‘I’m knackered’: people forced to take second jobs amid cost of living crisis

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  1. Currently doing 6 days a week for the foreseeable future and taking cover shifts in at any location I can as my money just doesn’t go as far these days

  2. She’s on £41k a year! She’s bringing home at least £2500 a month

    “£599 and £70 ground rent, utility bills amounting to £374, £240 for petrol, £150 for her children’s travel to school, £120 for life, home, car and dental cover insurance, her £20 union fee, a £35 contribution to charity and £170 towards her credit card bill, she has £527 left for food and everything else.”

    I’ve calculate £721 left from what she says on taking home £2500 a month. £527 is a lot to have left for food and life.

    As for her saying she were better off when on £7k I hardly believe that.

    She doesn’t have to contribute to charity, she doesn’t have to pay for dental insurance either. The credit card bill is her own doings by getting herself into debt. No one starts with debt so that’s all on her. If she’s paying £170 a month then how much debt is she in with these credit cards because that is a lot.

    How she ends up deep into her overdraft every month means she’s not even willing to take a look at what she’s spending. She needs to take charge of what she is spending and tell her kids no.

  3. >Once they enter the workplace, the British are amongst the worst idlers in the world

    – Dominic Raab – Britain Unchained

    Get Brexit Done =

    stagnant wages^^+10years

    cut workers rights

    reduce scrutiny

    trade barriers

    higher food + fuel prices

    end free movement

    more red tape

    undermine the NHS = they work 3 times as hard as in the EU

    Britain Unchained has been the unofficial manifesto of this Conservative government

    The current cabinet think that the economy is failing because they’re not doing Thatcherism/Austerity correctly and they just need to keep trying harder – more cuts to spending, more cuts to banking tax, cutting income taxes and then raising income taxes…..
    and eventually it will work

    the Authors belong to the party’s Thatcherite-leaning Free Enterprise Group :

    • Kwasi Kwarteng

    • Priti Patel

    • Dominic Raab

    • Chris Skidmore

    • Liz Truss

    from the top, only their vomit + faeces have trickled down

  4. “Staying positive doesn’t mean you have to be happy all the time. It means that even on the hard days you know better ones are coming.”

  5. The government will either praise these people for doing something to improve their situation or just tell them to stop complaining and that other people have it worse. People have been working two jobs for a long while now, all this really shows is that even the middle have been hit hard by this crisis and that the Tories still have no plan to fix anything. People should not be working two jobs to try and pay the bills, however people still refuse to fight for change because they are so worried about losing those jobs and falling into the ‘safety net’ that is the benefits system. The Tories know that our general subservience and desire to not make a fuss lets them get away with far too much.

  6. Can’t say I care. People voted to be poorer. “Brexit will be worth the financial cost”

    Well here it is.

  7. I do 50/60 a week normally and that’s enough, yet there’s still guys in my place who do Amazon/ubereats before work. Were on £40+ so it’s not necessary unless your financially dumb like that first woman in article, £240 in petrol?! Wtf you driving a hummer. If you got the desire to do it then do it but don’t complain, the guys in my work doing two jobs are just greedy for money, they want multiple cars and a few hours and with their work ethic they will get it.

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