Victorian levels of poverty will return to the UK

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Performed by Gary Stevenson
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[veritysmart]

The worst part is the people working hardest are getting the least remuneration for their efforts and then shamed in the media for not taking more hours, more work despite the poverty wages. 40% of people in work need state support. That’s a reflection of greed not poor work ethics by working people. This is being done by design, by greed.

[Lizapiza-on]

The worst part is this is happening because 'someone' felt that making 20 million when they could be making 40 million was oppression. 😤

[yeahbuddy]

Years ago when I was 18, I wanted to make food cart business in my town center. The council were so unhelpful, so unwilling. There was absolutely no encouragement towards me, as a young person trying to make a business. It was almost like the council officer I was dealing with was protecting her own town, like she owned it personally. Fast forward many years later, the town has become a ghost town, almost every shop is empty or closing down. What was ironic was the excuses I was given for a rejection was because the town didn't need another food establishment and wouldn't fit in..but funnily two new mcdonalds popped up. Joke. No encouragement for entrepreneur aspirations.

[blastypowpow]

SAME EXACT THING IS HAPPENING IN THE USA! Enormous wealth inequality is going to drive many of here into that kind of poverty. Poverty is an issue you NEVER hear politicians talk about here. What about in the UK?

[joltjolt]

An average house used to cost 1 year's salary, in 1970. 2 year's salary in 1980. 3 year's salary in 1990. Now, it's 10 Year's salary.

[LizbetNene]

Victorian era illnesses associated with malnutrition have been on the rise for years now.
Thank you for speaking out Gary.

[philippine]

You're absolutely right people should remember: poverty is not an accident, a coincidence or an inevitability. It is something which is manufactured by the ruling class and the government system which everyone needs to take risks to overcome by investing, i pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life too 🙏🙏🙏

[aurasphereDavid]

Same thing happening on Canada. (And many other countries)
It's like all governments and rich of the world consulted each other and decided to do the same thing all over the world, at the same time.

[notyourordinarygran]

Povetty exists, not because we cannot feed the poor, but because we can never satisfy the rich.

[diealovesveggies]

👋🏻 Hi, here from America. Most working class citizens here are 1 inconvenience (car part going out, having to pay for parts and repairs, missing work or being fired due to increasingly unfair attendance policies and no protection for workers) away from the poverty of which you speak. Here is to hoping that things change for the better soon, because I am barely making it.

[Cduboi]

“Nobody is connecting these two things”.

Everyone is aware of it, they just choose to ignore it because addressing it would be considered “socialism” and “anti-capitalist”

[veronicacarmody]

It isn’t just Great Britain, the USA is in dire straits also.

[jenbreck]

This really started with Thatcher and Reagan and their lie of "trickle down" economics.

[BlueBearOne]

I've been discussing this same problem in the U.S. for the past 5-10 years. When the middle class is cannibalized, civilizations fall.

[nickthebeardedwonder]

Most sensible thing iv seen in a long time, a man not distracted and looking at the real issue

[theresebortzfield]

Great statement absolutely correct. wealth inequality causes more upheaval for countries than any other reason

[Cerinaya]

It's happening all over. Most US families are living paycheck to paycheck or just above. Food prices are crazy, rent/housing is near impossibly high, health care is ridiculous, wages are stagnating and the at will work policies mean that people can be fired for almost any reason the boss comes up with. It paints a bleak picture for the future. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class is fading because it is drowning underneath the massive amounts of debt that inflation is pushing.

[jacobnauman]

Yeah, this is happening across many developed countries. The US especially. I mean, I've been building a 13'X16' cabin in the corner of a cow field out of mostly free pallets and other reclaimed materials for myself and my partner and kids to live in. It doesn't matter how hard I work, I CANNOT afford to provide for them. I'm just lucky enough to know someone that owns a big cow field. We were in this field in a decent tent over the winter. Hopefully we can save up money for our own land while we live there, but the way prices keep going up I'm pretty sure my savings will be for nothing. Gotta try, though.

Meanwhile I've been watching everyone that already had money getting more in this area. Brand new, big houses being built up and down the back roads. Proctor and Gamble gets handed millions to expand their plant as if they couldn't afford it. Everybody my age is lucky to make rent even with roommates, and they work their asses off and can't afford food or gas.

I apply for jobs where people say they're understaffed, and I hear nothing. I get lucky and get an interview, and hear nothing. Ask my friend who works there, and they say they still haven't filled the position weeks later.

[sanjayshah]

We need a law that people or companies cannot own more than 5 residential properties, (not including flats). This buying up of numerous properties across England has pushed up house prices and continues to push up house prices to eye watering growing up and being born in UK, will not be able to afford houses....or spend most of their life paying off a mortgage. INEQUALITY OF HOUSING STOCK ON THE HANDS OF A FEW PEOPLE, NEEDS TO CHANGE....for the good of this country

[ohkay]

The problem is both in the UK and America is that we sent all of our jobs overseas who is so much better to have somebody get paid 2 cents for doing a job than two dollars