Blackpool residents decide between heating and eating as cost of living crisis bites
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Sky's Ashish Joshi has been to Blackpool where many residents have to decide between heating or eating, as the cost of living crisis continues to hit the Lancashire town.
The government says it is acting to help the most vulnerable communities in areas like Blackpool.
A spokesman said: "We are already tackling health disparities in the North West of England - including working to reduce drugs-related deaths in Liverpool and Blackpool, supporting struggling families to give children in the poorest communities the best start in life, and addressing inequalities among some of the region's most vulnerable groups, such as homeless people, prison leavers and sex workers."
He added: "We will set out further action through a white paper later this year."
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I grew up in a house with no central heating, and I remember the misery of it.
Same here
Central heating. Oh the luxury. We had a fire that was it.
I remember the inside of our bedroom single glazed windows used to freeze over.
Glad to have grown up in the 2000’s when central heating was universal. The downside of that is that we are heading for grim times.
@@computertutorialvideos3441 if we already accept that faith It could very well happen. I would rather try and focus on the fact people are waking up to all this BS that is being played out in front of our eyes.
This is affecting the whole of the UK.
No its just Blackpool ….. really …..
@@mikej365 all pre planned !!!!
Blackpool is one of the worst affected places.
@@TheLordHiggs why would anyone come here for a holiday 🤮 why big fancy hotel being built 🤔
time to talk to the tory government
I firmly believe the energy companies have jacked up the price far more than they needed too, it's a very shady business and one where assets are often hidden from the eyes of the government and public alike.
Same I understand companies need and want to make profit and I’m all for that. But all the energy companies particularly the big 6 complaining that the costs of energy have gone up and will have to raise the prices. However I’m annoyed that there claiming this however are making record profits. Come the next price cap increase we need to properly asses at what price would these companies not make excess profit
There are rules they have to follow. In a select committee I saw the heads of energy companies explain that they couldn’t just pass on their profits to people with cheaper prices as their legal responsibility was to maximise profit for their shareholders.
I’m not saying energy companies are saints but the government can do more than them.
Greed pure greed .
And the 25% green levy we pay on fuel it’s another stealth tax like carrier bag tax and fat tax and all the other taxes we pay and they dodge 😔🏴🇬🇧
@@christopherblackburn6811 then surely the government can step in and force shareholders to temporarily limit their profit margins in the energy sector, right mate? I can't ever see them doing it willingly from the goodness of their heart. That seems like the only logical option to me for the current state we've found ourselves in.
Mental health isn't taken seriously in this country and unfortunately if people don't listen its gonna happen more and more
Truth
People piss me off who dont understand I myself suffer with mental heath
Because the quality of life is so terrible
Would it not be nice if the royal family charity built housing cheaply and efficiently and damp proof and sold or rented to people dealing with mental illness?
Would be nice but more chance of seeing flying pigs.
Would be nice to see the word WORK used at least ONCE but then that might be expecting too much!
It would be nice to see the royal family use several of their empty palaces to house some of these struggling citizens. However, people continue to worship those lazy fuc#s as if they are Gods and contribute to their wealthy lifestyle.
NOT JUST BLACKPOOL 🏴🏴🙄🙄
Thats Gruppenfuhrer Sturgeons fault then
@@sandersson2813 shhh
Meanwhile British Gas(Centrica) have made record profits!
Be nice if they donated some of thier profits to the poor, but it would never even cross their greedy selfish minds.
Sad to see, people struggling to even support the food banks, then it's usually the poor helping the poor.
This can’t carry on. This is wrong in soo many levels
Shocking. Sorry to see this. From Australia. Hope things pick up soon.
They're getting worse mate
don't be fooled, people like this are not victims of eat or heat, they can easily find money for cigarettes and booze yet they expect handouts.
Why?? People voted for that and they will vote again.
@@jerryorange6983 The love suffering under the tories lol
@@Talos2kX completely untrue. Troll.
All these corrupt energy/gas/oil corporations should be held accountable. The same is happening in many countries.
