The Cost of Living | Short Documentary
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- The Cost Of Living tells the story of volunteers in food banks and community centres across Rother Valley, England. Feeling neglected and left behind by the government and facing enormous energy bills, more and more people rely on their community to help put food on their table and provide a warm refuge. Food banks, social cafes and community centres are being stretched to the limit as winter looms large. As the women of Rother Valley try to keep their communities afloat, the government’s inaction stands in stark contrast.
Produced, Directed and Edited by: Marie Jacquemin
Director of Photography: Percy Dean
Government knows what people are going through, they don't care.
Exactly; we’re bugs to them!
@@cherylT321 Yes
Yes that's the Truth the Government is Corrupt Greedy and Selfish they do Understand what is Going On They Simply Don't Care about People's Lives and Families they Only care about Themselves and their Rich Friend's!!!
Was going to say the same. This is a WEF plan to cull the global population. I believe over the next decade the world's population will reduce by 2-3 BILLION people.
They do care, care that people use Food Banks. This is whyFood Banks will be deliberately crushed out of existence by the skyrocketing cost of diminishing donations. Then it’s eat the Insect’s & Chemical Food Additives time.
Bless these wonderful people...ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
80 billion paid out in dividends since we privatised the water systems of this country. Water! You know, that stuff we need for survival. It's scandalous. Time for change.
That’s outrageous!!!
@user vg9. I hope you never get sick and become reliant on benefits. The tax evasion bill is greater than the benefits bill but you choose to adopt the attitude that anyone on benefits is a drain on society. I think you need to stop watching "benefits street" where these TV execs (cunts) want to make an entertainment show that is divisive and meant to cause outrage amongst people like you who don't stop to think that people on benefits might just be there through no fault of their own. But no, to you, they're all scroungers. Get real.
@@user-vg9gg4fv9e fair play, i stand corrected. I promise you I'm not a leftie but i do get annoyed by the, 'it's the poor at fault', attitude.
I don't pretend to have all the answers, but my original post, about the water system gets my goat. That money should be reinvested in the infrastructure of this country, oh I don't know, cheap to attend sports centres to keep the nation healthier. Perhaps then our hospitals would be more efficient/cheaper to run.
@@user-vg9gg4fv9e No, it's not looking good is it. Tho those trade deals jrm assured us would be easy, will come to fruition shortly. 🤔
@D C You both need to go back further in your history and thank the politicians and corporation owners that opened trade with China. EVERYTHING has been outsourced! The idiots back then that said we could live on a service economy were liars. How can you have a decent economy when you don’t manufacture ANYTHING? I predicted this 25-30 years ago.
It's a disgrace that our government continues to allow energy companies to price gouge in a time of crisis, or at any time. You cannot claim a shortage and energy crisis when making record profits. Rather than using tax payers money to supplement the bills, they should be passing legislation to forbid and fine price gouging. But enough of them have vested interests in those companies so will never pull the trigger. People are going to die, and many more will continue to suffer for their greed and indifference.
What's worse is that CHINA has bribed politicians to sell off power . And the people let them . or Did they ? Corruption in Government is treason . THe ONLY thing that governments understand is when you REFUSE to pay taxes. There is a rule of LAW that says that if you sponsor criminals you are liable.
Kitsune Shadow, I totally agree, you are absolutely right. I daresay no politicians will go short of food or heating. It's disgraceful that they expect the rest of us to.
GO LEARN SCARLETT, LESS TYPING, MORE LEARNING, ITS MONEY PRINTING NOT YOUR PLEBBY PRICE GOUGING NONSENSE
The funniest thing about all this... A significant majority of pensioners vote tory - the government that chronically underfunds the NHS and gives tax breaks to the rich.
@@robertlucas7107 How condescending of you. It's not one or the other. Money printing devalues the currency and tanks the economy, but profiteering companies gouging during times of crises is also a major contributor to fuel poverty for the poorest. I suggest you learn how to have a conversation and stop pontificating as though you're a subject matter expert.
Most politicians come from wealth and do not have a sweet clue of what it is to worry about money.
