Is it too late to turn the uk around?

I feel angry I can't get a GP appointment but the GP will give people appointments for other people who don't speak English with translators. I wonder how poor provision for taxpayers will have to get before this stops being sustainable. I don't think schools should prioritise send I think they should prioritise future taxpayers and self sufficiency. I don't think universities should prioritise applications from deprived backgrounds, I think they should prioritise kids who are smart. I don't think we should have voted for Brexit to prioritise Indian work visas instead.

But these views are all toxic and the only political options to back them are reform maniacs who will dismantle the last of the public sector and fuck us all permanently without fixing anything.

So.

Glad I'm old enough to hope to die in a couple of decades but sucks to be young.

I agree with this! I have a right to feel safe in my neighbourhood and so does my DD. I don’t feel safe going out at night.

Op has said nothing of the sort

Get rid of the touchy feely soft policing and all wokey nonsense and bring law and order back. People and especially women, in many areas are scared to go in daylight, never mind at night 😡

I think what this poster means is they’d like to go back to more police brutality and overt discrimination toward black and brown people. More stop and search, more casual beatings, that sort of thing. Bit like Soweto in the 1970s.

Yes I think it possibly is too far gone. Life is worse than it was imo and it’s meant to improve (again, my opinion)

• too many rude entitled people about & many more still at school that will come later
• Unemployment (especially youth) and the general jobs market is dire
• prices of everything too high either no improvement in sight
• tree chopped down daily, countryside bulldozed for new houses
• chavs everywhere
• crime up and I’m absolutely sick of reading about rape and SA
• far too many people offended about very little and far too much political correctness
• nothing seems to run smoothly like it did, nurses at surgery don’t do blood tests now, you need to go elsewhere and they can’t book you in, you need to contact the other place, then there’s a wait, then it gets cancelled etc - sane with ordering scrips, surgery says no so you have to ring the order line that’s only open until 4pm.
• LA’s are a mess, charging more & wasting more
• welfare needs an overhaul, as does NHS

Why are you bothered about it if you don’t even live here?

I ask again, where are you getting your information? Facebook? Twitter?

So during the last Labour government in the 1990s?

How it was before?

Like when half the population died of bubonic plague?

Or when Vikings were invading, raping and pillaging as they went?

Or when children were sent up chimneys to clean them?

Yeah, the good old days weren't they?

These “patriots” who all live in other countries. I mean, you couldn’t make it up, could you?

Anyone commenting on the economy and it not growing really needs to improve their analytical skills. UK growth is on par with the eurozone, and above Canada and Japan. This isn’t a uniquely “Uk going down the pan” situation. Honestly, it boggles me how people are so unconcerned with actual facts.

That’s not really an answer to my question.

Specifically what do you want the army to do that the police currently can’t or won’t do?

Dont you read the news?

Is that happening where you live?

What can’t / won’t the police do?

Turn the clock back to pre 1997 before Blair started the monumental fuck up that we now have to live with. Stop kowtowing to certain groups. Put the armed forces on the streets to do what the police cant/wont do.
Round up all the illegals and kick them out.
Thats a start

I saw two piles of human shit in disused shop doorways in Bristol City centre today.
It’s not a measure of things, but looking around, trying to access the NHS or any government help, seeing the lack of opportunities and everything for young people… looking really bad to me. I have not seen everything as shit as this right now in my 50-odd years.
I feel for my adult kids, racists are emboldened to come together and march in the streets, form a political party which many have voted for and we’ve allowed billionaires to exist, to be celebrated while people live in tents and broken-down caravans.

Just need to read Mail readers comment section.
Britain has it's issues but it's not broken.

Probably this.

Sadly i think so yes. Probably about ten years ago..

Too many people taking out
Not enough people putting in
Not enough money going into education and broadly not enough support for teachers
Too much crime and not enough deterrents or punishments
Many areas in cities are no go areas or at least borderline shitholes
The shitshow that is immigration
The economy is in a bad place

Whoever is in government needs to get the economy growing otherwise we are in big trouble. There are too many people on benefits (including pensions) and it is unsustainable without a growth in the economy. I am in my 50s and i am not counting on my state pension because I am not sure it will be there when I retire. I think most people are unaware of how much trouble we are in financially if we continue as we are. It is scary. My kids all talk about leaving the UK and so do my friends' kids. We need our young people to stay, We need to change now. Another thing I worry about is food security when climate change properly gets going. We need to prioritise growing our own food as we will not be able to rely on imports in a world with food shortages.

30 years ago it was much better. You could see progress happening and now we are going downhill. There are too many people here. Rentals probably are the same rubbish but much more expensive than 30 years ago. Food was not so good but now terrible again. Places cut corners for profit. Now there is not hope for younger people to buy.

No, continental drift has gone too far, there's no hope of walking to France again.

Are you very young OP?

When you've lived as long as I have you'll know that ALL countries rise and decline, over and over again.

At the moment the UK is not much worse or better than anywhere in Europe. Every country is struggling post Covid.

Out of interest and for transparency what country in Europe are YOU living in?