The government have completely trashed the nation's wellbeing.

[flashbac]

People are struggling, prices of everyday items climbing every week (more so than in other developed countries). Everyone's spirit appears to be low. The jubilee weekend raised spirits a little but only temporarily.
Yes, post pandemic fatigue is probably a factor but I can't think of a single thing this government has done that has improved the lives of ordinary working people. In fact, quite the opposite.

(Come at me Tory troll farms)

Oh here we go again. Bash the furloughed. As if they had any choice in the matter.

stock up, grow your own food and herbs. Start now.

W E F ... look on their website.

Yes to those factors. But you're mad if you think there's no Brexit effect.

"Hardly unique to the UK. Power corrupts."

Well that's ok then. We'll have a race to the bottom.

Have they? I feel well. The jubilee weekend didn’t raise my spirits though, I had covid that week.

@Weirdwonders it's not whataboutery but a recognition of how fucked we are and probably quite powerless. So what can we actually do on a personal level? Write to mps? Go on protest marches? Look after ourselves and our communities? We might make a bit of difference there whereas we'll make none sitting by ourselves miserable and expecting government to suddenly care and improve our lives.
Big businesses, including oil and gas, have made huge profits yet we're all struggling to just be comfortable and keep up with our living expenses.

Plenty of money if the government chose. How many private jets have they bought & how much do they cost for example? Rising prices drive a lot of tax to the Treasury. I have lots more ideas.

You seem to be slightly surprised. Did you really think ordinary working people would be better off under this lot? We need to stop bickering and come together - stop dividing ourselves by race/creed/colour/sexuality/whatever, and start working together to get a government that works for us and with us, rather than them and their mates profiting off us.

Every government did furlough. And the UK was far from the most generous.

Yup. Tories care about two things and two things only.

The financial betterment of themselves and the financial betterment of their friends/families. As long as the outcome of their actions result in either of the above there is no moral, ethical, or legal line they aren't willing to cross.

That's why I always laugh at posters who claim they simply have to vote for the tories because "only they know what women is". The tories have shown time and time and time and time again their promises, stand points, and policies are there to be torn up and broken at will and I can guarantee you the second it benefits the tories to 180 on that issue they will do it without a seconds hesitation.

There was a regular who kept posting about what sort of turmoil would we be in if we had not had Brexit. Would UKIP be sniping at everything at hijacking the papers and everything else.
I used to agree but not too sure now. But, EU has not put itself out much to help Ukraine has it? Macron has been a bit of a tit, that long table when he met Putin. OK Putin was in charge but why agree to release the photos?
The German leader; he was an active communist. Has he changed much.

All our problems extra to Covid and Ukraine are our own because the whole damn boiling of them are feeble Lab, Lib, Green are disappointing against these Tories.

Are you in the US @luckylavender out of interest??

What we need to do is your our vote at the ballot box

Except it’s worse here because of Brexit. Inflation is second highest after Russia, other governments have cut taxes rather than raised them. Other governments have done more to control utility and fuel prices. There are labour issues in other countries but not as great an issue as they have here. Other countries don’t have to leave crops to rot or cull pigs due to lack of qualified staff.

I have no truck with this wretched government. They make me sick.

But to be fair they did roll pout the covid vaccination at speed.

slow clap for everyone who voted for Brexit

This. I agree with the government take on gender but it's a small issue compared to the damage they are doing.

I agree with you OP, I am working harder than ever and it is considerably more shit than it was a dozen years ago.

The government is not supposed to make things harder but for me they really are.

By that logic no non- Tory has or will ever be financially better off as long as there is a conservative government. You must know that’s nonsense right? Making this kind of ridiculous self evidently untrue statement does not a useful debate make.

Yes this of course, and yes I am still angry with the lying bastards who led the vote leave campaign.

And there was me thinking that the government had spent the best part of the last two years and many £billions in attempting to keep as many of us alive as possible.

Did you?
They merrily allowed the Cheltenham races to go ahead in 2020 despite being begged not to. They allowed big pop concerts in Cardiff and Liverpool to go ahead in March 2020, which were attended by people flying in from known Covid hotspots. They ignored offers from established producers of PPE in favour of giving contracts to inexperienced firms and then had to bin a load of substandard PPE. They've recently been found to have acted unlawfully with regard to people entering care homes in 2020 with the result that 20000 people died. It's an absolutely woeful record.

Isn’t part of the overall issue government itself? It doesn’t seem to matter who is the party in power, mps are mostly privately educated, lots of staff, claiming expenses for everything and their salaries mean they are all so out of touch they probably don’t see most of the issues anyway!

This. The Conservative Party originated with the goal of protecting the interests of the landed gentry and private industry. It's almost 200 years later and nothing much has changed. Their biggest achievement has been to con workers into believing that they're on our side.