The UK - how bad is it?

Yesterday a YouGov poll showed that an alarming number of UK citizens are really pi$$ed off with how the UK is being run.

By now anyone who reads or interacts with the the posts on here will know I would expect no less after 13 years of Tory governance.

By all accounts the much lauded Elizabethan line has turned out to be an operational catastrophe and a train was left dead on the tracks for a good few hours trapping inside Britain's favourite Jewess Rachel Riley.

This paragraph in the press this morning just about sums up the current malaise for me: "Without getting stuck in hyperbole, it does seem like nothing works any more. A day in the life of a British family might include the early morning rush to get a GP appointment; the school run clogged by cars; concrete classrooms crumbling; shortages and empty shelves at the supermarkets, complete with rampant inflation; fuel and council tax bills that only go one way; hours wasted on telephone consumer help lines or “talking” in circles with bots online; long waits for hospital treatment; and trains that never even show up. Not to mention the visible decay and incompetence of government and the impending bankruptcy of local authorities."

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-b2460724.html

What do you guys think?

Since we returned from France we've been renting and rental prices are going through the roof. With the rent, Council Tax and heating costs we have decided to apply to go back to france where we still have a house. We'll be miles better off in may ways. The main thing I miss when I'm over there is proper beer, walking in the Lake District and the Dales and taking in the occasional match.

Why no mention of the intermiable strikes which have been blighting the country for the last year or so?
Typical whinging poms attitude and, by hell, aren't there lots and lots of whinging poms these days.
Mind you whinging would seem to be far easier than doing something to improve things.

I have just returned from a couple of weeks - the highlight being stuffing the Blades!

England is very, very busy. Even Burnley was a nightmare, made worse by roadworks that should have finished before the season started, so I was told.

The sad reality is that the Government has failed. That appears to be the general feeling, talking with people. I think the report in the Independent is correct. It is only going to get worse too.

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

Yesterday a YouGov poll showed that an alarming number of UK citizens are really pi$$ed off with how the UK is being run.

By now anyone who reads or interacts with the the posts on here will know I would expect no less after 13 years of Tory governance.

By all accounts the much lauded Elizabethan line has turned out to be an operational catastrophe and a train was left dead on the tracks for a good few hours trapping inside Britain's favourite Jewess Rachel Riley.

This paragraph in the press this morning just about sums up the current malaise for me: "Without getting stuck in hyperbole, it does seem like nothing works any more. A day in the life of a British family might include the early morning rush to get a GP appointment; the school run clogged by cars; concrete classrooms crumbling; shortages and empty shelves at the supermarkets, complete with rampant inflation; fuel and council tax bills that only go one way; hours wasted on telephone consumer help lines or “talking” in circles with bots online; long waits for hospital treatment; and trains that never even show up. Not to mention the visible decay and incompetence of government and the impending bankruptcy of local authorities."

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-b2460724.html

What do you guys think?

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I think you’re partly right . But if you think it’s getting better under Labour stewardship you are deluded.

The problem as I always say is that politicians only care about them and what they can get out of the system - the I’m alright jack analogy is rife and it’s rubbed off on the public as well.

The only real way for change I can see is a breakaway party that actually has policy that benefits us and not them - this won’t happen and the feckin idiots in Labour and conservative will continue to ruin the country.

Three cheers for democracy hip hip hooray.

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

Yesterday a YouGov poll showed that an alarming number of UK citizens are really pi$$ed off with how the UK is being run.

By now anyone who reads or interacts with the the posts on here will know I would expect no less after 13 years of Tory governance.

By all accounts the much lauded Elizabethan line has turned out to be an operational catastrophe and a train was left dead on the tracks for a good few hours trapping inside Britain's favourite Jewess Rachel Riley.

This paragraph in the press this morning just about sums up the current malaise for me: "Without getting stuck in hyperbole, it does seem like nothing works any more. A day in the life of a British family might include the early morning rush to get a GP appointment; the school run clogged by cars; concrete classrooms crumbling; shortages and empty shelves at the supermarkets, complete with rampant inflation; fuel and council tax bills that only go one way; hours wasted on telephone consumer help lines or “talking” in circles with bots online; long waits for hospital treatment; and trains that never even show up. Not to mention the visible decay and incompetence of government and the impending bankruptcy of local authorities."

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-b2460724.html

What do you guys think?

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We're fecked in this country and it's only going to get worse, but the above isn't strictly accurate, there were some shortages in supermarkets during the Lockdowns, but it's very rare to find an empty shelf or a shortage in the supermarkets we use nowadays, inflation isn't rampant, not by any stretch of the imagination, and fuel bills do not only go one way, they go up and they go down and there's very little government can do about it. We're still fecked though.

I think people are really peed off with everything that is going on but I don’t see any of the main political parties coming close to offering a solution. Given our electoral system it seems certain Labour will win the next general election. I doubt whether things will improve. Speak for England! was once famously shouted in the House of Commons as an MP rose to his feet. I don’t think anyone is, and most worryingly I don’t think anyone in the grip of this dysfunctional media & woke led society can.

I only asked the question following the recent YouGov poll in which I participated.

The lack of affordable social housing and homelessness were the two topics most people found to be the most troubling. :blue:

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

I only asked the question following the recent YouGov poll in which I participated.

The lack of affordable social housing and homelessness were the two topics most people found to be the most troubling. :blue:

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The last ONS survey I saw showed the people's three greatest concerns were the cost of living, the NHS and the state of the economy, housing, which I presume covers homelessness as well, came 6th on the list, after the environment and crime. Sounds about right to me.

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Originally Posted by sinkov

The last ONS survey I saw showed the people's three greatest concerns were the cost of living, the NHS and the state of the economy, housing, which I presume covers homelessness as well, came 6th on the list, after the environment and crime. Sounds about right to me.

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Whichever way you look at it mon ami, it's a complete $hitshow. :blue:

I read this morning Sunak is about to top up Rwanda's bank account to a staggering total of £300 million and we have not sent one foreigner there yet.

I wonder if we could send our entire cabinet on a "fact-finding" tour to Kigali and somehow manage to lose the ignition keys of the plane for the flight home. B)