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The following article is a good example of why I find it so hard to take seriously people from former Western colonial powers who claim to be in poverty:

https://us.yahoo.com/news/t-heat-food-anymore-middle-195315058.html

“I have noticed it recently,” she said. “My kids have left home and it’s just me and my partner. I’m washing after six now. We don’t really put the heating on. We wrap. If we put the heating on to take the cold out of the air, it’s after six and it’s only for an hour.”

Wrapping instead of using central heating is what you are supposed to do anyway! And now you claim to not have enough money and you still put the central heating on for a whole hour?! (And the worst part of all: subhumans like these have kids.)

She added: “We’re eating a lot of cold food, so as not to have to cook.”

I do this all the time and never imagined anyone would consider it hardship.

Donna’s husband has also begun driving their car to work to save on the additional diesel consumed when she used to drop him off each day and then return home.

Ludicrous. Again, why were you not already doing this in the past?

She is addressing a focus group of nine working-class voters in Wakefield, all of whom describe their own cut-backs, albeit to varying degrees, to reduce costs.

Imagine how they lived before cut-backs! This is why they should be prohibited from reproducing.

Felicity, whose son is living with her whilst studying at university, said she is spending much of her time switching off lights in their home and, whilst “the food shop can never go down in our house, it’s Lidl and Aldi and less of the Marks & Spencer [and] Waitrose”.

Huh? Just keep the lights switched off FFS! Besides, Marks & Spencer and Waitrose should be boycotted anyway:

http://www.inminds.com/article.php?id=10443

https://www.boycottisrael.org.uk/tag/waitrose/

Deborah, who works in HR operations, is now using her car only “if I absolutely have to” in order to save money on fuel.

Again, how is this not standard practice?

Darena, another middle-aged woman from Harrow who cares for her elderly mother, is using her washing machine and oven only when she has a full load of items for each appliance.

And again, why would anyone not always have done this?

Peter, a 51-year-old social housing consultant in the London focus group, said: “My electricity bill for three months is usually £300 and it was close to £800. It’s an incredible uplift in expenses.”

Usually £100 per month electricity?! I don't spend that much on electricity in a year!

Steve, a porter from Wakefield, said: “We’ve just started, if the kids get cold, reverting back a little bit, like people used to do back in the day [to] ‘put a jumper on, get a blanket’ or something like that. It’s not instantly, ‘I’ll put the heating on and I’ll warm you up’.”

Yes, this is what you are supposed to do. Also, you are not even supposed to have kids.

Jasmine, 36, from Wakefield, who works in healthcare and has a young daughter, said: “I’ve made quite a few changes. Because I drive quite a lot, I’m trying to rely more on car sharing or using public transport and I’m also pushing to work from home a little bit more.

“In terms of my heating, I’ve turned it down by degree and I’m also having it on less. In terms of my washing, I’m trying to reduce the number of loads, trying not to use the tumble dryer. And I’m shopping more at budget supermarkets.”

You are still using central heating? **** you!

And why would you ever use a tumble dryer?!

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/dress-decolonization/msg10208/#msg10208

Anyone who uses tumble dryers should not have a daughter (or any offspring).

the Government’s response to the cost of living crisis has suggested they are “out of touch”

No, it's Westerners who are out of touch if the above is what they call a "cost of living crisis". In reality, they are still living more luxuriously than anyone should be!