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!

Awake early worrying about things. I hope you son is OK @DomesticBlisters

That does sound miserable. Everyone needs to feel hope and joy. Honestly, I’d move.

12 years of Tory rule have done this. We (you) have the power to change things!

Agreed.. Can people please stop voting Tory now?!! 🤷🏻‍♀️

You sound like you live in my town I took my car out shopping the other day everywhere was blockaded due to random roadworks and a diversion sign that made zero sence because it directed traffic TOWARDS the roadworks diverting everyone along "Park Street" as it was open NO IT FUCKING WASNT 😑

Forlorn hope. Too many people seem to enjoy being treated like shit on the shoe of the Tories.

I feel the same. Just endless misery. Trying to sell our beautiful house because we need to relocate, couldn't choose a worse time. Lack of food choices available , bills going up and up. Like others have said, I just can't see it changing.

I feel exactly the same. Stressed, anxious, worried about money and unable to sleep because of it all. It's shit. Being governed by idiots is immensely worrying.

Holy mother of God.
This is literally not how it works.
If it was "free money" during covid because "we printed it" - why isn't that the answer now?!?
If the two issues were only because of the FX and the war - we would have been fine in February 2022 - but people have been moaning for a lot longer than that.
Wake up. We have covid to pay for. All these people who were furloughed - that money comes from somewhere.
Where? We're paying for it right now.
Think about it. No one where I worked was furloughed. The business paid for it themselves. And our bonuses and payrises have been non existent since. Because we're all paying for it rather than printing free money.
Ffs. It's tough. But I'm not sure the tories can be blamed for covid, or a war in another country. Thank goodness labour aren't in because we'd be in a shitter place peddling stories about free money.

If you can emigrate, consider it. The world is not in a good way, but most countries are muddling through better than the UK. There is a better quality of life out there.

@tentinginmarch

If we have so much money to recoup, why was the higher tax rate cut? There was no justification, none.

I agree OP.
I work in the public sector, worked hard to get promoted to improve my quality of life but no change as any wage increases have been swallowed up by extra bills.
In work we are completely over stretched. I literally spent all day yesterday contacting and managing sickness in my team.
Everyone is exhausted and demand just keeps increasing.
I worry about my kids future, they are both at uni, am scared for their job prospects. I am actively encouraging them to move abroad on graduation.

That's not such a bad idea.

We need to have a GE and get rid of the Tories. This is not a Tory Vs Lab/Lib Dem comment it's a 'the current govt are utterly reckless incompetents and we need the more competent equivalent' post. Otherwise we will be run into the ground faster and faster, month by month.

Also we need to have another Brexit vote and get rid of that too. Time to end the 'leave Vs remain' bollocks. We've all been lied to and treated like mugs and its destroying us. The Stanley Johnson's of the world made it happen, then ran off and got a French (EU) passport immediately. We're the ones taking the fallout.

The justification is attraction of talent to the UK. Incentivising entrepreneurship etc.
Whether it works and is the right thing to do only future will tell, but there was justification - it's called the free market economy.
I'm a Tory voter. I think the rate shouldn't have been cut, I think times are too tough for that. In my opinion that's a mistake but equally raising it to 55% is totally erroneous because although it will gather more in the short term, the UK will not be an attractive place. It will also cost in the long term as less money is earned/ spent.
What we have to remember is to be objective.
All these Tory haters going on about the 45% rate which doesn't affect them personally, but forgetting to mention their tax rate is reducing - as have NI contributions too.

Could of wrote your post op. It's all a bit shit atm isn't it.

Most people can't just emigrate.

Why are ‘the majority’ not realising that we’re fucked due to Brexit? Yes, there are other contributing factors but if it wasn’t so significantly more expensive to trade with our fricking neighbours we could have weathered the storm much better. We’d also have been protected by a fair few European laws regarding workers rights. Put the liars in jail, it’s the least they deserve. If you told a big fat lie to get into power you should pay for it properly.

Yep, feel the same.
Milk was £1.09 during the pandemic and is now £1.55 (4 pint bottles). Every week there is about 10p added to items. I’m a single
parent so trying to juggle it all
alone. Definitely need two incomes now just to pay for day to day costs.

Yep, life has gone to hell in a handcart!

So its your fault!!

Just because any Govt gives a tax cut, doesn't make it a good thing, i think most people would prefer better public services than an extra £2 per week.

On attracting talent to the UK, how does that work in a falling economy and currency? thats a recipe to make those who can, leave the UK and make people coming here for lower paid work i.e healthworkers, not choose the UK.

If the IMF & the markets think the UK has screwed up, then they have.

That would involve people having to blame themselves, so in most cases wont happen.

Brexit is almost the sole cause of the issues we are seeing in the NHS, its not CV because all of Europe was hit with that, yet do not have 2 or 3 year waiting lists, uniquely, the NHS has seen a huge loss of EU staff, the numbers are dramatic, especially in social care.

I have been feeling like this since 2020 it’s been constant, like a domino rally, one thing after the next, constant pressure. I can’t see things improving either, what a proper mess.

Yep you’ve summed up exactly how I feel. I got up this morning and just want to go back to bed and shut the world out.

Current events are the shitty icing on the shitty cake that has been the last few years. Covid, the omnishambles that is fucking brexit, the awful war in Ukraine, prices for everything just going up and up and up and now we have Liz Truss doing her best to send us back to the 1870's. It's 2022 for fucks sake! Keeping sheltered, fed and warm should be the bare bloody minimum surely? Talk of warm banks, families going hungry and people being afraid to put the lights on is shameful for a first world country. And it's very easy to sit there and say 'WeLl iT wOuLd HaVe BeeN WOrse UndEr LaBOur' when we can't possibly know that because unless I missed the memo, seeing into alternate dimensions is not something we are currently capable of. The tories have been cocking it up for the last 12 years. They are 'the previous government'. This is on them.

We were hoping to buy a house next year. My wonderful, wonderful dad has given us what would have been a 10% deposit for a house in my area less than two years ago. Now it's not even close to that. And with the pound doing a nose dive since whatever the fuck that 'mini budget' was supposed to be last week it's looking likely that we just won't be able to do it. To be honest it's beginning to feel a lot like that ship has thoroughly sailed. Now we just have to sit tight and hope that our landlord doesn't hike the rent up or worse, sell up.

So yeah, I'm with you OP. It all feels a bit hopeless right now.

I'm with you, OP. Not sure how much more people can take. I constantly feel anxious and on high alert and that isn't sustainable mentally. Trying to get on in other aspects of my life but it's hard.

my landlord is selling up I'm bloody terrified every time the estate agent books a viewing. I know I won't be able to afford anything else in my price range as rents have rocketed where I am and are so in demand. My lovely mum is on end of life and she was my rock. I put the bloody heating on this week as I refuse to be sad and cold.