The UK - how bad is it?

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Originally Posted by sinkov

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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.

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Our Viktor has it sorted.Since the pandemic in 2020 there is a “solidarity” tax on the multi national companies here which goes into a fund that covers caps on energy prices and special allowances for pensioners and low income families during winter-they get a 13th month added to their pension to cover the extra costs incurred.
We have long term contracts for Russian gas which gives us the cheapest energy costs in the EU.
No income tax for under people under 25.
No council tax-we just pay for the bins which is £10/quarter.
You cant really call Viktor far-right he is more socialist if you think about it.

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

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)

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I would suggest it's the fruicakes claiming that the Great British Public are more concerned about homelessness than the diabolical state of the NHS are the ones who need to go on a "fact-finding" tour................ of the British Isles.

A few months ago I started a thread posing the question where all the tax revenue goes to. The tax take is expected to be £1 trillion next year. ULEZ in London generates £5.8 million a day. And yet the country is going to pieces.

I think the country is beyond repair.

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Originally Posted by sinkov

I would suggest it's the fruicakes claiming that the Great British Public are more concerned about homelessness than the diabolical state of the NHS are the ones who need to go on a "fact-finding" tour................ of the British Isles.

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On a serious note mon ami, when I was doing the necessary work on my Social Science Honours Degree we had to do several quantitively orientated and qualitative research polls.

The results were really quite surprising, they all depended on the social class (obviously) you were canvassing.

It was a given that if you asked a question on social policy to a guy who could afford to quaff lattes in a Booths café in Clitheroe you would not get the same response from a dude sleeping on a cardboard box in Borough Road in Middlesbrough.

My wife has just had three months of treatment by the NHS, thankfully she is now on the mend and I would not have one bad word said about the care she has received.

Blokes lying in sleeping bags in the hospital grounds caused us both some concern though!