And yes, people DID starve to death before they existed. Check your history.
not in recent history.
Check for yourself. the last case of starvation due to poverty in Uk was under a labout govt......
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Food is only cheap if you can afford it, and CB is not paid to all
what utter crap. CB is paid to everyone on any income from low to well above average. There is a surfeit of cheap food in the country. carrots, potato, rice, pasta, liver, bananas, saver ranges, etc etc etc. There are tins of baked beans less than 20p, for goodness sakes, and many other tins in the same price range.
A private bathroom and kitchen within a family home is not a luxury its a necessity.
This is an example of the greed and entitlement in this country. I expect you are one of those people who thinks they are entitled to switch the heating on instead of putting on an extra jumper, aren't you, and go running round screaming waving your hands over your head if you are without hot water for a couple of days!
This country is full of people DEMANDING they live in the lap of luxury. None of these things are necessary for a happy ,healthy life. Nor are they or should they be available for free.
I just don't get where this sense of entitlement comes from. You start at the bottom in life and work up. I'm not old ( in my 40s, ) and my parents generation were so different.
My parents grew up without an inside toilet, or central heating. My dad had a fireplace, my mum had nothing.
When I was a baby, my parents spent their evening sitting in their car, because needing a car for work, they were then unable to afford chairs in their home, or a radio.
After leaving home I lived in shared accommodation for the first 12 years, until I could afford to rent my fist self contained home, with my own small kitchen and bathroom.
A decade later I became a home owner, I have always worked full time, and so I pay for my own way, meaning, for example, if I can't afford shopping, I do without it, and when out boiler broke last year and wasn't covered by the insurance, we spent 6 months without heating or hot water while we saved up a deposit for a new one.
We do not, and never have considered ourselves poor, or oppressed!
Because we are not, we are well off. My parents generation also were quite happy with what they had, and proud.
yet people with far more than us, and far far far far more than our parents, consider themselves somehow being ground down by the government, when in fact they are given so much help and support in every way.
of course it is disappointing if your standard of living goes down instead of up, of course everyone wants a luxurious home, but I promise you if everyone had one, there would be not one iota of difference in the demands and the complaints, people would just want a better one.
How about just being happy with life, and working hard to improve your self?