The government have completely trashed the nation's wellbeing.

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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)

Very well put, the current government had the opportunity to lead the country through these challenges and lessen the impact, instead they've made it all worse in the pursuit of a jolly good time and congratulating each other on getting richer from our money, they're not governing a country full of different people with different needs, they're clubbing together to make sure the average person on the street keeps funding their lifestyle and telling the average person on the street that it's all their own fault because they don't better themselves.

I couldn't care a less if it's a one man band at this point, as long as they're not lying, cheating, corrupt, smug idiots who aren't interested in the country at all. Everyone hastens to say nurses, doctors, carers, police officers shouldn't be in it for the money because we need people that care in those positions, well that goes for MPs too.

@Provenceinthesummer ’We knew the costs of furloughing millions but was the alternative?’

Most of these furloughed people could have got jobs. I think the government should have made it far easier for furloughed people to get one of the ‘millions’ of vacancies rather than sitting at home.

This is possibly the worst government in my living memory- and I'm pretty old.

The sleaze, the nepotism bordering on corruption, the dishonesty, the rank incompetence, the self interest, the willingness to sell the country down the river to promote their own selfish aims.

The standard of MPs in this Parliament is appalling. I blame the fact that so many are professional politicians rather than people who've had proper jobs who want to serve the country. And being a journalist is not a proper job in this context, because it's just about having opinions, not creating anything.

You do know every furloughed person had a job? Maybe find out what furlough actually meant.

You're right. They've also trashed the nation's health; standards in public office and the economy. They are the worst Government in my lifetime.

The Conservatives are starting to challenge gender ideology and are protecting womens safe spaces. That is enough to give them my vote.
Labour can’t even tell you what a woman is!
OP please name some countries currently thriving in this post-pandemic era during a new Cold War? The issues we are facing are bigger than party politics, they’re global.

Absolutely this.

Labour wouldn’t have done better. Millions paid to stay at home or many more dead. Massive war, Brexit….where’s the money coming from??

althougg it doesn’t seem it, we are lucky, a generous Welfare System, FREE healthcare etc

At this moment in time I think my eight year old could have done a better job.

I'm grateful for my Educational Maintenance Allowance. Then my student loan. Then a grant that paid for my postgrad through the government. Then my help to buy ISA, then transferred into a Lifetime ISA. So yes, I am grateful to the government but don't expect a nanny state

COVID grant, plus COVID jabs, plus free cover tests all for ages which other countries didn't get. I think some people just like being miserable and never ever appreciate any positives

For those defending the government because they have said women don't have penises etc. yes it's great that they've said that.

Now, how do feel that this government have made it much harder to get a rape conviction?

Basically saying that the relevant industries needed a market for their products psychopharmaca etc. and therefore created the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) to classify perfectly normal human emotions (like grief) - in order that commercial treatments be applied more widely so that said industries could profit from it

Hiw is that relevant to this thread? And fwiw I’d be dead without anti depressants so they saved my life.

I'm grateful for my Educational Maintenance Allowance

This disappeared 10 years ago due to ‘austerity’

I'm grateful for my Educational Maintenance Allowance
This disappeared 10 years ago due to ‘austerity’

Quite.

And this berating of people for not being grateful is pretty distasteful, actually, when so many are being driven to food banks and not now getting necessary NHS treatment. Besides which it's our money from our taxes. Why on earth are we expected to feel beholden to them. It's not as if the government are delving deep into their own pockets out of the goodness of their hearts, is it? In fact, it's the reverse - they are fleecing public services in order to give contracts to their mates who, all too often, do not have relevant experience.

How amusing that the defensive posters sticking up for the government actually think not wanting a lying bunch of tossers in charge of things that actually affect the population = wanting a nanny state.
What odd thinking.

I think they'll be pushing the 4 day week soon as a mass way to improve the mental health of the public en masse.

The trials have begun.

What the hell did you think furlough was? You could only be furloughed if you had a job. And you weren't legally allowed to take on a new 2nd one while furloughed

Did you think it was people just sat on the dole?

Jesus, are the general public really this thick?

Brexit has fuck all to do with the post covid, current war economy. Really, it has fuck all to do with it. It has actually driven up wages in real terms. Covid ruined the care and health economy and it would've with or without Brexit.

Honestly everyone is just fucking bored of this now. You sound like some 89yr old arse propping up the bar at the local pub harping on about 'don't mention the war'. Change the bloody record.

Brexit has fuck all to do with the post covid, current war economy

Ive literally read on the news 2 minutes ago, that Brexit has caused a 6% rise in prices.

@MiniPiccolo is that you Conservative Party HQ? 😂

Even the bloody Telegraph are blaming Brexit these days. You need to move on from your ‘get over it you lost’ mentality.

Yet people keep voting for them

The Telegraph most definitely are not blaming brexit, but they are regularly high lighting the lump of rot at the heart of the civil service doing their level best to stall the changes needed to increase our benefits of leaving. They are also demanding that the government seizes more of the opportunities available to the country now we are out, and to be fair even Labour are calling for that.
Except for the bbc and sky news (whom bang on morning, noon and night about brexit in one form or another which is most tiresome) most commentators, indeed, most of society have accepted we are going to have to move forwards now and not backwards into old divisions.
rafais we are done with brexit and need to move on the discussion on!!!!

Fuck me, Austerity really did a job on Education.🤦‍♀️

I live in an EU country. Yes we have had some impact from the war but our government has price capped fuel so petrol and electric and gas are still affordable. We also had covid we didn't have brexit
Noone here is feeling the pinch like in the UK.

Because they're to busy being perverts, shoving cocaine up their noses and paying their mates off.

Yup.

When global forces are such that they have a significant impact on the welfare of almost everyone, our government may not be able to take all that pain away: but that pain is only made worse by a strong suspicion that those in power are busy partying at work (drugs, affairs, blow jobs) and doing nothing but helping themselves to lucrative contracts without rigour or checks and balances.

Any government behaving as this lot do, when their country so desperately needs good, fair and high quality leadership, are worse than useless and deserved to be tossed onto the trash heap of history to make way for someone (anyone!) with more than half a moral between them.