Wealthy powerful elites own these companies that governments allow to crush those without!
Where is the humanity?
Greed kills.
Ask those who let the corporate shareholders and monopolies to walk on in, and then walk on out with guaranteed cashflow.
Blackpools tory MP said in the house of commons that all the dirty poor people need to get a job. Hopefully they will see sense at the next election
Scott Benton isnt worth the air he breaths to be honest. he does sod all for the Blackpool community. He is selfish and a typical elitist Tory. He's alright jack so sod everyone else.
yes tories out !
Think the voters of Blackpool know who needs a new job...
Really? Disgusting comment then, hope he gets voted out.
George Eustice, the MP for Camborne and Redruth said that people need to buy supermarkets' value brands if they are struggling.
Not just Blackpool or the UK
we know but this video is about Blackpool in the UK
So sad and heartbreaking. I really hope they can keep going to support people as they are
YES........but poverty IS a "problem" in this country anyway........this "Crisis" has just escalated it to a whole other "level",,,,,,,,,,doesn,t bare thinking about.........those on their own "often" get shuntted to one-side..................NOT easy either way etc....on your own or not...........
I've been searching UK charities to donate to for a week now and I've seen so many I want to help. I went to London over the summer as a dream vacation and I loved it and the UK. I wish I could do more for many of the people there🇺🇸🤝🇬🇧❤️
Trussell Trust. It's a uk foodbank charity.
rental laws in america are called fair laws
We need to separate the issues of food poverty and other problems like drug addiction and domestic violence.. this report is muddled
England is looking like the way it was in the 1800s
I wish lived back then
UK has spent 200 million pounds to provide military aid to Ukraine and its citizens have to choose between eating and heating. explain that
All by design.
We have no magic money tree remember! 😒
Spot on. Needs to be said. Look after your own first
"We are all in this together"
@@Silver-st2zq let's all be in a riot together!
How did one of the richest countries in the world get itself in this situation . Seems like hell
Because idiots keep voting for a political party that ignores poverty.
Putin and economic retaliation. But beyond that capitalism and real wage hasn't increased to keep up with inflation.
@@clipsnipper2197 what’s Putin got to do with this. It’s our leaders that created the sanctions
@@clipsnipper2197 My neighbours cats died, blame Putin.
@@clipsnipper2197 This has been building for decades, how on earth can it all be down to Putin? He may have sped it up by a tiny bit, but it was coming anyway.
Government has lost over 40 billion in covid fraud when this money could have gone to helping the poorest, likes of rishi sunak should be held accountable for this incompetence.
YES WELL SAID.Far too Nonchalant with taxpayers money!!!It was kind of obvious Fraud would be on a extensive scale wasn’t it??
So many self employed took the covid relief but was working full time.. with no money worries.. sickening
What Blackpool is experiencing is shocking for the 6th riches country. The wealth of the UK is not from the working class. The data on wealth is illicit money from foreigners deposited in the London Banks.
The working class is living in poverty. The UK is really a poor country.
Well they voted for BREXIT NAD THE TORIES and now they are complaining about the consequences
Yup has been since 1980 or so
This is correct. Outside of the city of London it's poor.
A world of suits so removed from it they prefer to look away from it than accept it. Though they dry their tears on 50 bills
Seen it all before , big cases emptied in the bank from Asians , blacks and God knows who !
I hope young people watch these programmes and resolve to work hard at school and go to college etc. Do something with your life. Get an education or train in a particular career. Stop depending on others for your life. We are all responsible in how we live.
Next thing will be the return of the workhouse!! I'm now making my own butter bread and jam. Growing our own vegetables not going out for meals. We live in a rural area so have to be careful with petrol. Our son lives 70 miles from us but we can't afford to visit...and we are retired just have our pension. We are worried about the winter months trying to keep the house warm😥
Workhouses in my area have been turned into luxury apartments. Oh, the irony!
I've been following the programme on CZcams for quite a while now. The work those volunteers do is amazing. Let's hope with the exposure from sky news people wake up.
Wake up and then what?
