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It’s not looking good is it?

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User15384 · 28/09/2022 21:37

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 😞

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Benmac · 30/09/2022 19:31

I am not quite at the boycotting all news yet. Try not to watch TV news . Rolling news showing same depressing stories all-day. Same with the Queen's funeral. So depressed by it all by the end.

Luxurysleuth007 · 30/09/2022 19:39

Interesting to see so many of the ‘heads in the sand, ignore it and it’ll go away, don’t watch the news’ posts. Yes I understand the rationale behind that type of thinking but the truth of the matter is many of these problems are going to have real implications for so many and pretending they don’t exist will surely make the reality harder to process.

CocoFifi · 30/09/2022 19:43

Absolute tosh. Not judgmental, just sick of hearing people complain when they have put themselves in the position they are in and not taking responsibility for it. The economy managed fine before the "I want it now' mentality.

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GingerKittenTail · 30/09/2022 19:46

Genuinely struggling to cope with all of this
already avoid the news as much as possible but it’s so over whelming atm

Alexandra2001 · 30/09/2022 19:48

CocoFifi · 30/09/2022 19:43

Absolute tosh. Not judgmental, just sick of hearing people complain when they have put themselves in the position they are in and not taking responsibility for it. The economy managed fine before the "I want it now' mentality.

Human nature has always been "i want it now" as has our economy.. going back decades... and your being judgemental because you aren't basing your opinion on the majority of people on research and data but on the tiny number of people you happen to know.

pigsDOfly · 30/09/2022 19:48

BloodyHellKen · 28/09/2022 22:05

I'm getting on a bit and have been around the block many times OP. If it's any consolation my attitude is 'meh' to the whole situation.

I've lived through better and I've lived through worse and I'm not going to get stressed and sad because what is the point.

I'm also 'getting on a bit' and I honestly can't remember a worse time since I became and adult and became aware of these things.

I certainly don't feel 'meh' about the current situation.

It makes me angry and worried for my adult children.

It also makes me angry for the children that will go hungry and won't be fed properly.

It makes me angry that people won't be able to heat their homes, that's if they can afford to pay the rent or mortgage on those home, whilst the richest amongst us will be benefitting from generous tax cuts. It all makes me very angry.

The country is going to hell in a handcart and we're all going to be affected, some of us less than others, obviously.

I suppose it's nice for those that can wrap themselves in a little bubble like the above poster, but really, the only reaction you can muster about the current situation is 'meh'? Dear god.

IReallyLikeCrows · 30/09/2022 19:52

I'm 57 and I think this might be the worst period I've lived through. True, the early eighties in London where you'd hear practice emergency horn things going off so they were ready for nuclear war and the fear of nuclear war was bad and Thatcher was a nightmare but this just seems neverending and awfulness on top of awfulness. After Theresa May I've given up on thinking "Surely the next one can't be so bad ..." because since thinking that after David Cameron it's just been a whole repeat of "You think that was bad? Hold my pint here comes [increasingly awful prime ministers and cabinet members].

Life is bleak and I am thankful for my ability to escape completely into a book because it brings respite from the shitstorm we are living in.

Southeastdweller · 30/09/2022 19:53

I can’t get angry because, honestly, what can I do? It’s a waste of my energy. What can any of us do except try and put one foot in front of the other and carry on each day?

Insertcreativenamehere · 30/09/2022 19:54

Primark with their unisex changing rooms……

verdantverdure · 30/09/2022 19:55

Our energy DD has tripled, and so will our mortgage payment if the base rate gets to 6%. Im definitely not meh about this and I have never lived through a worse time as an adult. Im definitely stressed about it. Stress is how your limbic system motivates you to take action to avert the crisis. I don't think the human race would have survived this long if our response to threats was "meh".

MatronicO6 · 30/09/2022 19:56

We have been away visiting family for about 7 weeks and I was shocked by how much our shopping bill has risen in that time. Everything seems to have increased by at least 10%!

We have been thinking of relocating for a while and now it seems inevitable. The Tories have run the country into the ground.

ScotsLassie322 · 30/09/2022 20:03

Couldn't agree more. They have decimated the living standards for all but the wealthy. The new PM putting a chancellor in place who was her neighbour. Giving huge amounts of money to energy companies. Huge tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. It's like Trump on acid. Yet , so many lap up the excuses the new PM gives. I actually cried today. Feels so hopeless.

CocoFifi · 30/09/2022 20:04

I am basing it on far more than the people I know. Do some research! The majority of people have not allowed for interest rate rises on their debt, with their live now, pay later mentality. so any blip will send them into further debt very quickly. A majority of people have no savings or contingency plans and will soon end up in very tricky situations. People need to take responsibility for their own actions.

TheMarzipanDildo · 30/09/2022 20:09

Luxurysleuth007 · 30/09/2022 19:39

Interesting to see so many of the ‘heads in the sand, ignore it and it’ll go away, don’t watch the news’ posts. Yes I understand the rationale behind that type of thinking but the truth of the matter is many of these problems are going to have real implications for so many and pretending they don’t exist will surely make the reality harder to process.

