Trains, planes & automobiles… oh and water. AIBU to be so disgruntled with the UK. What is going on?

[StorieAnna]

Changes of date to flights, shortening the time away.Queues and delays.

London traffic and surroundings at just about standstill due to no trains or underground.

Driving, A17 closure with very poor signage resulting in a long diversion.

A1 complete closure with a 20 minute detour. Miles of single lane.
None of the closures with prior warning. Hours added to our journey.

To cap it all, road outside my house closed. Hole in the road, burst water main and no water. Road continues to be closed, huge hotel, not a workman in sight. Town is horrendous affecting local businesses as there is little access. This follows a day of closure as they had no water.

What is happening to the UK?

Aw come on. The A17 is always a daily disaster waiting to happen. I drove a lot on it recently & was pleased to experience no true delays, just the usual 50-mph-only drivers to get stuck behind.

Broken pipe probably is related to previous day lack of water; the drought has meant ground shifting which causes unsupported pipes to break under their own pressure/weight. Nobody can be blamed for the drought.

London traffic: TfL & train strikes today. The strikes have to do with cost of living crisis, labour shortage, inflation soaring (blame Ukraine invasion, covid-counter-measures & Brexit).

Flights problems: blame same factors, core problem is labour shortage, not enough baggage handling capacity.

But you know, "controlling our borders" matters more than inflation, economic stability or labour shortage. This is what electorate decided in 2016. And the cascade of national debt soaring (which creates less fiscal headroom now to do economic interventions) to stop covid spread was widely supported in 2020-2021, so that's the priority people chose then. We pay a different price now for saving lives then.

The thing I hate is a 'road closed' with no indication of where! We were driving on the A14 when we saw that the A11 was closed, a 40+ mile long road into Norwich with no indication of where!

Love your ‘tongue in cheek’ attitude @lljkk.

What a mess.

The flight issues and the droughts are not unique to the UK at the moment.

You could write a ‘What’s happening in [X]?!’ Post about any country on Earth right now. slightly different problems in each, but plenty of problems.

Amazingly, the UK is actually doing averagely well on quite a lot of metrics. It’s just that the average is not great and falling.

Love that film Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Race to the bottom isn't great though is it.

It’s also not true. Most similar countries are doing better.

And it continues. House and garden flooded. The newly fitted pipe is leaking gallons everywhere. No water either. 😱