Amen to that overpaid sitting on their phoney baloney jobs their 😈 evil
This is the product of 40 years of neoliberalism and "shareholder primacy." Thatcher started the neoliberal ball rolling by slashing taxes on the richest and "shrinking the state" by cutting budgets and stopping social house building, Blair just watched the ball roll and Cameron/Johnson/Truss/Sunak have all sped it up. Shareholder primacy is how every major corporation now functions, meaning that CEOs are doing everything they can to spend as little as possible on staff's wages while buying back their own shares to increase their value and sending as much as possible in dividends to shareholders. It's these ideas that have done the damage to this country (and others) and if they're not rejected and discarded things will continue to get worse.
The thing is, it’s now been normalized and people forget how it used to be before the entire neo liberal bs train
How can companies bear to make such huge profits out of misery? It's wonderful that there are so many wonderful people who help out
Companies don’t have a conscience.
@@catherinewilson1079 mine does
@@landmanlimited That’s good! How big is your company?
@@catherinewilson1079 Me and my production outsourcing company so I have absolute control over the outcomes
It was the UK that made such huge profits out of the misery of other countries they invaded, now your government doesn't have other countries people to feed on it is feeding on its own people.... it has all come home to roost, your turn to cry. no sympathy what so ever, you were all ok when it was overseas misery.
I know the whole world is experiencing difficult times, but I cannot believe how bad it is in the great nation of the UK. Average citizens are in the impossible situation of having to chose housing, heating or food. I hope communities keep coming together and try and help each other out, like in this video. ~Sending all my best from across the pond 🇨🇦
Its not really what it seems. Too much poor food being eaten, too much smoking and drinking, too much reliance on the welfare state. Greed of large oil companies.
Where is the government ???
The elderly and disabled have had to do this for over twenty years, nobody spoke up for them, but people can't believe it that's it's happening on mass now. If a government doesn't care about its elderly, I can assure you it doesn't care about its citizens, and yet, for some reason, people seem to think the same government is going to help them. It won't.
Life is good in Russia.
Wish they would have kept H and M there. Prayers from across the pond
God bless volunteers....
How many houses could be insulated if we scrapped the King's Coronation idea (he is already king so what do we even need it for?) and spent all those thousand and thousand of pounds helping the people who really need it? It is totally obscene when you think about it isnt it?
Thanks for making this! Incredible that we've got to this point - it's almost like austerity economics don't work...
But but, trickle down economics is AMAZING!
For the haves that is
Oh they definitely know what is going on in real world because they caused it. I am convinced they get a high torturing the good decent people of their own country. Same going on here in lreland. Keep up the great British spirit. I admire your dedication and courage and love for each other. You will never beat the great British working folk ❤
Amazing, inspirational volunteers ❤ thank you for all that you do 🙏🙏✅✅👏👏 - you’ve inspired me to give more to food banks although as a donor, I’ve struggled with the high cost of energy bills in the last 6 months - but you’ve inspired me to work harder and have enough to contribute again - so many vulnerable people and families are struggling
Absolutely right, No. 10 hasn't a clue! PS: All rich countries can't control poverty in their own countries. Never understood why the cost of energy in the UK is completely out of control. The British government use to have people from the working class in parliament they seem to have disappeared.
Thank you for all you do.
I’m a former Tory I’m
Ashamed I ever supported them and sorry guys you were duped into Brexit it’s at the heart of the problems now and should never have happened.
May God Protect the Britons from your diabolical politicians....😢😢🙏
As the smart lady said 'Pull your socks up and improve your home insulation ' (paraphrased)....
The old phrase 'there is no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothes' has value
4-5 layers of clothing where comfortable is practical.
Porridge
People don't want to be political. That has to change. Till it does I say "Let them drudge, let them starve!"
Put all the blame where it belongs. The government. Thats it. If they wanted things to be better for you, they could/would fix the issues. They don't.
Hello Diana
How are you doing today?
Extremely cruel behaviour. Imagine the kids being cold and sick because of this corrupt government.
😠 May I add the scandal of children going without a hot meal during school holidays. Marcus Rashford led a campaign that shamed the government into action. In the seventh wealthiest country on the planet. How I despise those vile self-serving politicians and their wealthy friends.
I like the woman at the end. We will come back fighting. That is the right mood.
❤️life is not easy for everybody these days I know it’s a hard to get bye having faith helping one and other Thank God for being there for me ❤️
a sad indictment of the current state of the UK...
Food banks are great!
Food banks allow the government to get away with murder.
Ban the super rich. Force them to share their money and resources for the good. A handful of these Individuals and corporations are running most of the show. We have to start somewhere, even if it won't be easy. Personal responsibility is of course still essential, too.
