It's also the neverending stress and uncertainty. The frequent assessments and appeals, you know your only source of income could be stopped very soon. The constant threats from the government to end or cut your already low income. It just never ends, you can never relax.

Some of us would welcome a nuke.

This bit " Are we doing everything to make sure people in the city know how to access this critical care?" particularly pisses me off. He's implying that it's the family's own fault that this happened, that there is all the help needed out there, the family just didn't access it. Never mind that they'd asked the authorities for help twice and didn't receive any.

It reminds me of in the UK whenever a disabled person has their benefits stopped and starves to death, the news reports are always full of victim blaming, saying that there's so much help out there, the disabled person just didn't access it. When, actually I know from experience, there is nowhere enough help and whatever authorities you contact just refer you back and forth to each other.

It seems most countries just have the appearance of help in place so that people who are doing alright can sleep at night, imagining that there is help available for the less fortunate, when there really isn't.

But today there are news articles saying the complete opposite, that Trump "likes Starmer a lot"?

Not just the elderly, the sick and disabled, even children. There have been so many news reports of children starving, even bringing empty lunchboxes to school and pretending to eat because their parents can't afford to feed them and they're ashamed for their classmates to know. Multiple news reports of disabled people starving to death after their benefits were stopped. But somehow, always enough for wars, royalty and all kinds of waste like the time the government wasted £10 billion on useless PPE during covid that had to be thrown away.

Definitely. I've had several refuse to write me letters for my benefit claims, even though I am diagnosed. It would cost them 5 minutes to do. It costs me everything when they don't. They just don't care. And when my current one found out I've been feeding myself by begging for food vouchers on here, she looked at me with utter contempt and said I have to stop doing that. Like OK, I'll just starve then. They really don't care if I'm starving, destitute and homeless. Then she gets angry that her silly "therapy" hasn't cured me.

Thanks. I also got a migraine today from being forced to go in a perfume/bleach smelling room. I hate that place.

I've never eaten there, their food smells bad.

I thought Ukraine had given up their nukes?

It's bonkers to me that some people have billions while I often go hungry purely due to lack of money. Why can't people see how unnatural this is? Has anyone read the Earth's Children series by Jean Auel? It's about cavepeople, but it's such a prime example of how society should be. No-one owns land, everyone is free to hunt and forage as they see fit. The only things people own are basic things like their clothes and arts and crafts that they make and trade with each other. It would be crazy to them if someone said "This land is now mine, you must pay me 50% of all your arts and crafts if you want to live here, pick the plants here or hunt the animals that live here." And yet, somehow the course of human history has led us to a place where a few have more money than they can spend in a lifetime, while millions starve. Why are we standing for this?

I don't live in London, I live in Devon and I already tried the local church, they said no, and were quite rude and nasty about it. Already tried olio and goodtogo, if you don't live in a city or large town they aren't much good. Also no sikh temples down here.