poverty

Dic Penderyn wrote: SA14 wrote: I personally don’t think the cost of living crisis is as big as the media portrays it.  You must be in jail.

 

GPR - Rochester wrote: Good posts TBS & pimp. The tax issue is fundamental to the future prosperity of the country. Of course selling the idea of tax increases is a tough one with voters but a good serious politician can surely make the case for increases in order to improve the NHS & care for the less well off and those who need help.  Our next door neighbour, recently widowed, is 85 and suffers with alzheimers. She has no children. She cannot make her own breakfast or indeed remember her daily medication. Social services understand what she needs to carry on living at home but do not have the people to give the care so their only suggestion was to sell her home and move into a nursing home.  My wife & I were not happy with this solution so my wife now provides her with care morning & evening. It only takes her 1.5 hours a day but it sets our neighbour up for the day, gives her good nutrition and she gets her medication. It is heartbreaking to see someone who once made a real contribution to society - paying her taxes, working for 40+ years being neglected. There are millions of similar stories throughout the country. When are the government going to realise that providing care for elderly, vulnerable people is not a burden which should be done by underpaid carers but a service which we should pride ourselves on giving to those who have contributed throughout their lives.

RR1972 wrote: GPR - Rochester wrote: RR1972 wrote: Care work is mentlally and physically hard and pay is rubbish, a real tough gig tbh, a lot of non uk nationals Are key in this industry a fact the “foreigners out” brigade would do well to rember I assume you are referring to the right wing brigade Suella's mob. Lets not mix up the facts here - paying non UK nationals minimum wage or below to do certain jobs is not an answer it is part of the problem. Pay carers a decent wage regardless of what nationality they are. yes spot on

reesytheexile wrote: Dic Penderyn wrote: SA14 wrote: I personally don’t think the cost of living crisis is as big as the media portrays it.  You must be in jail.   I bet even in the nick the price of Snout and drugs is going up 😬

£130 an ounce apparently    but free meals and TV with a gym and on call 24hr door service

There are factors in economics and politics that are within a government's contol and others which are not. In any case, what a government can do falls somewhere between making things worse or making it better. We all know what the Tories are, what they stand for and who they represent. They are one of the oldest political parties in the world and have been in and around power for centuries. They are the party of established money and those who want in on that. They represent around 35% of the electorate. Their policies are geared to conserving the interests of established wealth. By means of these they tend to their constituency which for the most part is the largest minority in England. Each election they look to top that up enough to get a majority via the vagaries of the FPTP system that has served them very well for some 170 years now. There is a diversity of thought and groups within the party, but these last fourty five years their hardest right wing came into the ascendency culminating in the Truss government and the utter disaster of the Kwarteng budget ... which reportedly has cost the UK taxpayer £70 Billion. 44 years since Thatcher became PM and the UK has one of the worst GINI ratings in the world (inequality index). Wales is the poorest country in Western Europe and the rate of child poverty here is heartbreaking.