But don’t worry folks,let’s keep sending money to countries that have no use to us 👍🏻🙌🏻
Just look on CZcams cost of living crisis every where not just UK. Past policies for past 20year plus ,and obv Ukraine war to blame. Trust no MP regardless of colour ,red,blue green orange etc
Caught between Blackpool rock and a hard place.
Between blackpool and ukraine
It's only a matter of time before everybody is fighting over the food at foodbanks too. The foodbanks will be running dry soon as nobody can afford to donate to them anymore
The shortages are already obvious.
Rise up against the WEF
Some of the People that use to give food to food banks no longer have food food to give away,
people cannot afford to cook the food because of the Energy crisis,
The government could easily make this go away
what with -----a magic wond perhaps!!
@@geoffreybevan4301 Don't be fooled. Britain has a lot of money.
I'm sure the whole of Buckingham palace and number 10 will be warm throughout the winter.
Exactly, the UK government gives about £80 million pounds to the monarchy every year, plus a tax waiver for some of the queens land. Lots of cash to keep the royals warm and well fed with no debts.
@@royjohnson465 Indeed. They look after themselves, nobody else. They don't live in the real world.
@@stephenorourke9896
~Correct, also people who worship the queen live in a false fantasy world making the royals out to be something that they are not, when in true reality royals "are" the "exact" same people as everyone else but the followers do not want reality.
That's what's I'd say if I was poor.
@@conradcodfish8638 Mooching off daddy's money, posh snob?
The entire country is going to hell and all the people who can do anything about it are concerned about is how much profit they can get, people who have plenty just want more and people who have nothing just want to survive and have a decent life. The rich are getting richer and the poor are just going to be dead, the wealth gap is a galaxy apart and it's just disgusting and I'm ashamed to even be regarded as a human being.
Tory Britain . People must rich or stupid to vote for them ! We are going backwards . Fast !!!
Amen, 12 years of Tory rule.
I never thought that one day I would consider moving from the UK to Ethiopia
meanwhile Boris is torn between the "grim" decision of cheese or wine, lets look after each other if our leaders wont
well put
Play the ball not the man
THE STRONGEST WILL SURVIVE
British people looking after each other? That’s a joke we’ll just keep voting Tory till our country falls apart.
Lets all unite and stop
paying scandalous council tax and give to the people who are malnourished and will be freezing to death.Gives Me apoplectic rage if I think about it too much!!!Disgraceful BORIS.They can send enough money in foreign aid ,And I’m all for compassion for those who are destitute etc through war etcBUT What about our people!!!!!!!🤬🤬
It's everywhere in the country not just Blackpool
Russian Natural Gas to Finland to be stopped soon. Diesel fuel in the UK to be in Shortage this Summer. Supply chain issues for food delivery leading to food shortages. Huge reduction of UK farming output yields in October by approx 40%. Resulting Crime and social disorder explosion. 40% will not be able to heat their homes this winter. In Poverty areas could be 80%.
Well well
Russian is to blame here?
@@TMM-N No.
This was all done on purpose
Finland doesn’t use much natural gas. We are not reliant on Russian energy, that would just be stupid
This government need to get their act together immediately.
or maybe scroungers need to stop wasting money on cigarettes and booze
And we call ourselves a first world country?
This is affecting the whole of the UK . It is heartbreaking. People are going without food for weeks on end because they have to decide what there money goes on . It is devastating. There is no care or understanding from the government. Local communities are doing there best to help people who are in need . These community support centres are doing a great job of helping people in need . The UK is the 6th richest country but people are really suffering. Mental health is not taken seriously in this country people are really depressed. There needs to be more support available for people who are struggling
Not just the UK, I live in Spain and costs have gone up here too, in America the mid term elections were based around the cost of living crisis. The solution is fairly simple as it always has been, tax the rich, start with Amazon, who pay only a fraction of what they should, all because of loopholes that the Tories have turned a blind eye to.
SCANDALOUS !
@@nicolajohnson1887 That's never going to happen. UK people need to look in the mirror and ask why they can't take care of themselves. Were all the smart ones killed in WWII?
