It’s not looking good is it?

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Cost of living crisis
Choice between heating v eating
Pound dramatically falling
Higher interest rates
NHS on brink of collapse

And now the warning of a flu-covid “twindemic” this Winter

It’s all quite overwhelming and sad and seems to be never ending 😞

Kissingfrogs25
The 'twindemic' was created by the media and nudge think tanks to get older people to have their covid vaccines now to avoid putting pressure on the NHS!!
There hasn't been a big take up so far of either vaccine, so they are trying to prompt elderly people to get themselves protected!
It will not affect normal, healthy people as we can weather both fairly easily, assuming you are not elderly or CEV op.

Wrong! I'm neither elderly nor CEV and was really fit and healthy before getting a mild dose of Covid in April 2020. That was just after the first lockdown and before any vaccines. 2.5yrs on, I still have Long Covid and a heart arrythmia, triggered by Covid, which has become difficult to live with. I've discovered along the way, that flu can also trigger heart issues - and yes, even in 'normal, healthy people'.

These kinds of comments aren't true or helpful. If you value your health, take Covid and flu seriously and get those vaccines, folks!

I know things seem awful, but 2 positives; we're not in recession and the pound has rallied in the last 24 hours... it's also a great time to export, my business exports and we're finding we're getting more interest due to the exchange rate, other business friends are finding similar...
The politicians, diabolical right now, but in economic terms, it's not the end of the UK.

Yes because if we stick our fingers in our ears and sing la la la, everything will be fiiiiiine.

We’re not in Ukraine.

If I read to much my anxiety for the present and the future goes off the charts.

This PM and her chancellor have made a massive human error that they are too arrogant to refute. And they have gambled their own futures on this, so won't back down. We should be angry. There are interesting studies of why our political systems attract narcissists and not well-rounded empathetic and thoughtful human beings. Rory Stewart is excellent on this.

I mean, yes, things were worse in the Stone Age/the Blitz/the Black Death. That's a terrible way of defending the status quo of a situation that has been unnecessarily created by an ideological government. The particular emergency we are facing, which will make life worse fo everyone except the extremely rich, is avoidable. Even the Economist thinks these policies are a disaster! If the best that we can come up with is 'things were worse in the past' and we should just man up, we should just give up on the idea of progress, civilisation, opportunity. Back into our caves. Just 'getting on with things' is how people end up complicit in their own oppression.

And I wonder if those saying 'ignore the media' were ignoring the media when the right wing press were arguing for 'chaos with Ed Milliband' or banging on about Corbyn (whom I strenuously opposed, but whose perspective I understand) being a commie and a disaster for the country.

My household is comfortable, indeed would gain from tax-cutting policies. I do not want to live in a state that is a poverty-stricken wasteland, without public services, and that is what we're looking at.

Accept what you can’t change, be brave and change the things you can. Know the difference.

I'm pleased and grateful I don't live in Ukraine , but millions of us don't either.
I agree that the pound is up , but only because it was propped up by our money !
It's bonkers policies and if Labour did it you wouldn't hear the last of it.

Very much so, good advice.

The pound had her. This low several times over the last few years and no one’s even noticed. I dabble in currency so I know. It’s just Liebour scaremongering again.
Is Brexit also the cause of this all over Europe? The pound is still higher than the Euro and the Dollar.

Anyone remember the Winter of discontent in the year 2000? Petrol shortages, blockades, food shortages in shops, Royal Mail unable to deliver mail, the army on standby to use for ambulances.

I was pregnant at the time and it was stressful. At the same time we had floods were I live and the river trent near us burst its banks onto the roads. Lots of neighbours were flooded. It was very bleak.

Might seem daft but stop.reading all the negative stuff. Surround yourself with positive stuff. We have got through shit before, we will again😘

You need to zone out and get into survival mode. Just focus on your family and making sure they are ok . Dont get bogged down with everything else that is going on. I’m almost in hibanation mode until March, head down at work and get on.

My advice is turn off the news! It's all doom and gloom. Yes things are going up, we know this but BBC scaremongering at its finest!

It would have helped if they hadn’t destroyed Labour’s chance to take power.

Agree with many posters, don't watch the news, always sets the worst scenario. Tbh with the money from government to pay towards heating bills it will help a lot and now that's capped as well, after the anxiety of fearing the worst portrayed by the media, I felt relief. Yes still higher than before but not as horrific as was described, got to take a lot of journalism with a bug pinch of salt as they thrive on sensationalism. X

if I never watched the news I would not known about the horrendous energy prices rises and would not have made any plans to try and cope with the very dfficult choices I am facing

You do know that the media give a very skewed perspective on events don’t you? So you may as well stick your fingers in your ears and sing la la la. My mum insists on watching the news every day so that she knows what’s going on on the world and she won’t listen when I tell her she’s only being told what the right wing media and the billionaires who own it, want her to hear.

Thats not being judgemental. Do you really think that all these credit companies and banks really care if you can’t make the repayments? Of course they don’t. I agree entirely with the previous poster we have to reduce the amount of credit that people are buying on. I mean why pay you a decent way when you can get something on credit when you can’t afford it .

You summed it up good and proper!

I will NEVER vote for or trust the tory party.

Having grown up watching my working class parents being ground into the earth by their tax policies, then me and my school friends not being able to get jobs, people slightly older than me losing their homes during the 15% interest rates, jobs everywhere under threat or devalued or sent abroad, while fat cats got morbidly obese bonus's then fooked off abroad, our civil liberties quietly squeezed away, our national assests sold like cheap brass hooks and our world inspiring altruistic society hoodwinked into a memememe mentally.

All very worrying…except the covid stuff. I’m double jabbed and wish I hadn’t had those. I certainly won’t be having any more and neither will I be worrying about covid. I’m absolutely done with that bol|*<{$.

You forgot to mention our London Major as well…

I don't watch or read the news, there's very little in-depth and I find it all so biased. Saves me £159 pounds a year. I'm far more informed about the world since I stopped allowing it to be fed to me.

The pound is only high because it's been propped up by 65 billion pounds of tax payers money .. just saying

Good to read some optimism on this thread! I wasn’t expecting it.
I’ve lived and travelled in many different countries, developed and less developed and honestly I’d still pick the UK… no guns, much less racism (a whole other topic), reasonable food prices (trust me), free health service (any time I’ve used the NHS it’s actually been brilliant), freedom of speech… my kids are at great state schools… I could go! It’s not all bad everyone.