Tory Councillor celebrates 600k food bank meals

You obviously know a lot more about it than I do.
Good ideas, fairer assessments, higher council tax for wealthier, free vocational training (which I’ve always thought should be provided. If your not working and claiming then you should do something to ‘earn it’ like training or community work)

I think that if you struggle to work full time because if childcare issues then you shouldn’t be having kids, if it results in you needing to use a food bank. It’s not fair on you or the kid.

I think you’d struggle to raise universal credit by 10%. Full time workers in public and private sector have seen nowhere near that in 10 years.
 
I think that if you struggle to work full time because if childcare issues then you shouldn’t be having kids, if it results in you needing to use a food bank. It’s not fair on you or the kid.

Not really a solution for anyone in that situation is it.

Nationalisation is the answer. We pay too much for everything in this country. Make public transport free, cheaper energy and water bills, free internet, free school dinners.
 
Didn't take long for the old " if you can't afford kids don't have them" line to come out . What about families that split and one partner (usually the woman) , suddenly finds themselves single & with kids to support . Compassion seems to be a rapidly dying commodity these days .
I agree

Don't people realise hardships can happen to anyone at any time

Too many daily mail and sun readers on here lately spouting tory propaganda
 
I’d nationalise the lot. Makes sense.

obviously if you have kids and your circs change you can’t do anything about that. There’s to many people in a crap situation when they have the kids though and they’re the people I was talking about. If they do find themselves single then the father should be made to pay his share.
 
Along with "I've always worked" and "earn your benefits" 🤣 reactionary bingo. Wonder if it'll be don't buy mobile phones and big tellys next or give up smoking and alcohol.
I have always worked despite leaving school with a single gcse. I’ve worked free for a week for experience to secure a job. I joined the army. I’ve worked away. It’s there if you want it.

I put earn your benefits in brackets because it does sound wrong but couldn’t think to word it any different. Somebody suggested training, which I agreed with, which technically is earning. Failing that then do some community work/work experience so you can update cv and potentially get new skills, technically earning it.
 
I have always worked despite leaving school with a single gcse. I’ve worked free for a week for experience to secure a job. I joined the army. I’ve worked away. It’s there if you want it.

I put earn your benefits in brackets because it does sound wrong but couldn’t think to word it any different. Somebody suggested training, which I agreed with, which technically is earning. Failing that then do some community work/work experience so you can update cv and potentially get new skills, technically earning it.
"Earn your benefits"? So what about all the tax paid by the benefit claimant- does that not count?
I respectfully suggest facefuzz that you spend a little time on benefits and see just how much you are spouting out of your back side. People like you get right up my nose. Nothing but a sanctimonious, judging, I'm ok Jack , if I can do it so can you, judgemental,........................
I have done all the things you have and more. Worked for companies that have gone bust, laid staff off. Took myself to college at my own expense and got qualifications (This at the age of 40) and still found myself out of work.
You seem to think that only people who have jobs are paying tax and paying for benefits. Well you are so wrong.
I never get angry on this board but this topic is close to my heart. Go and do one Facefuzz
Oh and before I forget. Most people on benefits are in work with wages so low that they need foodbanks to survive.
Ther is a resurgance of Victorian illnesses such as rickets and TB, and children being treated for malnourishment. Illnesses related directly to poverty. Women not being able to afford sanitary towels and now there is the spectre of heating or eating.
Doing "community work" can end up with a person being sanctioned as they are deemed to be not looking for work.
 
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No offence intended.
Somebody else suggested doing training whilst claiming. I just agreed. I said earning was the wrong word to use.
Anyway, it’s gone off piste from the foodbank topic.
Hope you get sorted
 
Rent is probably first cost to be paid out, then energy, not food - warm and dry, then eat. Rents have been rising significantly faster than inflation i.e. in line with property prices. (8% per year?)

Wages for the lower paid have failed to keep pace with RPI UK inflation for many years.

Taxes have increased at the low end - council tax always goes up more than inflation. Some of it has to be paid by all now matter what income.

National Insurance rates have risen since 2010. (paid more by lower paid)

Many benefits have been frozen despite a RPI inflation of around 7% at present

Some benefits are paid later than in the past.

Subsidised rents are vanishing as social housing shrinks.

Tax credits have been reduced for people on low incomes with dependents.

Some people are now paying bedroom tax, say by having a 2 bed property and only 1 or 2 people living in it.

Some people with disabilities have been taken off disability benefits and put on UC which is lower and/or had all disability benefits stopped such as daily living allowance.

In extreme cases some claimants are taking their own lives or attempting to take their own lives at assessment centres, because they feel they are not fit to work but have been deemed fit to work and feel they can't stay alive on lower benefits.

For 25+ year old living alone (monthly)

Living wage - £1326 before tax
Rent - £500
Council Tax - £90
Nat Insurance - £159
Income tax - £30
Travel £150 (cheap car or £7.50/day/rail bus fares)
Pension Contributions £100
Non food basic cost £100 (mobile/TV/haircuts/clothes/footwear/odd present/toilteries)
Energy £80
Water £15
That leaves £94/month for food or £3.20/day by my calculations.
That should be posted across the country in the run up to the next election.

The problem is, despite the pressure upon the less well off being piled on by the Tory party, in the
You obviously know a lot more about it than I do.
Good ideas, fairer assessments, higher council tax for wealthier, free vocational training (which I’ve always thought should be provided. If your not working and claiming then you should do something to ‘earn it’ like training or community work)

I think that if you struggle to work full time because if childcare issues then you shouldn’t be having kids, if it results in you needing to use a food bank. It’s not fair on you or the kid.

I think you’d struggle to raise universal credit by 10%. Full time workers in public and private sector have seen nowhere near that in 10 years.
This post has 'complete tosser' written all over it.

It's natural to want to have children, it's not natural to force a sizeable section of the country to live in poverty. It has to be drilled into you.
 
I have always worked despite leaving school with a single gcse. I’ve worked free for a week for experience to secure a job. I joined the army. I’ve worked away. It’s there if you want it.

Thanks for being the hardest worker ever (y) good luck at the next pride of britain awards! Well deserved!
 
I’d nationalise the lot. Makes sense.

obviously if you have kids and your circs change you can’t do anything about that. There’s to many people in a crap situation when they have the kids though and they’re the people I was talking about. If they do find themselves single then the father should be made to pay his share.
We could sterilize those below a certain income level, thus ensuring no children are born into poverty
 
Not really a solution for anyone in that situation is it.

Nationalisation is the answer. We pay too much for everything in this country. Make public transport free, cheaper energy and water bills, free internet, free school dinners.
And pay for it through taxation?
 
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