Millions of British people skipping meals in cost of living crisis: poll

Ah the gift of Brexit.

Cutting off your nose to spite your face.

It will get worse, mass strikes expected over the winter, many people can’t afford the basics of living anymore, especially those on benefits, pensioners and those on minimum wage.

A similar proportion are finding it harder to eat healthily compared with before the crisis, while almost 80 percent are finding it difficult financially.

But have businesses been relieved of burdensome regulations and lower taxes on the wealthy stimulated growth?

That is what we want to know.

Food banks are closing because they can’t afford to pay their energy bills. People turned the heating off and taking cold showers.

Nothing to do with Brexit since all the EU countries are in the same boat.

Well, it’s produced, it’s plenty of it in the shelves and it’s thrown away after the best-before-date and they also can’t throw their millions of working poor slaves into jail at the same time. So the easiest , healthiest and most pragmatic solution would be what? Yes, you guessed it right.

Wallace, exactly. Alarm bells a ringin. Who woulda thought that food scarcity would have re-emerged in 2020, especially after the progress made over the past 20 to 30 years, which was phenomenal.

Big shifts in policy needed to fight this global challenge. Doesn’t get more real than no food on the table and skipping meals, add some cold showers ( actually a good thing, ask Wim Hof! ) in there too. People will turn real quick into a completely different mode, survival mechanisms activated. Our darker natures maybe reawakened and revealed. Will take some sturdy leadership to tear the ship forward. Trying to blame a single govt. brexit, or the wizard of Oz, isn’t going to help either. This new reality will either bring out the best in us or the worst.

Steer the ship! Gomen

One of the most powerful nation in the world has been reduce to this.

This is dire.

Tories have for decades used the ‘Winter of Discontent’ as an example of Labour mismanagement of the country. No discussion about external factors etc.

So…

Tories, you own this.

The Conservative Party is on the ropes, something people like myself have wished for for a long time.

However, they are taking the country down with them, so any glee at the Tory plight is outweighed by concern for ordinary people who are suffering from gross mismanagement of the country.

Millions of British people skipping meals in cost-of-living crisis:

This is only the beginning. With inflation keeps soaring high uncontrollably, worst is yet to come.

Compounded by precarious politics, UK is already in a horrible quagmire.

Comes winter, where goes UK..?

Funny that coz my mum said that where the benefit crowd hang out in her town, they still all have their Costa coffees in hand each day.....Priorities eh

What’s your point? Cut benefits?

Jobs opening up all the time in the Tory cabinet. Get your application in sharpish.

Who woulda thought that food scarcity would have re-emerged in 2020

Food is not scarce. Money to buy it is. Money to buy it is scarce because a country with something like a 3% dependency on Russian gas and the most offshore wind has the highest energy prices in Europe.

Kniknaknokkaer

Funny that coz my mum said that where the benefit crowd hang out in her town, they still all have their Costa coffees in hand each day.....Priorities eh

you must have read that in a gutter press. Simply not true.

However, they are taking the country down with them, so any glee at the Tory plight is outweighed by concern for ordinary people who are suffering from gross mismanagement of the country

The two are not unrelated.

A government in a state of chaos exacerbates the problem. This is not partisan point-scoring.

If this was a Labour government, the same would apply.

There is no food or energy scarcity in Britain, only scarcity is money to pay for it.

Big Oil are making massive profits from the current situation without giving anything back.

Tories have created 10% inflation. For some mortgages are 4-6 times higher. Higher rents.

The UK bought very little Russian gas or oil. They have lots of wind turbines and solar power, but just a few nuclear power plants and no coal powered plants, due to eco-political pressure.

The people are in poverty, yet the bosses of the gas and electricity companies are recording record profits, and paying each other rather handsome bonuses, year after year.

More polarisation.

I was lucky to attend a school that had a comprehensive rural science syllabus, accompanying a superb vegetable garden.

In Japan I have been growing seasonal fruit and vegetables for some years now.

With the mentoring of the local farming community I have become proficient.

Now is the time for communities and neighbours to link arms and join together., those with gardens must make the most of the land and become growers.

It is going be a long tough winter, many will struggle to put food on the table and heat there homes.

The UK has coal-fired plants but most days do not need to use them. There is no shortage of electricity.

Free breakfasts and lunches for all school children including weekends.

I saw the news on BBC TV old folks served meals at churches. I was impressed British churches do such a good thing and thought about Japanese buddhist temples where people go only when people die. I wish they do similar charity things at Japanese temples too. They are having troubles losing believers visiting temples recently.

Ah the gift of Brexit.

You evidently do not understand the causes of this crisis; it has nothing to do with Brexit.

vanityofvanitiesToday  01:51 pm JST

I saw the news on BBC TV old folks served meals at churches. I was impressed British churches do such a good thing and thought about Japanese buddhist temples where people go only when people die. I wish they do similar charity things at Japanese temples too. They are having troubles losing believers visiting temples recently.

