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It’s simple. Put solar panels on car parks rather than on thousands of acres of prime farmland.
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Paperback and e-book versions of my new book 172 Forgotten British Children's TV Shows From The 1980s are now available on Amazon at amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HG3BD7WC
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The line between horror and comedy can be a thin one. Vic and Bob's brilliant Masterchef sketch from 1995 made me laugh out loud while my skin was crawling. "HE IS SAD!"
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If you try to save money by cooking at home, you walk into a grocery store where three massive conglomerates own every brand on the shelf and have colluded to raise baseline prices by 40% over three years.
If you try to cut costs by renting a modest apartment, you face corporate landlords using automated algorithmic software to artificially inflate rental rates across the entire city simultaneously.
If you try to opt out of car debt by using public transit, you realize municipal budgets were slashed to protect the auto industry, leaving you with zero reliable infrastructure to get to work.
You aren't making "poor financial decisions."
Every single alternative route to survival has been intentionally bought out, consolidated, and monetized to extract maximum profit from your baseline existence.
They don't want you to build wealth; they want you permanently trapped on a treadmill where every necessary life pivot just leads back to the exact same corporate ledger.
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For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
Nich0)))las retweeted
Everybody was told in 2010-15 that austerity was painful but necessary to improve living standards. And then no improvements came, ever.
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There's something deeply wrong with a country where people work all month, get paid, and immediately panic.
Payday should feel rewarding.
Instead it feels like a race against direct debits.
The money lands in your account and within 48 hours most of it has disappeared.
Rent takes a chunk.
Bills take a chunk.
Food takes a chunk.
Before you've even had a chance to enjoy earning it, it's gone.
You're basically just a middleman between your employer and everyone who wants your money.
Nich0)))las retweeted
The modern economy is fascinating.
If workers can't afford rent:
→ Get roommates.
If groceries are expensive:
→ Eat cheaper food.
If healthcare costs too much:
→ Get a second job.
If wages don't keep up:
→ Work overtime.
Notice how every solution requires ordinary people to accept less.
The people setting the prices are never asked to do the same.
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Is your mate not coming out to watch the footy?
Or if he does, is his partner constantly texting, calling, checking where he is, who he's with, or when he'll be home?
These can be signs of coercive control & domestic abuse.
Domestic abuse can happen to anyone, including men.
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Apparently the reason people are struggling financially in the UK is because they have subscriptions and buy the occasional coffee.
Not because rent has doubled.
Not because food prices have gone through the roof.
Not because bills keep increasing every year.
No.
It's the £3.50 latte and subscriptions right?
I could stop buying coffee tomorrow.
I could cancel every subscription I own.
I could never order a takeaway again.
And I'd still be almost out of money 2 weeks after payday.
The problem isn't the coffee and subscriptions. It's the fact the cost of living isn't keeping up with wages.