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These people weren't getting a lift, they were driving themselves and not all in old bangers either. Are people taking the proverbial?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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.
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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.
"I forgot.... We never had it so good."
No you didn't, david.
People today who are using food banks have an immeasurably easier life than you did, but you didn't get your food from food banks. You may have done had they been around, but they weren't. But you didn't starve and I doubt you knew anybody who did.
My parents prioritised a roof over our heads and food & drink. If there was any money left after that and the usual bills it would be spent on frivolities. Usually there wasn't
So please don't tell me people would go hungry without food banks. It's absolute cobblers. Some might have to reappraise their spending, but that's not the same thing at all.
"...if it's perfectly ok to make derogatory statements about people who use food banks,"
Which I haven't.
"...then it's perfectly ok to make the same statements about people expecting Free fuel on the taxpayers"
Then you could apply that criticism to the entire State Pension. It is not a pension scheme in the true sense of the word because the payments are not met from the invested contributions of its members. It is paid entirely from current tax receipts and there is no difference in that respect between the main payments and the WFA.
You might as well say that State Pensioners should not expect free food and other living expenses from the taxpayer. Because it's called a "Winter Fuel Allowance" does not mean it's any different from the rest of the funds provided to people of pensionable age.
Food banks do not provide free money. They specifically provide free food (though I believe some of them have branched out into other household requirements such as laundry and toilet provisions). I don't really give a fig whether or not people use them.They are not funded from taxation and rely on the goodwill of tthose who conribute to them and work in them.
But what I don't like is to be expected to believe that people will go hungry if they are not provided with food from them.
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