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Cost of living felt easier under Conservatives

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Poinlessss · 20/11/2025 17:44

I felt like there was more pressure to help the public.

I remember getting help with gas and electric and they had the cost of living payments too.

Councils used to help out more and there were more warm hubs.

Now it feels like this is the new normal get on with it.

OP posts:
bottledboot · 20/11/2025 23:14

We never recovered from the 08 crash productivity wise, I do find it odd that people are only just noticing it though. It’s been nearly 20 years!!

BIWI · 20/11/2025 23:09

Austerity started in 2008, caused by the Conservatives (and George Osborne in particular).

bottledboot · 20/11/2025 23:08

The can was kicked down the road big time & now we are running out of road.

bottledboot · 20/11/2025 23:07

Well interest rates were very low so people didn’t notice the years of wage stagnation so much

RudolphTheReindeer · 20/11/2025 23:07

That was a post pandemic thing. I suppose they can't do it forever.

PaisleyGilmourStreet · 20/11/2025 23:07

Rock and a hard place between labour and tories nowadays (they're both busted flushes) however I preferred Sunak to Starmer, and I'd've liked to see the former given longer with the economy.

Chiseltip · 20/11/2025 23:05

The UK is bankrupt. No party, no budget, no manifesto can fix it. The money simply isn't there. You'd have to scrap the entire NHS to even stand a chance of balancing books.

The good times are over. We are now a poor country. Young people today won't have the same standards of living that their parents did. There is nothing now but a slow, steady decline. Each year will become more difficult than the one before. Those who can have already left. Millions more are desperate to leave and resorting to trawling through their family tree looking for an Irish relative. It’s embarrassing to be British now.

Arlanymor · 20/11/2025 23:05

Pyew · 20/11/2025 23:01

Well yeah I guess it was nicer in the short term to have £300 of bung money to compensate for the drastic fall in living standards that government left us with after Brexit, covid contracts and trussonomics. Paying for it now though aren't we. In fucking spades.

This! The fact that there are more food banks etc. under Labour isn't because Labour are failing, it's the cost of inheritance from the former government.

Pyew · 20/11/2025 23:01

Well yeah I guess it was nicer in the short term to have £300 of bung money to compensate for the drastic fall in living standards that government left us with after Brexit, covid contracts and trussonomics. Paying for it now though aren't we. In fucking spades.

randomchap · 20/11/2025 22:56

Liz Truss's mini budget fucked the interest rates completely.

Brexit has irreparably damaged the economy

And you're grumbling about Labour?

The tories took a massive dump on this country and are now standing at the sidelines complaining about the shit they caused.

Felt better under them, bollocks did it.

echt · 20/11/2025 22:55

How did councils help more? Are there fewer warm hubs?

Nuggethug · 20/11/2025 22:54

PeachyKoala · 20/11/2025 22:51

The cost of living payments and help with bills were only available to people on benefits.

That’s not quite true I don’t think as there was something where the energy companies were refunding everyone so much a month at one point ?

PeachyKoala · 20/11/2025 22:51

The cost of living payments and help with bills were only available to people on benefits.

TidyCyan · 20/11/2025 17:50

It kind of is the new normal though. Austerity and then the pandemic and all the money spent on furlough, vaccinations, etc. plus current global instability - and people feel they are paying more tax than ever for substandard public services. Plus they keep putting the minimum wage up which drives up prices. It's not a situation I'd want to unpick.

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