Edwina Curry attacks struggling mum

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Edwina Currie reduces struggling mother to tears live on the radio by putting her debts down to living 'a very good life indeed'

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Eggwina obviously did well on her back, ask John. It doesn't mean she should lecture people who have kept their knees together at work.

Despicable bitch. Not the faintest idea.

Going without food my arse! Looks like she could do with missing a few meals!

She isn't able to afford healthy food, generation gap. That was a really nasty comment. Are you Edwina's long lost twin?

The video clip on the daily mail says they skip breakfast and lunch and only eat in the evening and mainly toast. They would both be seriously underweight if that was the case so i took the comment with a pinch of salt.

The articles says they claim no benefits - no CB, CTC??

I thought the point re the dog was a good one, if you can afford to feed and keep a pet (vet bills can be enourmous) then you can afford to feed the adults.

Bills, food etc are going up and have been for some time. So if you decide to have children young with no savings or careers behind you then you know its going to be tough but its a choice at the end of the day to have a family and down to the adults to support that choice.

I wondered when we would be invaded by the Tory propaganda queens.

Edwina Currie was wrong to make snap judgements about the family, and wrong to voice her ill-informed opinions on air.

However, I'm not sure that everything Hayley said can be completely honest. HappyMummyOfOne makes a good point when she says about weight loss with what Hayley claims to be eating, so it makes you wonder what else about their story is accurate.

Sadly many people struggling financially eat a very unhealthy diet. Crisps, chips, processed foods often see BOGOF deals, you rarely see it for the healthier stuff.

Poverty though is about much more than money, how many people think they need fish fingers/ burgers/pizzas in the freezer or they have no food? Most don't realise that toast, an egg and baked beans are cheaper and have more nutritional value. Money is tight here and the above is our main evening meal 2-3 times a week. There is only me and DS to feed and money is tight. It's about helping those poorest financially make the best use of their income when it comes to food.

I believe some people DO go hungry simply because they are unaware of the value of very cheap meals.
Edwina Curry would know these facts, she is wealthy and well educated. Maybe Hayley isn't that fortunate & doesn't know these things. If she comes from a family where processed food is the norm she will know little else.

Edwina Curry is an intelligent woman - she will know very well that all this is possibly the situation with Hayley. But Edwina Curry is a nasty vindictive woman using her intelligence to belittle someone who has not had her good fortune. Edwina Curry is an utter bitch. Would love to see life come up and bite HER on the arse, sadly it's not likely to ever happen.

In fact EC is the epitome of how I see this Govt we have. They know the facts about poverty but have chosen to ignore them in favour of a knee-jerk "you are not poor but you are all scroungers" approach. And that applies to those with disabilities too.

It Is much cheaper fill yourself up with fatty carbs Tham try to get your 5 a day.

The irony of Daily Mail publishing this...

The Daily Mail comments about this woman's weight are disgusting? ?Going without meals? Looks like it? and ?Going without meals? She could do with a few less?.

Disgusting just like Edwina Currie's views.

it was in other newspapers

I do agree though a has been of the 90's who lay on her back for the PM isn't really the sort that you are going to take advise on finance seriously..

What a load of bullshit, the moment I read this "they struggled to afford ‘meat and two veg’ meals and lived off chicken dippers, cereal and soup." I decided that she can fuck right off.

She's obviously short of cash out of sheer stupidity, don't need to be a member of Mensa to know that a supermarket whole chicken is £2 can be used for many things and it's left over skin and bone used for soup stock, for the cost of a packet of cereal you can buy 1-2k of potatoes and soup is stupidly expensive.

As they say it all adds up.

Besides is this 1k a month for everything or just food?.

Everyone loves a smart arse. Let's rub the woman's nose in how crap she is at managing her house, how she fritters her money away on shit food and how she lies through her teeth when she opens her mouth. I love how some people seem to have the answers for everything on this place.

Where the hell is all the compassion in this bloody country? Scroungers here, scroungers there, taxpayers this, tax payers that. Why can't we all pull together and support people less well off than others instead of sticking the boot in them?

