Is anyone else just totally fucking fed up with it all now...

[Bettyboo12]

I'm probably going through some hormonal changes which isn't helping my mood 😔 but the last few years has been been proper shit and now the foreseeable future looks shit too. I just feel demotivated and overworked, underpaid and stretched as are my colleagues. Food and fuel prices are rediculous and I actually feel sick everytime I go to the supermarket. I can't get a doctors appointment, my dentist has gone private without telling me. Public transport where I live is diabolical buses aren't turning up yet I'm paying £60 a month for my schools bus pass, taxis are charging the earth if you can get one and then refusing to do long distances. The council think it's a good idea to do road works all at once causing more chaos and stress in the mornings so everyday feels like I'm playing road blocks. Im now anxious and stressed about rising interest rates and pissed off that I probably won't afford a holiday again for the 4th year because I'm just trying to survive and make it through the day/month or fucking year!

I’m totally with you. I could have written that myself. Don’t get me started on roadworks. Minor in the grand scheme of things, but you can’t move for them near where I live and they are seriously disruptive!

I feel exactly the same and I can pinpoint the moment when I was talking to my mum before the Scottish referendum a few years ago and saying that this is going to be the start of a lot of problems. Trump was standing in the wings, David Cameron was thinking of holding the Brexit referendum, but even then I couldn't of dreamed that Boris or Liz would be prime ministers. It's so ironic that the Conservative party which always prided itself on being financially sound has absolutely fucked everything up. (Not that I thought they were financially sound BTW.)

Me too OP. Feel exactly the same.

Same here it feels like a uphill battle.

Absolutely exhausted, mentally, by just thr constant worrying.

My dh & i have had min wage jobs for a few years and we both finally started a better paying job late last year. We dreamt of a much better life and were excited, after eight years, to be able to have that option of taking the kids on a longer-than-5-days-not-camping holiday/to start properly saving/have the luxury of wiggle room In the budget.

The extra money we earn (and then some) has flittered straight into the rent, fuel and food increases so we're still at square one.

I just can't see a way out of this shit. It's like we survived covid and now we have to survive the bloody winter. I know it could be worse but it just feels so utterly shit and depressing.

Yeah me too. When things get shit I lower my standards. They are almost subterranean right now. I find if i losses my grip at bit it feels more managable

Yes, I’m really scared about our financial future, getting GP or dental appointment is absolutely impossible, and don’t get me start on roadworks. There are 2 ways to get to my house and both of them at the moment have roadworks.The buses do exist (I’m in the city) but they are terribly expensive.

Yes, yes and yes. Add to that I'm sitting here in the dark, freezing bloody cold under wooly pjs, fluffy cardi, bedsocks and 2 bloody great throws (thick and fluffy!). My DP went to kiss me before he went to bed and remarked how cold my nose was. Yep, he isn't wrong. My finger tips are too.
I can probably afford the heating costs. But as I just don't know what the costs will be, I'm trying to brave it and make do. Not sure how long I'll last tbh. I don't do cold very well.
Life feels shit. Winter of discontent that is for sure...

I hate the empty and half empty shelves in the supermarket. I know there's food and I'm not going short, it's just seeing this every time I go in is a reminder of how much of a mess we're in generally.

Yep me too , dread turning the tv on in the morning to hear what todays shite we are in 😞

Another nod from the head over here. Can't get half of my usual items. Shelves are bare. I wanted chicken this evening so nipped to the little tesco on my way home. Not a single fucking chicken item in the place. I don't eat meat, but my children do. I'd say chicken is a basic food item, and there wasn't a single bit. Not even in the frozen section. No nuggets even 🤷‍♀️

Yes, also feeling the same. Financially we're OK, but still needing to cut back some if the luxuries that make winter better.
Not helped by responsibility for elderly parent, small dc, work on top.

I just can't believe the shit show of government and that we're stuck with them for 2 more years. I avoid the news now, as climate crisis makes me feel even worse.

Yes I feel the same. It's just all so miserable.
I feel like we're turning in to Victorian England where the poor (or like most the population) will be something out of a dickinsons novel.

I was pregnant with my last baby when covid started and all I can think is what sort of life have I brought them into.

