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I couldn't believe it and the first thing that came to my mind was mad hire people that came to for food even So I guess it's the same thing going on and The United Kingdom man out what is the real source of the issue is my question like why like this ain't gas There's no fighting going on and in the Middle East. That's cutting off. You know I'm saying routes for get like what's going on a Winter of discontent is coming for the United Kingdom today The first in what will be weeks of nationwide strikes began across multiple professions from ambulance crews to border officers All in protest of skyrocketing living costs and as the days get cold Many are faced with a terrible choice Heat the home or feed the family from White Hawk one of the poorest districts of Brighton on the south coast Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant. That's a listen, bro. That is a crazy Like a like I get it like sometimes it's like, okay, either I'm not gonna eat wrong. I'm gonna pay my bill I'm not eat. I'm not gonna eat wrong. I'm gonna pay my electricity But heat your home or eat freeze or die of hunger is crazy Not literally died, but like I mean maybe I don't know but that's tough reports Sumitian is cooking up 300 hearty meals Her kitchen is in the vanguard of the fight against hunger in this social housing complex and beyond as millions of Britons are forced to cut back on life's essentials food and warmth 100% it's cooked with love and it's made for these people that really really are what I call the forgotten people People don't care about them, but we do and that's the main thing you taste it mother You do and that's the main thing Okay, what is this y'all? Because it looked good and it don't look good at the same time. They got mushroom carrots. It looked like beef Taste it mother Janet Cronin's non-profit provides home deliveries because the local authority can no longer afford to run the service What's your assessment of how bad the cost of living crisis is? Pretty bad. It's dire. There's just so many things. You can't even have your heating on you've got to be care Do I eat do I put the heating on and I'm the same like I haven't got my in on that much Food price rises have been the sharpest they've been for more than 40 years And this element of inflation hits the poorest hardest because Proportionately they spend more of their income on food than the better off Yeah single mother Natasha Bell is heading for a handout Once a music business executive she fell on hard times and into the red a non-profit music business executive If she was at the top of her game in the music industry like that's a crazy fall from glory Like not not that's saying that it won't happen With this economy with COVID like it's bound to happen to people. That's why Christians against poverty help to get debt collectors off her back Despite working part-time Bell is reliant on food banks and the advice of debt coach Neil avard You've got two kids. Is that right to 11 and one's 14. How do you see things like Christmas coming up to be fair? I'm dreading it. How desperate would you say the situation is I can't even imagine how some of these people survive a week? I ain't gonna lie, man. Christmas is real hard for me. I think y'all look at this sometimes Now Christmas stuff, you know who got a gift, you know who got gifts my daughter that was it We could always blame the economic situation. We can blame the war in Europe. They're not gonna go away anytime soon Natasha Bell isn't alone a recent survey showed that if most working Britons lost their jobs They would survive financially for only 19 days Demand for food banks. They would survive financially for only 19 days Not even a full month. I will Demand for food banks is up 40% this year and many are struggling because donations are down What's it feel like sort of going to a food bank embarrassing? It's embarrassing when I first started going I'd been a queue and kind of like looking at the floor because I didn't really want anyone to see me and Then I realized that quite a lot of people I know have started using the food bank It's not quite so embarrassing and I don't I don't care anymore that people know I go to a food bank What sort of difference does it make to you really big difference like your real kind of Staple it's like, you know pasta washing powder washing up liquid bleach shower gel They shouldn't really be luxuries, but they are that's the sort of kind of like basic stuff that they give me It's not like they're giving away Lobster or foie gras It isn't just the poor who drowning those in the middle-income bracket are running faster to stand still or even go backwards Britain's recent financial turbulence pushed mortgage interest rates to their highest level in 14 years Does anybody know why this is going on or is it you know, it's just the the Are we all just gonna go into a recession around the world? again I think a lot of families are genuinely terrified if they're looking at increases of you know over a thousand dollars per month UK equivalent then I think that they just can't find that money They don't know where they're gonna find it from Sam Murphy's consultancy is called mortgage medics But in this climate there's no available cure the typical mortgage payment might be about two and a half thousand