I had someone say to me this morning how the UK is so unsupportive of itself now within its own communities that it makes you want to leave. It is sad to continually read threads where an element of people want to play the blame game, I told you so or it's your own fault.

Because we all know how perfect everyone on this forum is, don't we?

Ryoko - you DO realise that poverty is about more than money don't you dear? If not I suggest you do some reading before trotting out such shite.

It's not rocket science and it's got fuck all to do with being poor, I grew up on a council estate, I never got sent to school, I feed me and my son with £30 a week and still have a bit to save.

Knowing the difference between the amount of meals you get out of a tin of soup vs a bag of spuds, is not a class thing, it's a common sense thing, if some people are too blind to see that, when they walk round the supermarket thats their own fault.

There is no compassion in this country - just "Saints and Scroungers" apparently .

Full of people like Ryoko who with the limited and edited stuff she has read in the paper has decided these people are scummy and thick. And sadly there are plenty more where she came from.

Never got sent to school - do me a favour-! What a load of bollocks THAT sounds.

Even if your schooling WAS limited you have enough brain power to work your way out of poverty and good for you but not everyone has your good fortune so be fucking grateful and show some compassion.

I don't give a fuck what you think, of course I didn't go to school, why would I say otherwise?, never set foot in one in my life, nobody bothered sending me.

Work your way out of poverty? is that why I get £30 a week?, is they why I can't drive and walk most places because public transports too expensive.

You are probably one of the people living the life of Riley.

I'm living the life of the 1940's, living off truly cheap food like pasta and veg, buying new clothing when I can't patch up what I've got any more.

Frankly I think they are both idiots who get no sympathy from me.

I've never been to school, never driven a car/motorbike, never been on a plane, never had a manicure/pedicure, never been to a hairdresser, you name it I haven't done it.

you got to make the most out of what you have, end of.

Poor people should never take financial advice from rich people who have never been poor themselves. Even if they are compassionate and try to understand they can never really understand it.

Being rich means worrying about your investment portfolio losing value, or having to lay off your employees, or choosing a cheaper place to live or a cheaper annual holiday. Most high and middle income people are careful with their money, and their advice to slightly less well off people about how to budget would be useful advice. But for them to try and give advice to a properly poor person is just ridiculous, because they live in such a different world.

Being poor means you value every single coin in your pocket down to the coppers, you know exactly how much money you have on you at all times, and you have learnt the prices of all the best regular deals in LIDL off by heart. On pay day only a couple of your overdue bills get paid on time and the rest will have to wait because you can't go without food/ shoes for the kids etc. When the doorbell rings you shit yourself thinking it might be the bailiff again. You burst into tears regularly when confronted by things that rich people wouldn't even notice, like hidden bank charges, or an ebay buyer turning out to be a time-waster, or if it rains when you wanted to do a boot sale for some extra cash. The anxiety is unrelenting, you can almost feel it shortening your life expectancy!

Of course there are some scroungers who play the system, but many people falling into the welfare system for the first time, are in a grey area for a while where they have to sell their assets, reorganise schooling/childcare, decide whether or not to file for bankruptcy, find out if they are actually entitled to any help (which in many cases they are not because they technically still earn over the threshold), etc. In the mean time, while they are sorting themselves out, some bills are going unpaid and racking up interest and fees.

Your average poor person knows exactly how to budget sensibly. The only thing that will get them out of trouble is if they find a way to raise their income. Most are not hoping for an easy ride. They are just hoping for a job/promotion/sales increase.

Sorry for the rant but the next person who tells me to tighten my belt is going to get a punch on the nose. Oh how I would love to do just that to Edwina!

Rather immotive thread title OP.

God Ryoko, if you're trying to wind people up I think you need to try a bit harder and use a bit more imagination.

The problem is that alot of MP's don't bother to really find out how others have to live, they dole out sound bites and use their own life experience to judge other people's reality.

I don't know why this thread is turning into a competition on who can spend the least on food? As food is only one section of a household budget. Everyone can do things to reduce their food bill but there's other bills you can't reduce.