To have cried!

[7dayslater]

I'm 19. DS is 18 months.

I live with DP & DS. I work hard, I have 2 jobs. DP works too. So, no we don't just sit on our arses, but we still need UC help to pay the bills. I want(ed) to train and work in the NHS. I'm also interested in politics.

So yeah, when I woke up this morning and saw the election result I cried. Austerity is very real, it's not a joke or a fictional story. With the way it is right now, I cannot afford an education. I cannot afford to study for a career. I'm stuck where I am.

Sadder still, others have it far worse. There are children in poverty, a homelessness crisis, the NHS is crumbling when people need it more than ever. I can respect democracy. I can respect the vote. But I have to ask, for people like me - what now?

@churchandstate I think we should of been taken into care.
I think my mother should of been made to get a job

Why should we, the taxpayers, have paid the huge amount it takes to place a group of children in foster care? What did you have to do with us?

Ahh but the problem was she only had us for free money.

OP, don’t despair. I know nothing about training, since i trained ages ago. But some helpful people are giving what looks like useful links and information. You will have all kinds of opportunities if you follow good advice, eg from mumsnet posters who know this area, or from a careers adviser.

My only warning would be to avoid things like Creative Media, which doesn’t sound like anything that’s likely to lead to a real job.

Best of luck xx

So? Why should society have paid for you? Why didn’t we let you starve/beg/work?

Oh that’s right, because of basic human decency and the fact that not everyone is a cunt.

I have cried too OP for the people I know will be totally screwed over by the continuing and future 'austerity measures'. It is a very large blow for society and those wanting (quite rightly) social justice.

Some trusts are doing nursing apprenticeships. You don't pay to study, you get paid to learn as you work.

Call me what you like , I assume you take it so personally as you are devastated that Jc isn't pm.
Well hey ho... you get another vote in 5 years 😀

I do take it personally. I abhor your politics and find you on an individual level to be deeply unpleasant, with one hand out to be helped yourself and the other deep in your tightly-sewn pocket.

😂😂😂😂

But chucking free money at my lazy mother did not help us.
It enabled her lifestyle.

@thestinkycheeseman

Tagging you as clearly you missed it before; as I already said, I did NOT vote Labour. I don't and did not support JC or want him to be PM. I'm really not devastated he's not... .

But 'hey ho', who needs to read or bother about facts, when they can just pontificate about how wonderful they are, paying for their dcs all by themselves (you don't) and making it off their own hard work (you didn't).

And I didn't call you anything. I would never make a personal attack. I will say though, that I think you are deluded about your dubious achievements and how much your own hard work accounts for them, as opposed to pure dumb luck.

I cried all night and I will be OK under this government. My heart is broken and goes out to everyone who will suffer and has been suffering. I’m going to find a way to help somehow.

Same here - I quite literally wept with disappointment and despair.

I didn't think Labour would win, but I prayed for a hung parliament to at least curb the excesses of BJ and cronies.

He will do what he likes now.

Thestinkycheeseman

Of course it helped you. You’re not dead. I assume you wore clothes, shoes, had the occasional trip to the bathroom. All costs borne by the State you hate so much.

I also imagine you continue to take from the state cheeseman. If you dial 999 one day soon, in desperation, and there is nobody there to help you, I hope it will console you that at least you aren't being a scrounger. Ditto if you go to A&E and there are no beds.

You can volunteer to pay more tax.

How many people here who are posting about being sad about the result or what it will do to society have done so?

Because if you haven’t, or if you didn’t realise you could do so but now don’t, you’re not part of the solution that you want!

What makes your life so horrible right now? You work, your partner works and you're getting top up benefits. Are you saying you can't make do? If so why not? As a young couple with a baby of course it's going to be tough, it was always going to be but you're young, the world is t your oyster, you still have so many options.

Be positive and forward thinking rather than focusing on feeling sorry for yourself, you can do anything you want to.

I think the problem with volunteering to pay extra tax under this particular government, is that I would be wary of what I was funding. This is why I give to charity instead as I feel that it's more likely it will go where it's needed.

I’d give up @churchandstate! Agree with pretty much everything you’ve said but it’s not being listened too!

The result didn't make me cry, this bloody thread will eventually. Banging heads against a brick wall. An ignorant brick wall at that.

True @SJaneS48. I think the moment the 'lol' faces come out, you know you're dealing with a solid gold...well, I said I would never make a personal attack, so I'll leave it there.

@MarshmallowMuggle Dont be expecting an orderly queue. :)

I'm ashamed to be British reading some of these responses.

It's just fucking disgusting. Of course young women with children should be helped to get an education. Is this a fucking Charles Dickens villain writing from a dozen accounts? There can't actually be this many selfish, heartless, vile people out there, surely??

He will do what he likes now

And that might be less right wing than the FB frothers would have you believe.

You chose to have a child before you'd qualified in anything. That choice is all on you, contraception is free. No point crying about the election result, it won't help.