This has been going on for years, nothing changes for the better.
Probably eat a bit less and turn the heating down and buy a base layer. Also more exercise would help mentally.
How true is that ! people with problems come to live in Blackpool on the back of childhood memories
Not sure but it seems like importing another 5 million africans to support is the way out of this conundrum
@Pit Tuk. Tell that to Priti Patel... but I'm more than sure that she would gladly allow 5 million Indians to settle in England, while every single african migrant land in the Camps in Rwanda... 🤦♂️
Why do they need heating? It's mid may. Ours gets switched off start of April every year.
Deprived areas tend to have houses with poor insulation. Anyway heating or no heating people are still really struggling, and it’s only going to get worse.
I think probably it's the lack of any choice that reinforces a sense of downward spiral, and a feeling of not being able to cope.
If there is loads of teenage pregnancies in Blackpool how come it’s not out weighing the deaths
Brings me to tears seeing our British cousins suffering... It's so sad for all normal people... 🇩🇪😪🇬🇧
Germany is on the same downward spiral.
A simple solution to end the cost of living crisis
Shut down the WEF
Agreed that evil organisation needs to end
Kneel down back to russian
Why don't they go down to Dover and put in a lifejacket ?
They'll be transported to a hotel with free meals and no bills
to pay . The Grand in Scarborough is very nice I hear.?
Soo people will lose control and riots will happen in the streets
It’s happened before - the poll tax riots for example.
I remember them riots!
London riots also
She's a doctor....👀 I actually remember growing up In the 60s 70s having to boil water in the kettle and stove to go and wash in a basin.....or we all shared the same bath water....ewww ....we had a coal fire we all huddled around, calor gas fires..... Now I am in my 50s and were going back through this again....... This is shocking
I remember bathing in a tin bath in the early 70s and we only had one coal fire for the whole house 2 up 2 down terrace house…my gran bought us a paraffin heater off the second hand market to warm the bedroom up..but we couldn’t afford to have it on long because the paraffin was expensive…my mam bought lots of blankets to keep us warm then when we got a council house in 1982 that house had no central heating either just one gas fire for the whole house it wasn’t till 1992 they modernised the houses and we got central heating my mam was chuffed to bits because she always had coal fires for 40 odd years! But now in 2022 she can’t afford to have it on only one hour a night how sad is that in this day and age and my dad in his 80s he was sat there the other day with his cardigan on I was fuming it hurts me seeing my parents like this
Sandra Going to be much worse this time around Count on it and prepare accordingly Im in New York
uk said will rebuild ukraine.......that means more poverty in uk........all the money will be used for arms weaponry and rebuilding a foreign country .....seems the next decades will be hard for the british people
Indeed. BORIS doesn't give 💩 about it as he is obsessed with his personal well-being
So sad in such a rich country. Recession is already on the way.x
This is all manufactured
Totally.
My bills....spent £18 one Sunday on Gas and Electric (wtf).....average winter is now £10-£15 per day, Summer looks like it will be around £6.00.....
I spent on average £5 per day now with no heating. £18 in one day sounds crazy, it was my budget per week not long ago…
Having the heat off in the winter will make the pipes break. Are woodstoves allowed in the UK?
People can have wood burners yeah....But they are expensive to install and as they are deemed a fire hazard, household insurance premiums can become more expensive if someone installs a wood burner in place of a gas or electric fire.
And wood is not cheap
@@robotello Anything burns in my wood stove. Cats go right up.
The poor man in the beginning will perish and die before this year's end if he doesn't get help from the authorities.
How can it be so dire in the UK, a country in the West? We are experiencing somewhat higher energy prices in Sweden but not by much and our energy prices has always been lower than most countries so we are ok. Everyone eats as usual and no one is even remotely close to shutting down the heating here, the price of food is pretty much the same, our equivalent of the NHS is working excellently and there are no backlog or queues for surgeries. The inflation is somewhat higher but that goes for all countries right now, it has not had any effect because the government is handling it in order to minimize the consequences of it.
