She was feeding herself and a child on seven pounds a week. My food budget for two people is like 20x that.

What she wants is at least for the wealthy to not say heartless shit like "just buy raw potatoes instead of frozen french fries."

Probably run a functioning economy so that people can earn money at a rate faster than inflation? There’s more than one way to get fed.

The UK economy has been one of the worst performers in developed economies since COVID.

"Countless benefits" that you can't get for various reasons or other. Take away the kid and she'd likely have had nothing. Been there lmao.

Help is merely the illusion of help in the UK. Why? So people like you can point to it and say "look you're fine" and get on with their day without giving it any thought.

> a socialist country

I've seen some odd takes on HN but this is a level of anti intellectualism worthy of twitter.