#cost of living in the uk

[scavengedluxury]

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Study In UK: Universities, Visa, Cost Of Living & Scholarships

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[ceevee5]

The UK in 2023 … like to charge, reblog to cast.

[andysouldancer]

To those who complain about this countries housing crisis.

Can't buy a house.

Can't afford to move house.

Can't afford rents.

Can't find a house.

Can't find anywhere to live.

The spread of HMO's.

Mortgage rises.

Rent rises.

Losing your home.

Moving in back to your parents.

Moving in with friends.

Losing it and becoming homeless.

NONE of this has anything to with MIGRANTS !

It is caused by repeated government policy decisions.

It is the fault if the governments that were elected.

[hellofroggg]

If you're currently furious about the amount of money the British oligarchy spent on a funeral and a coronation during a cost of living crisis: consider the fact the UK will have to do it all again in less than 10 years when Chuckie 3 kicks the bucket.

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

I think what annoys me so much about living in the UK with the current real struggles (cost of living specifically) is the apathy that people seem to have towards actually being angry about it and finding it unacceptable.

Everyone seems to have just accepted that this is the way things are now (bad) and will always be (worse), but worst of all is the belief/acceptance that things WERE ALWAYS JUST LIKE THIS which is just plain wrong.

It used to be the case that EVEN SOMEBODY on the bottom rung of society, say somebody unemployed who wasn't ever going to be able to work again or get themselves out of that situation... would be provided an affordable WHOLE HOME for themself by the council, which would be paid automatically from benefits they were automatically entitled to without having to jump through hoops and be constantly re-tested by an agent trying to trip them up.

That home might be small, and it might not be the best quality. But it would have a bedroom, a kitchen space, a bathroom, and small lounge all for that person's use, maybe even a garden as well - and that used to be understood as THE BARE MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE socially for any adult to have.

Nowadays you have working adults being charged what might be 60% or 70% of their salary just for A RENTED BEDROOM in a shared house. Never mind how people living on benefits are managing.

And what that means as well is in practice:

they might not have space to store food or belongings

they will probably only have partial use of a fridge

they won't have any control over who is in their home at any time because it is a shared house, including such basics as being able to use the bathroom whenever they like. etc.

It's great to see people protesting about causes abroad that matter to them and that the government here is turning a blind eye to or signing off on suffering related to, sure.

But there needs to be some outrage and will to change this kind of thing too. This isn't acceptable either, and rolling over to accept it now only opens the door for nothing ever to change and a mountain of ill mental health issues to be built up until one day sooner or later it suddenly explodes and leads to everyone affected spiralling irreversibly.

[freenorthnow]

So you did something good to help people in that position, right Rachel?

[gently-into-that-goodnight]

As someone going through the cost of living crisis, literally choosing which days to eat and which to not, which days to heat the house and water, and which to not - this coronation is a joke.

The money could have gone to way better causes, not even for the people like me who are better off. But for those who are literally dying.

[scavengedluxury]

Today on Normal Island the meat is in GPS enabled security boxes.

[dramaticallychill]

why are people telling me off for not watching the coronation, the next one's just around the corner please leave me alone

[solarpunkani]

I saw this on Twitter and honestly felt a bit sick just thinking about it. The sheer determination some people have to keep anyone from getting any sort of help, any sort of benefits, to kick down someone who has such a big heart to help those around her?

Here's the Tiktok where the woman, Carly Burd, talks about it. She shows the salted state of the land. This video was posted 21 hours ago at the time of posting this.

Another video where she discusses it, this one was posted 4 hours ago. Over 5 kilograms of salt, she estimates, was put into the soil of her allotment. She'd already planted onions and potatoes with her kids, which are now ruined. She's working to find a solution, which I genuinely hopes she does.

From what I can tell, this is a GoFundMe that she runs--not just for this tragic occurrence, but to generally support the work she does. It has a goal of £4,000 pounds and at the time of writing this, it's raised over £54,000 pounds, but by all means if you want to donate and help her out I'm sure she wouldn't turn any help away.

I genuinely hope all the help she's getting with this lets her grow a lot more food and help a lot more people.

[Photo ID: a scrrenshot of two tweets of a Twitter thread by Elsbeth Tashioni @THISisLULE, with 6,102 retweets, 2,345 Quote retweets, 28.1K likes, and 1,597 Bookmarks. The leading tweet was made at 4:24 AM EST on 4/12/23 (April 12th 2023). "Some UK woman on tiktok has been making videos about how she’s been feeding people (partly through an allotment) in her community who are struggling due to the cost of living crisis and then yesterday she posts that someone went and salted her land so she can’t grow food anymore" The second tweet has 25 replies, 1,391 retweets, and 14.5k likes. "Do you know how evil you have to be to sneak out at night, not to even steal to benefit yourself, but to destroy the possibility of people in need getting help?" End ID]

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[aj-lenoire]

the coronation: approximately £100 million

one (1) guillotine: idk exactly how much but i can guarantee it’s less than £100million

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

British Gas reports record £969m profit after price cap increase | Centrica | The Guardian

Hmm, looks like energy companies may have been profiteering after all...