Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "‘I live off £30 a month’: Nearly 4 million people in UK experienced ‘destitution’ last year" video.

@rich7447 It's beside the point. Inequality in the USA has massively increased. Wealth is getting concentrated in the hands of the billionaires. The problem isn't the top 1%, the problem is the top 1% of the top 1%. And the people who run the country have rigged things to be like that starting with the Greenspan put and the endless QE which followed, that's the root of the high inflation now. Only worsened by the covid lockdowns which transferred billions from small business to Big Tech. It's by design.
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Poland also has a government which cares about the Polish nation (although that might change with Donald Tusk). Britain has a government which has allowed mass immigration to push down wages and push up the price of housing.
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Almost as if having children outside of a stable relationship is a bad idea?
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@KJ-yises You can always think of edge cases. The problem with edge cases is the vast majority of single mothers made bad decisions. Mortality for healthy young people in Britain is extremely low
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@josephpaerau9144 There's plenty of money for asylum seekers to stay in four star hotels though.
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@dongmingzhu666 Money does trickle down. High paid bankers pay huge income tax. Without the million financial sector workers of the City of London, there wouldn't be money for the NHS or social welfare. If you think poor people in Britain have it hard, look at the rest of the world outside of Europe.
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@BanjoPixelSnack Fathers get their pay docked to pay single mothers so they're only going to be able to "do a runner" if the mother doesn't even know who the father is or if he flees to a non Western country. I know a woman who had a child with a third worlder who has no interest and she deserves no sympathy.
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@cataliaishere Fathers get their pay docked to pay single mothers so they're only going to be able to "do a runner" if the mother doesn't even know who the father is or if he flees to a non Western country. I know a woman who had a child with a third worlder who has no interest and she deserves no sympathy.
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@MancCow Fathers get their pay docked to pay single mothers so they're only going to be able to "do a runner" if the mother doesn't even know who the father is or if he flees to a non Western country. I know a woman who had a child with a third worlder who has no interest and she deserves no sympathy.
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@KJ-yises Yeh I don't think there's a solution. The media is always going to emphasise the ones who fall through the cracks, anyway. Most people have family to help them out at the end of the day if the SHTF. I'm more concerned with the long term health of the country. The least capable people have been having more children than the most capable people for well over a hundred years and we're starting to pay the price even apart from importing millions of welfare cases from the third world. I doubt the NHS and social welfare are sustainable long term at all.
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Mass immigration pushed down wages and pushed up the price of housing but surely it's worth it for all the cultural enrichment, life was so boring in the days before race riots and paedo gangs
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Plenty of money for asylum seekers though
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This is the problem with not having an ethnic identity. For over a hundred years, Britain has been run by liberals who elevate short term economic advantage over the long term welfare of the British people and so there's been almost no serious argument against allowing millions of foreigners to settle, pushing down wages and pushing up the cost of housing. It's surreal that the Prime Minister is an ethnic Indian, Scotland's first minister is an ethnic Pakistani and the government is full of people whose ethnic loyalties lay elsewhere. The First Minister of Scotland has even publicly complained that there too many white people in senior positions in Scotland. Japan or India or Russia or Israel or Turkey would never elect leaders who didn't put their own people first but Anglophone countries fear to even admit they have such a thing as an ethnicity. Unless this changes and changes quickly, we're going to have a lot more to worry about than economic hardship.
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I was flat sharing as a student, great fun, good times, ran out of money at one point, luckily my mate covered the rent for a couple of months and I paid him back later. I'd definitely live with friends if I had to save money in future.
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@trackerbacker It's obvious what the problem is in Ireland too - mass immigration lowering wages and pushing up the price of housing.
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@gmanlee575 At least half of the US economy is a borrowing fuelled Ponzi scheme and it's not far off collapsing. Maybe even the next few years.
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Thank mass immigration for pushing down wages and pushing up the cost of housing. Yes the Tories have done this but so have Labour. Remember Andrew Nether's admission that mass immigration was to "rub the right's nose in diversity?" well now you have your diversity. Tens of millions of people crammed close together, low wages, expensive housing, no community, ethnic problems, riots and things are only getting worse. If you think Labour can fix this then you're going to be in for a nasty shock. They'll just jack up spending and crash the economy even more.
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Relative to the median income, food in Britain is cheaper than the vast majority of the world. It's really not food that's the problem. It's low wage growth and high housing costs. And both of those problems are due directly to mass immigration.
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@qweezyuk What do you expect landlords to provide accommodation for free? Being a landlord is pretty hard. My GF rented her house out and as soon as the tenant had been there long enough to get his residency rights, he stopped paying rent. Took two years to evict him over covid. Left owing 12k and we'll never get the money back. Meanwhile she still had to pay the mortgage and was just getting bigger and bigger credit card debt.
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@roops2939 If we weren't importing millions of wasters from the third world, we wouldn't have to cover the countryside with houses. It's mass immigration which both pushes down wages and pushes up the price of housing.
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@qweezyuk In the case I'm talking about it wasn't a Buy to Let at all, it was the GF's only house. Buy to Let is close to dead now for small investors anyway. The government deliberately decided to squash it and the result is the small Buy to let landlords have already sold up and there's a chronic shortage of rentals. Also interest rates have gone right up so of course that's going to hit rents.
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@qweezyuk Paying a landlord mortgage, yes. I agree it's all down to timing. Landlords who got in 20 years ago made a killing but on capital gains more than rents. The point is, legislation makes being a landlord nowadays pretty unattractive, partly tenant rights, partly you can no longer take out mortgage cost from rental income in calculating income tax (so you can be paying income tax on rent even if you're making a loss - which is blatantly unfair). It's basically eliminating most private landlords or forcing them to run it as a business. So there's a shortage of houses and rents are pushed up. Yes some people are still making a lot of money but it's no longer easy. And some buy to let landlords have been burned badly.
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@YeOldeLord You pay your money, you take your chances. But if the relationship splits up the father has to pay child support. The only way he's going to get out it is if he moves overseas or if the mother doesn't even know who he is. At the end of the day someone has to pay for children and it should be the parents, not everyone else. Personally I've got my own four children to pay for, I can't afford to pay for everyone else's.
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