I’m watching a segment on BBC Breakfast about a teacher in Leeds who heard that lots of her students were sleeping on the floor, bathtubs, on the floor etc. because their families couldn’t afford beds so she founded a charity and has driven around and delivered 4,000 BEDS
And apparently there’s thousands upon thousands of people and children that can’t afford beds???
What the fuck is wrong with this fucking country
Apparently “bed poverty” affects 400,000 people in the UK.
This has been the worst Tory government anyone can remember and their greed and stupidity has been seen by voters everywhere.
The economy was already a mess when Cameron took us out of the EU, then Johnson became PM and just when you thought you’d seen it all, Truss came in and ruined the economy even more before Boris had cleared his desk.
After the shambolic performance dealing with the lockdown, as well as blatant profiteering during and after it, the Tory government has proved they have nothing but contempt for the average worker and everything to do with helping themselves and their rich friends.
So if you don’t have connections and aren’t on the Tory gravy train, you’re going to be worse off.
Not worse than Thatchers tbh.
Wow. What fat crony cunts.
All these gov bodies are just stuffed with Tory donors and mates. Stupid cunts but because of who they know they are in charge of so much and they’re just robbing everyone blind.
Inflation is going to go through the roof
Exactly mate. Everyone knows their place. Spent 250 million last week on us and give us a day off.
What more do we want?
Funny, cos on review the £250M spend on the Coronation has been deemed to be inflated. But added to that, according to Bloomberg the Coronation itself has a net positive for the British economy.
Interest rates - BoE is a farce - Andrew Bailey basically fell upwards after the London Capital & Finance Collapse, so we shouldn’t have expected any different from him and his mates. Inflation was the reason for rise in rates, after 11 rate rises, there is still high inflation, so for a 12th time they raise the rates (cos this time it will work) - if they keep raising rates, eventually inflation will drop and they can take credit for “fixing” the problem without taking responsibility for the fall out until then (blame that on inflation).
We multiple factors for our inflation and change in rates won’t change that.
Covid - government handling of this prolonged misery, increased lockdowns and increased impact on economy.
Brexit - hard Brexit done and cheered on by this government.
Ukraine war - most understandable excuse. However they are sending huge money to Ukraine while infrastructure here collapses.
The government are not separate to these failures, in fact these other factors show just how shit a job they have done across the board.
The looting of literally everybody else by the stupid superrich criminals is now getting on ridiculous
I agree wholeheartedly…I detest current government, but I don’t expect any better from the next government.
Looting is crazy and has become endemic of society - if you think the next government (Tory/Labour/other) changes that I think you are in for disappointment.
Hopefully the next government is better (shouldn’t be possible to be worse), but I suspect a few things will shift around and issues will be replaced.
Agreed the current labour every time they open their mouths shows they will be little better if at all.
Maybe more competent but not as much of a departure as needed.
Politics in this country has become so corrupt. There needs to be a huge change in system.
So the water companies want in now, hikes of upto 40% to fix sewage pollution apparently 
Another situation where the average person fucking pays for the failures of these people.
Cunts been paying out millions to shareholders. This country a joke led from the very top.
Bet they’ve been looking for a way into this rip off since the words “cost of living” started appearing in the news over a year ago.
Thing is you can’t even shop around when it comes to water companies. You’re stuck with whoever supplies your area. Can’t trust the government to clamp down.
They’ve got some gall. They should be paying huge fines on top of posting for the cleanup themselves.
Greedy pigs really need the guillotine. Ridiculous
Wtf? They already increased mine last year claiming I was using more. So I’m expecting a decrease because my usage has gone down massively this year. Joint David Lloyd and shower there most days. That’s a huge reduction in water usage. But I bet they won’t adjust.
https://twitter.com/watsonchas/status/1673959893466742784?t=o8gcFjjQTvFaYSjoCtA8HQ&s=19
If public money should go into saving this company, it should go into public hands.
Duck of these pigs getting bailed out and the taxpayer not getting anything from it
Good that Scottish water is still under public hands here luckily.
Best water in the world 
After the water companies had been privatised, they were being criticised for being poor value and on Question Time, someone defending them said that the public didn’t understand how many different cleaning areas water had to go through before it reaches the customer but was quickly shut down by someone in the audience who said, “that’s what you’re supposed to do.”
But this just shows the arrogance of these public utility companies, who give massive profits to their share holders yet provide a poor service because of minimal investment.
It’s the same with all public owned companies that were sold off to private investors like, Gas, Electric, Post Office, Phone, Railways, etc, that rip off customers, making massive profits for themselves.
It’s that simple. If the public have to bail out these companies then they should be nationalised and run for non profit.
It’s ridiculous that these companies get to reap the benefits of capitalism but rely on taxpayer bailouts when times get tough.
I wonder if the Telegraph will have a handy calculator to work out what bailing out the water companies would cost you like they did for working out how much the disabled cost you.