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People on a low income are already the experts when it comes to budgeting, they know how it's done, God knows they've had enough practice. So all this talk about cooking basics, buying cheapest brands etc are second nature to them.

The Tory man says he can cook good nutricious meals for 30p.

What do you do if you haven't got 30p?

People don't seem to have grasped that. 

This is the territory we're moving into as inflation flares to 10%

 

If you're living in your car, or a shed, or on a park bench, cooking is the last thing on your mind. Homelessness is real, and coming to a citizen near you. if not you. 

 

Martin Lewis on Peston: 'We are moving in this country from a time of relative poverty to a time of absolute poverty.'

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Oh my lord. Jamie Oliver is back in the news . Turkey Twizzlers  anyone 

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31 minutes ago, Anna B said:

Martin Lewis on Peston: 'We are moving in this country from a time of relative poverty to a time of absolute poverty.'

They say that after 2010 austerity caused a decline in living standards, which we have just recovered from.

Now the cycle will start again. But living standards are higher now compared to 50 years ago, but we now have issues like obesity to deal with.

That fact that many cannot afford a centrally heated house 24/7 would have been laughed at 50 years ago 

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Bloke who lives 3 doors down is driving an Audi A4 on a 2019 plate.  He says he will be buying a new car every 3 years now rather then every 12 months as he is struggling with the cost of living

 

Imagine having to drive a 3 year old car

 

In our household we are looking at turning the heating down to 15 degrees if there is a heatwave this summer, this is advise we took from experts on the tv

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48 minutes ago, rogets said:

Bloke who lives 3 doors down is driving an Audi A4 on a 2019 plate.  He says he will be buying a new car every 3 years now rather then every 12 months as he is struggling with the cost of living

 

Imagine having to drive a 3 year old car

 

In our household we are looking at turning the heating down to 15 degrees if there is a heatwave this summer, this is advise we took from experts on the tv

You've had the TV on :suspect: do you know how extravagant that makes you sounds to the real paupers like myself.

Apart from my 'daily driver' and 'new' cars for work,

the youngest of my other cars was built well before some of the young ones on here were even born, but I manage 🤣 .

 

Lets go back to happier days when there was no daytime telly, you only went into the 'other' ('Best') room in an evening to watch telly (without the light  on of course) and once Carole Hersee started going peeeeeeeeeeeep, it was time for bed, not another four rounds of the interactive computer game young Johnny's playing with his mates on-line till 4am int morning :mad: .

 

Keep safe out there, and make sure the gas mantles turned off 8) .

 

Final thought, Now newspapers are increasingly going 'on line' what we gonna use in the outside 'Cloggy' :huh: .

 

 

 

 

 

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2 hours ago, Rockers rule said:

You've had the TV on :suspect: do you know how extravagant that makes you sounds to the real paupers like myself.

Apart from my 'daily driver' and 'new' cars for work,

the youngest of my other cars was built well before some of the young ones on here were even born, but I manage 🤣 .

 

Lets go back to happier days when there was no daytime telly, you only went into the 'other' ('Best') room in an evening to watch telly (without the light  on of course) and once Carole Hersee started going peeeeeeeeeeeep, it was time for bed, not another four rounds of the interactive computer game young Johnny's playing with his mates on-line till 4am int morning :mad: .

 

Keep safe out there, and make sure the gas mantles turned off 8) .

 

Final thought, Now newspapers are increasingly going 'on line' what we gonna use in the outside 'Cloggy' :huh: .

 

 

 

 

 

You have to listen to the experts on the TV when it comes to surviving this crisis. 

 

Next season at the footy we plan to go onto one of the cheaper stands where its only £65 per ticket. 

 

It's hard going, but if you listen to the experts you get some handy tips

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21 minutes ago, rogets said:

You have to listen to the experts on the TV when it comes to surviving this crisis. 

 

Next season at the footy we plan to go onto one of the cheaper stands where its only £65 per ticket. 

 

It's hard going, but if you listen to the experts you get some handy tips

My local ASDA is just around the corner from me (about 400yds)

If I need a bottle of milk I get in the car and fetch one...

I've now decided to walk, it takes me 5 minutes..

Difficult decisions have to be made if we want to survive this crisis...

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13 hours ago, El Cid said:

They say that after 2010 austerity caused a decline in living standards, which we have just recovered from.

Now the cycle will start again. But living standards are higher now compared to 50 years ago, but we now have issues like obesity to deal with.

That fact that many cannot afford a centrally heated house 24/7 would have been laughed at 50 years ago 

For some, but not for all.

 

But what you're forgetting is that 50 years ago fundamental infrastructure was in place that levelled things up.

There was an efficient, reliable and cheap transport system for those without cars, a decent NHS and dentistry system that worked well and delivered. A decent home care and care home system for the elderly; Free higher education for all those that were capable of gaining a degree and moving into the professions; affordable housing and a council house system for those who couldn't buy; secure, relatively well paid, and useful jobs protected by the unions, and a simpler welfare system for those in distress. There was a much smaller more managable gap between the haves and have nots, and a kinder more cohesive world.

