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

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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!

Oh and I’m also so fucking cold!

Couldn’t agree more Op.I’d encourage anyone who can do so to emigrate.
Feel so sorry for young people starting out.
This is truly a shit country to live in. We are retiring abroad!

Me too, life is bloody grim. Might look outside on the outside but I've got a very stressful job, absolutely broken immediate family which has caused lots of issues in my wider family. I feel more alone than I have ever done in my life.

I'm sick of worrying about money already and my remortgage offer has been withdrawn this week.

One salary household, I've come to hate my job but feel absolutely stuck with it financially. I'll have to sell my house in the spring when my current mortgage deal comes to an end and relocate.

Yep, life's shit atm.

I work as a Community Mental Health Nurse and getting increasingly pissed off with it. They keep reconfiguring our services with each change being seen as better, but I'm not seeing it. The changes are all confusing and as soon as we're used to one set of changes, another set of changes happens. I have to assess clients, have them pouring their hearts out but with a lack of resources there's nothing we can offer them. We got a pay rise and got back pay this month. A joke, fucking joke. They gave me a payrise with one hand but this pushed me into a higher pay bracket, and meant I had to pay arrears on my pension and was £50 worse off!!!! Demands are coming left right and centre, we're short staffed, people are leaving in droves.

I'm lucky in a way....my parents were very hard workers (my dad had shit education but worked hard in the building trade) and after they had both died I had an inheritance, which I used to clear my mortgage and buy a small property to let out. My tenants are moving out and I'm selling, and also likely selling the property I live in in London and moving somewhere cheaper to retire early (56). I'm aware I'm lucky enough to fund this but I'm so so pissed off with the NHS. I've been in nursing since 1986, it's all I've ever known, but I expect by Christmas I'll be out or on my way out.

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.

Doesn't affect them personally? Who do you think will suffer for that loss of revenue? The naivety is stunning. No one with any sense is coming to the UK, I know so many who have left, or are leaving.

My parents vote Conservative. They both left school at 14, solid working class, never pick up a book. Totally clueless, paid pennies for their council house, can't comprehend why we are worried about our mortgage. This is how our country is fucked, I love them, but fucking clueless.

I agree, I feel so low. I had started to feel like there wasn't much point getting up in the morning. We have a complex home life (stressful caring duties) but otherwise stable marriage and 2 OK incomes. I am really starting to worry that those less fortunate are not just going to suffer but that it might actually look like something out of a dystopian novel. I've heard even the food banks are starting to run out of food. I've stopped reading or watching the news.

I agree. A lot of the shit show was avoidable too.

I’ve got no confidence in any of our politicians. Labor weren’t really addressing the big problems that were clearly heading our way either.

Though Liz and Kwasi are another league altogether. They’ve managed to appall their own party, own grandees and markets as well as the electorate!

Where would be a good place to emigrate to?

Genuine question. Is anywhere doing well?

Life dues seem terribly, terribly bleak. I run my own retail business and the last few years of covid and Brexit have made what was once very successful and profitable operation into now only marginally profitable. The pandemic saw our business lose half a million pounds, our household wasn’t eligible for any support, yet we had to continue working our socks off throughout the whole time just to make sure our business survived.
I used to employ dozens of local people and buy from dozens of uk suppliers. Fortunately our staff levels have naturally reduced due to retirement/relocation/covid-related-lifestyle changes and we haven’t replaced them, myself and my husband just put in A LOT more hours. However, most of the time we’re probably getting less than minimum wage.
the cost of everything we buy has rocketed and it’s been incredibly difficult to get hold of product, we’re often waiting months for orders to be fulfilled.
my dh has gone on anti depressants recently and that was before this latest Truss/kwarteng debacle began. I need to see a glimmer of hope.

Enough is enough.
Stand up and be counted.
https://wesayenough.co.uk/oct1/

It does seem unrelentingly grim at the moment. I get a 6.5% payrise from next month and OH got 2.5% at start of the year but with the next fuel price increase and prices generally going up we are going to be slightly less well off overall. Work is constantly slightly understaffed, everyone is stressed. We were pushed to breaking point in the pandemic working full time and juggling care of a 3/5 and then 4/6 year old and trying to ensure they didn’t end up miles behind the half of their class who got to go to school since their parents were key workers. Husband was so depressed he became suicidal and while on medication and doing better now he isn’t himself. He just seems to have lost all empathy and he’s struggling with feeling nothing except anger. GP just basically says since he is no longer depressed just keep taking the pills. I’ve been promoted (didn’t apply it just happened) which is great except it comes with additional responsibility that I’m struggling to manage. I’m feeling massively anxious about my husband and the kids and how lockdown impacted them (& how him being ill is impacting us as a family), about finances and if we are going to be ok there in the mid term but also about how our extended family and friends will manage, about the environment and what the kids will grow up to there. What’s awful is we are massively better off than loads of others so if it’s looking grim for us how must they feel :(

