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Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Why not indeed. Plenty do. -
Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
I wish I had pound for everything e I heard a Brit in Thailand say words to the effect of ‘You couldn’t pay me to live in the UK now’ Only slope off back home when they are I need if ‘nanny’. -
Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Well you obviously didn’t die. That you as a child were not aware of people dying of cold is not proof that it never happened. I’ve provided a link to a news article giving a recent example. In incidentally, do you recall the price of coal and oil for your heating back then? Did the price shoot up like it did over the past couple of years? Or were they relatively stable in price and affordable? -
Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Can you please provide a link for your statement on basis of calculation and too for the source of the ‘statement’ of a recently surveyed parent that you have quoted. -
Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
You stated “No , no one dies from the cold these days”. It would only take one ‘example’ of someone flying of cold to prove your categorical statement false. I provided a news article that gave such an example. Perhaps, and it’s just a suggestion, rather than trying to wriggle out of the trap you set for yourself you could learn a bit more about poverty in the UK or at the very least refrain posting obviously incorrect assumptions on your part. -
Trump says country faces ‘bloodbath’ if Biden wins in November
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Dictator, that’s what Trump said he’s going to be? -
Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
There’s no reason for such ignorance. Try reading: https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2024-the-essential-guide-to-understanding-poverty-in-the-uk#:~:text=More than 1 in 5,in 10) working-age adults -
Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Easily dot down as the falsehood it is: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11676661/amp/Pensioner-87-died-hypothermia-telling-doctor-afford-heat-home.html -
Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
I’m expect you might have a particular individual in mind, perhaps someone close or a family member. But it’s a bit of a sweeping generalization once you start to apply that to millions of people living in poverty in the UK of 2024. Don’t you think? -
Trump says country faces ‘bloodbath’ if Biden wins in November
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
I’m almost inclined (I said almost) to start watching FOX News in order to cut out the idiot middle man. -
US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Or invented and transmitted by sources tasked with the duty. -
I last month helped a friend in the UK sort his UK pension application. First attempt was using the online application, which came against the problem the OP mentions, a request for details of spells spent working/living overseas plus dates. Having added details for three, out of about a dozen, such spells overseas the website page did not offer the option to add more. So we (I on his behalf) called the helpline. After personal details and permission to speak on behalf of the applicant was settled (simply by asking the applicant if Chomper can speak on their behalf), the DWP staff member told me only one period overseas is required. This will trigger a check of the applicant’s NHS record and if periods were spent in the EU will also trigger any rights to EU nation pension rights. So details of one period living and working in EU was given over the phone and the rest of the application completed over the phone in less than 15 minutes. The applicant received his confirmation of pension payment within a ten days of that call. I’ve not heard if he has had any contact regarding EU pension rights. In summary. Use the online application page and where you have a record of working overseas provide just one example, preferably a period of working/living in the EU if you have one.
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Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
14 years of failing to build affordable housing and the previous madness of selling off council houses coming home to roost. -
Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene wants Speaker Mike Johnson out
Chomper Higgot replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Republicans learning the lesson of the frog and the scorpion. -
BREAKING NEWS Princess of Wales has cancer .
Chomper Higgot replied to CharlieH's topic in World News
Dreadful thing for anyone, worse still for a young mother. She has my wishes for this being caught early. Maybe the press can leave her alone for a while, though that’s a slim hope.- 35 replies
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