Micheal Portillo spent a week living in a council flat on benefits,
it was actually a good documentary.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:35, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

Did he resort to 'turning tricks' to make 'ends meet'?
He's actually slightly less of a cunt in person than one might imagine, I am told.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:36, Reply)

I watch This Week every so often and he seems nice enough,
the fact he gets on with both Dianne Abbot and Andrew Neil shows he must be a nice enough guy.

Nope but he was shocked he couldn't buy a daily broardsheet and get meat on the same day and stuff like that.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:41, Reply)

Oh, I always thought it was "Ends Meat", like, to get the cut-offs cheap bits of meat.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:43, Reply)

I think it's to do with tightening belts and that, squeezing until the two ends meet

(PsychoChomp, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:45, Reply)

Nope.
The internet throws up several not-very-convincing origins for this, most plausible to my mind is that it’s from bookkeeping, in which the total at the bottom (“end”) of the column of income must at least match that at the bottom of the expenditure column if one is not to be living beyond one’s income.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 13:48, Reply)