@cherokeepatti 👍

@cherokeepatti

👍 I'd say more, but the minions watch, see and hear everything.

@AbbeyRhode That's sad :(

@TexChik 👍

@Zaphod42 👍

@4meAndyou some call that karma but anyway that’s how it generally works out

@AlchemyFox 🤨🤔

@AlchemyFox

Oh really?

@BritishFailedAesthetic 👍

@BritishFailedAesthetic they are embedded in every single institution now. Nothing is off-limits to these people.

@cherokeepatti Yes, they being ALL institutions and political parties, since the beggining- original sin.

@Picklebobble2 You certainly can't live on it where I come from in the South West. According to Rightmove the cheapest place to rent within ten miles of my 'home town' is 550 GBP per calendar month, call it 125 GBP per week. That leaves less than 80 GBP per week on the full pension of 203 GBP [1] for everything else: food, insurance, electricity, gas, petrol, maintenance, Internet, telephony, entertainment.

[quote]Quick Overview
In the UK the average household is spending £62.20 per week on food and non-alcoholic drinks. The lowest 10% spend £32.50 per week while the highest 10% spend £91.80 per week. The average food bill for a single individual per week is £34.50 per week with another £10.20 spent on eating out. [2][/quote]

The average expenditure on a car in the UK is 3 580 GBP [3], or 68 GBP per week; even assuming a smaller cheaper car and not using it much it's still probably at least half that.

Even if one can subsist on it, there is no possibility to save for a holiday or any kind of unexpected expense. I suspect that even with a full pension an application would need to be made to the DWP for some kind of supplementary benefit. I suppose a couple would have sufficient economy of scale to make it work a little better.

[1] https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/money-legal/pensions/state-pension/new-state-pension/
[2] https://moneysprout.co.uk/average-weekly-food-bill-in-the-uk/#how-much-does-the-average-person-spend-on-alcohol-uk
[3] https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/cheap-car-insurance/average-cost-run-car-uk

@ninalanyon Yes you couldn't manage your [i]own[/i] place. But you [i]might[/i] be able to rent a room in a shared house on it.
But like i say that's entirely dependent on where you are.

@Picklebobble2 Who would want to live in a shared house when the retire? I share my house with my two eldest and even though it is considerably larger than the average UK dwelling I still feel that I should be able to have the house to myself for a few years.

@Darksideinthenight2 👍

@NativePortlander1970 yes it originated from the Catholic Church

@cherokeepatti The cult started by the false apostle, paul.