Cost of living crisis: Eat or heat a 'huge reality', as councils face 'unprecedented' pleas for help
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- The cost of living crisis is triggering "unprecedented" requests for help to councils across England, Sky News has been told.
It means volunteers and communities are stepping in to help those who are struggling like never before.
Sky's Communities Correspondent, Lisa Holland, reports.
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"They got money for war but can't feed the poor"
So true.
2pac xD
and billions of aid going abroad and paying for 1000 s of arrivals . and with all of the things gone up already the councils or most of them are upping the tax too and i keep hearing its more then usual . this lady earn 40 k and its not enough for their normal way of life .
True bot Boris is making things worse and nobody should use food banks at all full stop
What's the temperature now Helen?
they cut tax for the rich, gave the bankers a tax break worth 100bn, they pissed away 60bn on their donors yet they cant spend our money on us. people need to wake up to this bunch of crooks.
How they can be so happy about the “highest economic growth on record” 2021, and yet we’re still in a situation where people are having to either go cold or hunger! Is in my opinion unacceptable!!
For them economic growth means the stock market going up in value. Actual economic factors such as individual welfare, cost of living and job quality do not matter when their friends are getting richer.
We’re growing from a low base.
We are the highest growth in G7 as Johnson likes to brag.... But only because we had the biggest dip...he always forgets to mention that.
@@TristanBanks . The stock market and economic growth as measured by GDP are not one in the same.
And yet the government is giving Ukraine 80million.
There is no affordable housing available either, with rent being in excess of £600 even for a small flat or bedsit and buying your own house is impossible because of the huge deposit needed.
Food, heat and shelter are basic human needs that should be attainable by everyone not just the wealthy.
No affordable
Housing ! Yes in london it even worse no stock and overpriced and low paying jobs
Spot on. If it wasn't for the artificially overpriced cost of rent, then people wouldn't need much money to live comfortably.
@@rayclam8079 true
2200 now for a two bedroom in London it’s
So affordable
When wages are 22,000’MAx LOL
@@rayclam8079 in the 1900s people in a little back to back houses would have to take in one or two lodgers to help pay the rent. i thing thats what some people will have to do,
Such a weak country! We just pay our taxes and do as we’re told by the millionaires who own us.
@Nauti most of our MPs are not billionaires.
Hopefully not for much longer
@@marcwareham9351 As far as we know.
so true
Why are we not talking about the expenses the MP are claiming for second home's. Disgusting behaviour shame on all MP
We've been talking about it for years now. But has that changed anything? The truth is that those in power and those that are wealthy don't really care what's happening to everyone else. They only think about themselves. That's the way it's been for thousands of years. That's the way it will always be.
TRUE
I've said this before, I'll say it now.
This is NOTHING new. It's been this way for some of us for 10+ years.
The same middle classes that are feeling it now, they were the ones laughing at the poor before...
They voted for Tories, they caused this because they figured it wouldn't affect them.
Very true!
@@LittleKitty22 it is true !
So true!
@@mikekane2492 no one said they only voted on economics though. maybe they didn't laugh but they likely thought it would never be an issue they needed to face.
There is no shame in being poor,only a government that simply does not care!
if only a bunch of celebrities got together and made a music video to help the poor... or some PMs host a lavish party to get people aware of this crisis
@@davidnoelfranks1124 i want to sit on that lovely sofa with that lovely wall paper after all its made out of gold at 850 a roll
Imagine that!
@@sweeta17 just go down your local indian restaurant, similar decor :P
@@kanedNunable quite right and i think just a tat cheaper . what a - carry - on this all is . they could restart the carry on films would win an oscar !
Carry On Bodger.
When MPs give themselves a 11% payrise and NHS staff a 1% rise its says it all and the increase in % on food alone has way surpassed any kind of wage increase, when 1% of the worlds population controls nearly 50% of the worlds wealth then that says even more
@Tom Goldman said, "......When MPs give themselves a 11% payrise and NHS staff a 1% rise......."
Hey, at least Sunak and Johnstone stood outside Downing St and clapped for the NHS...............see they DO care!?!
