£1,700 a month coming in. £900 on rent. £300 on bills.
No car. No holidays. Every meal cooked at home. Shops in Lidl. Already cut back on everything there was to cut back on.
That leaves around £500 for food, phone, clothes, getting to work and anything that goes wrong.
"Budget better" gets said to people in that position constantly. What exactly is left to budget?
This is so horrendous and upsetting.
The consequences of the climate crisis being felt often by those who have done the least to cause it.
Thinking tonight of all those affected and what we're doing to the world.
This isn't normal. While this government is in chaos, its failure to protect people from extreme heat will cost lives.
We need maximum workplace temperatures to protect workers and cool spaces so the vulnerable aren't exposed.
Blaming asylum seekers for homelessness? What about the 720,000 empty homes in England, and the 1,627,450 second homes in England alone.
Blaming asylum seekers for expensive food shops? What about the £3,100,000,000 profit Tesco made last year?
Blaming asylum seekers for expensive energy bills? What about the £438,000,000,000 made by just 20 energy companies in profit?
Blaming immigrants for not getting an NHS appointment? What about the 260,000+ migrant workers keeping the NHS going? And what about the 25% real term cut in NHS funding, think that could do it?
Blaming people on welfare for a lack of money to fund the NHS? What about the £36,000,000,000 tax gap due to avoidance and evasion by the elite?
It's time to realise it's not immigrants, asylum seekers or people on welfare causing you any harm, it's capitalism and the mega rich hoarding all the wealth.
NHS hospital: I noticed the clock on the wall showed the wrong time.
A nurse told me they knew, but they wouldn’t report it because replacing the battery through the NHS would cost £70.
A £2 battery... £70. How? Why?
That's when I began to dig further.
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SICK of people saying they want old UK back. We ALL do. WE want same day GP appointments, ambulances within mins, dentists, good education, affordable food, clean water ways; guess TF what? It’s not migrants who caused this. It’s 14 YEARS of Tory austerity! It’s capitalist GREED.
Tonight's #BBCQT hit a new low
Zack Polanski and Daisy Cooper constantly being heckled and interrupted by the Conservative, Reform UK and even Labour representatives
There's something really ugly happening in our country today, where the plight of asylum seekers is being exploited to sew division in society on a grand scale
And the only two sensible voices on the subject, The Green Party and The LibDems, are being drowned out in a sea of hate and anger
There's so much more kindness, decency, love, care and compassion in our country - and it's a tragedy that our current Labour government have chosen hate and division under Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood
Zack Polanski is right, Labour are cowards for not speaking up about the value and contributions from legal migrants, and casually intermixing that with anti asylum seeker rhetoric
We need perspective, we need solutions, and I'm glad that The Greens and The LibDems provide an alternative to the grotesque division from the Conservatives, Reform UK and even Labour; this is not the change people wanted