Why are the UK's poor getting poorer?
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Impoverished Britain (1996) - The loss of minimum wage in Britain has resulted in the gap between the rich and the poor growing hugely. For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=9782 'Newtown' just outside Birmingham is looking dirty, rundown and old. 50 % of its citizens are unemployed, living in grey towerblocks overlooking the urban devastation. The flats are poorly equipped with basic furnishings. All people can do is watch television. As the rich people get richer, the poor get poorer. Chris Pond from the Low Pay Unit blames poverty and hardship on the Conservative Government's free market economy and their opt out from the social chapter. A tramp slumped on a bench with dirty blanket at his feet is a potent symbol of the such social deprivation. Loretta Matthews is surviving on £121 a week as a single parent with four children. Sometimes she cannot pay for her electricity and she has to sit in the dark. Or she sorts out her problems by drinking a bottle of brandy. In Newtown itself, iron shutters and boarded up windows have replaced the shops. No one has any money to spend. Irene, aged 40, is too afraid to walk on streets in case she gets mugged. Chris Pond feels ashamed to be British and grimaces at the thought that low wages in Britain might undermine the rest of Europe in its attempts to achieve some kind of solidarity. Produced by Journeyman Pictures. Ref - 196 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
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Thank you for your video. Stay positive and happy in your beautiful bright heart's people in the UK!. We are all free sovereign human's once again!, we are all equal under one Creator. We will fix everything for the highest good of all people on our new brighter Earth.
You can do much better than this!, UK!!.
We will never stop until everyone is satisfied with being treated with equal respect & care!!. -
this is really the world? i want it all to collapse!
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All countries are poor because edom is ruling the world . The earth is givin to the wicked
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England let too many outsiders in!!!
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the poor in the first world nations are rich compared to more than half hte planet. so being poor is subjective if youare a capable adult and can work and want towork but cannot get a decent job that pays to make it worth it, then you have a serious problem. of course being on welfare is hardly being rich per say as you are onthe backs of the taxpayers who are working. so working is penalized by high taxes to pay for the welfare system (for both rich and poor alike) so many people figure why work at all unless under the table because your only going have the gov steal more than half. so when the head is corrupt or rotten then the rest of the body will rot as well.
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i know this is very old but this guy had to leave work due to his asthma..and here he is SMOKING doh !
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GENTRIFICATION for 2016 💯 Brum hasn't moved on
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Being poor in the UK looks worse than being poor in the USA.
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This is a bit out of date - see Wikipedia quote following. They've has a minimum wage for almost 20 years. Nonetheless, poverty is still real in the UK, as it is everywhere to some extent or other, including in the USA. Trickle down never works and guess which genius president elect in the US wants to try that bullshit again. Children in these 'advanced' countries should not go hungry.
From Wikipedia:
The National Minimum Wage Act 1998 creates a minimum wage across the United Kingdom,[1] currently £7.20 per hour for workers aged over 25, £6.95 per hour for workers aged 21 to 24 and £5.55 per hour for workers aged 18 to 20.[2] It was a flagship policy of the Labour Party in the UK during its 1997 election campaign[1] and is still pronounced today in Labour Party circulars as an outstanding gain for ‘at least 1.5 million people’. The national minimum wage (NMW) took effect on 1 April 1999. On 1 April 2016 an amendment to the act created an obligatory National Living Wage for workers over 25, which was implemented at a significantly higher minimum wage rate of £7.20, and is expected to rise to at least £9 per hour by 2020. -
a backward country with idiots making working policy. third world country.....an eighteenth century policy country in a 21st century world.
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poor coz fucking lazy.... thats why
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He has asthma and smokes!
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stop smoking
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no comment on this i only get bad mouth from everyone on YouTube, so i am keep my mouth shut so i will not be in trouble with any one on here
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no comment on this i only get bad mouth from everyone on YouTube, so i am keep my mouth shut so i will not be in trouble with any one on here
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If you want a better diet stop buying brand names and processed food and buy fruit and veg which are a lot cheaper. Don't stand there with a huge jar of Hellman's and a massive packet of processed meat and say you have a poor diet. Store brands, cooking from scratch and common sense would go a long way towards improving that. It's really not rocket science.
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imagine if policunticiasns had to work for 3 piss poor quid an hour??
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This was 1996 probably filmed 1995. Britain still looked like Britain, not like Liberia.
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don't have kids if you're poor, not exactly rocket science
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