A mild, disingenious applause from two of the top Muppets is more valuable than any quantity of 'bio-survival promisory tokens'
It's 'fcuking' disgraceful that we, all, keep letting these 'career politians' get away with their lies and deceit - for their own end.
:)
…..NHS staff working as Administrators are the ultimate reason the NHS is under funded! Them getting increased pay is ridiculous in it self!
In the five years I’ve lived in Salford they’ve ripped out the council flats and replaced them with luxury apartments yet council tax has continued to increase and no services have improved… there’s a bit more going on here…
Are the council flats the same as welfare housing in the U.S?
@@michaelmullin3585 sounds like it’s the same thing, they are houses that are owned by the local government with very discounted rent, meant for people on low incomes
Cost of living going up. Great for wealthy stockholders, bankers and others who have a lot of wealth. Bad for people who work and produce for the country.
They are squeezing every last cent out of the working and middle class. The worst part is we actually voted for them...
But just imagine how labour would have handled it 😂
@@stephenlambert9826 It wouldn't take much to be better than these obvious and blatant thieves. Of course there are always people with brain damage that will point the finger at Labour even after 15 years of tory rule. Pathetic strawman.
@@stephenlambert9826 same way just different sound bite’s
@@TristanBanks hahaha all labour would have done was make things good for the foreigners in our country and that’s it.that’s why they got voted out.common people voting for an upper class party just goes to show how bad labour are 😂.I’ve got more wealth now than I had when labour were in power too 😂😂
@@TristanBanks stupid. Why has tories been in control for 15 years?
Because Labour are a bunch of communist degenerates.
I haven’t used my heating for two years I have no idea how I’m going to cope with electric increasing another 50% in April. I’ve been cutting things out and tightening the purse strings ever more since 2010, I can’t take much more, life isn’t worth living.
Well your certainly not on your own, many people up and down the country are in the sh1т
Could be worse
To make people having to choose between heating or eating is disgraceful, the government needs to go do one! Im someone that cant handle the cold, having to get up early for work in the cold is almost painful, i like to have it on half hour before i get up to have the place warm so i can get up, eat and shower then having to step outside in the freezing cold into a ice cold car and drive for almost an hour to get to work only to just work 12 hrs in another cold environment. No wonder why im always ill
Cost of living increasing day by day
austerity years were / are tough enough and with this palarva its even worse
12 years of austerity under the conservatives and hugest taxes in 70 years, along with Brexit. 💩💩💩
how's the cost of killing all the masons looking from there holmes
Wait until the donations to food banks dry up.
@@davidnoelfranks1124 typical tory
I was thinking about that myself I do give when I can but it's getting to the point where folk won't be able to afford to
well, I think there's people attempting to help but there definitely is some roadblocks
About the soup when he said, " I really don’t mind"..... It really made me sad and thoughtful......It's sad how people still waste food....
Hope he get better soon some of the comments saying it’s cause he wasted his money.
He said he has been using up 2 years of savings he never expected it would be that bad for so long
12 years of tory rule
The situation in this country seems to be getting worse with every passing month. How low will it sink?
Look at house price and cars !! I can't understand why they don't crash.
Very low it’s all planned
pretty low.dinghy divers costing 4 .7 million a day in their hotels and still coming across.
I almost feel bad for them....
Repent and turn to Jesus, we're living in End Times!
My employer claims that because the pandemic hit our sales, there won't be any pay rise this year. There hasn't been a pay rise for two years now, while all the while, the cost of living has been steadily rising. I literally have no savings at all. My rent went up last month, just like it does every year. I don't use heating anymore. I just wrap myself up in a duvet. I deactivated the boiler three years ago, and now use cold water for everything. I do laundry fortnightly just to cut down on water and detergent usage. I shower every other day just to cut down on water usage. I eat two meals a day to try and reduce my food expenditure. I started cycling 11.8 miles to work three years ago to save on transport money. But none of these things are helping. Right now, at this very moment, my expenses are exactly equal to my income. That means if the cost of any of my expenses rises any further, I won't have enough money to cover some things. Where will I go from here? One meal a day? Two showers a week? It's so frustrating.
Adversity develops resilience
I took a plastic jug and painted the outside black. This helps it heat up in the sun. That way I have some warmth. Can even put it in a sunny window inside.
