It's ridiculous."Across Britain, poverty is on the rise, and living standards have been on a steady decline over the past decade.Kirsti's hometown of Hull is emblematic of a nationwide economic malaise and a trend in which poorer people are becoming even more destitute."A few years ago, it would have been just people on benefits living in poverty, and now it's a lot more working people as well," she says."At the end of the day, we're all in the same boat If you're on benefits or working, it doesn't make a difference; you've still got all the same bills."Kirsti has lived in public housing for about a decade and has never been "well off" but she says that since the COVID-19 pandemic, her savings have dwindled to nothing.Her quality of life — worse than it's ever been."Britain is broken and it's not getting any better," she says."I would pack up my bags and leave with my son if I could because it's like living in a nightmare."Kirsti's gripes with her home country are many: Painfully long waitlists in the country's crippled public health system, broke public councils and low wages and welfare payments that have not kept up with inflation.Across the lake from Kirsti, where there are entire suburbs made up of housing estates, Jan Boyd runs a local food pantry.For a coin donation, residents can buy cooked meals and fresh food, which can be a welcome change from the canned meals on offer at food banks.Jan has run the facility since 2017 and says she has never been busier."It's a regular occurrence for parents to miss meals to feed their children, and it's horrific that we are the sixth-richest country in the world and we've got parents skipping meals so they can ensure their children get fed," she says."We as an organisation shouldn't exist