Oh that will never happen sadly
@@onlyren563 We have no choice but to try to make it happen, just like all the other necessary changes for our survival.
Very Stalin'ish.
Its the only way but doubt it'll ever happen. Not in this life, maybe the next. I wish collectively we had the resolve to bandy together and fight this oppression
No. Communism doest work. Never has, never will.
After Broken Britain 1980 you found the North Sea oil and natgas, and promptly sold it for cheap. Now the North Sea is empty and you have to buy expensive imported oil and natgas. Dont feel too bad. Mexico did the same shortsighted thing with their Cantarell oil field.
What's weird to me is these Brits don't put plastic on thier windows and hay bails around the Northside of thier homes. Rural America has the same conditions. But we can't count or compete aginst the city's or the federal government. We are a small town. However we did establish a food pantry and our senior center is still good. All self funded. God bless these poor souls. Great video. Elderly are being forgotten now days.
Uk govt. does not have money to subsidize gas and petrol prices, in fact it is in red by billions of pounds. freeloaders and substance abusers/alcoholics will suffer the most.
Absolutely disgraceful that some hard working people are being put inthis position - "HEAT OR EAT". i don't have the same sympathy for those who have been on benefits long term and who could be working but just don't want to.
long live the Queen!
In a world of free will, a relative few very rich and powerful people are choosing to impoverish the masses. But may the indominable human need to want to help our fellow beings drag us out of this turmoil. And may it be temporary. May the suffering end! God bless you all
I fully empathise with the heat or eat statement. However it is very political.
1. Central gov programs to insulate homes have been available for years. Why haven't the councils done something about it? Why are local councils not getting more flask here?
Central gov cannot be blamed here, HAs or council housing departments are squarely to blame here.
Councils have funding pots for capital works (ie. Insulating homes, low energy/carbon heating, even community energy storage )
This problem is local!
Get onto your local council, make local changes.
Educate your neighbours.
Support local councillors that want to change.
This message is directed at the a part of the system that has changed, and do support insulation, green homes grants, higher windfall taxes.
This video should aim at locals, counties, not central!
We're facing a similar fate here in America. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING has gone up. At very least I have state run programs in place that keep me & my hub fed and help with the gas & electric, but who's to say how much longer that will be able to last?
The UK is in far worse shape than we are. I'm glad you live where you're getting help.
❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Lock our politicians up in a room and play this film on a loop until they get it. I know there is only so much a government can do, but their greed and corruption put the people of this country into this situation and until we weed out the corruption we previously thought only existed in banana republics, there is no hope.
The Cost of Living Crisis is Shocking 🤯
*The crisis in question have been hitting hard the working class and the poor people for ages, but attention is now brought up because people from the middle-income bracket are starting to feel a bit of the heat, or may I say, hit.*
Love this video we may be broken But it's temporary
How is it temporary ? Every indication is that higher prices for food and energy are here to stay.
Wow you are an optimist
interesting..
if everyone needs cheaper energy and greener energy then turquoise hydroge is the best thing.
Everything is a Big Mess!!!
Community gardens.
I like Heather 😍🥰🤩😘
Poverty is Getting Worse Almost impossible to Escape it Britain 🇬🇧 is Broken almost beyond repair!!!
There is no inflatable, just greed.
Without Funding Money 💷 Nothing is Going to Change Everything Revolves around Money 💷
Not so great Britain.... We all are affected bu the inflation and energy prices especially but not like spendid little England. You sure are on top!
Emergency one off 10% (cost of living)tax on the super rich.....billions will be raised for the poor......
Changing workforce due to technology: top paid technical jobs,doesn't benefit human beings, mentally stressful, physically non movement, meaningless to human life, leading many to ill health. work culture is 24/7, reducing hours will enable humans to re-energise with their families, life is dull due to government policy and food marketing adverts. A balance is what is needed. maintaining a family home whilst absent is impossible, maintaining the costs of working is expensive. We've only got so much energy in a day, and we cannot keep it up for the policy makers and businesses who want coverage of 24/7, and yet they no longer plough their profits back into the local communities to benefit all age ranges.
Technological changes to entertainment: Expensive screen based subscriptions, technology uses more energy, more phsically inactive human engagement", the decline of physical opportunities, to have fun as a human beings free in our local communities, to rewind, relax, re-energise with human to human contact, purely to enjoy life, dancing, acting, music, without an "economic" cost factor built in at every turn, is driving addiction to our screens. We are humans, not statistics, not machines. Lets devolve humans and businesses back to families and community, where more face to face human jobs be encouraged.
