Watching this from Denmark I simply don't understand why people put up with it. It doesn't have to be like that. I lived 2 years in Burnley and saw poverty. But I also saw people letting themselves be divided into us and them. The British people will need to stand together if changes have to be made.

For all those doubters! I don't smoke or drink have never driven a car , don't go out, haven't been on holiday for 25 years, even when working! I have rarely bought take out and have never been overweight! I've been in perpetual fuel poverty for twenty years! Now unable to work face a very real choice between heating and eating! So yes! Poverty is very real. I don't need sympathy. Just stating facts!

Currently in UK for business and it breaks my heart knowing how expensive it is. The rich gets richer and the middle class is pushed out.

It’s not all about income. It’s about the cost of food, the cost of transport, so whatever pensions are being paid, the cost of living has risen nearly 200% The worst increases have been rentals, so shops, homes, rooms, are unaffordable and the fall out is the poor, just can’t afford to breath any more.

At the same time supermarkets are throwing away food.

The no1 issue IMO is RENT. If the world slashed their rents by half, I can almost guarantee alot of the social ills will almost be alleviated.

Until British people gather as a united people against poverty and actually stand in a general strike their government will not act in their interest. The French understand this and regularly force their government to heel.

No one should have to choose between food and heat 😠💔

How many politicians are hungry ?

Food and rent a worldwide crisis. Disgusting.

If this happens in France the population would turn the country upside down.

I can only agree. I have only been on universal credit/jobseeker’s allowance once. I’m usually not someone you’d expect to find there, as I used to have a bit more than average income. But I had a burn-out and couldn’t work for a few months. Anyways, for those who do not know (I didn’t!!): UC/JSA just covers your basic rent, and then you get given ~300 quid on top for the month. Of which you first have to pay your flat bills (so you’re left with around 200 quid), and of that you have to pay everything else. That leaves you with about 6.50 a day. Which you kind of have to all use for food. You can barely pay for anything else. It’s such a bad system. I’m originally from Germany (have been here for almost a decade now). There you get covered all your flat costs, i.e. rent *and* bills, which makes sense to include, because it’s not like you can not have water or electricity or heating. And then you get given a decent amount for covering living costs as well. You get extra money for educating yourself further, etc. I don’t understand the system here. What’s the point of social security, if you don’t feel secure at all. I was lucky, I just took a break, and I also had a bit of savings left. But there are many people who can’t just pick up work again after a few months, and who don’t have any savings. With the British social security system, all they’re allowed to do is exist and vegetate. It’s bleak. It’s not dignified!

It is hard to 'like' such a dismal report but the poverty is real and killing people.

Illegal immigrants housed and fed. Free heating, phones, bikes, ipads and money. The natives being treated like dirt.

Everything required for a person to survive is owned by someone else.

Inflation is a world wide problem now. Even in South East Asia - everything is expensive now. All senseless wars must stop.

So why does government climate change policy make it harder and harder for farmers to grow food therefore driving up the cost.

17 stone down to 12 stone ... Well that is a VERY POSITIVE outcome...WOKE BBC fails to mention that 😂..

Is it just me or does every single video like this out of the UK feature a ton of people who all whine about how the government should do more for them?

I've been eating once a day for 30years now and sometimes just live on a mug of milk per day😢. I'm so frugal and don't waste anything. Haven't bought clothes/shoes in 18 years so I keep recycling my old stuff (still have some from 1970s😅). I don't go on holidays and don't go out even when invited. My lifes boring but I'd rather this than be homeless on the streets again. What a choice! Our politicians have choices of 3 homes in the uk, 2 or more overseas and loads of holidays...how nice. I'm more highly educated than most of them. Politicians are liars/thieves and have no shame! My rent, water, energy, gas, transport, broadband take all my salary. I have been declined housing benefits and UC because I earn a few pounds over the threshold. Yet I work full time. So much is so wrong and my health is in deep jeopardy. The rich get richer and wasteful. Landlords are way too greedy. I'd rather starve than be cold or be homeless on the streets again😢😢

There is no right to free lunch.

The people who took part in the hunger marches in the 1930s all had one thing in common that made them credible: they were thin.

Poverty and inflation is beyond mental right now here in the UK

Greed , war , power, gluttony , disregard for rescources and our planet superced hunger, climatic changes and humanity . Next, geneticaly lab grown food and a recycling of food even ever increasing plastics in food as fillers never mind worst scenarios.

