Does anyone else feel the UK is heading towards a crisis?

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Price rises not coming down, cost of living gone mad, car crashes, heatwave after heat wave, wild fires.
NHS is falling, NHS dentist is like winning the loto, threats from russia.
Bills cost more than anything.
Benefit bill is out of control.
People getting attacked.

I may have missed a few things, but it feels like the UK is just building up to something big gonna kick off.
Im sure it won't but life is just crap right now.
Not to mention we are gonna get a hell of a winter with this EL nion predicted.

I feel like saying lets have a full war and end this crap then re start again( figure of speech), not living just surviving.
And the cost of being a parent now is unreal.

Rant over.

That is completely untrue. Have you seen any of the news events over the last few months? It’s outrageous that you come on here and post totally misleading information.

Absolutely!
I wish more people understood what we owe and the interest we pay on the debt
Eye-watering and unsustainable

Average price of first home is £225k. 10-15% is a common middle ground deposit. The government also offers several schemes to help England first-time buyers get on the property ladder, including the First Homes scheme for a 30% to 50% discount on new builds, the Mortgage Guarantee Scheme for 95% LTV mortgages, and the Lifetime ISA providing a 25% bonus on savings.

It is possible if you live the life previous generations had growing up and don’t spend ££££ on crap many of us looking at paid off mortgages in retirement don’t even spend in our 50s.

The planet, financial security and reality will not accommodate endless frittering on senseless crap!

You wouldn’t know looking at what they think is a normal lifestyle!

I must add though that when I was a first time buyer in 2022, I didn’t qualify for any of the incentives because I bought with my husband who had owned property many years before. I found this very unfair.

Yes, that's why it's not true.

The country is in an appalling state, in so many respects but the worst part is that it is simply going to get even worse 😥

Just back from a few days in a Scandinavian country and the disparity between here and there is shocking. The overcrowding, the filth and the state of the roads were visible immediately upon returning to the absolute shit hole that is the UK.

The awful tragedy of those police officers killed by those degenerates only to see a photo of a fucking balloon release, smoke cannons and fireworks for the POS. A fucking balloon release for a scummy POS murderer ffs.

The only thing that could fix the world is neuter most of its inhabitants.

I am in my 40s, I used to be so proud to be British 😥

@SunmerWaterwhy do you think it’s only young people consuming & damaging the planet?!

That I can live with.

It's the fact it's being taken over by moronic half-wits who can spout such rubbish (& probably vote for Farage as well) that pisses me off.

Nothing wrong with the UK that couldn't be fixed by deporting all Reform supporters (& those of similar parties). Vermin, the lot of them.

I know it’s bonkers. Many ( not all) in this country seem to think if you spend the bare minimum on services and live a life of debt and spending money unnecessarily you get good services, infrastructure and national/ personal security. 😵‍💫

It’s not.However it’s younger generations doing a lot of the whining and wanting both their cake and to eat it.

@BadbadbunnyI agree with you, I was just pointing at that they “cheap” money didn’t go into any investment which was wrong

Absolutely not true. The country is being mismanaged for money, look at the ppe contracts scandal and nothing has come of it. Not enough big corporations paying their fair share in taxes, MPs claim a shit ton of money back in expenses when they’re already on a very healthy salary (they are the benefit scrounges but have you believe it’s the poor and disabled). Privatised water with no accountability, privatised gas with record profits, it is just the rich getting richer and everyone else is sinking.
The billionaire press (and reform) are to blame for the “asylum seekers are the problem” rhetoric as they want you to blame someone else other than the rich people bleeding us dry and hoarding their wealth.

Again you need to widen your circle but perhaps for your dc it’s genetic!

No you need to open your eyes.

Surely it’s my ears as I can’t hear whining with my eyes?

I can read though…

Yes and in no way is the UK "heading towards a crisis". I have seen countries that were and, believe me, we are nothing like heading towards one.

I pay 55 for a quick 5 min dental check for a 5 year old!!

But are still unwilling to take any personal responsibility for the mess they've created.

Maybe do both.

Im Confused it has Boston high school and Boston grammar school which I went to and are grammar schools that we sit the 11 plus for?

Have you been recently?! We go back all the time as our family are there- it’s an absolute state! West street is unrecognisable. We go every month and avoid the town centre. When I was a kid there growing up, we used to walk around the town centre and shops like downtown were still there. All that’s gone.

It’s harder for them to get in a position to consider it. Secure, decent paid work is needed before a mortgage.

Companies that would’ve invested in UK invest in the EU, organisations that were funded by the EU, with interesting, secure, decently paid positions have obviously moved out.

The UK still has its stock exchange but for how much longer.

Being a serviced based economy Brexit was utterly idiotic and the Brexit god Farage should’ve known that, well he probably did, but many fell for his snake oil, still do.

We (as a family) can’t complain about immigration as we are going to encourage our teens to emigrate.

More if the same right-wing, isolationist nonsense is going to make things worse not better. But here we are.

Then the government should look after its own people and interests first

But they have a point regarding free dentist etc. Why should immigrants be entitled to this when we aren't?

Also I just ask specifically which cafes and where? Appreciate those outside - conningsby for example has a lovely cafe- but where in Boston please? (I’m not being purposely edgy asking this but genuinely would like to know as our family - In laws all live there and we buy them gift vouchers all the time but never die in Boston)