So four UK supermarkets cost the taxpayer a £1 billion a year because the wages of 500,000 their staff are so low. Their joint profits were £2.2 billion. Every little helps ...https://twitter.com/itsmesue22/status/1060517744565780480 …
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It's also transformed the Welfare State with more people receiving more benefits from the state than ever before. Compare 1950s to now. My parents didn't receive anything from the state in the form of benefits. Not even child benefit because I was the only child.
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My father a low paid miner. My mother suffered from bi poplar disorder which meant she never worked . We lived in rented accommodation . Only income was my father's wage . As for help with my mothers illness. With no social services nothing. Luckily I had a young grandmother
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Today a family in my parents circumstances would cost the state a fortune . We forget how limited the Welfare State was in the years after 1945.
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Shows how far we have come too Jeff
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We also forget the continued influence of Victorian ideas on social attitudes . My father's parents born in 1876. Claiming from the state was something you just didn't do if you were working class. Like many of my generation the state pension is the first
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4some the only income and 4poor amount each week is what is imperative esp when unable to continue working after/at SPA
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