UK has gone to shit.

[Ilovegreentomatoes]

What is happening to the uk? No food on the shelves, the cost of living has become extortionate coupled with stagnating wages it seems this is a country where unless your in the higher income bracket you really can't afford to live anymore.
Poverty is going to be rife I dread to think the amount of people who will be choosing between food or heating this year.
Aibu to think this country has gone to shit of the likes we have not seen for a long time.
I am lower income and feel like I can't afford to live anymore.

[quote Clavinova]travellinglighter
The average closing price for the pound was $1.38 in 2019 it’s $1.28 this year. Did Boris write that the dollar was higher two years ago on the side of a bus and you just believed it?

Your stats appear to be the wrong way round:

Average exchange rate in 2021: 1.3842 USD.
Average exchange rate in 2019: 1.2772 USD.

www.exchangerates.org.uk/GBP-USD-spot-exchange-rates-history-2021.html
www.exchangerates.org.uk/GBP-USD-spot-exchange-rates-history-2019.html[/quote]
Oops. My apologies.

@PattiPritell

The numbers will keep dropping. Many will be happy I guess If 260,000 is the number when the numbers are dropping and we are in dire straits God help us if things pick up again.

Key figure is net immigration and Brexit also makes it harder to leave.

Yes we're overpopulated but immigration is a key backbone of the jobs market with so many doctors, nurses, vets, drivers, care workers, hospitality etc.

The reality is the more old people we have the more working age population we need and Brits are having less and less kids and later in life.