Swedish here.. no. Things are not bad in Sweden. Energy prices are going to rise, but we don’t have people worried about getting food, we don’t have people who are going to face being homeless on the street because they had to choose food or a roof over their head. We don’t have people worried about if they will have a warm house in the winter.
We are in the last stages of our move back to Stockholm and I can’t say how relieved I am. It has come to a point where I would be afraid for my life and the life of my unborn child if I had to stay here. Your government has no clue how to actually run a country that works for everyone. So I’m going back where I come from.. which seems to be the most common retort I get whenever I dare say any criticism about the UK government.
So please stop saying “it’s worse or it’s just as bad in other countries”… no it’s not. You are telling yourselves this because you bought a load of bullshit and are too proud to admit that you bought a load of bullshit and told the person selling you bullshit thank you sir.. then you sent them a gift basket for said bullshit.
You make yourself sound foolish when you say “others have it worse”. No.. Germany. Fine. All of Scandinavia.. fine. Holland. Fine. It’s only you and your screwed up ideas of what is a functioning government and healthy happy citizens means. If this was happening in Sweden there would be help for citizens to make sure no one is hungry, and to make sure no one is without heat. It would not even be acceptable to have someone have to cut down so much in heating considering how cold it gets. This is cruel to even ask someone to do this . I have read a many people worried about heating and food. What is going on?
You don’t have any idea what it means to have a nation that works for everyone. Why do you have homeless people on the street and people living so poorly they are worried about food now? Good god.. do people in the UK not understand that there are so many nations where this is not happening.? You are the only country that is lying to its citizens saying that this is normal and ok. No it’s not. It’s unacceptable.
As long as you keep making excuses then you’re going to sink lower and further away from any sort of functioning society. But maybe this is what your government is wants. None of this hurts them, but it will certainly hurt you.
But you can be sure, that most Northern European nations at least are doing fine. Thriving.. yet here you are with petrol shortage. Good shortage. High energy prices, labour shortages. You don’t even know how bad things are because you are brainwashed into thinking that how you live is acceptable.
I hope you one day wake up and demand that your government do right by its people and make sure it works for everyone. It doesn’t seem to work for most people in the UK. In my opinion, whatever you are doing is not working. It hasn’t worked for a long time.
You don’t have any room to criticise any government considering the appalling way the people of the UK are being treated and live. And it helps no one to keep on “well we have it good compared to this and that land”. I can assure you that you live worse than any Swede, or any Scandinavian. You live worse than the germans. You live worse than the Dutch.
Parts of the UK live in poverty levels like Victorian times. You should be ashamed that you have a government where they think this is ok. And what are they doing to help the citizens in this crisis?
I have not heard a sound from your government about any initiative to help the families and households right now. Mother and baby incentives to ensure pregnant mothers will have enough to eat. Food prices will hit hard for many people. What are you going to do to make sure pregnant women have enough? What are you going to do to make sure that all children will be in warm houses and have enough good food ? Where is this?
Do you wait until darkness comes to gather wood? No.. you get the wood before the sun sets so you can build the fire. Why has there been no plan to make sure citizens get thru the winter? Visas for Lorry drivers? That’s your plan? That’s the only thing you’re doing?
This is undoubtedly a crisis. Therefore crisis action needs to be taken now. What is it with the UK government waiting until the last minute to do anything that is remotely like governing the nation? Will they wait until you have people freeze and hungry?
Meanwhile Boris is asking Brazil and USA for a trade deal ( trade deals should have been done before ink signed on brexit deal- that’s a different story) when he should be looking into the National budget seeing how he can make up the difference in the family pocketbook so that food price hikes don’t pour stress on people. There should be emergency initiatives rolling out now.
And for those saying this is all an over reaction.. you’re part of the problem. And it’s people like you that will hasten the descent of your country into even darker days.
What do you pay taxes for? Your health service is about to collapse, your streets (at least in London ) are filthy. There are homeless people everywhere. Where do the taxes go to?
Now food shortages. No one else is Europe is having shelves bare. And instead of your government doing anything, they are just shrugging and saying ok. We will get more drivers. What about the price of food going up and less being available? People are in real danger of going into winter being cold and having less to eat. And not one initiative, even a temporary initiative until the spring, to ensure food and heat for everyone stays going.
I really pray for you to get your act together.