A hard-working single mum has sparked debate online after claiming she won't be able to afford the Christmas she wants on a salary of £23,500.
Abbie Palmer, 30, works full-time as a customer services manager but says she had to walk out of Aldi because she couldn't afford a festive food shop.
Abbie Palmer, 30, works full-time as a customer services manager but says she had to walk out of Aldi because she couldn't afford a festive food shop.
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00:00 This is the Rishi Sunak
00:02 Because you stand there and you talk about essentially a person like me
00:09 Somebody who works full-time. I live in social accommodation
00:12 I don't have anything other than my phone contract on fight like my phone on finance
00:20 And yet i've just had to walk out of aldi
00:24 Because after my bills are paid every month I am left with 600 pound to put fuel in my car so I can get to work
00:31 Get my food for the month
00:34 And do everything else I need to do and within that we're coming up to christmas
00:39 After that i've got to face the seven week month of january
00:43 So i'm about to make the decision tonight today that
00:48 Me not eating is the better way to go about it
00:54 So, please do tell me how
00:56 when I work full-time
00:59 My car isn't on finance or anything like that
01:01 It was paid for cash my car insurance is paid for yearly in advance and I save 100 pound a month
01:07 To make sure that I can't cover it, which by the way, I did my comparison last night
01:12 I'm, not even gonna be able to afford to have my car as of next month because even though I have
01:17 1,200 pounds saved up
01:20 Ready for when my insurance comes for a renewal
01:23 That is not gonna cover how much insurance has gone up by
01:27 My insurance quotes are coming back at 1,800 pound minimum
01:31 minimum
01:34 Which is 200 pounds a month
01:36 200 pound a month because they don't stick it at 1 800
01:43 As soon as I have to move that over to monthly pay now, it's 2500
01:48 Which means i'm gonna have to pay 200 pound a month car insurance meaning what right now
01:52 Leaves me with 600 pound a month left over my bills. I'm left with 400 pound a month
01:58 That's to pay for my food shopping that is to get everything else. I need travel to work everything
02:05 And yet i'm supposed to be what you are calling the perfect example
02:09 But no, i'm not i'm a rishi because the only way you're a perfect
02:13 Example in this state in this economy is if you're a couple and you're both working and you're both paying for the bills
02:21 But i'm not
02:24 I pay my bills I go to work
02:26 And yet it's still not enough for me to be able to eat
02:30 But please do justify all your other plans well done you stopped 14 year olds from being able to smoke you stopped a dog
02:39 a
02:41 dog
02:42 you're the biggest waste of spaces countries ever heard of
02:45 And the way the government actually has the audacity to sit there and allow for people like me who go out and work five times a week
02:54 Further from that i've had to look at getting a second job for the second time
02:59 just so i'm gonna be able to
03:02 get by
03:04 Whilst you sit there talking about how you can't get seven different types of bread
03:08 I can't even afford to go and buy one type of bread
03:12 And you're talking to the country about seven
03:14 You've got us paying for your second homes
03:17 You've got us paying for your 40 pound a day food allowance
03:22 pound for lunch
03:25 I don't even spend that a week on food
03:27 What do you mean you get that a day?
03:30 You're a disgrace