Imagine the Riverside twice as big

[Jedi boro]

There has always been in work poverty. Just not as much as there is now.

No there wasn’t it may seem that way but we’ve never known days like this.

In work poverty is new and is a disgrace.

 

[Quicksilvera]

No there wasn’t it may seem that way but we’ve never known days like this.

In work poverty is new and is a disgrace.

Tell that to my Nan and grandad, they both worked and suffered poverty in the 50s and 60s, it’s always been a thing. Just not to the extent it is now.

 

[Glover_elbow]

Not only hungry but thousands of kids living in squalid damp solcial housing like poor 2 year old awaab ishak who died as a direct result. It's utterly beyond comprehension that children are suffering and starving in this rich country in the 21st century.

 

[junos_boots]

No there wasn’t it may seem that way but we’ve never known days like this.

In work poverty is new and is a disgrace.

I worked on Teesside Industrial Estate for 3 years in mid 1990s on a 40 hour week - shift work 6-2. one week 2-10 the next and then 5 night shifts 10-6. I got £2.95 an hour = £118 per week.

Then Labour got in and brought in minimum wage and so the factpry shut down.

So the last time the Tories had any length of time in office there was definitly in work poverty.

I only got out by becoming a student again (more poverty I can tell you)

 

[ThePrisoner]

Not only hungry but thousands of kids living in squalid damp solcial housing like poor 2 year old awaab ishak who died as a direct result. It's utterly beyond comprehension that children are suffering and starving in this rich country in the 21st century.

Don't forget the tories voted against the requirement to make rented housing fit for human habitation.

https://fullfact.org/economy/did-mps-vote-against-homes-having-be-made-fit-live-in/

Absolute scum.

 

[Jedi boro]

I worked on Teesside Industrial Estate for 3 years in mid 1990s on a 40 hour week - shift work 6-2. one week 2-10 the next and then 5 night shifts 10-6. I got £2.95 an hour = £118 per week.

Then Labour got in and brought in minimum wage and so the factpry shut down.

So the last time the Tories had any length of time in office there was definitly in work poverty.

I only got out by becoming a student again (more poverty I can tell you)

I get that but my point was that now people with so called good career jobs nurses teachers etc are now in poverty.

 

[thewanderer]

I get that but my point was that now people with so called good career jobs nurses teachers etc are now in poverty.

Some one twitter said a few weeks back that we have created a country of cheap luxuries and expensive necessities. I think that's spot on and neither main parties has the balls to tackle the root causes.

We haven't built enough houses for decades so we're now millions short. We havent built a major power station since 1995. We have only managed just over 100km of HS rail. When was the last time we built a new motorway. Only 1 of our major cities has a integrated public transport system. We haven't built a reservoir since the early nineties. You can't reduce poverty and make people's lives better if you don't build stuff. How long are we expecting to coast along on our crumbling infrastructure?

 

[Quicksilvera]

Some one twitter said a few weeks back that we have created a country of cheap luxuries and expensive necessities. I think that's spot on and neither main parties has the balls to tackle the root causes.

We haven't built enough houses for decades so we're now millions short. We havent built a major power station since 1995. We have only managed just over 100km of HS rail. When was the last time we built a new motorway. Only 1 of our major cities has a integrated public transport system. We haven't built a reservoir since the early nineties. You can't reduce poverty and make people's lives better if you don't build stuff. How long are we expecting to coast along on our crumbling infrastructure?

It’s the classic ‘Somebody else will fix it’ problem. Great analogy about the luxuries and necessities.

 

[Jedi boro]

Some one twitter said a few weeks back that we have created a country of cheap luxuries and expensive necessities. I think that's spot on and neither main parties has the balls to tackle the root causes.

We haven't built enough houses for decades so we're now millions short. We havent built a major power station since 1995. We have only managed just over 100km of HS rail. When was the last time we built a new motorway. Only 1 of our major cities has a integrated public transport system. We haven't built a reservoir since the early nineties. You can't reduce poverty and make people's lives better if you don't build stuff. How long are we expecting to coast along on our crumbling infrastructure?

Our infrastructure is shocking

I remember I think it was hitachi that tested trains for the uk market in Germany on their test track and they had to pay thousands down grading the test track to match uk conditions.

 

[thewanderer]

It’s the classic ‘Somebody else will fix it’ problem. Great analogy about the luxuries and necessities.

We have been kicking various cans down the road for so long, now we have run out of road.

 

[thewanderer]

Our infrastructure is shocking

I remember I think it was hitachi that tested trains for the uk market in Germany on their test track and they had to pay thousands down grading the test track to match uk conditions.

Wow, didn't know that but it sums it up. Poor man of Europe.

In the next few years Poland and other former Eastern bloc countries will over take the UK in GDP per capita, do we think that that will spur our politicians into some kind of action? Don't bet on it.