Just Witnessed People Driving To A Food Bank To Pick Food Up.

[dave50]

These people weren't getting a lift, they were driving themselves and not all in old bangers either. Are people taking the proverbial?

[gulliver1]

Naomi 18.01 ...Yes you did.

[naomi24]

Gulliver, I said no one is starving in this country. 

[Dukedelorca]

17.19 How would my disabled husband,in a wheelchair climb ladders in B&Q? 

[THECORBYLOON]

DUKEDELORCA, your question  referred only to, "a pensioner" not to your husband or any other pensioner with a disability. 

[perseverer]

I am the only one who thinks bednobs at 16.59 was being sarcastic?

[Boto]

"You can get a referral from Citizens Advice; a GP; a housing association; or a social worker". How do any of these know your financial situation?  It takes weeks to see CAB, GP appointments are a joke, and I have nothing to do with the others.  Just asking.

[Dukedelorca]

 perseverer,18.51 NO!!

[davebro3]

//But leaving aside that discrepancy, there was no WFA 50 years ago and nobody froze to death. //

But we had functioning mines & coal fires?

[douglas9401]

We also lacked the constant bombardment of the thoughts of anonymous experts.

Life was simpler then, pipe and slippers and a bottle of brown ale with most folk having the good grace to mind their own beeswax.

[gulliver1]

Naomi 18.30..There is no point in me taking up this argument with you because as soon as you start to lose . You just remove the  answers that  you don't like and suspend people . There is no point in taking up a conversation with you. Just a waste of time .OK,

[jackthehat]

davebro3 - 1 or 2 coalfires did precious little to heat up uninsulated, single-glazed houses.

People made more of an effort to keep themselves warm - sensible warm clothes, worn in layers; hot-water bottles in bed; adequate bed-clothes reducing 'gappage and draughts'; sitting with a woollen-blanket over knees.

Older folks didn't drop off the twig in the numbers predicted for future months.

 

[THECORBYLOON]

GULLIVER, as there are sixteen Mods, unless a Mod posts to say he or deleted a particular post or thread, only that Mod and the Eds will know who it was.

Just because a known Mod participates in a thread, it doesn't stop any other Mod deleting posts in that thread so you cannot assume NAOMI has deleted one of your or another person's posts.

 

[david small]

50 years ago my wife walked around the house with a thick coat on top of jumpers, thermal top etc. She used to cry because she was so cold. Inch thick ice on the inside bedroom windows. A one bar electric fire that did nothing. A water heater we couldn’t afford to run. No family allowance for the first child, and extortionate rent to pay.

no car, or phone. Biked to work etc. But if course, I forgot.... We never had it so good.