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 agree totally. I was on the bus recently and heard a girl (probably about 10 yr old) asking her mum/grandma if life was always this bad for people with the pandemic, wars, panic about bills (her words) and I thought 'honestly I dont think it has' and I am 42

Totally agree OP

Literally felt sad this morning when reading the news, I have to stop reading it. I just want a general election now 😔 although I doubt Labour will be much better, I don't know.

I really don't like the fact that some professions think others have it easier or worse or that they're more valuable to society than others.

Literally in this shit storm together ❤️ everyone's miserable and everyone's facing a mental health crisis.

It's hard to get motivated when the country is so gloomy and dreary

This is Brexit Britain In all it’s ugliness!

I think of it like this.
The carpets need replacing.
The Paintwork needs doing.
There’s now rising damp.
And now the FUCKING ROOF HAS FALLEN IN.

Our school had new toilets and a new playground built in August. (The old ones were only about 5 years old!)

They also have lots of extra staff like a FT Health and Wellbeing Lead. That's her only job (she's not a teacher or a TA). And they have 3 office admin staff. Only 120ish kids in the school. Seems so disproportionate.

There must be a huge difference in who gets funded what. It should be more equal! (We live in a very very poor area!)

I admit that because I can see our school spending lots (getting their carpark resurfaced this weekend!) - I didn't realise how bad it was elsewhere!

Ignorance is (embarrassingly) bliss

People voted for Brexit.

People keeping voting an ultra right wing Tory Party.

We have a largely right wing press that will defend the Tories to the hilt and gaslight its readers.

I believe things will get better in time but we need to change all of the above to get there.

Yes, it's rubbish.

Even if you can afford to do something nice it's often slightly more shit than a few years ago. Smaller and less interesting menus in restaurants, poor customer service everywhere, massive queues in airports.

DD1 is going to university in September and the cost of it all is making me feel sick. She is someone who I think university would suit more than an apprenticeship or other options.

I'm in a better position than you but have been in worse ones before but agree it is shit.

Prime example was I went to Kent seaside for a short break last week. Great so far until I decided to get a late night bus home (they've cut bus timetables). Ended up getting a taxi (only one of those around too!) which cost a lot and he explained re the lack of buses. If I'd have known I'd have driven and then not had a drink or not much.

For things like a decent sized chicken (not that I eat it for just me) I was shocked at the price in the supermarket the other day. People can/will cope but I do fear for people who're on the breadline.

This, exactly this. I thought there was a chance, during covid, that we would value those who help others, kindness, decency, fairness. Nurses, care assistants etc, not bankers and hedge fund managers. We did, briefly. Now we want cocaine addled adrenalin addicted investment bankers to make things better. This govt., brexit, deregulation, disaster capitalism. Madness.

And if you turn the world news on - hurricane Ian, storm Fiona, floods.

Climate is getting worse quicker. I really don't see things getting better.

(Hormonal changes here too.)

Completely agree.

Everything is so bad that I just feel so disengaged and distant from it. I used to be very politically active, but since Brexit and the pandemic it feels like nothing I can do will change anything. So I just get through one thing and brace to deal with the next. Never thought I'd be that person.

One thing that feels very serious is the total loss of trust in our government and public institutions - because of their incompetence and mendacity but also because the problems we face as a country (sterling collapse, energy price rises) are too big for national policies to mitigate. They could fuck it up less than they are, but they can't unfuck it.

I think that loss of trust is where the "I'm alright Jack" mentality is coming from. If you don't trust your government to improve services with your tax money, why would you want to pay more tax - if it's just less money in your pocket while prices continue to rise?

I am never voting Tory and have never voted Tory, but I can't see how to get our services and institutions functioning properly again. It's a total mess.

What is it with all the roadworks at the moment?! Are councils trying to use up their budgets before the next allocation?

I feel you! Sometimes I wonder what the hell would I've brought my child into. It's in a mess.

Same!

Clueless hardworking people brought you up and had the sense to buy their house when the opportunity presented itself rather than pay rent on it for the rest of their lives and exercise the democratic freedoms that their parents had fought and died for.

Or, clueless because they disagree with your class prejudice, exemplified so eloquently by Emily Thornberry : thick, ignorant , uneducated bigots : vote for us !. Now who’s clueless ?.

Yep fed up here too!!!

After years of working in a low paid salary I finally got the job of my dreams and was looking forward to being able to have more treats, the odd long weekend away. Now any extra just goes on food, bills and fuel.

It’s a complete joke as my salary a few years ago was classed as a reasonable income for a whole family on its own, now we are struggling on 2 relatively decent salaries coming in??!

Weve made huge changes in our house in terms of electricity use, what food we buy, but I’m genuinely starting to cr*p myself when I look at our smart meter

Its what does the future hold for our children that I’m worried about too

Oh my goodness, I'm so with you. Pre Covid I always loved this time of year - autumn and the run up to Christmas. Finally we seem (hopefully) through the worst of the pandemic and now all this - the war in Ukraine, rising cost of living, the breakdown in the nhs - it just feels utterly relentless. It just feels so gloomy. I worry so much for my sons future and the state this country will be in after years of this feckless tory government. Oh for the good old days when we actually had something to look forward too!!

