We are going to have a summer off civil unrest and rioting again if the government doesn't get it's head out of it's arse and sort some of the serious social issues brewing.
When I left london several grammar school worthy (levels 5 & 6's) Sats kids of my acquaintance had no secondary schools to go to because there just aren't enough places. We've known about the primary issue for years. SN kids are being forced out of state education by cuts to funding, post qualification teacher training and support services. The NHS is cracking at the seams. Our sewers need urgent upgrading in several major cities. Other areas are reeling from flood damage.
The long term sick and disabled have already been hung out to dry by the benefits system and 20,000 old folk snuff it due to the heat or eat conundrum every winter. More and more people in full-time low paid work join the queues at the food banks every week.
White collar jobs in technology and industry have been off-shored over the last couple of decades. Call centres are now based in Calcutta. The number of living wage jobs available does not match the number of desperate applicants and hasn't for a while.
The pension system is a joke so many baby boomers and younger are relying on income from private rentals to avoid penury in old age. Given the demographics of this nation we cannot afford for every person who hits old age to be totally reliant on the ponzi scheme that is the state pension. Public sector workers are reliant on the productivity of the current private sector workforce for security in their old age, so they are not immune despite the fuss their unions create.
Private rentals only give a family 6 months security before the landlord can ask them to move on. Moving can affect their ability to commute to work and get their kids to school. It's not sustainable to have a massive minority of the working age population living with this level of insecurity.
SME - traditionally how this nation pulls itself out of recession has been regulated out of profitability by the demands of the corporate off shorers. The government is aware that civil unrest has riven many other European nations recently but stubbornly sticks to policies that throw many British families into penury and then homelessness.
I honestly think we are going back to a social situation like that we had pre WW1 over the next generation or two. No pensions, no healthcare, no schooling for the majority with an upper class who have everything. There will be no middle class, a very poor majority working class and a small underclass dependent on church/charity handouts for survival.