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Eating Before Heating...
I've just been listening to a phone-in on Radio 2 on 'eating before heating'.
Call me naive, but I had no idea things were *so* bad, and listening to how some people have to cope through the colder, winter months, has left me feeling both saddened and sickened.
A woman having to choose between feeding her three children, or keeping them warm... how did things get so bad and why are we in this situation? Why does the government not do something about it?
I just broke my heart listening to a lady phone in and break down in tears live on air, as she explained how she was forced to get into debt, using a payday lender to have the heating on.
More and more people are having to make a choice between 'eating or heating' and I just wondered if anyone on here has to make similar choices over the winter?
Surely change HAS to happen?
Call me naive, but I had no idea things were *so* bad, and listening to how some people have to cope through the colder, winter months, has left me feeling both saddened and sickened.
A woman having to choose between feeding her three children, or keeping them warm... how did things get so bad and why are we in this situation? Why does the government not do something about it?
I just broke my heart listening to a lady phone in and break down in tears live on air, as she explained how she was forced to get into debt, using a payday lender to have the heating on.
More and more people are having to make a choice between 'eating or heating' and I just wondered if anyone on here has to make similar choices over the winter?
Surely change HAS to happen?
Answers
ClaryS, if you regularly eat steaks and roasts, and to eat mince, sausages and pasta is your economy to make up £500 in a matter of weeks I don't think you have any understandin g of the position some people find themselves in.
16:35 Fri 11th Oct 2013
I'm on a breadline wage and I can afford bugger all.
I have a car because without it I wouldn't be able to get to work at all.
You think a car is a luxury? Or are you suggesting I cycle 8 miles every morning on treacherous and badly maintained country roads?
I dress up like the Michelin man most evenings and I would rather freeze to death than remain in a world where people treat pets as movable stock.
I have a car because without it I wouldn't be able to get to work at all.
You think a car is a luxury? Or are you suggesting I cycle 8 miles every morning on treacherous and badly maintained country roads?
I dress up like the Michelin man most evenings and I would rather freeze to death than remain in a world where people treat pets as movable stock.
I am on the state pension and a small company pension (on which I pay tax) I have no money to save after paying all the usual bills and I prefer to eat rather than heat. I go to bed at 6pm as it is warmer in my bed and cheaper than heating the house. I cook from scratch and ensure that I have a healthy diet and make full use of my freezer. What really annoys me is all those people on benefits with all their gadgets and big TVs. They are usually smokers and live on fast food.....and don't get me started on the immigrants coming in who get everything handed to them. And all the money the Govn gives in aid to the third world that ends up in Swiss bank accounts of dictators. Rant over.