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   @brynn4563

   January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

   I work with people on the same wage as me who choose to go to a foodbank.

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   @nothandmade9686

   January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

   Because the rest of us who are not nurses are magically able to pay for everything.

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   @yellowbird5411

   January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

   Off topic, but the hostess needs to cut her bangs, because she keeps jerking her head around like a horse. It's not attractive, and how she can even see through that mess is a puzzle and unprofessional. People are starving, and I'm talking about hair. Go figure.

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   @justadude8369

   January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

   If you are an MP and you make 85k a year and you still need to claim over 100k a year in 'expenses' to cover your heating bill etc then perhaps you are not the best positioned to be giving lectures out on budgeting

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   @mikestrohm3271

   January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

   So, Nurses using food banks when earning £35k? But what are the figures, is it one nurse, 10 nurses or 100 nurses? Why on such a wage do they use food banks, what are their personal circumstances, eg. do they have bank loans or credit cards which take away from their salary. Do they have satellite TV and smart phones, getting rid of those would save a lot of money. Do they smoke (I remember seeing a news item a few years ago when a woman in Plymouth was complaining her benefits were insufficient to live on, she lived a few doors down from me, smoked like a chimney and was a habitual gambler). The personal circumstances of people are all different but I do have to say that I cannot understand why someone earning £35 needs a food bank.
   
   My brother and I share a house, we both have a car each, we have fibre internet and satellite TV, we both have smart phones and we are both in our 60's and our combined income is less than 20k and we have zero problems coping with the rise in cost of living.

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   @spurge83

   January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

   Is the Daily Mirror guy three sheets to the wind? My first salary was £22000 in London in 2006. I would never have dreamt of using a food bank.

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   @newton18311

   January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

   Mean while Gimmigrents get fresh fruite and takeaways.

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   @andrewbayram765

   January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

   How are people on these salaries getting access to foodbanks??? Who is giving them the bits of paper that qualifies them to access foodbanks???

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   @stigmontgomery7901

   January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

   Food banks are giving away food uncontrollably and people are using them! Who'd have thought!

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    @markjohnson188

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    What sort of bubble do these idiots live in? Many working people earn only earn 15,000 a year, if that. The London metropolitan elite are the real problem. As for public sector workers – I don't give a fig about you either!

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    @Christine-qm1or

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    They are earning at least a starting salary of 27k a year, nothing but part of the entitled public sector elites robbing the poor who are it in need of money more than these murderers and providing a poorly run multi billion pound service

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    @77willnot

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    I'm self employed and earn £12,000 a year. I have never once even felt the need to use a food bank. I think the problem is some people today are too thick to be able to budget and prioritize their income, such as having to use a food bank, but always paying their phone contract and sky package, two things that aren't a necessity but a luxury, unlike food which you have to have.

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    @LadyThunderbird63

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    I'm retired NHS , I would never walk away from patient care to stand on a picket line . They should be ashamed of themselves.

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    @caz3502

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    People should live within their means. They all want two cars, the top range mobiles, foreign holidays. In my day credit wasn't available so we saved to get what we wanted. My advice is budget better. Also some nurses must have partners who work so 26 grand a year as a second salary seems reasonable.

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    @scratchy1704

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    The nurses are using food banks while the immigrants get free homes,hotels,meals and healthcare.

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    @andreakrueger7851

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Gen-X American here. I don't understand why the parents aren't teaching their children to budget and balance financial accounts. Growing up, it was the norm for parents like mine to each have an individual savings/checking accounts and one joint account. Like many American children, I was given a piggy bank to learn how to save. When the piggy bank was full, my parents showed me how to open a child savings account at their bank. Having an allowance until my first job at 14 years old taught me about budgeting. In addition to budgeting her income, I taught my Millennial daughter how to use a variety of financial tools and the rudiments of investing. The young graduate student comes from a middle-class family. I don't understand why her parents did not teach her about basic budgeting?

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    @BB25_25

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    I’ve been saying these ppl are using strikes as a political tool for months, it was obvious. This guy doesn’t get it; whatever MPs get paid has no bearing on how someone else spends their money. If ppl don’t know how to budget, we need to ask those questions, not just continue to give ppl benefit top ups and pay rises at the expense of other suffering taxpayers. Ofc we all want nurses to be paid well, but there’s a lot of waste in the public sector as a whole, they need to cut wasteful govt and council spending before giving out anymore pay rises full stop. He’s the kind of liberal who thinks the govt has a bottomless pit of money and no one is responsible for anything, it’s pathetic. That woman was v good but she literally just spoke common sense, this country is going down the toilet bc of ppl like this guy.

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    @juliawigger9796

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Ironic they leave food trays at the bottom of your bed never checking if one has eaten.

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    @annephillips8494

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Thank God for the comments below Thought I was the only one thinking this.🙏👏👏👏

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    @michaelc6325

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    If people on 35 k a year need a food bank they clearly can not make sound financial choices and look after themselves. So how can they be expected to look after others !! Maybe having People like that working in the nhs is why it’s in a terrible state.

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    @snakeplissken5480

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    if nurses need food banks then WTF are minimum wage workers eating ???

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    @philiproche2355

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Bull….

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23. 

    @teresahitchcock109

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    CUT YOUR COST you earn far more then me I get a 726 a month pension, And do not use food bank.

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    @beachcomberbob3496

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    £35,000 a year? I can only dream of having that much to have at my discretion. Try making ends meet on £14,000 or even less.