Yes I've been feeling the same way for over a year OP. Finding it hard to find the joy in anything and seeing doom and gloom everywhere.

I am really missing the wider choice of food we used to get. I know our family won't starve, but we have all gotten used to things just not being available.
Cold here, no dentist, less money, it is all a bit shit.
I thought we just had to get through covid and everything would be good.

Food shortages, fuel shortages, healthcare in free fall and now it’s cold.

Bring back siege of Leningrad 1942, all is forgiven.

Are you surprised by how fast things have plummeted and how we’ve accepted the shit even faster?

Also about the food. We went to Tesco the other day and there was one banana left of the shelf (along with lots of other empty shelves) and my 7 year old found the idea of one banana by itself hilarious which it is to a 7 year old who's too young to realise the scary situation we're still heading towards. I laughed along with him as he's 7 but it did give me the chills.

I’m with you. My mental health is rock bottom with it all. If I get any time to myself all I want to do is sleep, because I’m awake at night worrying, then I’m tired all the time.
we cannot cut back any more than we already do.
i was in a Co-Op earlier today, they have two packs of those frankfurter sausages, the ones vacuum packed in plastic and made out of eyelids and arseholes, and they were 2 packs for £6. WTF? That used to be a super cheap meal when I was a student for people.
I feel like we need a Mumsnet coup. We’ll storm news at 10 and take over Downing Street:. Anyone with me?

The last few years our country just feels broken.

Lately things always seems to get worse, not better.

This, the country is broken and people are broken.

Yep. We've been managing until now but current economic shitshow is going to be a fricking nightmare. Others I know will be in a worst place. I experienced some pretty turbulent times when I was a kid and this feels very uncomfortably similar. And there was no need for any of this. It's just mad right wing ideology. And Brexit has been even worse than I expected. Mainly because we left the customs union (which wasnt even on the referendum ). I just hope this is the end of the Tories, for ever.

I live in Ireland. Yesterday we had a budget. It was better than the budget you had in the UK.
For some people it was better than others.
Our bills have risen a lot. I know our electric bills have risen several times in the past year. They are going up around another 30% in Oct but we getting 600 Euro credit on our bills - 200 in Nov, Jan and March.

One of my friends uses heating oil. Last year they got apox 780lt of heating oil for around Euro 650. This year 300 lt is Euro 405 and 500lt is over 600 euro. So they have to spend far more this year than last despite still having some oil in their tank.
Food bills have gone up a lot. One single friend of mine said recently how does anyone with family afford to feed them and pay the bills? She has noticed the price of milk, bread, butter and the basics have gone up a lot in the last 6 month's.

I have a friend who is a volunteer in a charity shop. The shop is getting busier as people have less money to spend but they still need clothes ect for themselves, their kids or grandkids.
They are noticing more new customers also. This charity raises money that goes back to helping people in the local area and more people are asking for help.

So its not great here in Ireland either. I feel sorry of the people of the UK when I see Liz Truss as PM and your recent budget was poor in so many ways.
I think that this winter will be a hard one for a lot of people.

This is a miserable country with shit quality of life. Add the ongoing crisis and it gets suicidal. So yes it is one the worse places to be right now.

I have not experienced food shortages but I buy online. Apart from everything else smells of third world.

@Bettyboo12

the simple truth is brexit and the war have caused all the issues.

( not spending on Covid - we lent the money to ourselves and the ex rate didn’t change due to this printing of cash so effectively it was free). But people said we spent all the money. Not true.

the strength of the dollar due to energy and now the pathetic mini budget have just ruined the UK compared to others.

the budget was done by right wing rich brexiteers. The tax cuts to the rich are a disgrace. All this heaps pressure on everything.

and now it’s dark and cold.

we just have to try and keep our chins up. It’s a war but now an economic war.

solutions

1. 55% top tax rate.
2. rejoin the Eu.
3. better labour laws
4. public transport like the Swiss
5. change the voting system.
6. more green energy
7. etc etc

I am stood in A&E with my 8 year old son who managed to wack his face off a metal bar at school and we suspected his nose might be broken and bleeding kept happening every half hour or so.

We've been here since 9:30 so 7 hours and he's literally just fallen asleep stretched across 3 chairs. We haven't been seen yet other than the initial assessment.

This country is going to shit! Im tired.