Are we taking bets yet on when mass civil unrest will begin re. Cost of living?

[UsernameInTheTown]

Having frozen my backside off these past two days as I'm terrified to have the heating on longer than an hour a day, I'm thinking that this will be utterly intolerable come next Winter. Will there be mass civil unrest and the guillotine rolled out while the affluent are targeted by the desperate and those with nothing left to loose?

@707smile

I hope so. The wealth - poverty gap in this country is hideous.

In global terms we're well down the list, in European terms we are average.

The brits love a riot! History is full of them

Sure but the occasional riot does not equate to mass civil unrest or revoluotion

We really don't. We just lie down and roll over every time. Making excuses for ridiculous decisions - like we were lied too. We believed it....

@BigWoollyJumpers No we are not, out of 28 OECD countries, we have among those with the highest wealth inequality, much of it due to our housing market.

[quote Alexandra2001]@BigWoollyJumpers No we are not, out of 28 OECD countries, we have among those with the highest wealth inequality, much of it due to our housing market.[/quote]
World Bank Gini Index for 2022.

In global terms we're well down the list, in European terms we are average

When you look at the countries we are ahead of, I’m not sure that’s something to be proud of.

@UsernameInTheTown Hallo Martin 😂😂

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10704763/Martin-Lewis-warns-civil-unrest-isnt-far-away-cost-living-crisis-grips-Britain.html

@sst1234

Hands up who supported Covid restrictions like lockdowns. Oh no, everyone’s gone all quiet. Or coming out with excuses like ‘but but but it saved lives’, ‘but we didn’t know what was going to happen’, ‘but it was needed at the time’. While these low risk people were banging pots and pans like idiots outside their houses, watching Netflix all day and baking banana bread with kids, governments around the world were printing money like it was going out of fashion. What did you think was going to happen? Locking down healthy adults and shutting down the economy and have the magic money tree pay for it would only lead to this. Was the banana bread worth it?

This 👏👏👏

@sst1234 Hate to break it too you but it was the Tories that introduced Covid restriction with the risk of imprisonment and £1000 fines....

the General population were forced to go along with it.... whilst they themselves didn't.

So stop blaming us, blame your hero BJ, if have issues with LD.