Same here and they are going to increase taxes. Just want to cry 😭
@@happycook6737 I got a rain barrel that I fill up in the summer and that is what I bath with. I also use a hot water bottle to keep warm in winter. I also use candles and oil lamps for warmth and light.
@@ashleybosvik3031 I used to do that until a fast worm like creature slithered into my wee wee hole. I had to have an op to get it out
What will happen when the cost of living rises eventually hits the people donating to the food banks?
matt buddy [MattBuddy GNN] we'll be dead
Here in America there was a huge problem when COVID hit because many volunteers at food banks and church meal places are elderly retirees who were encouraged to isolate. They had food, but nobody to give it out or cook meals for churches.
@Lyrical Gammster Corbyn had enough problems without being blamed for others. His type of 70's radical leftist is obsolete and irrelevant, still mumbling over the same tired Marxist dogma.
It is already happening people are giving less food to food banks
Two of those interviewees have had a salary higher than I will ever have in my life, yet I will never have to worry about money. Reason - I don't spend my money on "nice holidays" and "nice things", I save my money and spend only on that which I need to live a modest and comfortable life. My savings are are an insurance that protect me from difficult times, I feel blessed that I have a roof over head, a warm bed and food on the table, I will never take that for granted.
To be fair didn’t that guy said he has been using his savings for the last 2 years .
that’s not a guy who doesn’t save
food crisis.....usually its about the food costs....
@@angelachanelhuang1651 food costs, a consequence of brexit
Also, another problem is that many people don't want to work anything, for example: l need workers in Agriculture but no one wants to come and work in this field, many people wants only the comfortable jobs like in a office or something like that.
@@pitagoratales4578 no, many people want a decent salary and a respectable and considerate treatment, considering their welfare and don't want no more "slave" type of treatment
That last lady sounds like someone who badly needs the reality check that it's not always a simple choice, especially not now when the working class have been robbed blind by billionaires since at least the 70's with wages stagnating vs economic growth and corporate profits.
She sounds like someone who is about to learn that the hard way, unfortunately that's the only way that people like her, with a 'bootstrap mindset' learn.
Yes exactly...I also work really hard but I can't afford nice things !!
Even worse when your disabled with stupid attitudes
It's great when the Middle Class feels what us below constantly feel each and every day.......it's (hopefully) then that things change - until the next cycle of course!!
Its the pensioners I feel for...work all your days and then have to spend your pension on heating rather enjoying their retirement
At least they were able to retire, we never will be.
@@trevorwills3356 The old fart next door fell asleep next to his open electric fire, cut a long story short, he ended up with 3rd degree burns on his cocktail sausage and conkers after sliding down onto his fire
I feel bad for them too. The smart thing is not to retire. My dad worked full time until he was 84. I’m almost 60 and my brother and I make a pretty good income, but neither one of us thinks we would be able to retire at 65, if ever. Only government employees get pensions.
I never plan to retire. Inflation will erode all savings eventually. Saving for retirement is pointless.
Heat or eat what a dreadful situation to be in.
Bleat or cheat... That is the system
Yeh if it was true.
so i suppose the hundreds of obese people i see everyday are choosing to eat, and the hundreds in wetherspoons are choosing to drink! and the hundreds in the bookies are choosing to bet...!
"Im not voting for Jeremy Corbyn - he promises to take away our food bank"
"Under Labout we only had 1 food bank in this area - now we have 11" Genuine things people said before the last election
No Boris is making more people use food banks which is rong by taking money away from people simple labour new people did not need food banks as thay supported them
There's only one way to deal with that level of ignorance in the population, education. It's wonderful that good people have rallied to stop the population starving to death. But it's the 21st century and people should be well enough paid or receive enough benefit, or pension or whatever, that food banks would not be necessary. As they are clearly necessary, then the people have been fooled into voting for the wrong government.
@@hilaryporter7841 - I am an author writing a book on how to cope with the collapse of western civilisation. Pretty much any problem in society can be solved with EDUCATION.
What comes as a terrible thing to discover is, in highly capitalist countries like the UK and the USA - the governmets don't want to solve the problems. They want a starving subclass, it keeps those in jobs terrified of losing them and falling into that gutter so they accept lower wages and worse conditions.
