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.

"don't need to be a member of Mensa to know that a supermarket whole chicken is £2"

as far as I am aware there are no supermarkets anywhere near the council estates in this area

the shops that serve the council estates are hideously expensive and have a very poor selection of cheap veg

there is no way I could fit shopping there into my budget- but then I don't have to because I am affluent enough to live somewhere with a better choice of shops

by the time you have got on the bus and back for somewhere cheaper, that is an extra £ 4 on your chicken

even in my less affluent but not poor area, there is no access to £2 chickens for non-drivers

life gets more expensive if you're poor

what a Cuntess she is !

cory This might sound totally mental, but Waitrose do a free delivery. They have an essentials range that is not too expensive and it is good stuff. They also price match Tesco on loads of stuff too. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it works out quite good, they have all the usual deals too.

Ooops, meant to say free if over £50

these are 8p dearer than these

Waitrose dont deliver everywhere. Where I live for example. I shlep down to Morrisons.
The woman works 2 jobs, I bet she is knackered and going from shop to shop for bargains to cook from scratch with 2 small children would be exhausting.

I use ready meals for this reason, they aren't that bad, and save hours.

I used to cook from scratch every meal, but it was just a killer with 3 little kids, so now I often use ready meals and frozen veg - keeps ma sane.

Might do one or two really good meals cooked from whole foods each week.

I heard Edwina defend this twaddle on 5 live on Friday night and then could not sleep cos was so cross with her. The breathtaking assumptions she made about this woman and her family were astounding. But the (stupid) woman is convinced no-one in Britain today lives in poverty. ( Her definition of, not UN definition, btw) She is foul.

She made her money from fucking the Prime Minister.

recall - I tried a ready meal on a couple of occasions and they tasted crap - sorry but they where bad/gross.

WannabeearthmommaPoor 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.

Well said!

A bit like sending someone along to Marie Antoinette for Money Advice...

In any case, Edwina Currie has the compassion of a rock. I'll never forget the first volume of her biography, in which she complained that her first husband was fat and didn't earn enough. She was also disparaging about his depression. Nearly forgot: and she was shagging her boss, John Major.

'biography' - sorry, that should have been 'autobiography', memoirs, etc

The couple actually own their own house...I wish I could own my own house. As for skipping meals and breakfasts - how much does tesco value cornflakes cost these days? you can buy 4 pints of milk for a pound from Iceland. There is no reason that the parents should be skipping breakfasts.

You can get 3 baby chickens for around £6 in Asian meat shops where I live and can get really cheap vegetables from the market...or even Iceland. Iceland eggs are really cheap too and Kingsmill bread.

I think shopping around is the key here. After paying the mortgage and bills they should definitely have enough money left over to at least eat properly.

You all say Edwina Currie made the wrong assumption, but you're all making assumptions too. There's nothing to say that some of your assumptions are any better than those she made. Some of them will be, some of them won't.

Perhaps this will be a good thing for the mum though? Now a huge discussion has blown up over it all. People might think more about this issue.

What annoyed me most was her comment re the WFA particularly how all pensioners are entitled to it and if they wish to spend it on a SAGA holiday good on them.

Well considering how we're loosing our CB and my kids have shivered through the winter whilst both sets of grandparents have their heating permanently on sub tropical heat even whilst they're all away on their several luxury and long haul holidays that annoyed me a tad.It also made me think perhaps the woman was speaking out of her backside.

I do not like Edwina Currie. I have never liked her and this is a perfect example as to why.

audio link
audioboo.fm/boos/672299-hayley-sanderson-argues-with-edwina-currie-on-bbc-5-live

Ms Currie just didn't get it - even if she had been listening properly in the first place.

Haley Sanderson clearly explained that she & her partner had fallen into arrears with their everyday bills during her partner's period of unemployment.
As folk living in the real world already know, in such circumstances you make arrangements with the service providers to pay off such arrears on top of your normal monthly payment. Arrears are often increased by related fees - eg Council Tax court costs.

The couple would therefore be paying a higher total monthly amount for Mortgage, water rates, phone, Council Tax, etc. Meaning that the family is left with a lower level of disposable income, exacerbated by the fact that Ms Sanderson's partner is now working reduced hours. This is not 'borrowing'*

It was also made clear that Ms S & partner had no credit cards, no fripperies (eg Satellite telly). - ie, they were not 'Whooping it up' - or "living life to the full" as Ms Currie put it.

I can't imagine that the couple had a huge income in the first place & their lifestyle more of a balancing act where there was not much money left to 'save' at the end of each month.

Jumping in and advising Ms Sanderson to file for bankruptcy was rather unhelpful, to say the least. In such circumstances, the word 'bankruptcy' would make most people cry, even if common sense told them that Ms Currie was talking utter crap. Which she was.

actually i have just listened to that fucking bitch edwina curry asking - have you got pets ...do you feed them? have you got credit card and catalogue bills?

and explaiming that this woman was living life to the full

no edwina - her husband had previously been made redundant you right wing cow, just like many of us have been.

and thanks to your government - it is getting worse, oh and your taking away the NHS in any recognisable form and also fuckin up the welfare state

no- this woman hadn't been out all night clubbing every weekend.

contrary to murdochian populist bollocks, she didn't have a menagerie at home, she didn't have debts, she didn't live beyond her means.

no

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didn't

Think that is a pretty fair summing up, Nuns. Whilst Ms Currie has obviously never been in a position from which she might be expected to empathise, she should have, at least, been listening to what Haley Sanderson was actually saying.

(re)post of OP's link -

Longer version of the radio interview is at the bottom of the DM article:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102478/You-try-raising-family-1-000-month-Edwina-Mother-challenges-ex-MP-clash-national-radio-family-finances.html

All she's done is shown herself up as the unpleasant person she is.

After all, she's pefect isn't she (hahahahahaha)