Yes, I would slash foreign aid and give it to help the less well off in Britain.

What a daft post. Mediterraneans eat foreign food and they have far healthier lifestyles than Brits.

Good old fish n chips may not be the healthiest of foods but people don't tend to eat it quite as regularly as they do the American imported junk food.

This thread is supposed to be about poverty and I don't suppose that many poor people can afford to eat a full English breakfast that often as it's certainly not cheap

UK poor are rich by global standards.

UK poor can still be helped despite this.

Foreign aid is being mis-spent.

Is it any clearer?

It completely depends on the definition of poverty. If we're all working off different metrics, then we're not going to agree on a solution. What's your metric? How do you class a poor person?

Yeah, better just borrow more and more and let our kids pay for it later.

You will be voting Labour. We get it.

Aldi and Lidl are two of several supermarkets making a profit.when they update their shops, they get more customers. I’m not surprised Aldi and Lidl are doing well. Brits will eat anything or buy food as cheap fuel rather than it being a priority in their lives and financial outgoings. They do well in Germany but the Germans have the sense to buy certain better goods in local shops as well, as we did in this country, from the bakers, butchers etc. Sainsbury’s were going to open Nettos next door to each other to tap into this.

Primark are not the only shop on the high street or in the shopping mall, but the reason they’re big on the high street is because the margins make online deliveries unprofitable or the delivery fees too high a percentage of the bill seeing as nobody would qualify for free delivery with orders over £40 or £60. There are plenty of other shops charging a range of prices.

My opposition to FOBT’s means I believe there should be a quarter of the betting shops on our streets in some places. There were 4 on the traffic lights at Thornton Heath pond the last time I noticed about 5 years ago and there’s nothing to suggest that’ll change, apart from £2 maximum bets on the machines, which I think starts in April and nowhere near the delay the bookies claimed it needed since it takes minimal time to reduce the stake limits. They certainly have no trouble increasing them or restricting or closing accounts, so it’s been a legislation issue and good riddance to FOBT’s.

Some of the payday loans and pawn shops will be people genuinely in trouble through no fault of their own and then there’ll be people who’ve steered themselves that way because the culture now is ‘I want, I have’, and credit and a debt spiral should be avoided. This should be taught in schools along with how to turn an oven on, because some parents don’t know how to or show how to.

Sure there are people who’ve had it generally unlucky and need free nappies etc but there are people who could choose a lifestyle change, because that is what going from living beyond your means to living within your means and cutting out anything unnecessary will require, and that includes everything from clothes you can’t afford, booze, fags, tattoos, weed, bets, brand named food, ready meals, sweets, biscuits, chocolates, crisps, fizzy drinks etc etc etc. Pretty much any shyte outside of your 3 meals a day and the clothes you need to live in, work in when or if you work. It’s terrible that some parents don’t eat so their children have a meal but sometimes it’ll be because they’re now in debt or that lifestyle change wasn’t made early enough. It’s a really big commitment to live on the small amounts per week but if you watch the life swap programs you’ll see some who manage it and others that have the richer swappers bring in good ideas for the poorer house go incorporate. Funnily it’s usually the men who have no problem living on £2 a day, probably because they started off with nothing or went to university. It’s damn hard doing it for years mind you but the alternative is really bad.

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