"I work full-time and earn £23.5k - I still can't give my kids the Christmas I want" - video Dailymotion

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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.

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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

"I work full-time and earn £23.5k - I still can't give my kids the Christmas I want"

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