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To think the UK has gone to hell in a handcart?

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Superlambaanana · 06/04/2024 12:01

I’m just so fed up hearing about powerful people (usually men) getting away with things. It seems to have become the norm for them to do whatever the hell they like with zero consequences beyond a bit of handwringing in the media, which dies down fairly quickly, and never results in anything changing or being overturned. Leaving us ‘little people’ just having to suck it up.

Examples:

P&O sacked 800 workers in 2022. The CEO, Peter Hebblethwaite even admitted it was illegal. Yet nothing was ever done about it and he’s still CEO!

Liz Truss’s honours list. Bit of a roasting in the press for a day or two, but all the Truss supporters still got their honours in the end. Add to that Boris Johnston’s and the very dubious Charlotte Owen, and now Rishi Sunak creating a whole new honours round to make sure some party donors were rewarded in a blatant exercise in corruption.

Prince Andrew. Apparently still thinking of making a return to public life!!!!!! I mean, wtaf?!!!!!!

Michelle Mone. Has she really faced any actual consequences?

Phillip Scofield. Cheats on wife, bullies colleagues and his boyfriend, but achieves victim status because he was coming out of the closet.

Post Office scandal. Yes it’s managed to get some traction, but people will tire of it eventually and I bet that happens long before the sub-post masters get any justice or decent compensation.

Cost of living crisis and energy companies making absolute fortunes at all our expense with no prospect of bills actually coming back down to where they should be - no, instead we should be happy that they aren’t going up just as fast as last year!

Water companies. Borrowing money to give shareholders big payouts instead of actually managing the water and sewage systems to the extent that rivers are now full of faeces.

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Blackcats7 · 06/04/2024 12:15

Totally agree OP. I am ashamed of this country as it is now.

Bluevelvetsofa · 06/04/2024 12:13

Well, it does seem like that at the moment, I agree.

I’m sure there are some good people doing good things, but it certainly feels like the everyday is a struggle.

What offends me is the conspicuous consumerism and waste of money, such as spending hundreds of thousands or more, on a wedding, or holidays or just ‘stuff’.

Of course, many would say that people are entitled to spend their money how they choose and, of course, they are. It just seems particularly thoughtless when many are having such a hard time.

I think Philip Schofield got what he deserved and I’d like others to get the same.

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 06/04/2024 12:12

You are being unreasonable - it went to hell in a handcart several years ago. It's just that people are finally noticing now.

Darker · 06/04/2024 12:10

It’s

  • the bullshit that we, the people, actually have a say, because we can vote.
  • And the horrific take that it’s only ‘hardworking taxpayers’ that count. And yet so many hardworking people are horribly underpaid and undervalued. While people who can’t work are just parasites.
MinervaMcGonagallsCat · 06/04/2024 12:10

A number of those on your list are facing significant financial and legal consequences

Peclet · 06/04/2024 12:07

Agree. I used to think our political system had standards and some ethics but I think that’s gone now.

CoL is insane.

DiamondArtists · 06/04/2024 12:06

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Icantbelieveitsnotnutter · 06/04/2024 12:06

You have it spot on there. These people need to be held accountable. I think most of us have quite had enough of them.

Bossladywood · 06/04/2024 12:04

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you are a delight 🤣

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MeMyCatsAndMyBooks · 06/04/2024 12:03

Phillip Scofield actually lost almost all his contracts. This morning, gone. We buy any car, gone. Etc.

But yes whole heartedly agree about the others.

Bossladywood · 06/04/2024 12:02

I agree, everything seems shit and hard at the moment with no end in sight.

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