Nowhere in Western Europe does it look even close as bad as it does in the UK and I wonder why, the people of the UK probably do too so please scientifically analyse it and explain it, Sky News.
Its bad here because our government are trying to take us back to the 1800's when elistism and class segregation was rife. The Conservative party are only interested in the rich and really do not care about the vunerable and the poor or those on lower wages. They have only one slogan and that is "We are alright so fu*k the working masses" They have always had this view and these days they are more cruel and cold hearted than ever. I am British, but I am ashamed of my country. Boris Johnson and his party have made us the laughing joke of the western world and they will not suffer. It's only the working classes who continue to suffer because the Conservative party have no hearts and no compassion. There is no science needed in the analysis. It's plain simple cruelty.
UK is a class society where socialist ideas are frowned upon.
Even the poor vote for elitist Tories. Lack of education and common sense, I guess
poor man?????
look at his fingers. notice something? he has plenty of money for cigarettes and no doubt booze. He, like the rest of the scroungers, are just looking for handouts.
Your country didn’t have lockdowns.
That’s the only difference I can think of.
@@computertutorialvideos3441 lockdowns have nothing to do with it.
Scroungers have no concept of not wasting money on luxuries. They just expect handouts.
Bring back coal and coal/log fires at least then the poor can go collecting wood and heat their home
Literally everyone with a chimney should be doing this
@@bricktop. problem is if it council or ex council it been blocked up mostly
We had a coal fire 🔥 back in the 70s and the coalman came once a week and we bought firelighters I remember the smell…but I would love ❤️ to have a coal fire now best heating ever!
25C this week up't north, sleeping with windows open, is Blackpool missing out?
Tends to be cooler by the seaside, but yes the weather is warm at the moment and my central heating is not coming on. With the huge rise in energy costs and cost of living in general, lots of people are going to be unable to heat their homes next winter.
Youll eat nothing and be unhappy.
WEF (updated)
I saw a slogan Recently, which about sums this government and this country up. It says" I don't care today, I don't care tomorrow and I will not care tomorrow"
I appreciate Abida’s point but stanley ward is a good 20 mins walk from where she pointed, it’s a completely different part of town and more like poulton
It's not too bad over here in northern ireland but i hope thing get better in england, wales and scotland
my situation is same its difficult to b uy clothes pay gas electricity bills a
nd nothing is left for food so relied on food parcel
Also people who do not pay direct debit will have to wait 8 weeks to get their council tax rebate lol thought it was due in APRIL NEVERMIND I JUST WONT PAY COUNCIL TAX OK
More than a decade of tory government.
It's almost as if closing everything and paying people to do nothing for nearly 2 years would have caused this current situation
Rest of EU are not suffering as bad as the uk. It’s almost as if the Torys only care that the rich keep making record profits
It's not the effect of closing down, it's exactly the opposite, every country has opened up at more or less the same time.
This predates Covid by about a decade
Yes why doin't we increase the people who were on furlough... I wish I could have had my salary paid for months on end... nobody is remembering that on this page...
the price of everything is shooting up yet I get a payrise of like 0.07p once a year like do I even want to survive anymore what's the point in a couple years i will be in so much dept like I'm 24 and I really cba life is no fun anymore
this trend of people wanting to pass on their personal bills onto others needs to end.
Old vincey pie had his honeymoon with grandma vince in 1923 and it is still as lovely now as it was then. Can't wait to go back and ride those teacups.
I grew up in dire poverty.
I ams.sooo great full to my government in the uk
Don't be thankful to the government be thankful to the hard working taxpayers!
It’s really sad
❤❤❤❤❤ were all in this together ❤❤❤❤❤
Really ?
why are people still using heat though? it's May.
Problem here we as public don't do out about it we moan but do nothing
If gov can narrow the gap between food waste from best by foods/ expired food from Supermarket giants and foodbanks the problem will be solved. Food to be expired should be donated or "bought" lije with tax write off. BUT money and greed holds it back!!!
I live in Blackpool and I am very lucky...I have money...but I see the depravity every day....its both scary and heartbreaking...
