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The Poor have never had it so good!

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Catmeouws · 21/08/2018 03:14

There has never been such a good time to be poor as now! Compared to 50 or 100 or 200 years ago the poor in the UK and other developed countries have never had it so good!

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BlairWaldorfsHeadband · 21/08/2018 03:20

Is this a joke?

Broken11Girl · 21/08/2018 03:21

Biscuit[hmm?

wobytide · 21/08/2018 03:22

Theresa May joins MN

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Catmeouws · 21/08/2018 03:26

No it isn't. Was watching some program about World War one. A woman was saying that after her husband was killed on the Somme, she got 12 shillings and six pence a week from the Govt. She was lucky, had her husband been shot for cowardice, she would have got nothing. On 'ere people moan about the bedroom tax and the like. It pales into insignificance.

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moredoll · 21/08/2018 03:29

I'm tempted to ask if you're on glue.

BlairWaldorfsHeadband · 21/08/2018 03:29

It’s not remotely comparable. People are losing their jokes, starving to death and are driven i suicide by this government. Your comments make me feel sick.

BlairWaldorfsHeadband · 21/08/2018 03:30

Their homes*

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Catmeouws · 21/08/2018 03:32

Home made Cider actually. A Wilko kit. The trick is too add 2kg of sugar not 1.5 kg as per the recipe plus an extra sachet of yeast .

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Catmeouws · 21/08/2018 03:34

Thats the only way I can afford to get drunk

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BoiledFrog · 21/08/2018 03:37

Let's just slide back into serfdom, wanker.

I'm skint as fuck, every single person I know is skint as fuck, like eeking out 20p noodles, or basically starving for days on end poor, you fucking idiot.

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Catmeouws · 21/08/2018 03:42

I worked hard at school did you?

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BoiledFrog · 21/08/2018 03:43

I actually had a mental breakdown where I couldn't face going back to the job centre to be harassed and vilified. I would rather cope on tax credits and child benefit, but then was presented with the lovely fact that they stopped my housing benefit for no reason whatsoever.

So I was faced with actions to make me homeless, happy fucking days

BoiledFrog · 21/08/2018 03:44

I did work hard at school, really good a-levels, wtf has that got to do with anything

BlairWaldorfsHeadband · 21/08/2018 03:45

Me? I did yeah, but I have anxiety that prevents me from living up to my full potential as well as fatigue that they cant find a cause for.

I was one of the top in my class though OP. Am I “allowed” to be annoyed about society now?

BlairWaldorfsHeadband · 21/08/2018 03:45

I did work hard at school, really good a-levels, wtf has that got to do with anything

Only stupid people are poor obviously. Confused

By her own logic, OP must be thousands in debt.

midgesforever · 21/08/2018 03:46

Right at this moment following a period of austerity the poor have certainly had it better in the UK in the recent past.
Compared to a pre welfare state society you right that conditions are better but as I believe in human progress I would hope things would continue to get better for the most vulnerable in society. Given current politics I think things might be about to get a lot worse in the short term however.

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Catmeouws · 21/08/2018 03:52

Bang goes that theory then. I worked hard at school and got 4 A levels. Mind you that was back in the day before A levels were made easy. A lot of people waste their time smoking cannabis when they are young and then wonder how they end up with nothing.

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SallyVating · 21/08/2018 03:53

Wow...

BoiledFrog · 21/08/2018 03:54

Blair I'm the same, so much potential but never fulfilled due to circumstances. The current climate feels that I never can actually dig my way out.

No leg up, no help to access further education, I know I could achieve, but I can't even be arsed trying, too many barriers

BoiledFrog · 21/08/2018 03:55

Come on then cat what a levels, what grades?

MyOtherProfile · 21/08/2018 03:57

I worked hard at school did you?
Ah yes if only the poor had worked hard at school huh? Then they would all be investment bankers.

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Catmeouws · 21/08/2018 03:59

Ok. A in chemistry, A in Maths. C in physics and a D in Further Maths Right now studying French and German. Considering whether to really put my arse on the line by entering the exams.

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midgesforever · 21/08/2018 03:59

OP do you have a particular person or group of people in mind when writing this thread, most of the issues relating to poverty and the nature and impact of it are societal rather than individual. Child poverty stats are currently changing not because more parents have taken up smoking weed, or a particulary lazy cohort passed through school but because of government funding issues.

BoiledFrog · 21/08/2018 04:01

Success is not even about grades or universities, I was advised to go to Oxford, I didn't even apply though because I didn't have the confidence, or support.

Some people do rise above their circumstances, good luck to them, not every person can.

BlairWaldorfsHeadband · 21/08/2018 04:05

Success is not even about grades or universities, I was advised to go to Oxford, I didn't even apply though because I didn't have the confidence, or support.

That happened to me too. I did have support but after going to an open day, decided I wasn’t good enough and didn’t go.

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