Do you think the economy will get better or worse?

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For future generations? Or even in the coming decades?

Too dependant on Russian gas !! Has everyone forgotten we are all buying from Putin again !

As has Japan and all of Western Europe. Immigration is the answer to that.

Trouble is that it was political decisions made that have forced us to be reliant on imports. We have coal, we have oil, we have nuclear, we have gas, we have wood, we have solar, we are surrounded by water so could have tidal. We really never needed to be so reliant on imported fuel.

Well this is depressing

Immigration is super popular!
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Laws come in and are changed as time goes by. I think it was when Gordon Brown was Chancellor that he introduced tax credits to help people who were in work but work which didn't pay well. I can't remember the names of the different benefits but I think they've now concentrated into Universal Credit. Maybe his system hasn't worked out so well. So examine the laws and change them.

Is it possible to make laws about variation of employment in places where people work 12 hours doing the same boring job all the time? Maybe not.

When I was signing on in the 1970s I got stopped a whole day's UB if I had just had a few hours work that day. Decades later a young man worked for two nights in a factory, organised by a ganger. His JSA was to be reduced by all except £5 and he was to start a new claim. He said it wasn't worth bothering to work. I sure as hell don't want to learn the rules of UC but I hope they treat the triers better.

How bad is an economy when umpteen citizens spend money on £4 coffees, meal deals and having someone else give them facials and paint their talons different colours, all on one hand? The economy is tip-top for a lot of people.

What happened to growing your own vegetables, keeping your own pig at the bottom of the garden, spreading muck on the fields, bathing once a week, making your own sandwiches to take to work, making coffee in a flask, darning a sock? Too posh and lazy for that, mate. Only good at using the world's resources at an alarming rate and scrolling and whining.

The world doesn't owe anyone a living.

Significantly worse in both the short and long term.

Upinaballoon
I understand what your saying, but the UK government want people buying coffees and having treatments as it keeps the economy going. Lots of people make do and mend , but for many it’s a way of life buying new and having treats like a sandwich for lunch or whatever it may be. I doubt that they want people living frugally as so many people’s livelihoods depend on others buying and spending. If people lived now as they did the 50s lots of jobs would be lost. I am not disagreeing with you , but the service industry took over from so many other industries and it is now needed to keep the money rolling in to pay for everything else and the genie is out the bottle now.

I've just heard a desperate dad on LBC talking about his son 19 desperste for an electrical apprentiship !! He said no one responds and he's even stood outside an electrical wholesaler asking for work .
He said when he's asked he has been told it's to expensive to employ him ,ni / min wage rises and all the rest.

Worse,
and no if somebody has worked, they’ll never be entitled to the same level of benefits that someone who’s never worked gets I thought?

The UK population will get larger and poorer. The trend started in the 1950s. We were better off at times in the 60s until the Trade Unions took over and sabotaged the car industry. Red Robbo? any one remember him? Wrecked BL.
Coal industry, Arthur Scargill, what a disaster he was. Margaret Thatcher managed some improvements.
Then "The Blob" left wing Civil Service, again stopped everything that might have improved.
Now we have Poverty again.

Today I read that a criminal cannot be expelled from UK because his daughter wets the bed. A judge accepted that.

And ppl dont owe the world a child
It works both ways

I think the housing association would frown on me hiring a digger to dig up the car park and making it into a giant vegetable patch If this type of thing is required then they shouldnt have made us live in flats and tower blocks
And as a small one bedroom flat with no garden is all im entitled to cos i didnt have kids...............THEMS THE BREAKS