Keep calm and watch Sherpa 😇💖🐕♥️🇬🇧👏🙏🇬🇧
A rich country and this?? Terrible and yes energy companies take the piss I know few ppl who've wired there meters for unlimited current which is very dangerous and a fire hazard too, its desperation turning normal ppl into crooks.
many people deliberately choose poverty. I know it's shocking, but no one forces us to drink, smoke and take drugs. no one stands between us and getting a job. no one is stopping us from working a little overtime on the weekend.
simple steps that work.
Should try both together, fantastic
My god how sad 😢 and upsetting 🙏🏾🥺
why do Sky act like benefits are lower in Blackpool? UC is UC everywhere
Tragic.
IT’s lucky been warm winter or could be more expensive
Why is Scott Benton the Tory MP for Blackpool not doing anything about this? Oh I forgot he is a Tory and the Tories really dont give a damn about the vunerable and poor or those who are struggling. They just aren't interested. It begs the question why People vote for them, but I guess tory supporters just think no further than their own selfish desires.
Scott Benton is Blackpool South. Its Paul Maynard for Blackpool main.
tories don t care
Yeah it baffles me why ANYBODY would vote for Tory politicians, they are known for being self serving.
Where as labour directed dwp worker not to direct people to food banks, so much for labour
No politicians really care….all of them are middle class elites….very few really understand what it means to be working class these days.
Blackpool is loved? I didn't know that
Try to start little garden Spots, 5x 5..cabbage, onions, lettuce, squash
It’s getting bad here in Australia now too. Rising food, energy and petrol prices plus rent and mortgages. I don’t know how much more people can take. Crime is rising too. So much pressure on people. The latest over 30% increase in electricity is hitting hard plus gas increasing too. Life is very hard for everyone but the rich. I’ve never seen it so tough.
Heating and eating? Lmao
I can’t afford gas for my heating it’s freeze and eat or electric for me!!
I have lived in my flat in the north east for a year and I haven’t been able to put gas on since the day I moved in
The UK is a first world country. This shouldn't be happening
Its not just the UK Germany USA.and many many morecalso have this problem. 🇬🇧 👍
Yet many developing countries get aid from the UK. Why do that and pretend to be rich? Hope things get better. Best wishes.
But the government have £290MILLION to provide weapons to ukraine 🤣🤣🤣
Shame on blackpool, they voted tory and got poverty
Saving johnson”s face important than the belly of uk
Even the flabby checks of Johnson's arse are more precious than the belly of UK
I will always choose food over heat because I could starve to death if; I don’t get any food inside my belly!
Throughout June July August and September with the warmer weather and lighter days and nights my heating and lights are OFF wether I've got money or NOT why give to these gready energy companies more massive profits
How can we help?
Was brought up with no central heating toilet in garden window cill drenched with water lol get a grip people
It’s still not right though is it? Especially in this day and age.
Toilet in back yard and in winter the pipes would freeze 🥶 a tin bath near the coal fire And maybe a paraffin heater to warm up the bedroom and living in a 2 up 2 down and sharing a bed with your siblings
@@ginagina9720 Sounds grim. Glad I wasn’t around in those days. Still it’s not right that a lot of people can’t afford thier energy bills at a time when energy companies are making record profits.
Heartbreaking. Heat or eat, while the royals live in palatial estates, drive around in half-million dollar Range Rovers and spend winters skiing in Switzerland. Disgusting.
No hotels for this lot. what a government
Heartbreaking. And there's the Chancellor multi millionaire, hasn't got a clue how people are struggling.
I live in california.im not rich we are all suffering.i brought 50.00 of food a bag and a half.and I can't get what I want.i have to get what we need.and my home is cold .everything cost to much .
People skipping meals in the UK? A rich country?!
Well, these people could always just go out and get better jobs. Right?
This country is so screwed.
I'm in Blackpool. There are shortages of staff here. and minimum wage is at least a tenner an hour. we have jobs available. there's no reason to not work an extra few hours each week
So sad