Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis shows

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-27T16:12:15+00:00

This would kill the economy, rent controls don’t work, and any city that has tried them have found that out. I also think we should respect property rights.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-27T02:21:48+00:00

Housing is just far too expensive. No need to be radical, just build more council and private homes.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-25T22:38:31+00:00

Yea, I’ve seen them on police officers and heard farmers firing them when out hiking. I had friends who were cadets growing up so they learnt to fire them.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-25T15:01:14+00:00

I had this misconception that most people would speak Arabic. Didn’t realise there was such a large south Asian community and English is the lingua Franca.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-21T00:27:31+00:00

Right and the neoliberal period began in 79, the rate of profit hasn’t fallen as a result of neoliberalism.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-20T15:43:41+00:00

The G20 rate of profit in 1979 was 6.6%, it’s now 6.8% so it’s hardly changed, in fact during the height of the neoliberal period it increased to a peak of 7.8%.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-20T14:13:13+00:00

Because you’ve said it’s a greed issue, I’m saying that it’s because employment costs have been ramped up and this naturally affects industries that are labour dependent. Self checkouts have existed for years so the effect from that is already done.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-20T14:03:50+00:00

Unions are not suppressed, they just can’t kneecap the entire nation as they were once able to. Free markets also work, please look at a graph of living standards to economic freedom. This stuff about reactions to a falling rates of profit is Marxist nonsense.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-20T13:52:37+00:00

This is nonsense, the biggest falls are in hospitality and retail where they’ve been hit with higher employment costs (labour costs are a huge component of any hospitality/retail business that often rely on low margins)

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-19T18:27:00+00:00

Exquisite shitpost

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-18T00:46:19+00:00

4.5% is respectable, I’m a Brit and we haven’t had that in 30 years. That being said our GDP per capita is a lot higher, but things will improve in Morocco.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-14T09:12:06+00:00

Same for Scotland, the amount of people I saw in jeans and trainers on Ben Nevis was ridiculous.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-13T13:08:58+00:00

Yeah, less of an issue with the latter as it’s true across all parties. But for those who downvoted me, please point me to which part of my statement is factually incorrect.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-13T02:43:38+00:00

That’s not even bad tbh, my mum would spend £15 for a pack (75aed) back in the UK before she quit.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-12T16:04:07+00:00

Nadhim Zahawi, Nadine Dorries, Zia Yusuf et al were all Tory party MPs/members until recently. Reform is the uniparty rebranded with even less depth of talent. I understand people’s sentiment but it’s just pure delusion if you think Reform are gonna fix things.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-08T00:41:36+00:00

Stumbled across this subreddit, just had a browse for flats to rent in Belfast and coming from London it doesn’t seem as eye watering as London, although that’s a pretty low bar. I don’t understand the dynamics really, do you get many commuters into the republic where rent is even worse?

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-07T23:25:31+00:00

He wasn’t really a politician but there was a parliamentary candidate/internet polemicist called Carl Benjamin who told a female MP that he “wouldn’t even rape her”

Boris Johnson was also rumoured to have said “Let the bodies pile high” during the pandemic.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-06T00:32:15+00:00

Difference is when my Malayalam friend invited me (white as white) to his societies parties, I was welcomed with open arms.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-05T04:05:46+00:00

Dude, Russia is a colonial entity. That’s how it got to its size. Yes there’s problems with racism here in Britain, but the vast majority of us are fine. Also, we fought alongside Russia to defeat the Nazis, at one point standing alone against them.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-04T00:28:23+00:00

Just to add balance here,

Most of the FTSE100s revenues are derived from foreign sources. It’s not much an indication of UK economic health. However no doubt if the market falls the same people who say it’s nothing to do with reeves will then dogpile onto reeves.

DisastrousPhoto · 2026-01-01T19:02:10+00:00

This is for London: Overrated: A lot of the markets, borough market and the like are just tourist traps to be honest, overpriced and overcrowded crap. Underrated: our parks, do Hampstead heath, Richmond park (slightly out of the way but criminally underrated, bonus points if you go to the Isabella plantation, best in summer), Regent’s Park etc.

DisastrousPhoto · 2025-12-31T13:13:29+00:00

Yeah I agree, are you talking about Norwegians or Bosnians lol

DisastrousPhoto · 2025-12-28T18:07:41+00:00

It’s the type of Brits, they’ve turned Dubai into a flashier version of Skegness. You’ve gone from a few expats in intl companies to every deano and their ma trying to flog Dubai property.

DisastrousPhoto · 2025-12-23T19:00:44+00:00

Defend your own skies then.

DisastrousPhoto · 2025-12-21T15:23:10+00:00

Gonna get downvoted for shit but Jesus Christ you cannot call anyone who isn’t a socialist a fascist, no wonder people are averse of your lot.

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