Is Austerity Something We Will Have To Live With Always?

[Bobbisox1]

The term AUSTERITY was brought in and used by David Cameron telling everyone that "we're in it together"
I wonder when we're going to break free of that mantra? If ever

[Calicogirl]

Maybe in your delusional world Deskdiary, but not in the real world you absolute penis x ( well he said he didn't mind ;-) x

[retrocop]

//Ignore the constant goading RR, it's going too far.//

Goading it is NOT. The debate is about austerity. If people can indulge their favourite pastimes the country is hardly in a state of austerity. That is the general consensus by others here. Deskdiary and Clarion are two. I doubt we are country squires or rich Tory toffs but I possess about £40,000 of sporting rifles. The ammunition is £1.20p a pop. I am a 70 year old pensioner and if I couldn't afford my hobby they would have to go. I have been able to manage quite comfortably and am entitled to reply to any other poster on this particular subject without your interference Mamyalynne.

[ummmm]

Retro - RR hasn't said she's on the bread line just that she hasn't had a pay rise. You know nothing about what her and her husband earn between them.

[237SJ]

Talking of the T Trust, and I have a lot of admiration for them, I saw on Facebook that they were short of certain items so I went to Lidl today and bought 10 litres of long life milk, 4 litres of fruit juice and and 10 tins of fruit and took it to them. Cost approx £13.50. When I arrived there, some of the claimants were outside, smoking. Maybe I should have just got them a carton of duty free.

[Bobbisox1]

I don't have an expensive pastime but I have a good phone,I have an Alexa , I have a 60in TV and I have around 5 holiday a year, no, it hasn't touched me but...... like it or not, it has others!!
Yet I don't feel 'I'm alright Jack'

[Deskdiary]

Calicogirl - I really don't mind. You and I will never meet, so why would it concern me?

Outliers always skew an average, so I get that the average rent is £20k, but when there's a rent at the bottom end at £775pcm in Brockley, you will find a rent at £22,750pcm in Mayfair...so in London an 'average' rent is meaningless.

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/51520704?featured=1&utm_content=featured_listing

[retrocop]

// some of the claimants were outside, smoking. Maybe I should have just got them a carton of duty free.//

Indeed. A point made earlier.

[Calicogirl]

No nor me Bobbi. It's not affected me or any of my family but I can bloody well see it's affected plenty of other people and I am entitled to feel sorry the country is in such a state.x

[Deskdiary]

Bobbisox - my Alexa Show is the best thing I have ever bought. I was an early adopter (as I was with the iPod) but as a rule I am not , but I love Alexa. I have yet to name a song that it doesn't know!

[Bobbisox1]

Me too Cal,it's called being benevolent , I'm quite shocked at the nastiness purveyed in this thread, quite an uncharitable outlook

[Bobbisox1]

Arh the ipod, seems like a blast from the past haha, yet it isn't , I had one too DD

[New Judge]

// and why am I actually earning less by 300 a month than I was?//

I don't know. Wy are you? Are you working fewer hours? Have you changed your job for one that is lower paid? I know one thing - quit a lot of people have seen their pay frozen but I know of few people who have remained in the same job who have actually seen a reduction in their pay.

[Zacs-Master]

It hasn’t touched me......

It hasn’t bleedin happened yet!

[Bobbisox1]

What hasn't happened Zac?
Austerity! Oh yes it has

[naomi24]

I haven’t read all the posts but it seems to me that we live in an age of lame ducks who think everything is their ‘right’, and too many people who expect life to give them a living. Work has, for many, become a dirty four letter word. And before anyone tells me I don’t know …. I do.

[Zacs-Master]

You seem to be doing ok though, Bobbi

[Bobbisox1]

Yes I am , why? Because I saved/contributed to a private pension, had I not I would of been there amongst those not so fortunate

[naomi24]

//had I not I would of been there amongst those not so fortunate //

Or not so responsible...

[Zacs-Master]

How can you pose a question such as: ‘Is Austerity Something We Will Have To Live With Always?’ And then comment ‘I have a 60in TV and I have around 5 holiday a year, no, it hasn't touched me’


Who is the ‘we’? Obviously not yourself by your own admission.

[Ryzen]

Loads of new cars on the road..loads of fat people..just saying.