Times are extremely hard here

More than 500 families including 350 children under the age of 8 living in Tenerife received food hand-outs from the Kairos charity last month.
Kairos was founded in 2008 to meet the basic nutritional needs of sub-Saharan immigrant families, but the focus has shifted dramatically in the last four years and needy families who receive aid now are those that would have been labelled as middle class and even includes a number of university graduates. Full Story

Its the same across all the southern european states I'm afraid ( Ireland included).

This is so sad when we have this in many communities and a twat like Bob Diamond, who has ripped people off will walk away from Barclays with a £53million pound payout. That is on top of the £120million he has already from Barclays, through ripping people off and winding up small businesses.

Saw a programme about Portland Road in Notting Hill last night. Used to be lived in by cockneys now populated by bankers. Houses worth 3 to 5 million quid now........If only I had known.

If only Stalin hadn´t buggered up everything, and let it run as Mr Marx /Engles and Lenin has wanted there might have been a decent model to follow.

I reckon that once all the media hysteria has calmed down regarding Barclays, it will emerge that those Commies Blair and Brown were just trying to kick the working classes in the bollocks by manipulating LIBOR.

THANKFULLY, I NEVER VOTED FOR THEM - BUT SOMEBODY MUST HAVE DONE .

It is a totaly surreal stupid world in which we live where mothers have to beg to feed their children yet a few miles away a trillion euros is moved from one account to another to prop up a failed currency whose demise is inevitable. Mega rich tycoons who legaly evade paying tax sit in houses with numerous gold plated bathrooms en-suite to numerous luxury bedrooms above several lounges adorned with paintings of which the value of one alone would feed a thousand people for a year. Banks will write off 5billion pounds of debt to country who treats it's inhabitants like animals, but the same bank will evict a hard working family struggling to scratch a living from their home because they owe £5.000 in morgage arrears.

Joel David wrote:It is a totaly surreal stupid world in which we live where mothers have to beg to feed their children yet a few miles away a trillion euros is moved from one account to another to prop up a failed currency whose demise is inevitable. Mega rich tycoons who legaly evade paying tax sit in houses with numerous gold plated bathrooms en-suite to numerous luxury bedrooms above several lounges adorned with paintings of which the value of one alone would feed a thousand people for a year. Banks will write off 5billion pounds of debt to country who treats it's inhabitants like animals, but the same bank will evict a hard working family struggling to scratch a living from their home because they owe £5.000 in morgage arrears.

Very good post, thanks.

Not ukip surely Jim? How could you vote for a man who looks and sounds like a cartoon character?

Its sad times for everyone at the moment, I complain all the time being self employed and searching for work but at least I'm pulling in a wage, I feel for all those that struggle all the time, especially those with children. I just cant see the end to any of this TBH, its got to be at least another 10 years before things improve. Then you have the recovery, after all them businesses that have closed down has anyone got any money to start them up again. Its all a vicious circle