@@piccalillipit9211 Yes I agree, it's called 'farming' your population as if they are agricultural beasts. The Tories have those skills at the tips of their fingers.
@@hilaryporter7841 - or as they call them in America "Human Capital"
Meanwhile the MPs and there mates have never been so rich, the pandemic was really was the biggest heist in history for the people at the top
Exactly, our anger needs to be directed at the rich in many countries.
The Queens Crown Estate is set to make £9 billion over the next 10 years from renting out the UK seabed to energy companies for windfarms. There is where part of your heating costs are being driven up......
‘’Food banks are rather uplifting and shows what a compassionate country we are.’’ Jacob Rees Mogg.
Shows what a shitshow we are.
"Im not voting for Jeremy Corbyn - he promises to take away our food bank"
"Under Labout we only had 1 food bank in this area - now we have 11" Genuine things people said before the last election
@@davidnoelfranks1124 quite and the wife has 850 pounds of wall paper per roll etc
No it shows how selfish people are and nobody should be in that position to have to go to food banks
We should kick all the politicians out so they can man the food banks if that's their sentiment.
The pm and government just don't care
Meanwhile the dinghy Diverse got put in a nice hotels.
Cost of living didn't just affect those ok lower class, it hit the middle class and that's show how broken this economy is
It shouldn't be this way anyway. People shouldn't be struggling full stop
im on min wage and doing just fine, all bollocks
Yet they pay a footballer thousands a week so he cankick his cats...
lol how is that relevant
@@mcorriette1 how is it not.
Put on someone at the end who's on 40k a year. Get a grip.
Who gets into a BMW after🤔
Worst is yet to come, mark my words
Going to such a fun times! This is when the liberals going to feel the heat! Hehe
Hey Boris that £350 million we sent to the EU every week would have really helped these people....
Yeah, where is that? Haven't seen it anywhere
They have not just greedy pockets; they have bigger tummies than pigs. They have eaten it all via loopholes. Politicians' friends even made billions of profit from covid. They will be making more from Brexit celebrations soon
but the boat people still come in
cost of living goes up and so does taxes
Tescos made record profits of £2,900,000,000 last year. Two thousand, Nine hundred Million Pounds profit and didn't change the wages of staff in line with inflation.
2.9 billion, that does include their stores abroad though. They did pay tax in UK so give a fair share. It's the likes of Amazon and Starbucks who are avoiding taxes that are the problem. Should fine them billions if they try avoid tax.
"The comfort of the rich depends on an abundant supply of the poor."
-Voltaire
Time will come when it will b hard to smile
Maybe I'm missing something - taking home £40,000 a year and can't cope? 🤔😲
Honestly that was a joke
40k a year. £2300 take home after tax and pension. Maybe the only income in the house. Mortgage £1400, childcare £300. Council tax £200.
Doesn’t leave a lot does it.
@@alastairskinner2301 40k take-home she said. £3,333 a month.
But we've got the fastest growing economy in the G7 atleast
That doesn’t mean anything, wages go up so does everything else
@@ajaya5674 it's was only a joke it's all the Boris goes on about chill ajay
only because we crashed the most previously. yeah i know its a joke but a lot of morons think we did well.
We don't have the fastest growing economy, it's a lie
I think when most people say they are feeling the pinch, really they just mean they can only afford one holiday or a Vauxhall and not their BMW
That woman was ridiculous
Couldn't agree more.
wellcome to our world "reality"
Lots of rain & water is available here in UK which can be used to produce electricity, moreover solar panel can help to improve it a bit.
And wind for wind power.
@@thepoormansguidetothegalax3981 storm Yunus
If someone taking home £40k a year is using the foodbanks it just proves how they are being abused. I know of many the same who use them just because it is free. The whole foodbank system needs a shake up.
That was an after school club which she was probably paying into as she was fulltime working. IE she needed them to stay there while she worked. A bad bit of reporting because it wasn't very clear.
Anyone going in with a salary greater than 20k should be punched in the face
@@seanlawman1518 lol
So sorry for your situations kindest wishes for better times soon 💖
No matter, they’re still going to vote Tory!