Please just . Over to safer and less expensive countries.
Direct it to the rich,revolution anyone ?
I love dialect! The subtitles ruined the Yorkshire vibe. Seriously, though, it reminds people in the South of England
that they are, on the whole, privileged
No men in this video??
Does it Matter?
I found that strange too.......I wonder why?
Just saw a guy at the Maltby food bacnk.
What an odd thing to comment.
@@KD--sj8eo not really, it's an observation
Lets stated important fact. All those people who know ,, gouverment,, letting them down and know that n.10 have no clue how normal people live perhaps voted for Brexit and for Tories over and over again. People of UK voted freely for bunch of privately educated individuals who grow up rich, never experienced what does it mean to be middle class or poor.
How, for the earth, they believed those individuals will look after their needs?🤦♀️
Everyone is looking for their own.
We should stop blame gouverment which we put in power but count our losses and vote in a different people next time. Perhaps one of our owns, for a change.
Greedy Billionire should help ppl
So damn sad, it's no better here in the United States.
Lewisbale' It is better in the US, Poorer folks don't pay for crap! they get everything for free. Heat in the us is subsidized. and it can not be turned off in winter. Food is free! telephones are free, internet is free, computers are free. Rents use to be free now subsidized, or they don't have to pay at all for years. Some energy products are free. So where is this United States is no better place at?
People voted Tory, what were they expecting?
It's because idiots like you go on about Tories and labour that the Kingdom is such a mess. It's called divide and rule, serf.
Green peace is partly to blame. They blocked nuclear power stations in the 70s and 80s. We have 6 and France has 54. Not having energy independence is a big reason for the current cost of living problem.
🤔 Chernobyl. Fukushima. Two of the most devastating incidents involving nuclear power stations. Perfect targets in wars. Such as that in Ukraine, where the Russian dictator has threatened use of nuclear weapons.
Where is Prince Charles??just asking.
I rent in AMERICA
Seem like a bunch of evil impearlists to em
The royals spend it.
The royals are parasites; always have been!
Greenpeace activism is part of the problem that now we r in a fuel/cost of living crises!
If your plan in life is for the Nanny State to help you when you are in need believe me my friends thats an assumption you will live to regret you are on your own from start to finish these volunteers are the spirit of the country not the politicians.
Instead of cooking daily cook every other day and keep a meal for the next day. Heat one room only and stay in that, use electric blankets, wear extra clothes, stay out all day in the warmth like the library.
😡 What the cluck? Where do you live? I would like to join you in your delightful world of Nasty Party living. Or do you live a better life for yourself?
YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR BRAIN GOING EVEN YOU AINT GOT ONE LIKE ME.... HA HA HA HA
Is the monarchy taking to much it's so sad..why is this happening ?
Its so bad that the letter H has even been sacrificed for the cost of living
stop expecting others or the govt to help....goget the insulatin at the local hardware store go on! help yourself for a change
If one must choose between food or heat, how will one have the cash required for insulation? One can say that it will pay for itself in the long run, but is one to go without food for months so as to purchase the insulation? Those who haven’t known want fail to understand the economics of poverty. Furthermore, it is costly to be poor because one can’t take advantage of discounts, etc when they become available. I wonder how the peasants would have fared had the king paid only a tenth of the inheritance tax.
Abolish monarchy
What is wrong wearing jumpers! Do people really think they shouldn't?
I've done it for years in winter. Here now wearing a jumper, T shirt, socks and slippers and jeans. I don't feel cold.
😠 Thank goodness people like you exist. The Nasty Party is full of them. Have you told the Prime Minister to donas you do? In his Yorkshire mansion? I had to do what you said as a child because my house IN LONDON was freezing cold in winter. Only one coal fire in the living room. Gas lighting, no electricity. An outside toilet. Are you suggesting that we return to those ever so ‘good old days’ when poor people knew their place in society? If so, your wish is coming true rapidly because of Brexit and a vile cabal in government.
@@sirmeowthelibrarycat It depends on your tolerance level. As an outdoor worker I soon had to remove my jacket as I got too warm.
Did you vote Conservative ? This the result.
The dinghy people won't worry because we pay tax to look after them.
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why dont new houses built all have solar power ohhhh
Disgraceful