[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

It bothers me somewhat,some of the people(not ALL) that plead poverty are well built,smoke have mobiles and all the modern day luxuries,times are hard for some but a bag of spuds,bread and milk is roughly the price of a pack of ciggies I think,i know this will not be a popular opinion,but its mine

Ciggies are well expensive, but spuds and bread are not addictive... we know how hard it is to give up kaz, add to that depression and other social and economic factors and it might seem impossible?....
Exploitative companies like brighthouse enable those with nothing to have something, so they end up drowning in debt too.
Education for those who are in the cycle of poverty the children being raised in the hand to mouth households is still the best way I think, but I see characters like 'white dee' too and I think grrrrrrr! you're taking the piss!

Kiz... Being right since 2014
Take the shame liz

At the “no frills” end of the high street, near where William Hill neighbours Paddy Power, and a few doors away from Poundland, there stands an altogether glossier alternative.

Here, as suggested by the shop’s very name, BrightHouse, all is light and brilliancy.

The lush primary colours of the window ad announce “our biggest TV ever!” beneath depictions of brightly wrapped presents and the promise of “Christmas moments”.

The sales counter is approached via the massed ranks of ultra-high definition widescreen TVs, with the Ecobubble washing machines beyond.

nd yet when Nothoizile Kombe exits the store in Lewisham, south-east London, it becomes clear that all is not quite what it seems at BrightHouse – at least not for its customers.

“The rates they charge the poor,” she says, the feisty laughter not quite hiding her frustration, “are extortionate.”

The 25-year-old fast food worker, by her own admission “struggling” on the minimum wage, had asked about a mobile phone.

As she discovered, and as the BrightHouse autumn catalogue confirms, an Apple iPhone 7 Plus would cost her £1,277 with weekly payments of £24.57 spread over a year. Yet Apple is selling the exact same model for £769, or from £886 spread over two years – 30 per cent cheaper than at BrightHouse, with twice the time to repay.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a8048901.html