Corbyn Elected

[eggsarascal]

There's some great merchandise about Eggs....

 

Apparently, at the Labour conference, there are even JC / CG cufflinks would you believe?? How champagne socialist is that!?!

 

Yes I would believe.

 

Would you believe that half the working UK population (16 Million people) have less than £100 in savings...... Let's hope the Boiler don't breakdown this winter!

 

Perhaps those without, spent it on fags and beer, or maybe they just can't earn enough.

 

I'm sure you realise that the next generation will be less well off than their parents......... First time in history.

 

Was that a pointless rant?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Yes I would believe.

 

Would you believe that half the working UK population (16 Million people) have less than £100 in savings...... Let's hope the Boiler don't breakdown this winter!

 

Perhaps those without, spent it on fags and beer, or maybe they just can't earn enough.

 

I'm sure you realise that the next generation will be less well off than their parents......... First time in history.

 

Was that a pointless rant?

 

Just heard that on the news about generational wealth, didn't they say first time since WWII?

 

Don't know how it's measured, or what the implications in reality actually are.

 

Surely a large part (maybe large, maybe small - don't really know?) of the problem is (notional) wealth locked up in parents house values? Maybe equity release is a part solution to assisting the yoof of today to gain a deposit? Only works if parents have a house obviously, but since that would most likely be the generation that has gained most from house valuation rises, and discounted purchases of LA stock, it seems logical that they ought to release some of that 'gain' back into the market via their young uns.

[spudulike]

Yes I would believe.

 

Would you believe that half the working UK population (16 Million people) have less than £100 in savings...... Let's hope the Boiler don't breakdown this winter!

 

Perhaps those without, spent it on fags and beer, or maybe they just can't earn enough.

 

I'm sure you realise that the next generation will be less well off than their parents......... First time in history.

 

Was that a pointless rant?

 

Just had to look that up to see if it was correct.....bloody hell, that is some statistic...shows the sad state of the country's wealth.

 

Something is very wrong with the system if this is where we are!!!

[spudulike]

Just heard that on the news about generational wealth, didn't they say first time since WWII?

 

Don't know how it's measured, or what the implications in reality actually are.

 

Surely a large part (maybe large, maybe small - don't really know?) of the problem is (notional) wealth locked up in parents house values? Maybe equity release is a part solution to assisting the yoof of today to gain a deposit? Only works if parents have a house obviously, but since that would most likely be the generation that has gained most from house valuation rises, and discounted purchases of LA stock, it seems logical that they ought to release some of that 'gain' back into the market via their young uns.

 

I would say it is to do with the wages stagnating and the house prices going up by circa four times since the late 80s. The trouble is that lenders will lend more, people will borrow more and the prices go up. People say there house is their pension but the trouble is that you still need somewhere to live!

 

Not sure I would want to be in my twenties in this current environment!

[Mesterh]

Yes I would believe.

 

Would you believe that half the working UK population (16 Million people) have less than £100 in savings...... Let's hope the Boiler don't breakdown this winter!

 

Perhaps those without, spent it on fags and beer, or maybe they just can't earn enough.

 

I'm sure you realise that the next generation will be less well off than their parents......... First time in history.

 

Was that a pointless rant?

 

Deprivation is more rife than most people think. This isn't beggars in the street it is good people fallen on bad times. Not that beggars in the street aren't good people before a sandal wearer has a go.

 

A long time ago someone told me we are all one pay day away from ruin. Looks like he was right.

 

I see tonight that more libraries, museums and child centres are being closed. What a miserable and bleak future in store!

[TIMON]

Deprivation is more rife than most people think. This isn't beggars in the street it is good people fallen on bad times. Not that beggars in the street aren't good people before a sandal wearer has a go.

 

 

 

A long time ago someone told me we are all one pay day away from ruin. Looks like he was right.

 

 

 

I see tonight that more libraries, museums and child centres are being closed. What a miserable and bleak future in store!

 

 

Someone recently told me that If you have more than one change of clothes, have two meals a day and are educated up to the age of 13yrs old you are in the richest 10% of the world.

It made me realise that we don't know what real poverty is in this country.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Someone recently told me that If you have more than one change of clothes, have two meals a day and are educated up to the age of 13yrs old you are in the richest 10% of the world.

It made me realise that we don't know what real poverty is in this country.

 

 

Now there's a harsh dose of reality!

[difflock]

Statistics, statistics and dammned lies, have a lot to answer for.

There is no poverty in this country except that which people inflict on themselves AND their children.

If people no longer cook, which they dont, but rely on fast food outlets, & witness the no of them about, supply and demand 'n all that, and spend serious money on lottery tickets(witnessed in our local shop), they may plead poverty, but not sorry, this is not real poverty.

Never mind the fags and booze.

Never mind the perfectly good usable items of household and especially kitchen and electronic equipment dumped at our local Civic Amenity site, to be replaced by sommat shiney and new, for no good reason.

The true poverty in this country is in the rise of post war career politicans who pander to the mostly feckless, who "want it all, & now".

Instead of offering true "tough love" leadership.

Marcus

[MattyF]

I suppose the single mother who can't afford child care to work has to pay rent, council tax and all other bills and ends up in a food bank because bailiffs are knocking on the door threatening to take the tv she does not have or could afford in the first place any way... or the people who worked to pay to live in some shite flat ,in a shite job because there is no other jobs who then get laid off... Poverty in many forms is very real just as benifit scrounging folk who don't deserve a penny who flutter it all away on drink and gambling because they can milk the system for every thing it's worth ... the system fails people who really need help and craps on them further very often.

[GardenKit]

Statistics, statistics and dammned lies, have a lot to answer for.

There is no poverty in this country except that which people inflict on themselves AND their children.

If people no longer cook, which they dont, but rely on fast food outlets, & witness the no of them about, supply and demand 'n all that, and spend serious money on lottery tickets(witnessed in our local shop), they may plead poverty, but not sorry, this is not real poverty.

Never mind the fags and booze.

Never mind the perfectly good usable items of household and especially kitchen and electronic equipment dumped at our local Civic Amenity site, to be replaced by sommat shiney and new, for no good reason.

The true poverty in this country is in the rise of post war career politicans who pander to the mostly feckless, who "want it all, & now".

Instead of offering true "tough love" leadership.

Marcus

My sentiments exactly.

No one on this forum lives in poverty.

No one on any social media lives in poverty.

 

Really poor people do not have an iphone or a computer.