Illusion of choice when no matter who we vote they win. Freedom is an illusion also
@@tabularasa7775 Keep voting tory then. 13 years have not been enough, we need more food banks and hunger
@@tabularasa7775 no they are not the same, only under the tori’s have foodbanks mushroomed!
The UK realised, it can't eat Audi finance deals, iphones and scratchcards.
That woman in the video earning 40gs per annum is making a mockery of this whole video and furthermore for the news editors to agree to put this in the video screams that they agree 40k per year is pittance. Arrogance or ignorance maybe both !
But Mr. Sunak said that economy is booming.
It's not living its existing.
All over the world south Africa is also feeling the pinch
But there is so much curruion in the world it so sad an the older ppl things are bad for them ❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢
I'll end it before I get to that point again!!! And most of us are only one pay check away from this. I absolutely hate the age we live in the rich get richer and the poor keep getting poorer.
Don’t every end it over money that’s man made nonsense
jacob is proud of food banks
Councils have put housing rent up too.
How a wealthy country like the UK with so many smart, dedicated people can in 2022 leave so many people cold and hungry.
It's not a 'Cost of Living Crisis.' It's a *Poverty Crisis.'*
@@Craig121000 Troll harder.
It's a 'I can't manage my money properly crisis' more like.
The problem with middle England is they are set in their ways. They lose that top job they always had and now it's like what do I do now???
There are plenty of jobs out there that pay decent money like Uber, supermarket jobs, deliveries, unfortunately they won't be seen dead doing that
This is real yet the government had no idea
They know exactly what they're doing.
They know, they just don’t care.
@@methhead3140 Agreed!
time to fire up those printers in the bank of england
I am no longer able to pay for any bills. Lost my job. I cannot even imagine going to a food bank.
Get rid of the tories then 🤷♀️ just a thought !
UK energy shortages is crippling that country economy.
Estate agents lost their job? I wonder if this is a true news... they are raising the house price every second
Estate agents don't raise house prices, demand raises house prices.
Working years and even in Ireland it's very hard to heat house, need oil on 24/7 which isn't sustainable. Government needs to ramp up insulation grants for homes.
£40,000!!!!! Wtf ....she needs to be taught how to budget not given handouts that people on just £15,000 a year desperately need.
It's brutal , know need for this at all .
Did he vote Tory?
It's funny how many selfish people did only to have it backfire on them.
@Caoimghin MacMarshall Oh jeez, no party could have mishandled this as badly as the Tories
Third World here we come.
The government always seems to come up with money for things 'they' want to do, or to donate to other countries. It would make more sense to take care of their own first, and stop building duck ponds!
Or stop building pointless £3 billion tram line extentions that only go 0.7 miles. No joke it in Birmingham in 2015 when the 0.7 tram line was opened it was announced it cost the city 3 billion! As a result funding for the childrens hospital was cut, funding for the city library (holding a record for being the biggest in Europe) was also cut, and other major transport networks in the city also scrapped completely. OH and they are still extenidng tram lines further costing more and more.
What good will it be when people wont be able to afford to use them anymore?? Anyone rich wont likely use it becaue they'll most likely live in luxury houses outside the city driving sports cars and large 4x4's
@@kindnessark8064 The government wastes the most money. They could do so much good with it if they wanted.
The government is tearing everyone like we are rich. We are not. Rent alone takes just over a 3rd of my entire wage. It’s sick.
"Great Upheaval is underway in the world, an Upheaval that will manifest itself in many ways-in the growing fragility and difficulty in nations’ economies; the declining resources of the world and the impact that that will have on nations and peoples everywhere; the natural disasters that will increase because humanity has changed the climate of the world; and the loss of food production and arable lands as humanity has squandered its natural inheritance."
A quote from the New Message ~ The New World ~ The Upheaval written by Marshall Vian Summers (read the entire passage online for free)
Council tax abolish it
It is disgraceful that our people are struggling so much. It doesn't matter these days what education or past training citizens have undertaken there is no guarantee of jobs. The cost of living crisis is driving people down. Energy prices will mean people will have to do without heating.
£40,000 A year and struggling bullshite.
