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'Very deep poverty': Exposing the UK's hidden shame (www.abc.net.au)
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[-] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 1 points 18 minutes ago

"it’s like living in a nightmare"

Hey, look over there: immigrants arriving in small boats, muslims praying in public, Prince Andrew, anti-semetism, trans people, pedos after your children...

... don't mind those people running off with bags filled with your money. They're billionaires and they're entitled to ransack the UK and hide it in offshore accounts. Nothing to see here... just keep your eyes on those Turkish barbers on your high street...

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I like that the image for poverty in the UK is a railway bridge in the rain, in black and white. We do have colour photography, sometimes.

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

lol that's just the digital works team being creative 🌈

You can see the bridge in colour here:

Britain has become a broken, poverty-riddled 'living nightmare' | 7.30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmH4b7nWf-0

[-] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 9 points 17 hours ago

Inequality really needs addressing. Our "benefits" are very low for a country of our wealth, not enough to live on and a contributor to poverty. There are plenty of disabled people who will never be able to work which the government just halved their universal credit payment from today. The other side is people stuck out of work unable to get and keep work in places where there just isn't enough and we do extremely poorly at giving them opportunities and skills instead of just punishing them. The country needs a complete attitude adjustment or the situation is just going to get worse.

[-] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 8 points 23 hours ago

If you remove 1/4 of the populations jobs the uk is poor. No shit.

Places like australia and the us really cant understand what having almost all a nation within daily travel distance of a single city means.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 2 hours ago

What does it mean?

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 5 points 23 hours ago

Places like australia and the us really cant understand what having almost all a nation within daily travel distance of a single city means.

Moving to the UK from Canada was a trip. People at work losing their mind when I say my wife and I are driving to Edinburgh from London in a oner, meanwhile the time/distance from my perspective is a reasonable expectation for a weekend camping trip.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

London to Edinburgh is a 7-8 hour drive, right? If you’re going over the weekend then surely you’d be spending most of your time driving there or back again?

Genuinely not trying to be combative, I just struggle to understand how you justify that as reasonable.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 4 points 22 hours ago

Economy of scale is way different. The entirety of the UK fits into British Columbia almost 4 times.... https://www.comparea.org/GBR+CA_BC
I'd happily leave work at noon on Friday, get to my camp site at 8 or 9pm. Do camping stuff Saturday, wake up hung over Sunday and be home for 8 or 9pm and be fine for Monday morning. Works better if you've got someone to switch out driving every few hours.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

The thing is, you’d easily be on a beach on the med having your first cocktail in less than that.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 41 minutes ago

Thing is, in under 4 hours....you can't even get out of Canada!

Kinda a bit of flight path shenanigans, Vancouver to London Heathrow is around 10 hours, but that's over the top. Edinburgh to Toronto is around 7 hours.

London to Vancouver

Edinburgh to Toronto.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago

Wild. My best friend lives on the west coast of Ireland. It's a 3.5 hour drive and I consider that a massive trek.

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago

I mean, in a way it is. But sometimes 3.5hrs doesn't even get you from London's ring road in the east straight through to the west side of the ring road. Bit different if you're able to do 70mph(or the Canadian limit of 110kmph, so like....68ish?) the whole time.

[-] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeah it's mostly motorway for me so I'd be averaging somewhere over 80 kph for the journey as a whole. Upper limit here is 120kph but I'm rarely arsed going that fast tbh. The last bit is country roads so slow enough.

[-] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 5 points 22 hours ago

Yes people who travel that far for work use the train or fly.

But i understand why a canadian would drive ;)

[-] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 22 hours ago

Yeah, if I was living in one and working in the other then I'd fly or take the train obviously. No way I'm doing that drive daily, that's insane. But for a few days trip, no sweat.

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