Yes, I agree OP. I could cry when I think about what the Tories have done to this country over the last 12 years. I am nearly 50, and things have never been this bad.

We are luckier than many, I guess - 2 ok incomes, manageable mortgage fixed for another 4 years, etc. I worry about money all the time but in truth we will probably be ok this winter, if a bit stretched.

But our individual situation isn't really the point. Overall, the picture is bleak. I work with the NHS and it has basically collapsed. I can't get a GP appointment at all. I've not even bothered seeing a dentist for 4 years. Our local supermarkets have half-empty shelves and even the basics like bread / milk etc are limited. There is litter everywhere in our town - we have teams of volunteers who go out and pick now and again but they are fighting a losing battle. The economy is in free-fall. People won't be able to heat their houses this winter. We have more foodbanks than branches of McDonald's. Kids are going to school starving - my DH is a primary-school teacher and he takes in food for his class (and has to buy all his own equipment / resources as the school has no money for them).

My ds has just started university. I will be encouraging him to move abroad once he's finished, but of course the appalling LIE that is Brexit has fucked many of his opportunities as well.

It's a shit show. We MUST get these Tories out. Anyone who still bleats 'but Labour would be just as bad' is basically saying they're ok with the current status quo. Wake the fuck up; you're condemning the country to a fast and painful decline. The country, and its inhabitants cannot survive another Tory govt.

My DH is coeliac, his bread is now £3 a loaf for 12tiny slices, he needs 3a week ! He doesn’t eat much specialy made food but it has gone up far more than the normal food.

What is it with all the roadworks at the moment?! Are councils trying to use up their budgets before the next allocation?

I don't know if its that it's easier to do it now before the weather gets really bad. Our council seems to binge roadwork between March to June (then pause for tourist season) and then September/ October. It's all relatively small things but a lot of contraflows/ diversions.

Totally agree OP. The news is so depressing. Everything is depressing.
Both DH and I are self employed - he’s always had months of work lined up, now nothing, and he’s seriously concerned.
I’m waiting month and months to be paid from big clients (think massive billion dollar corporations), who just don’t give a fuck about paying their suppliers.

currently waiting for £45k to be paid, which was due in March 😱
We’ve used up all our savings just to be able to pay ourselves, and dreading having to pay corporation tax and our personal tax bills soon.

Yes OP

What fuckers @tigerbear. Entangling how big corps treat small companies.

It just feels like the crises are coming so much faster.

Still the bold plans for energy transition from Labour yesterday we're a bit cheering for a Green like me.

Same here...

I'm 31, Tories have been in gov my whole adult life and things get worse every year. I worked hard to get into my profession, did 3 degrees (1 undergrad and 2 post grad) to get where I was. Every time I started a new course, the fees had gone up. Started at 3ish grand a year, then 6,then 9 within the space of 7 years. My parents were financially 'okay' but their earnings meant that I both couldn't get much help from grants/loans or depend upon them to help (student loans don't seem to take into account that parents live in an expensive area or have multiple kids still at home to pay for!). So I worked full time through 1st and 2nd degree (3rd one was too full in to work through) and was lucky enough to get enough to cover course fees as a loan from grandparents for my MA.

Fast forward to being in said career, both DH and I earning decent amount but having to live around London for that career meant we couldn't afford to buy a house. So got to a point where we were experienced enough, set up our own business and moved back to where DH grew up to be near family (so we had support when starting a family) and so we could afford to buy a house. Then DS was born with serious medical issues and a disability which has meant that I am now a full time unpaid carer and have to claim benefits to survive. DH couldn't continue business by himself and now works in a hospital. Just before covid we got ourselves into a place where, even though I couldn't work, we had saved enough to buy a house. That fell through during covid when mortgages were pulled and about 7 days before exchange.

We had just got back to a point where we could buy again, and now this. I mean... FFS.

Now we just think we have to settle into being firmly in 'generation rent' and worry about what happens when we retire later.

And as for emigrating, we can't now. We have connections in Finland, Aus, NZ and Canada (work wise) but no country will let us in with our DS's medical needs as he's deemed 'too expensive', even if we get private medical insurance, they argue that he may cost a lot to their social care systems once he's an adult. So, we can't go anywhere. And at home, we're just deemed 'benefit scroungers', even though my carers allowance of £69 a week is much, much cheaper to the state than the thousands it would cost for him to be in a residential or care setting. Just can't win.

Right wing… ru kidding? All the parties are very left nowadays. They’re all as bad as each other so there’s no point in putting labour against conservatives etc. the saddest thing is we have no choice. People clearly keep voting conservatives because the other options are even worse not because they actually want them!