Stop voting Tory then!
They won't because their excuse will be :labour or Liberal democrat wouldn't have done better handling the crisis
Some people getting poor in this pandemic.. But some live in luxury..
Well said.
Luxury car producers had said that they never been better time for business.
It says everything who is accumulating the money. Rich.
That is capitalism, welcome to the party
Cancelling my Sky Subscription saved me a fortune.
And yet the house prices keep going up! Go figure! 🤷🏻♂️
Outrageous 😢
Convert free land into community gardens so communities can grow veg together and get a fair share for tending the plots.
Man walked out with 2 weeks of shopping.
That lady in the end on 40k a year, was she there for food or was she a volunteer? It wasn’t quite clear…
40000 and pinch or to something to hide something is fishy here can't belive she is feeling a pinch with a car parked outside 👌 great news but kind of fix
40,000 pounds is not a whole lot of money.
@@saiyedakhtar3931 its higher than average and considerably higher than the median.
Heartbreaking.
Its hard but rice is 45p a box of raw wings 1.50£ chucken box 1.80 oil 1£ im not allowed housing in uk or work but i still work cash in hand when i get a job here n there n ive survived the pandemic paid my rent and still afford to eat n ive been living in this hell for 11 years so i find it diffocult to understand how uk citizens eat dry cerials! anyway its im just giving my 2 cents.
It's so sad 😔.
Try living on a twenty three pound a week old age pension in South Africa.
If that headline is true the government is in trouble .The English working class will not accept that without an obvious reaction .
Lol yes they will. Just like the way they accepted the last 2 years. Just like how they accepted the £60B was spent on a useless app instead of helping the working class. Just like they accepted that we need to spent trillions on a war in Afghanistan and not on improving the country. The English working class are a joke, they will still vote for Tories after all this. That's a strong fact.
@@harrisr1018 agreed, we are a nation of masochists, no matter how much we are stepped on we love it and vote for it again, I think a country like France would probably revolt once they feel their daily necessities aren't being met but over here we simply bend over and take it up the tail pipe.
Yes the sheep 🐑 go out and hate more immigrants and give the conservatives a bigger majority.
this is criminal and it breaks my heart the tories have to go this is sickening
It may not be due to having the heating on or even Mr Putin but i feel a long hot summer coming on
The true cost of inflation. Were a good wage isnt worth the same
WHAT HAPPEN TO ENGLAND BEING ONE OF THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD...SOMETHING IS VERY VERY WRONG HERE,GOVERNMENT AND ALL.
nothing is wrong, just lie back on the setee and watch the telly. freemasons are just silly old men who don't control anything. there's a dubious explanation for all of this.
Britain most probably is still one of the richest countries in the World........it's just not in your pocket or mine
There's been something very very wrong for a very very long time. We've just not been bothered to look. Not until it begins to hurt us with every decision we have to make.
:)
Mice to 80% of the worlds countries on 800 pound a month and live well
Example Ecuador ..I did .10 years ago
Cost of living is clearly different.
WTF is new about that? Been going on for decades
i wonder if the bloke who had a lavish lifestyle will still vote torie probably will all i can say they brought this on themselves
The trouble is they took the rest of us down with them.
Breaks my heart . I feel guilty that I have e tough to eat and e tough to heat.
The U.K is becoming a third world country for the ordinary people while the rich have what they want. It is time inequality was addressed seriously. Inequality does not make for a healthy economic system. We are about to plunge into a massive recession due to ordinary people not being able to buy the goods & services they want & need. Due to that many many businesses will go bust while the energy companies profit.
This government don't care if pensioners starve or freeze
What I don't understand is that the cost of fuel to start with is under £1 even just after the pandemic and petrol being £1.24 ltr we thought that was cheap.
My dad worked as a top oil consultant and he would say that it was the heavy taxes. If we are heading for a recession surly the chancellor can lower taxes on fuel and help the economy. It stands to reason and I have seen it elsewhere in the world where taxes are lower people spend more and not only do the general public prosper so does the economy!
This has forced me out of business at £10 a gallon I am going to have to sell my car and walk, buses wont be an option ether.
And there are still people who say raising minimum pay will cause inflation.