dollars per month And a lot of people when they're coming to the end of their deals at the moment They're looking at their payments going up by 40 50 60 percent. You know, it's crazy, bro Like the cost of living is going up cost of gas is going up cost of cost of food is going up Even some clothing is going up just to you know, I'm sure all of these prices are going up But you know what's staying the same? my hourly wage at work and then like All of this is going up, but I'm getting paid the same. How is that even how? How do they expect people to live the economy is going to go like it's going to crash, right? This is just me like this is an educational video for real like when I was younger I wouldn't even concerned about stuff like this, but now it's like bro. Hold on now Hold on why are eggs eight dollars? What's happening right now? Some even as much as doubling as he tried to balance Britain's books Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt Targeted middle income and wealthier households with the highest taxes since World War two Fully aware that his budget would send living standards plunging to record lows There is a global energy crisis a global inflation crisis and a global economic crisis But the British people are tough inventive and resourceful some of the six Seven billion dollar hole in Britain's finances was created by the fiscal mismanagement of conservative premier Liz trust And ain't blaming it smooth or Liz trust That's crazy, but this is worldwide though. So I don't know if it's all on her Like where I'm living right now like a few months ago. This was Fourteen hundred dollars one four zero zero now is two zero zero zero and eggs are eight dollars I'm never gonna get over it's kicked out after just six weeks the cost of government borrowing and imports shot up But there's another significant reason why there's a shortfall Britain's decision to leave the European Union It's biggest trading partner independent empirical work suggests that as a result of brexit UK GDP is of the order of three to five percent lower than it would have been otherwise Professor Michael gaziorek is director of the UK trade policy observatory Economically we are taking a hit and there's no doubt that we are taking a hit But there are political reasons for wanting to make that decision which is to do with sovereignty So it becomes a trade-off recent suggestions that Britain might seek a closer relationship with Europe have been dismissed by Rishi Sunak the country's third prime minister in the past six months I believe in brexit and I know that brexit can deliver and is already delivering Enormous benefits and opportunities for the country. Yeah, but you know who these test such these these little things that I want to do like They really affect the working class is who they affect. They don't affect the big business the big big big money the 1% Nobody's suffering at the top I Think Britain's very broken. I think it's a banana Republic There's it's not all about business and business. It's not this trickle down It doesn't trickle to anywhere it trickles into the yacht or holiday or a speedboat, so I don't know It's not trickling down to you know us having like a fantastic kitchen to serve people like former bodybuilder and window cleaner Dave Blythe whose leg was amputated four years ago because of a blocked artery The meals he receives keep him from joining more than a million British seniors said to be wasting away because of hunger It is fairly depressing where I've worked all my life So actually rely on people to give you food It doesn't make you feel too good The kitchen's co-founder Brian Coyle has launched a nationwide campaign to compel local authorities to fund meal deliveries to the vulnerable We've now got a situation in the England's where over a million over six not our heroes were keeps man Yeah, I like that doing the work of angels right now People that really needed I'm sure there's somebody over on benefit Street taking advantage of this getting 97 grocery deliveries in one month, but you know Is Five rows in this country are suffering from non-nutrition. It's quite a shocking statistic in the country's wishes United Kingdom Charles Sadler is collecting a food parcel for himself and six neighbors I've been getting food here for quite a while. What would happen to you if you didn't get this meals? I mean, what sort of difference does it make to you? Well, it stops you from getting hungry But I'm blessed. Okay Across town debt coach Neil avard is delivering a welfare package to someone who's housebound He believes many people have cut back right to the bone You can budget and get your your expenditure right down, but I'm now coming to a point where I'm finding debt coach delivering food To people they can't That almost seemed like a business move that he just Actually, no, you're you're in negative expenditure and you've cut down in or cut back on everything And that that's gonna be a big problem Unless the government steps in with more help for people, you know with heating grants and food grants and things like that In the words of Britain's Institute for Fiscal Studies The country is in for a long hard unpleasant journey made more arduous by a series of economic blunders For the PBS news hour, I'm Malcolm Brabant in Brighton Do what y'all gotta do man and stay fed and stay warm