Two people I know, late 20’s have had their mortgage offer withdrawn this week.
They are devastated!
. One is living at home, so at least he has a roof over his head, but the other, is in rented accommodation with her boyfriend and the landlord is selling up!
I had ear micro suction done privately recently. previously our go carried this out. Cost me £60, and even paying I had to wait four weeks for an appointment.
My NDN warned me yesterday that our dentist ( (we have the same one) was dropping his nhs patients for private work and that her next routine appointment is the last on the NHS , so I will obviously be in the same position!

Empty shelves, shit public transport, and yes the bloody relentless roadworks.

I think the people of this country have been ground down by a constant onslaught of shite and government incompetence. It's no wonder there is a mental health crisis when it feels like to many any vestige of hope is being extinguished.
I hope that people will start to get angry and channel that into action to bring about effective change. Very hard though when people have been feeling downtrodden for so long.
I feel really very sad when I think about what's happened to this country in the last few years.

Totally agree OP. :(

Good grief. People struggling to live day by day won't be directly impacted by not paying 45% tax. Because they don't pay that rate.
Absolutely not naïvety. You've spectacularly missed my point. Maybe it was deliberate?

@walkingonsunshinekat yes. It's my fault. Single handedly!
Ah yes. That option. £2 a week from everyone would fix public transport. I know you're making a statement rather than an economic policy, and you don't really believe that £2 a week from everyone would fix public transport, but it's the kind of unhelpful statement that spreads lack of understanding (so widespread on this thread).

Nothing helpful, just another voice add to the pile of yes, me toos, OP.

It's horrible right now, worries me every day.

Totally agree OP. I feel really despondent. My job is very uncertain and I’ve been doing it for so long I don’t know what else to do. Our typical £125 food bill cost £175 the other day with no bells and whistles on top.

Sadly, I agree, OP.

But there is a way out of it: don't vote for the Tory party.

As long as England continues to vote for this type of politicians and rampant capitalism rather than parties that want more equal societies and a focus on decent standards of living for all rather than a few billionaires, this mess will continue.

Most of the UK troubles are self-inflicted: Brexit, Johnson and the bizarre acceptance of a generally callous, unequal society.

Don't turn it on then. No one's making you watch it.
You won't find anything reassuring or life enhancing on social media or 24 hour news, just a load of opinions and arguments.
Disaster predictions get clicks, we're all being manipulated.

Well done Brexit voters. Hope you’re proud of yourselves. This country has gone to shit.

Same here, totally pissed off with it all. We've really struggled for the last 10 years, homelessness, low wages, family of 5. I spent 7 years studying and training in a low salary to qualify into my profession and a lot of the time what kept me going was the hope of a better salary to finally to be able to take the kids on a proper holiday, not a weekend camping or to go to a salon and pay for haircuts. Now I've qualified and that salary increase has just disappeared with the increased costs.

Don't get me wrong I'm so grateful that we can manage, but just so down that life hasn't gotten easier.

Everything is harder and there's less motivation to do anything worthwhile. I worked hard for years before covid, but all of the money went on childcare and raising young kids, I have no savings really. This time was supposed to be the time when I started putting towards the future, focusing on my pension and getting the mortgage overpaid. I just feel really despondent and scared at the minute. I know employment is okay just now, but I struggle to see how that can continue? I've watched so much about the difficulties businesses are facing that I am amazed some of them are hanging on! And I admire the ones that are keeping on trying despite the constant pressure from every direction. It seems we have some very determined people living in this country, I think this is one positive I appreciate a lot!

@DomesticBlisters I really hope your son is okay!

Of course the 45% rate cut affects them. It affects everyone. Who do you think will be paying this money back? Do you actually know how the financial system works?

The tax cuts have to be paid for somehow so the government have to borrow more money. The interest rates they’ll have to pay on this debt have soared. Due to the tax cuts. Meaning a bigger debt, and more to pay back. We will all pay eventually. The government have massively shot themselves in the foot with this. Fucking idiots.