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By *eacreste OP Man 11 hours ago
hart village - Hartlepool |
Huge unmanageable immigration
Economy up the creek
Law courts under huge strain
Policing up shit creek
Energy shafted
NHS going tits up
Tax system screeed up
More borrowing from the govt.
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I don’t understand why people need to try and bring doom and despair. Do we have issues? Yes. Clearly we do.
Do we have the basis of an economy and a governance structure that can be turned around. 100% we do.
Is the future going to be easy? Unlikely.
Are we “completely fucked”? No. Not by a long shot. |
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By *AJMLKTV/TS 11 hours ago
Burley |
People do seem a lot more miserable at the moment. I remember posters on here pre-election saying they were voting Labour because they thought they couldn't possibly worse than the Tories. It seems they were wrong. So many of those posters have disappeared from this forum, or more likely, changed their username. |
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By *exyusMan 10 hours ago
halifax |
Unless a government and I don't mean this one as they will be out at the next election gets a grip then yes this country will continue to go downhill possibly beyond repair and everyone will just have to put up with it or leave |
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By *end1Man 10 hours ago
southend on sea |
Yes I for one was hoping for a better future but am getting more disappointed by the day. There's almost no difference between Tories and labour! Maybe it's time for a radical change? |
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"People do seem a lot more miserable at the moment. I remember posters on here pre-election saying they were voting Labour because they thought they couldn't possibly worse than the Tories. It seems they were wrong. So many of those posters have disappeared from this forum, or more likely, changed their username."
how were they wrong? Labour are tackling problems unlike the last lot. some of those problems they have been relatively successful and other not so much or too early. |
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"Yes I for one was hoping for a better future but am getting more disappointed by the day. There's almost no difference between Tories and labour! Maybe it's time for a radical change?"
Plenty of differences and positive steps so far
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"I don’t understand why people need to try and bring doom and despair. Do we have issues? Yes. Clearly we do.
Do we have the basis of an economy and a governance structure that can be turned around. 100% we do.
Is the future going to be easy? Unlikely.
Are we “completely fucked”? No. Not by a long shot."
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The early signs are not looking at all good. Labour's much vaunted £64b investment summit commitments lie in tatters: AstraZeneca's £450m net zero vaccine plant on Merseyside? Scrapped. BMW's £600m EV Mini plant at Oxford? Scrapped. BP's £800m green hydrogen plant on Teesside? Scrapped yesterday, with Lightsource solar business reportedly up for sale and offshore wind investment rowed back. These are inauspicious early days. |
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"Early days"
“Early days” lol. When do these “early days” end?
Labour voters in 2029 when they get kicked out:
“They had such great ideas, they just didn’t get the chance to implement them. True communism has never been tried. It was still early days”. |
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Certainly the UK needs a 'wake-up' call along the lines of Thatcherism in the 80's. Something that challenges all the bonkers stuff we have sleepwalked into. Like 9.5 mil. citizens dependant on state welfare benefits, like gormlessly watching our borders violated every day of the week, like tolerance of almost all petty crime. The question is, who has the balls to do it? |
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"Certainly the UK needs a 'wake-up' call along the lines of Thatcherism in the 80's. Something that challenges all the bonkers stuff we have sleepwalked into. Like 9.5 mil. citizens dependant on state welfare benefits, like gormlessly watching our borders violated every day of the week, like tolerance of almost all petty crime. The question is, who has the balls to do it?"
The trouble with a re-run of Thatcherism is that the unions she fought are a shadow of the force they were and there are no public utilities to flog off apart from the NHS. |
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By *deepdiveMan 2 hours ago
France / Birmingham |
The short response to the OP's original question is simply, no.
Politically we seem to have made choices which are detrimental to our own good.
The right wing nationalists have become too loud (but aren't they always) and bullying tactics too prevalent with their only agenda to make Britain English whilst denying that their own family descendants are unlikely to be English.
The EU hating slice of the population continue to hate the EU and will never change - such is life.
Overall though, the UK has a strong enough economy, punches above it's weight globally and the general standard of living is good in comparison with many other similar sized countries and economies.
Like any other country, nothing is perfect and there are always exceptions.
Overall, the UK is a good place to live.
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