In the past people used to walk to save money on bus fares but thanks to the Nanny State that no longer happens.
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You wait until you have stopped working and have to live off your RAF and State Pension plus any other pensions.You will notice a drop in your disposable income especially as all your pensions are taxable.
You will also not qualify for the new ‘big’ state pension which started in July 2016 as you will have been ‘contacted out’ thanks to your RAF pension.
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In the past people used to walk to save money on bus fares but thanks to the Nanny State that no longer happens.
Ricketts and cholera also used to happen but thankfully we've moved on from those days.
31% (and growing) of Dundonian children live in poverty, freedom of movement will help alleviate that for some of them and perhaps help young adults get jobs.
Freedom of movement will do nothing to alleviate child poverty. People can move freely (or should be able to) regardless of living conditions.
I'm not accepting that 31% of children in Dundee live in poverty; for that to be the case the definition of poverty has to be very loose because I'm pretty sure the vast majority of children in Dundee have mobile phones and / or games consoles. That's certainly the impression I get simply by observing and based on no real information.
I also read a report (https://www.gov.scot/publications/sc...port/pages/62/) that stated 70% of Scottish children aged 2 to 15 were of a healthy weight whilst as many as 16% were obese or in danger of becoming obese (https://www.obesityactionscotland.or...20since%202016.) - that doesn't say poverty to me and I don't see Dundee being too different from the rest of the country.
I went to Edinburgh to do my Degree, for the most part was totally skint and at times never thought i could afford to go. Free travel would have been a great help.
When i was younger than that my mum, two sisters and me shared a room in Douglas for 5 years. Again, free travel would have been a right help, maybe even for days out.
We got to do whatever we can to get some of these kids out of poverty into the working world so they can in turn pay more taxes and provide things like the NHS where they're supposed to be.