Civil unrest? Protests? Are they on the horizon?

[Worriedtodeath1]

Anyone else utterly fucked off with all parties and The Royal Family?

To me they are a disgrace it is embarrassing. I was reading yesterday about some parents going without meals to feed their children. People asking for help with menu plans to feed a family of 4 on £20 a week! I am furious! What a shit show! Labour are no better, distracting from the fact they have no ideas by continuously going on about the shit show that is partygate. They are all immature, rich out of touch knobs! The Royal Family are no better. Unelected, powerful simpering idiots! I can feel my anger growing by the day. The Jubilee is brilliant timing for them as again another distraction. Anyone else?

I have been wondering what it’s usually like working there

it’s not tied to each government I don’t think?

So was the culture a covid special or same as they always do

I really hope that you are not a doctor.

Why? You’ll just get cut off. Why not just stop using any instead. Same effect on the companies, but no court judgement against you.

That's why the whistleblowers are staying anon @EvilPea but not enough will see this.

What a weird thing to post.

I did wonder why it’s bbc2. Surely this should have been a bbc1?

I remember reading somewhere there wasn’t this culture around when Theresa May was there. It came with Johnson and his team.

good for that custodian standing up and saying it wasn’t right.

I work in Recruitment and this quarter there are more vacancies than there are people unemployed. First time since records began. Wages are rising too although not as fast as inflation.

If we get through September without any disorder, I doubt it will happen. It's a warm weather phenomenon.

And hoping for an October election won't help. Given their performance in the locals, Labour are nowhere near forming a govt. Starmer needs to go, and be replaced by someone with charisma and broad-based moderate appeal. Or at least someone who engenders trust.

I agree with you Op. I am in no mood for celebrating the long life of one hugely privileged woman when many other elderly people died before their time during the pandemic, many of them being exposed to Covid due to Government negligence.

Our situation is that my DS has severe disabilities, and his special needs college could not accommodate him last week due to lack of staff....the funding isn't there for them. The cost of living is going through the roof, and I know that we are by no means the worst off.

I don't remember ever feeling as angry as I do now. We won't be putting the bunting out here or watching any of the extravagant 'celebrations'.

As much as I'm not a conservative voter myself I cannot imagine any other conservative PM allowing all these parties to go on. Maybe a get together now and again (in normal times ) but not all the time like this! They obviously knew they could get away with it. Or thought they would!

Well the PM has largely got away with it but not his junior staff whom he has hung up to dry.

The Royal Family lost me as a supporter years ago anyway. But the latest is the Queen's very public show of support for her son who escaped accusations of sex abuse by paying off his accuser with what was effectively public money.

@SlightlyGeordieJohn Well, I'd hope my doctor was more empathetic than that, for one thing.

I agree with everything you have said, but I can't see it. The public are so manipulated into not seeing seeing the reality of how bad things have become.

SlightlyGeordieJohn How are we supposed to not use gas or electric? The only way I could would be to buy a caravan again with solar panels & an inverter. The people hardest hit by the new energy caps are going to be those on benefits & on prepayment meters, the elderly, sick & disabled who have no way of increasing their income, my works pension has gone up £15 a month but the DWP take half of that increase off my Employment & support Allowance, if inflation carries on the way it is going I won't get any ESA at all. My food bill has gone up £35 a fortnight, broadband up £4 a month, rent £3 a week, petrol has gone up from £1.38 a litre to £1.68, my money can only stretch so far, I need an electric wheelchair & can't get the NHS to pay for one so I will have to get a refund on some of my gas & electric credit I have built up over the last two years to get one. There will be a point this year where I will have more going out than coming in.

Initially and in the current situation I would have said you were over reacting somewhat with predictions of civil unrest.

However I think you could be right after Martin Lewis (who has a fairly cool head) is saying civil unrest is a real possibility, especially as food and energy inflation are set to get alot worse over this year and into winter.

metro.co.uk/2022/05/19/martin-lewis-warns-cost-of-living-crisis-could-lead-to-food-riots-16673468/amp/

My DC is also special needs in a specialist school. Maybe we are seeing it before the masses do??? They have had to halt diagnosis of ASD and ADHD in our area due to lack of professional's to assess. I am so worried about my dc future once we pop our clogs, it gives me sleepless nights. The disabled have always had a rough deal.

The fact that those that are entry level workers that are crucial to everyone’s lives they are pissing all over is very worrying! Those people on minimum wage that are caring for your elderly relative or collecting your stinking rubbish are struggling now. They are just as important to society as a CEO in a large company if not more! what if they go on strike?

Educating themselves would be a good start, though I doubt it will happen @Worriedtodeath1

I don't normally bother with AS search but apparently they've been posting inflammatory posts across Mumsnet.

I reckon there will definitely be civil unrest if they try and put gas and electric bills up again. People already can't pay them.

I'm in the public transport biz and my rail colleagues in the RMT have voted to strike over pay & conditions. The RMT are also repping staff at two tube stations over a bullying line manager, as well as a more general gripe system-wide.

Deliveroo tried a bit of strike breaking by partnering with the GMB (that union of stellar morals) instead of recognising the riders' chosen union, the IWGB.

The barristers are in dispute over courts falling down and crappy pay.

The CWU representing frontline postal workers are fighting a 2% pay rise that have a million strings attached. Royal Mail fired a load of managers promising the ones remaining a nice 11% pay rise, which they have now rescinded. The new pay deal has a million strings attached, and is set at 4%. Still more than the people they manage though.

So yeah, people are pissed off with their government, but they are also pissed off at their employer, pissed off with having no money to keeps themselves from being homeless, pissed off at a great many things really. We've been here before.

I think the Royals need to be reading the room a bit more and keeping a bloody low profile. What exactly ARE we celebrating?

And it's not just Liz, Will, Kate et al. It's all the fucking hangers on, second cousin Viscount Lord whatshis face who has never worked a day in his life, landed gentry, laughing his arse off at you plebs working in the NHS /education / customer service.

There’s a lot of potential powder kegs ready to spark.

The autumn price hikes will affect so many people and if we have a cold winter it will be catastrophic.

Covid, Brexit and Russia all impacting on this situation.

Covid: it’s still here, still circulating and creating new variants. If there’s another surge in the autumn/winter, it will cause further backlogs in the NHS. Deaths, long Covid, beleaguered health workers etc.

Johnson needs to resign and we’ll have to deal with his successor which won’t solve much short term but longer term it could cause a lot of damage and finish their party. More instability for a while but good to be free of this Conservative govt.

Russia and worldwide food shortages: Putin needs to go and they need to stop Ukraine invasion. This is wishful thinking!

Don’t kick downwards or sideways, kick upwards: it’s harder but it has a little more power to change the situation…I’d hope.

I agree.

I think they should have proper jobs as well. All that money spent on their education and yet none of them amount to anything in terms of a professional career or anything.

If the queen dies this summer and we have a coronation, it could be the spark. A very expensive extravaganza while lots of people are really struggling may just set unrest off.