Geordies and Mackems literally voted to make themselves poorer

When you live in a island and ur leaders don't behave as such this is what you get

Every one of the people interviewed about the health effects of the high cost of food is obese. Sorry, but skipping meals is probably exactly what they need, If their ribs were showing, as in countries with real food shortages, then we might have a real problem here. But the only threat I can see from "food insecurity" in the UK is the potential loss of your enormous belly and chafing thighs.

This situation is obscene!

Nothing much has changed. In 1967 I lived in a bedsit with shared toilet and bathroom and remember having to choose between putting money in the electric meter or buying food.

How many smoke, drink, go on holidays, drive cars, go out to play bingo? I feel more for people who work long hours to care for their families without doing any of previously stated.

Remember folks this is all be design. High inflation to kill the working class, high interest rates to kill the middle class. Hunger Games for real.

London Bridge is falling down.

The poor being overweight because they have limited food choices is nothing new. During the Depression of the 1920-30s in the USA, doctors noted that they had witnessed gross obesity amongst the poor communities of the southern states, both poor black and poor white. It was commonly called bread and potato fat because these people had no choice but to eat a nutritionally poor high carbohydrate diet. For the poor today, things are much the same.

Why is it that they can never find someone going hungry who isn't insanely obese?

I live on 50 pounds per week and I live comfortably. Well, I don't pay rent, use my bike for transportation (a bike I found in a rubbish bin which I fixed using parts from other discarded bikes), don't heat my flat, don't go to pubs, don't buy clothes, and I pay less council tax cos my income is low. Still, I have electricity, water, hot water, internet, phones (both mobile and static), and I eat well (buying reduced-to-clear food, not necessarily the food I want to eat that is). I don't go to food banks because I don't think I need it. I can even afford to have a beer or a buckfast once per week! I also travel abroad about once per year (courtesy of Ryanair the airfare is about 45 pounds in both directions). I have a lot of spare time (as I work for up to 15 hours per week) which I put to good use and I sleep for 9 hours every night. My life is boring but easy. Is it possible to live on 30 pounds? Yes, but it is not comfortable. I've done it. It is more like survival though. Still, even such a lifestyle is better than that of most working people in China, India, or Africa. Bottom line: life in UK is good. It is a pitty that most Brits don't appreciate how good it is.

Yesterday: obesity Today: hunger Bla bla bla .... oh, it's just the BBC

Happens everywhere but worst of all in socialist countries. North Korea Socialist country South Korea Capitalist country although theres nothing perfect i know which one has less people starving

As much as the water is wet and the sky is blue there is some middle class WASP out there who is criticising them for being poor, instead of blaming the Tories for causing it. As Tory policies aren't aimed at middle class WASPs, they just don't know what it's like and still parrot back Thatchers quote that it's the poors fault for being poor.

Even in Japan, the prices of eggs, wheat, and food in general continue to rise, and tonikaku hungry anyway.

When I was young in the 70s all I heard was “you’ve got it easy compared to us” Oh we had it tough compared to you. I was looking forward to using these phrases when I was old. But I can’t…. The generation trying to make a life now have got it tough all right. In 1985 I walked into a building society with my fiancé and walked out with a 100% mortgage with just legal fees to pay. I had a steady job and we lived very well. I realise that things have got real tough all round now but this one thing keeps niggling me. The years under the Tories have not been good for the common person, I watched since Thatchers days how they eroded our rights and crushed strikes. I’m not blaming them for the world issues that they impact finances but I am blaming them reducing our standard of living to what it is now. When you look at the sleaze, the crimes, the fiddling and lying from them you have to realise they are no friends of us.

Aww God Bless them for helping those in need🙏🏻❤️

UK CONSTANTLY KEEPS WINNING the contest for the Best country to LIVE/LEAVE in 2023 , 5th year straight

It's amazing there's a problem when your King has so much wealth

I can't believe just how many ignorant comments there are related to the weight of these people who are obviously struggling. The women in this video are all post-menopause, which means that muscle mass declines at a rapid rate, metabolism slows at an increased rate, and fat retention around the middle increases remarkably. You can eat very little, and still appear overweight with a large tummy and jowls. Combine this with the fact that so many cheap foods which fill you up are very processed high-fat high carbohydrate foods, and they will appear overweight even though they are extremely malnourished.

When I watch these things, I must say Africa is blessed but cursed with corruption and mismanagement. Cause we have good soil for food, good weather all year round we don’t have to think of heating up our homes even in the rainy season. If only we can do better.

If you just rely on the teussel trust you WON'T get the full picture. There are lots of smaller providers. There are more people going hungry than most realise.

Do you pee for this or do you pee for that? You can't always pee for both!

