I Hate To See The Poverty In My Country

There is so much of it too but people walk through their lives wearing blinkers, ignoring the injustices happening within the UK right now.

I speak from experience, I live in poverty. I live in a one bed flat with a housing association with a part-time job which pays above the national average, while doing a part-time degree with the aim of bettering myself and getting myself out of this survival.

I have never been at all materialistic, living frugally and by my means. My only expenditure this month that wasn't a necessity was a night out with my friends. My rent and council tax is cheap and I've chosen my suppliers with care, finding the best and cheapest for my situation.

And yet, I am utterly broke and it is three weeks until payday.

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SugarRush · 31-35, F

I'm lucky that I own my home despite being a single parent. The future worries me. I work, I have a mortgage, my kids have food in their stomachs and clothes on their backs but I don't drink and rarely go out because I prioritise. I had to give up my degree because I was stretching myself too thinly. I'm anxious about the future - my middle daughter is due to have surgery and both she and my youngest are on medication (medication they need that I couldn't afford without the NHS). Luckily my mortgage is less than rent but if my ex didn't give maintenance, my wage alone wouldn't cover everything especially with schools demanding that h/w is to be done on laptops etc. I know so many people who do things underhanded because of poverty ( I know one parent whose a call girl because her ex left her in debt and she has no other choice) these so called politicians need to live the lives of others and share our worries to understand just how tough life can be.

WorldlyWoes · 36-40, M

@AutumnxRayne: we need such great change in this country. It angers me so much the bias towards May and the conservatives when all they've done is bring us to the brink of disaster and offer no solutions while corbyn is berated by the media, falsely, and has actual policies in place to improve housing, homelessness, welfare and the NHS.. the world is going backwards.