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To wonder how people will financially survive?

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Cupcakeicecream · 25/08/2022 14:00

To think that many people are struggling already. Food price rises, gas and electric costs. The general cost of living due to inflation from either brexit since the pandemic and Ukraine war. But come on some people were struggling before any of those factors. Financially people will be pushed to breaking christmas will be off the cards general life will stagnate no meals out leisure activities cinema socialising new clothes treat foods. The threat of blackouts and wondering how we will pay bills to keep warm or keep a house running. Never mind buying food the price of it plus the large gaps on shelves. Winter will be miserable. It's becoming impossible to live in this country.

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Legofigure · 04/09/2022 16:47

SerendipityJane · 04/09/2022 00:30

disability equipment

Any decent equipment will have batteries (which the mains recharges). A lot of medical kit is designed to be used in situations where the power supply is sporadic.

If only. Not all medical equipment can run from a battery or has battery backup. For example, many nebulisers don’t - unless the NHS is going to start funding i-nebs or eFlows or similar for all, which they currently don’t.

antelopevalley · 04/09/2022 17:38

Kashmirsilver · 04/09/2022 11:42

I think people have to get used to the fact that their homes cannot be 25C all yr round.
And neither can they live forever.

We need to have a social conversation about the definition of what we mean by the bare minimum of living standards and the consequent cost.

Total strawman.
No one thinks they can live forever. They do want to have access to medical care.
And I have never been in a house of anyone healthy heated to that level.

midgetastic · 04/09/2022 18:00

www.jrf.org.uk/living-standards/minimum-income-standards

The uk already has people thinking what minimum income and acceptable minimum standard of living should be

Yes it's way more than many today get

Olderandolder · 28/06/2023 09:10

amijustparanoidorjuststoned · 25/08/2022 14:21

Think very carefully about who you vote for at the general election next year.

They both supported Lockdown. They both plan to increase the size of the burden of Govt. Labour may see us collapse slightly faster but I’m not seeing a huge difference here.

Sunak threatened us with food price caps, aka deliberately manufactured food shortages. That’s way more socialist than I’d normally expect from Labour.

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