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    @philipwilkes2780

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    They didn’t have to go into nursing! At least one of your panel speaks sense and it’s not the bloke!

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    @jangoslin8258

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Labour and the unions up to mischief and thats what really going on ,

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27. 

    @tx3851

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Then why are most of them overweight!?…..Certainly that's what I witness on visits to hospital…..

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    @carolynesimpson6070

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    I wonder how many nurses go to the pub or out for meals after going to food banks!!!!! Some people use food banks then go to football matches etc. How are people vetted to use food banks?……

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    @kimmac231

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Exactly,I was a nurse,disgusted,their using food banks that are supposed to help people who have next to nothing,.My sa!ary was on average £21000 retired now on a small pension,manage your money better

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30. 

    @angrybrit129

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Ask them what food banks? As 99 percent need a refferal from the dwp

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31. 

    @wtdiaeemergency8996

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    o yes this is old but moneysaveing expert had a list of two person meals for 50p it will cost more thn that now not realy a decent diet but it could probably save you money on lunch and suppers

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    @wtdiaeemergency8996

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    what you should know is because of cyclical climate change and energy problems resulting in fertilizer shortages there will be major foodshortages very soon it wont matter how much money you have you cant print food every times this has happend in the past food prices have risen 700% without fail noone can afored that think it cant happen here in scotland a bag of chip has alread gone up 700% from 50p to £4.00p and the only solution is to produce your own food

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    @JamesBrown-qp1qt

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Times are different and the corruption has gone to far

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34. 

    @wtdiaeemergency8996

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    you can get food that would other wise go to wast with the app olio

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35. 

    @wtdiaeemergency8996

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    if you watch mamafufar she will show you how to make £2500 risk free doinf somerthing called matched betting

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    @wtdiaeemergency8996

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    more good news this summer energy prices are going to drop by £600 dont lose heart

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    @wtdiaeemergency8996

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    great news asda just put up on there website a weeks meals fr a family of 4 for £20 a week thats brilliant that means i can feed my self a lot for £10 a week incredible go asda

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    @loopielou4426

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    £35,000 a year – not a salary for a foodbank I agree. I want them to get what they want for the work they do.However. Private sector – likely not had a rise for years. Half the holiday allocation as the longer a nurse works the more they get. You have to take your pension out of your salary. Most no pay for overtime once you get past minimum wage. Half the time dont stop for lunch break. The public sector used to earn low money and the pension and holiday made up for that. Today they earn the same and often more. But still get pension and holiday.

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    @mikechapman8896

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    don.t think they vould waddle that far

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    @danielshagman

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    One thing that's often forgotten is that nurses all get 10% (at least) off of their shopping anyway because of their blue light card. Supermarkets and food outlets have literally taken on the cost of living crisis on behalf of nurses. Some fast food outlets give 20% or more off for NHS workers ONLY! Asking for an inflation matching rise is pure greed, when they pretty much don't have to pay the inflation that the rest of us do.

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    @crawford1083

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    So sick of hearing this 💩about nurses and teachers having to use food banks! It is disgusting that people on nearly 30K minimum a year "having" to use food banks! And dismal lefties like this moron Paul Connew justifying middle-class people using food banks. HAVING to use food banks! Utter drivel!

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42. 

    @paulcowan3222

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Oh dear they are telling us a sob story. Just spend £4.99 for a 2year " blue Light card"and 1,000's discounts for NHS staff, care home staff etc.
    pizza Hut 25%
    Beefeater 25%
    Nandos 20%
    Welcome Break services 20%
    Leon 15%
    KFC 10%
    ASDA 10%
    Iceland 15%
    Morrisons 20% AND free delivery
    JD sports 10%
    Nike 10%
    Green Flag breakdown 40% +extra 10%
    Just Park 10%
    Nuffield Health 30%
    O2 mobile 25%
    Vodaphone 25%
    EE 20% for workers AND family
    RAC 40%
    Sky 35%
    Crocs 30%
    Pizza Hut 50% off online orders
    Burtons men wear 20%
    Motor source Group "on average NHS staff save £4,500 on price of car"
    Dorothy Perkins 20%
    Miss Selfridge 20%
    The "blue light card" gives discounts like the above at over 1,500 places and the NHS discount site has over 2,000 discounts ranging from ee,O2,tesco mobile, TUI holidays and loads more.
    Now lets make a list for discounts of OAp's and people out of work/disability that SHOULD be using food banks

    Not much of a list here for other people.
    There is an old saying "empty vessels make the most noise"

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43. 

    @BadNews885

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    These commentators are dreadful

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44. 

    @a108rwt

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    5he man is a communist. We don't live in utopia we have a world where we will never earn the same money.

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45. 

    @stevenhibbitt6380

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    It's a pitiful excuse to get sympathy. Having visited my local hospital several times over the last couple of years it would seem the food banks they frequent are called Greggs and McDonald's! Laughable!

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    @aimeeleigh398

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    What a fantastic young lady! GB News more of this young lady please? She's a fabulous influence for young women.

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    @BackToNature123

    January 23, 2024 at 12:30 pm

    Too many moan they're skint while renewing iPhones regularly, going on holiday at least once a year, regularly get nails and brows done. Yes if you are restarting it's difficult eg divorce or health issues. I've always struggled with money because of adhd but I've adjusted and take responsibility for my behaviour. I have no tv or subscriptions, had last phone for 6yrs, I only go on holiday if I can afford it and my disposable money is used on complex health issues – health is more important than fashion

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