Stop giving them money. Food stamps, FFS! Ones that can't be sold on either.

Hunger will always be the world biggest challenge

"Supermarkets deny making money from soaring prices." Maybe not, but they do make billions of profit. Their greed is obnoxious. I truly hope that one day, we ordinary people will successfully fight the 5% leeches. Because that's what they are - leeches.

They don’t look like they’re losing weight to me😂

Watching this made me so grateful becoming an Indonesian it is warm along the year here, and you can find cheap and affordable food most of the time. By the way UK is an archipelago, you may try to develop the fishing sector, i think there are many fishes that can be taken within the territory of UK, may be it can help

Remember. Nothing to do with Brexit

Yet there are more billionaires and now even trillionaires than ever. All paying pennies in taxes. If you have money it’s cheaper to live than if you’re poor. Until they pay their fair share the wealth gap will continue to widen.

weight loss wasnt mentioned ......but go onto any council estate and the majority of the 'poor' are over-weight.... more often with a nice car on the driveway

5:45 is literally my situation. I hope this hardship passes soon for all of UK

I feel bad for these people, and I live in lower middle class India. 😶

We have a massive obesity problem !

It's not as bad as it was in the 30's. There were no food banks or social security in the 30's.

sure the loot of $45 trillion is almost gone. Churchill diverted food from Bengal in 1943 for UK (in the name of feeding the soldiers), 6 million of us (Bengalees died). Do not you think their curse do not have any effect? Days of easy money is gone. Now only hope you have to use dirty money from all places of earth

None of them have missed a meal

I'm in South Africa and we are experiencing the same exorbitant Rize in food prices, particularly basic items. Even trying to make bread yourself from scratch, is not a solution, because each ingredient on it's own has also doubled or tripled in price. The price of petrol rising by double digits on the back of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has a lot to do with it, because it costs that much more to get food to market. We also have an electricity crisis with rolling blackouts sometimes up to 10 or 12 hours a day, also taking a toll on the economy and causing price increases in electricity which once again causes a rize in inflation and an extra toll on the community. The problem we have on top of it all is an unemployment rate of almost 50%, a rize in crime and a corrupt Government that does nothing but exacerbate the problems. We now also have an outbreak of Cholera in many areas, because the Government is not maintaining the water purification systems and also due to the many power cuts at the plants. I read an article today that 35000 chickens (obviously I those long chicken batteries they keep them in - poor tortured animals) died in just one province due to the power cuts and resulting heat. How many people could have been fed with 35000 chickens? I don't know when all of this cost of living increases are going to end. When we die in heaps? 🇿🇦

What is it with British governments and starving people. From Ireland to India and now back at home. They adore it. Gives them great feelings

I think these people are not able to afford healthy food. Not like starving without any food at all.

One is a singular noun. Duh. One is seven households *is* affected.

Crunchy nut cereal in a pot, no VAT...Perhaps money could be spent more wisely, for example, a tonne of porridge oats and 50kg of sugar!

Wait until the corporations realise they can vertically integrate this part of the supply chain…….. they will do it, mark my words.

Dont worry if your an illegal immigrant food, shelter, and heating all provided.

Make sure Husband and wife work.

Unfortunately, this is all over the world. And it’s just as hard for disabled and elderly in the United States. As a disabled person and 50 years old I don’t get enough money through disability to pay all my bills and provide for food for myself. The government here only allows me to get $48 a month in food. I am diabetic and have several other health issues that require a special diet to prevent those Health problems from getting worse and the cost of food doesn’t allow me to get the healthy food choices. In the United States it’s all about the rich getting more money and the poor either dying or staying poor. The cost of everything has gone up without the real need for it to go up. Look at how much more money the corporations are making verses what everyone from the middle class and lower is making. The rich get richer through lies and price increases. The economy is based on lies. There is no reason for recessions if the rich are making billions of dollars more now than four years ago. One thing that would help stop this is taxes. Raise their taxes instead of allowing the big corporations claim they are losing money and giving them welfare breaks. While the rich get more rich the people are suffering and need welfare just to survive. Tax wealthy people, corporations and religious bodies at the rate the rest of us get taxed. That would solve a lot of problems.

I wonder what 'universal credit' is? Also, don't they have cost of living adjustments to social security rates at least annually?

everyone morbidly obese but pretending they are almost not eating anything lol, how that's possible?

True cost of Brexit

The government should bring back rationing, so that everyone get a 'bare mimum' of food for themselves and there family

Less think tanks. Less central banks. Less government. Less technology. Less corporate stakehoder capitalism. More Corpus Christi. Return to the church.