 

Certainly it wasn't perfect, but it was a vast improvement on today now that it is all being privatised. Any one of the above can all but bankrupt the lower paid these days should the worst befall them, and more people are in danger of falling into this catagory.

 

People having to pull their own teeth out should not be happening in the 21st century Britain 

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7 minutes ago, rogets said:

You have to listen to the experts on the TV when it comes to surviving this crisis. 

 

Next season at the footy we plan to go onto one of the cheaper stands where its only £65 per ticket. 

 

It's hard going, but if you listen to the experts you get some handy tips

I've done the one about 'not wiping yer bum with a broken bottle' before so shan't repeat myself :huh:.

£65 per ticket to watch the footi ?????? 

Gone up a bit since I paid £2.50 to see Rangers lose at Chesterfield 1980 :mad: .

Never done the football thing, bikes and cars have been our thing.

£65 would have bought 4 Reliant Regals & enough left over for the fuel to get yer home :thumbsup:.

 

Happy daze 8) ,

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19 minutes ago, Rockers rule said:

I've done the one about 'not wiping yer bum with a broken bottle' before so shan't repeat myself :huh:.

£65 per ticket to watch the footi ?????? 

Gone up a bit since I paid £2.50 to see Rangers lose at Chesterfield 1980 :mad: .

Never done the football thing, bikes and cars have been our thing.

£65 would have bought 4 Reliant Regals & enough left over for the fuel to get yer home :thumbsup:.

 

Happy daze 8) ,

I once had a Reliant , One day while driving through Stainforth our dog jumped on mi knee and I crashed through a wall on Church Street , Some pals from boat yard came and lifted the poor old Robin out of the Garden and we pushed it into the canal basin , I was despatched over to  the car spares for sheets of Fibre glass and isopon  glue plus a tin of Reliant Green paint . By five o clock the Reliant was back on the road looking like a wounded soldier in green bandage but went on another two years before it got pinched in Newark by the local toss pots and set on fire .

I rebuilt the garden wall , The dog never showed any remorse for all the upset , Stainforth  miners went on strike, the place has never recovered .

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The Excessive salaries of those at the top (ie upwards of £200,000 per annum - and now into the £millions+) has put prices up for everyone and is another cause of inflation, but it's not mentioned much, I wonder why....?

The top salaries are running away into the stupid, and are not justified and do not improve performance as has been proved, but still they head upwards even in these difficult times when every one else's salaries are dropping in real terms.

 

 

 

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15 hours ago, Anna B said:

People on a low income are already the experts when it comes to budgeting, they know how it's done, God knows they've had enough practice. So all this talk about cooking basics, buying cheapest brands etc are second nature to them.

The Tory man says he can cook good nutricious meals for 30p.

What do you do if you haven't got 30p?

People don't seem to have grasped that. 

This is the territory we're moving into as inflation flares to 10%

 

If you're living in your car, or a shed, or on a park bench, cooking is the last thing on your mind. Homelessness is real, and coming to a citizen near you. if not you. 

 

Martin Lewis on Peston: 'We are moving in this country from a time of relative poverty to a time of absolute poverty.'

Any update on the 100's of thousand of nurses supposedly using foodbanks, or Elsie, is she stuck in a bus depot with a shivering group of pensioners. Or these poor kids who are getting food poisoning because their parents are turning the freezer off at night to save money. Haven't seen a picture of someone sat on the floor of a hospital or train recently, that's going to probably rear it ugly head again soon. This is off the scale mind manipulation.

 

Any questions about an 'experts' advice to not lock into a fixed price utility contract - (we'll see how that works out in a few months when the prices go up another 45%, and if OFGEM gets their way, another hike in January), and swap branded beans for value.

 

A not so slim Chef is back in the news, going on about cheap crisps causing obesity, there's probably a tv production team frothing with ideas about how to make another campaigning series out of that. Speaking of which, what happened to the chicken bloke, he's been quiet of late.

 

The media are playing a political game, I wouldn't be surprised if certain media organisations have a food bank outside broadcast team on standby to scour the country for obese people who claim they have to miss meals so their kids can eat.

 

Tonights TV choice between, eat well for less, secret spenders, or Jamie cooking banoffee cheesecake (a few more calories than a bag of quavers I expect)

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We've conned the youth into thinking they need to go to university, punished thrift with stupidly low interest rates and high taxation (leading to unaffordable housing), paid people to sit on their backsides for a couple of years, and printed money to pay for it, that's socialism for you, always ends in inflation and misery. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a party with the slightest idea of how to fix it.

 

Governments aren't to blame for a lack of people wanting to spend their days with their hand in your mouth with blood splattering everywhere.

 

 

 

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