Cost of living crisis: 'We’re not really living any more'

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'We’re not really living any more'

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The former carer had to stop work after developing dermatitis on her hands. She is now finding ways to cope living on universal credit. Despite the current struggles, Shelby is determined to stay positive and dreams of going to the Eiffel Tower one day and finding a new job.'I don't want to be trapped in a job for the rest of my life'Also in Whitburn, Kirstie Russell hopes to have a career teaching music one day but in the meantime she is doing her best to save up to be able to afford to go to college.

Standing on the pier in Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, fisherman Calum Maclean looks back at the brightly coloured buildings. "The problem is getting people here to work," he says. "The summer's a real struggle to get people here.""It's a dear hobby having a family nowadays, but we just have to struggle on," he says. "Food is very expensive. It's an expensive place to live nowadays."

 

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Get out! Get a job! Stop moaning! We're all in the same pot and making ends meet on 2 part time jobs. 'Nurses' earning £34000+ but taking a second job to make ends meet? We're earning £26000 between us and going on 3 holidays a year. Living WAY beyond their needs!

Really? Holiday bookings are through the roof some one is spreading bs lol

'The former carer had to stop work after developing dermatitis on her hands.' Hence her lack of cash. What has that got to do with the cost of living crisis?

Bett cheerfully laying down the grim reality of life with nothing held back.

Is part of the middle class finally becoming affected now Took ya sweet time.

Is there really a crisis? Every restaraunt and pub seem to be full, surely they would be half empty.

It’s because of the housing market

Nope. Simply existing

13 years of the ToryCriminalsUnfitToGovern for you

You aren't supposed to live on benefits, they're to keep you alive. Find a job around your ailments

Aaawww diddums! Plenty of time to go to the public library to research the Gorbals now though. This is precisely what Xi Jinping was talking about a few years ago when he declared that the West had a sense of entitlement. This person is pathetic!

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If leader don't know and listens peoples problem this type of situation occurs .....shame to that govt under which these problem persist ....

This is exactly what Tories want. People doing nothing but working is a Utopia for them. Everytime they speak it's about employment, the economy, growth etc. It's never about happiness or balance. We fund their lifestyles and they want more of it

Have been existing for years.

Look on the bright side if you have a tv licence it will go up by 13 pound next year .

Its when migrants who shouldn't have anything; are living better than we are; we know we are poor.

lol, it's bc they don't know about really poor countries

Living standards are getting worse every week thanks to the government and their BBC propaganda puppets.

Got to pay for government corruption somehow.

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