Its so strange seeing people complain about how i literally grew up 🤷‍♀️

Hmmm. I live in a very working class Midlands Town. The only hunger here is the hunt to find that 2nd burger or pint. Most people are overweight. The only ones who are suffering 'weight loss' are the druggies. As for Food Insecurity - the more this country embroiled itself in the EU, the more we were/ ARE reliant on foreign nations for our food ! 40 years ago we produced 70% of our own food - now it's 42%. ANyway, if there is anyone that the Trusell Trust thinks should be eating more, advise them to get on a boat across the channel to the UK - then they'll be treated to free food, 4G, medical care and housing for years to come ! You know it makes sense.

Thats a good thing for most people in this country.

Immigrants come before Brits

Although this is happening all over the world, regarding food security and other aspects relating to the global economical downturn. The 3rd world countries are feeling the effects of this change worse than the developed nations. In the 3rd world, there are no government interventions such as benefits and handouts. It's so sad and hopeless, I think if this continues, then we're going to see more conflicts and mass immigration. Ukraine war and civil wars are only a start...

This is really disgusting ? Because, I recently left Glasgow on a short trip. And I could see, just as much of the various "growing income"... but.. where is the basic amenities? A lot of shops are closed. And if the top end of people doesn't spend, then it doesn't spend ? And the bottom end of the people, aren't the farm owners or the food producers. And these kind of food banks, are often actually.. even more expensive... They are super expensive down South here, cos people aren't doing their pricing and costing properly either. So... Why so many tins ? When we joined the EU, we slowly integrated that wealth together, and everybody had a stake in society. Netherlands grew a lot of vegetables for us. I didn't see as many tins. And when the UK farms slowly closed up as well. Instead of building houses, in old locations to knock down and rebuild. They were built on farm lands ! And now that we have brexited, and many more items do not reach us... where is the health level ? A lot of farms in the UK are also actually NOT selling to UK consumers as well. Why ? Cos they signed deals and merged their farms together with EU ones, and they try to sell at a higher price point. And even that itself is an issue... playing and offsetting the pricing of food. Which it should be low, but it goes up quite a lot. These owners and companies, doesn't want to make a loss any more... and yeh, they need to make more money, in order to subsidise the rest of the EU !!!!! Meanwhile... the farmers.. in the UK, most of their kids have gone onto universities... and actually reduced the size of farming. Even the hospitality sector... there aren't those small but local farms.. and local city farms.. or charities.. nobody is doing those any more, as a safety net. It didn't take long, did it ? The city that I reside in... I have seen lots of people moved away, cos they too are scared that, there isn't the business.. and they don't get the prices.... and doesn't want to drop the food prices. So then, they up and leave to an even bigger city ! I don't know if people realises what is going on....

Yes, when I try and loose weight, I’m hungry

Thank You 🙏 Thank You ⭐ Thank You ❤️

Y'all had to know that that starvation was going to come back around. London is burning. And that bridge is falling. Get your shovels out lads and build more mass graves

Tory gov- "we're fighting obesity"!!!!

Brits were lulled to sleep by the drip,drip,drip of nostalgia and false security by the monarchy and by Brexit propaganda. When will the monarchy's finances be investigated and downsized? When will the Tories lose their hold on Brits? Tories have had a hold on Brits for ages,(the Eton mystique) and the attachment to "tradition" i.e that's our lot." People interviewed seem to feel very powerless.

Well done Nigel, you well and truly shafted the screaming lefties.

I find this report strange because the people being interviewed doesn't look like they were starve at all.

I wonder what these people would say after hearing that the Royal family spent 80 plus million pounds on keeping themselves housed.

People want organic, stop using fossil fuels, stop deforestation on countries that rely on agriculture and expect no inflation? No pity.

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Imagine young people with low pay job, student loan to pay back and no saving. Lots of mid age and elderlies are using their savings to cope with this cost of living crisis. People can’t move to better pay job because the salary can’t cover the rent and bills, ended up stay at family house or even move back to family house.

"Weight loss....' 😂😂 look around you.

So called developed countries 😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 RIP UK 🤣

Royal family Royal wealth. God save the King. God save the citizens.

With the looks of most people in the UK, starving doesn't seem to be a problem.

Hunger but not much weight loss here mate

where is all the weight loss in London, Derby, Birmingham, Leicester and Liverpool where I all travel to on a regular basis i only see the queues for the expensive junk food places bigger and bigger.. Obesity is worse now than in 2018.

Too many people on welfare today.

Stop voting for Tory and get us back in the EU (no privileges). That simple.