@SunshineArmy
''Western Europe is grappling with a complex set of circumstances, and it would be too reductive to blame Brexit entirely for the situation.''
It would be fair to also blame incompetent and corrupt Tory politicians who spent the past few years making themselves and their mates richer while everyone else struggled.
There are serious issues that are more acute in the UK, on top of the obvious Brexit one.
Widespread profiteering is one of them.
Other countries have managed to curb energy bills for example while the UK government did nothing to stop energy companies from raking in huge profits. Same with transport and so on.
Privatising everything has led to massive profits for companies on the back of consumers' misery.
It has been announced this week that British Gas profits jumped to £751m in 2023, up from £72m a year earlier...while people can't afford to heat their homes.
There is something very, very wrong in this country right now.
Rivers and sea polluted by raw sewage, working people struggling to make ends meet, a government that has been flirting with Fascism.
it really does puzzle me I must say some people are still in denial and somehow believe the propaganda that this is all Ukraine/Covid and the usual scapegoating of immigrants...
I don't even think it is a right versus left debate anymore at this point.
The apathy and willingness to just swallow all this gaslighting because they come from a few privileged people who went to public school has to end.