BBC NEWS: Cost of living: Why are things so hard for so many people?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62128069
Totally agree about the flea circus.
The really misleading and ignorant comments from so many of the Tory leadership candidates in this utter shitshow about unemployment and the size and generosity of the welfare state in the UK are very much exposed as bullshit by this short factual BBC article. It’s probably not anything new to anyone on here but it’s a handy summary and I’m going to bookmark it for sending it to my MP next time I see stupid claims being made by front runners.
All of the structural and temporary factors mentioned that are tipping more and more working and unemployed people into poverty are on the Tories’ watch. They just don’t talk like they’ve been the party with government responsibility since the coalition of 2010. Its outrageous.
So I recommend this article as a really quick factual read for facts to counteract irresponsible candidates trying to whip up feeling against poor people. They seem hellbent on continuing the Conservative’s moral race to the bottom to give themselves personal power and advantage. It’s sickening to watch. We should be deciding the leadership of the country via a general election, not them and their party members now johnson has shown himself completely unfit for office.
TLDR;
BBC reports that Millions of the poorest people in the UK will begin to receive the first half of a £650 government grant on Thursday.
The payment is to help with the soaring cost of living, but many of those eligible were struggling long before now.
FIve things that helped to create a perfect storm of vulnerability for the recent price rises:
-Food banks dependency explosion in part caused by rising cost of housing plus
-Rise of insecure jobs
-Stagnant pay for 20 years
-Rising in-work poverty
-UK jobseekers reliant on government benefits are the worst-off in the developed OECD nations