General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Tommy Two Stoke

The country was going downhill long before Brexit, Covid-19 and the Ukraine War and both the Tories and Labour are a lot to blame for it, as both parties live in fear of losing votes at election time which will put them out of power and in many cases, a lucrative well paid position as a MP.

As for poverty, how many of those claiming it are now getting state benefits which in many cases is more that some are getting doing a mundane low pay minimum wage job.

If anything has lower the standard of living, it has been the introduction of the cheap labour policy of the minimum wage which has brought wages down for many and given no incentive for people to work for a living unless it is in a well paid job which are going less as more wage saving schemes and automation is introduced.

Granted, it was a good thing for those who were working in a farmers field or a sweat shop for a couple of pounds per hour which at the time was estimated at around 250,000. Now that figure has more than doubled with the result that there is now no incentive to work as shown by the fact that for the first time since records began, there are now more job vacancies than unemployed.

Goodness knows, how many claiming poverty today would have gone prior to the sixties when the benefit system was nothing like what it is now or even before the second world war, when there was no benefit system at all.

If poverty is so bad, why are people from all over the world risking their lives to get into our country.