I've never heard of a temple or shrine making a donation or supporting those suffering hardships in the community. Their help is usually, 'Come pray at our temple/shrine for help and give us some money.' They seem to be all about collecting money not giving it or spending it on the local community. My inlaws invite the local priest to make a blessing at their home every year......¥10,000/visit. Got nothing against them getting income but seems it's all for profit.

Capitalism is evil.

Kniknaknokkkaer

I was in the UK for than 40 years and heard the same sentiments since the 1960s. Somethings never change.

Kniknaknokkkaer

you are saying people on benefits, are less capable people? All families with children receive child benefits. Now many rich people end up bankrupt? Or businesses.

Funny that coz my mum said that where the benefit crowd hang out in her town, they still all have their Costa coffees in hand each day.....Priorities eh

Of course it's true. I don't read the 'gutter press' and I do believe my mum who is actually in the UK.

American Boomer Mums and Dads posting about those damn broke Millennials with their Starbucks as if that is a response to crony capitalism increasing inequality and driving down the standard of living for the majority.

Great source of information; seems the UK is about the same eh?

I wonder how anyone would know someone was on benefits from just holding a coffee cup?

My point is that some on benefits (and some who earn) are terrible at prioritizing their spending and will complain about not being able to pay bills, while at the same time spending money on rubbish they don't actually need each day

No offence intended here, but does your mum know the employment circumstances of these profligates drinking coffee? It does come across as a bit Daily Mail-ish.

I don’t doubt some are bad at prioritizing but the bigger issue here is the appalling state the UK is in and it’s being led by a government in absolute chaos.

Priorities eh?

Indeed.

It's going to be one hell of a Dickensian Christmas, thats for sure.

For many, the economic downswing began with the pandemic. Million lost their jobs. The country didn’t recover then Putin invaded Ukraine.

Funny that coz my mum said that where the benefit crowd hang out in her town, they still all have their Costa coffees in hand each day.

A Daily Mail comment that reeks of class privilege. You know you're only a redundancy and a serious illness away from ending up back with them ?

Cost of my breakfast, coffee, homemade wholewheat toast, two eggs. ¥300!

Lunch is nearly always salad with fish. ¥300

Dinner is the main meal ¥500-¥750.

¥1300/day times 2.

I can cook a food and tasty meal for ¥500.

About £16 pound per day about £487 per month. Double that if we had two kids.

Across the UK, the average monthly food budget in 2021 came to £371 (the average family has 3.8 people, so a family of 4 might spend a little more than this). That's an average of about £86 a week. That means that, accounting for this year's inflation, it will now be around £409 per month in 2022 (or £95 a week).

food is more expensive in Japan than the UK. But electricity and gas prices are more than the double here.

We pay 8-10% sales tax on food while UK food is free of sales tax.

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I remember just after WW2, the country was broken, destroyed homes and workplaces, destroyed docks. Food rations until the summer 1954. Even after that it was rough for many including my own family who struggled to put food on the table.

I can see this government collapsing. It needs to go... they've run out of ideas, elected a lunatic as PM and are at war with themselves - meanwhile our old and poor are facing a terrible winter. I can only hope it's not a snowy one.

We need an election... I don't know if Labour would do any better, but surely they can't be worse? Can they?

Let us if the Great Hunger will strangle the U.K., thanks to Thatcherism, Brexit and the rampant stupidity of the Conservative party.

Poverty is a problem but poor financial management makes this a bigger problem. Schools should teach it as part of the general curriculum.

Brexit the "gift" that keeps giving, according to the UK's Financial Times and to what I can see with my own eyes, and a historic own-goal in the eyes of the "clairvoyant" economist, Nouriel Roubini, who sees no light at the end of the tunnel dug by the Tories. And as for cups of Costa coffee in the hands of profligate "undeserving scroungers", such public displays of conspicuous consumption should not blind us to the folk on much bigger "benefits" holding glasses of champagne in one hand and a plate of truffle fois de gras sandwiches in the other, hidden from public view in the privacy of their mansions and estates.

WOW! Liz Truss has resigned!

Truss QUITS after just 44 days in No10: PM admits she cannot carry on after crisis talks with Tory chiefs over flood of no-confidence letters from angry MPs - with a replacement to be chosen in a WEEK

Yesterday Truss said she was a fighter. Today, it's a knockout.

Pathetic, Brits

Those are the consequences of the UK's pathetic Brexit, lowering taxes on the rich and imposing pathetic sanctions on Russia, the schools are returning against all of Europe..

Meanwhile in Russia, everything is fine and the ship is going ahead..

The best they can do is stop being the lapdog of the US-NATO circus, be independent, seek a peaceful solution and immediate negotiation of the war in Ukraine and return to the European Union.

Europe's loyalty to the US is costing them dearly.

The UK is no longer even the shadow of the colonial empire that it used to be.

New world order coming!!..

By the way, the phony Truss resigns, LOOOOL !!!!..