Northern Ireland In Poverty?

motorguy

dj9928 wrote: »

I heard Stephen Nolan say yesterday that a new study has revealed that 50% of households in Northern Ireland have less than £300 a week to live on, and 26% of children in Northern Ireland are living in poverty.

I heard that 71.3% of all statistics are made up on the spot......

Parisien

And the remaining 28.7% are lies ....so.......:)

Parisien

IvanOpinion wrote: »

I am not convinced the grass is ever greener

Ivan

Oh yes it is....its always a different shade.....

:j

IvanOpinion

Parisien wrote: »

Oh yes it is....its always a different shade.....

:j

but is it greener

Ivan

Parisien

Depends very much on the shade of green you started out with in the first place...:)

miserly_mum

My mother in law hates green, mind you we call her" Loyalist Lorna",( but thats another story):rotfl: Nobody nowadays is in poverty, even those on low incomes or on benefits.Statistics can be tweeked to show whatever they want them to show. We all know families where the parents are always in the pub , bookies or bingo.People like these unfortunately will always exist and their kids will have to do without a lot of the time. Thats due to mis-management of family money, not because there isn't enough to go round

talksalot81

I suppose that the 'direct rule' influence that has led us to the largest housing boom (and resultant greatest increase in debt) must mean that these 'direct rulers' have done a fantastic job....

IvanOpinion

miserly_mum wrote: »

My mother in law hates green, mind you we call her" Loyalist Lorna",( but thats another story):rotfl:

We called DW 'Orange Lil' for a while .. but that was due to an accident with a bottle of hair dye that turned her hair a subtle shade similar to that of an orange highlighter

Ivan

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miserly_mum wrote: »

My mother in law hates green, mind you we call her" Loyalist Lorna",( but thats another story):rotfl: Nobody nowadays is in poverty, even those on low incomes or on benefits.Statistics can be tweeked to show whatever they want them to show. We all know families where the parents are always in the pub , bookies or bingo.People like these unfortunately will always exist and their kids will have to do without a lot of the time. Thats due to mis-management of family money, not because there isn't enough to go round

If you have a roof over your head and have food and water then your not in poverty your a positive millionaire compared to the vast majority of teh population of the world.

Do you have to grow your own food? Do you have to walk 20miles to pick up urine and poo saturated water?

Your a millionaire then!

talksalot81

Yant1 wrote: »

If you have a roof over your head and have food and water then your not in poverty your a positive millionaire compared to the vast majority of teh population of the world.

Do you have to grow your own food? Do you have to walk 20miles to pick up urine and poo saturated water?

Your a millionaire then!

Ah but many of these people with whom you compare are able to build their own house, where they want. Many of us 'millionaires' cannot look after our own interests and have to resort to begging from the government.

(tongue firmly in cheek)