Best and Worst Years

[Altobelli]

Here was me thinking that you were going to be a missionary to Yemen, Syria, Gaza, Myanmar, Honduras or somewhere else that was in strife. BT --my illusions are shattered.

He's too busy trying to flog his cab business

[The Bedlington Terrier]

He's too busy trying to flog his cab business

I've already swapped it for three sandwich shops and one rather fine Indian takeaway.

[sinkov]

According to those "experts" the year 536 AD was the worst year to be alive. Apparently a thick fog hung over Europe and other bad stuff was happening.

It was all those steam trains and coal fired power stations, good job we got rid of them.

[sinkov]

1995 the United Nations adopted two definitions of poverty.

Absolute poverty was defined as:
a condition characterised by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services.

Overall poverty takes various forms, including:
lack of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods; hunger and malnutrition; ill health; limited or lack of access to education and other basic services; increased morbidity and mortality from illness; homelessness and inadequate housing; unsafe environments and social discrimination and exclusion. It is also characterised by lack of participation in decision making and in civil, social and cultural life. It occurs in all countries: as mass poverty in many developing countries, pockets of poverty amid wealth in developed countries, loss of livelihoods as a result of economic recession, sudden poverty as a result of disaster or conflict, the poverty of low-wage workers, and the utter destitution of people who fall outside family support systems, social institutions and safety nets.

Amber Rudd in her latest role has already gone nuts about the UN comments relating to the UK, but like the rest of her revolving door Tory Cabinet colleagues, Rudd doesn't live in the real world either.

Relative poverty in the UK is generally considered to be a household with less than 60% of the median household income, thus no matter how prosperous we are, however much our incomes grow, however affluent our society, there are ALWAYS going to be some people classed as living in poverty. Which, although making a mockery of the phrase 'living in poverty' and rendering it almost meaningless, is very convenient for grandstanding, virtue-signalling lefties, of whom I'm sure there are more in the UK than people actually living in poverty.

[Supersub6]

Relative poverty in the UK is generally considered to be a household with less than 60% of the median household income, thus no matter how prosperous we are, however much our incomes grow, however affluent our society, there are ALWAYS going to be some people classed as living in poverty. Which, although making a mockery of the phrase 'living in poverty' and rendering it almost meaningless, is very convenient for grandstanding, virtue-signalling lefties, of whom I'm sure there are more in the UK than people actually living in poverty.

I have to agree with all of this, sinkov.
I retired ten years ago and never earned more than £15000 in any year, including when I ran my own business. According to records the average salary in 2008 was £26,137,
I reckon that I have been living in poverty for years and years, I certainly know that I started life that way!

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I would not bother to get out of bed to earn less than 50k a year, but I am more than happy to pay my taxes to help provide a safety net for those in need.
Universal Credits, food banks and a government policy of austerity sort of point me towards the conclusion that mine and millions of other PAYE taxpayers are being taken for the grandest of rides.
Please when the time comes vote Labour?
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[bfcjon]

BT, Food banks, are not paid for,...They are run by people Who care,That have something that other poor souls do not.!!

[Balanbam00]

I once gave out bread to the homeless in London, I was the last in line after soup and what ever else was there.But I saw in these homeless ,somehow they had their sense of pride,of being ,yet they had to take the food.You saw in their face ,in their eyes .Quite an experience !