?
Me and my housemate have taken a couple trips to Primark and topped up on cheap clothes.
It’ll all cost double next year might as well do it now.
Prices are going up and we’re spending less no shit Sherlock
No shit, this austeric bullshit will only harm the economy in the long run as people hold on to what little money they have.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
People adapt.
I work for a well known manufacturing company and they have a shop on site which sells things like soups, pot-noodles and toilet roll etc. for huge discounts so Im not really worried about it RN.
Unfortunately those in power only need to cut back on their luxuries and have little clue what its like not to be able to afford anything but the basics. Unfortunately while they understand the economy is driven by consumer spending they don’t seem to realise consumers need money to spend.
Things aren’t going to get better either. No sign of the global supply chain sorting itself out, worldwide shortage of grains and oils, global warming out of control and probably irreversible, chance of WWIII higher than its ever been.
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Sherlock Holmes works at the BBC now…
Survey:
Q1: who thinks we’re already in a recession?
Q2: if yes, how long do you think the recession will last?
Yeah but airports can’t cope with holiday makers
We’ve already stocked up on about 20 blankets and two hot water bottles between us. The other day my partner returned home with a portable radiator given to him by his mum, so we can spend most of winter together in one room.
I grew up poor, in houses that suffered from persistent issues with black mould due to my mum not being able to afford to put the heating on, and being too afraid to open windows lest the little heat that was there escaped.
Growing up in poverty, I think you get used to the absence of most things, like lack of food, the second hand clothes, the never going on holidays, books for birthdays and Christmas’. But not the cold. Never the cold. It’s the one aspect I can’t abide. I can’t stand cold hands, your fingers so stiff and numb that you can’t write, draw or read, cant do anything to occupy the time. Sat under a thin duvet, miserable, too frozen to move, too frozen to think.
I thought that at this point in my life I’d finally escaped that sort of lifestyle, that I would never have to face another winter in a cold home ever, ever, ever again. And now I’ve found myself right back there.
Gotta love living in Tory Britain.
Food prices have gone crazy.
I’ve seen 20%-50% increases on many items in the last few months.
How the ONS states food inflation is 10% for the last year?
Absolute shite.
> and the findings suggest more than eight in 10 people (81%) are worried about the rising cost of living.
Here we go, heard this this morning and instantly knew it’s arguably bollocks.
Because you just know the survey was “Are you worried about the rising cost of living, Y or N.”
Instead of ACTUAL DETAIL like “Well no not right now but I am in 6 months when my mortgage gets renewed”, is that a Y or N? Or “I’m not but X in my family is and is struggling, I worry for them”, is that a Y or N?
But nah, let’s keep it as simple as possible so we can throw “official” %ages in the news and make it look as bad as possible.
If 80% of people are worried, why are so many booking flights for holidays? Why are pubs so full? Why are there so many people on the high street?
Turning things off when they’re on standby? Way to “save” like 10p a quarter? You seriously think 60% of the UK are switching off standby lights? Bollocks.
How many filled this in trolling it too, just to make it look awful so the government takes note and makes changes.
Sorry to hear that, hope it improves. life can get better.
We have nothing left to cut back on. No car. No subscription tv.no holidays, no mobile phone. Just food and bills. I am on disability and have found electric and gas already barely affordable. My pre-payment meters are daylight robbery.
I can’t afford a smartphone and really need one as it is a necessity to be able to fully participate in modern life. If I had one, I could join apps where people give away unwanted food, like on Olio. Or too good to waste, from Morrisons.
We have added an extra layer of glazing by sticking perspex sheets with Nano tape over our windows. But to do this I am now in debt, having gone overdrawn.
Last winter, my daughter and I only heated one room and lived in there. I would like an electric oil heater but yeah too expensive even second-hand.
I am poor but YES I can cook and budget, there just isn’t anything left to stretch.
Likewise, I am hoping to somehow acquire some hot water bottles and extra blankets, but it means beating the competition from all the other people trying to get them too. (second-hand on Facebook or eBay)
As for food,I have been collecting recipes from depression area times and frugal website.
We do have internet, and it is our biggest and only luxury, but I am stuck with my ISP for another year so can’t switch to a cheaper tariff. (If there is one we are with talk talk).
I am writing all this out, so people see that poor or on benefits does not equal stupid or uninformed or feckless.
I also live in the north of Scotland and winter is going to be utterly awful once heating will be a necessity.
And yet I am one of the lucky ones. My daughter is a young adult, there are no nappies to buy or baby food. I have no idea how folk with wee ones will cope. Will we see children malnourished and sick due to inadequate food, cold and damp because heating is no longer an option? Rickets?
At what point will the government realize the scope of this crisis, especially for the very young and old?
Will the government keep suggesting people eat more venison and salmon while young families count the price of a can of beans? Do MP’s who have heated stables for their horses have any chance of understanding what is really going on with ordinary people?
Will our PM who said let the bodies pile high when people died of COVID-19 feel any different when deaths are caused by cold?
What is it going to take, how low does this country need to sink before something will be done?
What can be done? Is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Or is it just an oncoming train?
Me and my housemate have taken a couple trips to Primark and topped up on cheap clothes.
It’ll all cost double next year might as well do it now.
Prices are going up and we’re spending less no shit Sherlock
No shit, this austeric bullshit will only harm the economy in the long run as people hold on to what little money they have.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
“A bit of rationing and blitz spirit wouldn’t harm anybody.” Brexiteers everywhere.
Except that rations were carefully designed to be healthy, and cheap food is pretty much the opposite.
People adapt.
I work for a well known manufacturing company and they have a shop on site which sells things like soups, pot-noodles and toilet roll etc. for huge discounts so Im not really worried about it RN.
Unfortunately those in power only need to cut back on their luxuries and have little clue what its like not to be able to afford anything but the basics. Unfortunately while they understand the economy is driven by consumer spending they don’t seem to realise consumers need money to spend.
Things aren’t going to get better either. No sign of the global supply chain sorting itself out, worldwide shortage of grains and oils, global warming out of control and probably irreversible, chance of WWIII higher than its ever been.