It means they’ll just keep on voting Conservative I suppose. Fucking depressing.

We have a choice in all this.

EmmaH2022 · 30/09/2022 20:10

Cynthia "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."

ditto. And I say this as someone who wants public services cut in many cases. But I can't get on board with robbing the poor to pay the rich and leaving everything to fall apart, while encouraging overpopulation and huge amounts of building in order to feed a gig economy which is already making our small island pretty grim.

EmmaH2022 · 30/09/2022 20:10

PS I don't do news except the FT really.

MatronicO6 · 30/09/2022 20:11

CocoFifi · 30/09/2022 19:43

Absolute tosh. Not judgmental, just sick of hearing people complain when they have put themselves in the position they are in and not taking responsibility for it. The economy managed fine before the "I want it now' mentality.

The 'I want it now,' mentality actually stimulates and grows our economy. The economy may have managed fine without it, but it managed a LOT better with it!

The only people who have put themselves in this position are people who voted conservative as they believed Labour 'couldn't be trusted with the economy,' (the irony). I would include the Tories in this, but they aren't in any position are they? They and all there donor friends are not in any position of discomfort whatsoever.

A lot of people have done nothing to bring on the impending hardship a lot of families face. I also wouldn't call wanting to be able to feed your children, keep them warm and know your home is safe an 'I want it now mentality.' I'd call it a basic standard for any progressive society.

hoopmatrix · 30/09/2022 20:28

Believeitornot · 28/09/2022 22:07

Yes but last year we had the omicron lockdown but not a lockdown so people limited contacts, were still wearing masks, were freshly vaccinated etc.

now, our boosters are wearing off, people are not wearing masks and carrying about as normal.

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the vaccines don't stop you from getting covid anyway

hoopmatrix · 30/09/2022 20:30

Kissingfrogs25 · 29/09/2022 07:33

But you didn't starve, you are here to tell the tale about your porridge days!

It is called resilience, and yes we struggled in the 1970s with no power, little food and many other issues. Throughout history this has happened, and people come through it. It will be nothing like the difficulties during the world wars etc, we will be just fine and you will be able to eat more than flour and porridge of that I am certain!!!

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but there is no need for us to struggle in this way. There is plenty for everyone.......we should get out in the streets tbh!!!

laziestsusan · 30/09/2022 20:34

MaybeIWillFuckOffThen you have the truth of it there - anyone smugly suggesting we take this quietly clearly has vested interests. I'm now not going to run.

EmmaH2022 · 30/09/2022 20:35

hoopmatrix · 30/09/2022 20:30

but there is no need for us to struggle in this way. There is plenty for everyone.......we should get out in the streets tbh!!!

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Well, many are as part of the Enough is Enough protest.

wesayenough.co.uk/oct1/

but I do wish the union hadn't chosen that day for a train strike....makes no sense.

Nonymous · 30/09/2022 20:37

Believeitornot · 28/09/2022 22:07

Yes but last year we had the omicron lockdown but not a lockdown so people limited contacts, were still wearing masks, were freshly vaccinated etc.

now, our boosters are wearing off, people are not wearing masks and carrying about as normal.

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I honestly think wearing masks is the best thing we can do. I’m a key worker in healthcare (thankfully not hospital) and I worked right through all the lockdowns up until last august when I went on maternity leave and luckily didn’t catch anything. I chose not to have any of my covid jabs until after I had the baby (lots of issues TTC). I went back to work in august (with 3 covid jabs in my system) but nobody is wearing masks and I’ve tested positive this week. I will be wearing a mask for the rest of the winter.

Gingernan · 30/09/2022 20:39

I'm amused by people thinking it's 'the media'. This is all real.
I'm 73 so have lived through quite a lot, but all in all, the present,and recent past,has been the hardest. If anyone had predicted it all,they would have been laughed at.
Even so, trying to make the best of it,I'm luckier than some. I guess I hoped to have stopped work and taking it a bit easier by now.

Lonelycrab · 30/09/2022 20:49

I'm amused by people thinking it's 'the media'. This is all real

Absolutely.

Pm an Chancellor have a effectively destroyed trust in the U.K. due to the direction they want to take.

Oh ignore the news it’s all doom and gloom.
That’s of course what they want you to think. Murdoch can help here. Here’s Meghans latest whatever…

The govt have colossal change planned and I don’t think everyone really understands what that means. Wake up.

And anyone that uses the phrase sheeple is automatically a twat.

hoopmatrix · 30/09/2022 20:49

EmmaH2022 · 30/09/2022 20:35

Well, many are as part of the Enough is Enough protest.

wesayenough.co.uk/oct1/

but I do wish the union hadn't chosen that day for a train strike....makes no sense.

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Yes this is a start for sure and also everyone should stop paying their bills until they sort this shit out. They only have 160k thereabouts who've signed up to say they will stop paying on the 1st but it need many many more. Enough of this!!!