Why is it worse in the U.K.

[Thatsaturdayfeeling]

I’m British but not in the U.K. at the moment. Where I am, we also have food price increases and petrol was v high for a while, but it’s all not to the extent as the U.K…why is the U.K. in such dire straits compared to other places?

Government

We import more cos we're an island and have little manufacturing anymore.

Government.

Because our government don’t give a fuck about our country as a whole and only what they and their cronies can make from it.

Depends which countries you're comparing it to really.
Which ones do you mean?

Brexit

We are an island so anything that we don’t produce, and have to have imported, is going to cost more. Add in transport costs and strikes, and having less of something puts the price up.
I said some time ago, when a similar thing was happening, that the TV chefs need to do cooking programmes about seasonal foods. To use more of what we have, not what needs importing.

It’s really not worse here than Monty other places.

People just love to talk it down.

Things have been ( a lot) better than they are now, but it’s not automatically worse.

I bet lots is the people commenting have never left their part of the UK, or the UK at all, or if they have have done a family holiday to Spain or something.

And a remainer will pop along any minute now to blame Brexit (p.s. I am a remainer too, but am 🙄 with the moaning)

many (not Monty)

Please detail the research you have done to come to this conclusion

Our prices are high but not the worst. My friend lives in Australia. The prices she pays for some items are shocking

Brexit, 12 years of Tories

Food is unbelievably cheap compared to NZ. NZ lamb, butter, wine is cheaper in UK than here. With the high costs of shipping thar makes no sense.

Have you seen the cost of food in other places. Chicken in Canada for example is something like £15 for 4 breasts.
Agree with previous posters- have those moaning visited many places in the UK and properly visited places abroad- not just a weeks holiday.

It's not any worse than anywhere else. In fact it's a lot better than MOST countries. As a pp said, some people just LOVE to slate the UK, and bring it down.

Don't see them packing their bags and leaving though. If it's that bad - LEAVE. Go on, see if you can find anywhere any better!

Some people don't know they're fucking born. Living in a first world country like the UK, they are privileged and fortunate. Makes my blood boil, it does when people slag it off.. As I say, I don't see them leaving. If it's that bad - leave. Or stay, and quite slating this wonderful country.

@Thatsaturdayfeeling you say you are not even IN the UK at the moment? Why do you think you have the right to berate it?

And as for starting a goady thread and then not coming back to it....... well.... this is the only post I am putting on here, as I don't appreciate people posting threads (especially frith-inducing goady ones) and then not returning. Light the touchpaper and run eh?

QUIT slating this wonderful country (not 'quite' slating!)

FROTH inducing threads. (Not frith) Bloody hell MN - get an edit button PLEASE! That's it, I'm done on this thread now!

I was reading that property prices in the Netherlands have increased dramatically.

I believe that every country is struggling to recover after the covid restrictions

You want to try living in the USA.

Food prices are shocking there.

I'd take the UK to their prices any day.

Low wages, zero hours contracts mean people are struggling more with the price rises!

Yes food is expensive on other Counties but wages are higher so it's not such a shock!

We have been lucky to have cheaper food prices being part of a large negotiating block but now we have lost that advantage & are paying more to import food then we feel it more!

Add in the fact that energy prices have doubled since last October, wages & benefits have stayed the same, rent costs are rising as the interest rate increases it's all pretty grim!

I will say as well that 12 years of a Govt cutting everything to the bone means there is no resilience in any of our services! It's shit!

why is the U.K. in such dire straits compared to other places?

Things don't look that great in Germany or the Netherlands:

[Germany] Inflation rose at a 10.9 percent annual pace in September, up from 8.8 percent the month before, official data released on Thursday showed. It was the first time since the creation of the euro, in 1999, that the bloc’s largest economy recorded such a large leap in prices. In fact, by some measures, it was the highest rate of inflation that Germany had seen since 1951, well before the reunification of the former East and West.

www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/business/germany-inflation-september.html

The Dutch annual rate of inflation soared to a record 17.1% in September when calculated according to European methods, national statistics office CBS said on Friday.

www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/09/dutch-inflation-rate-soars-to-over-17-according-to-european-figures/

Low wages and people on minimum wages receive top ups from the government. Blair had this idea and since then nobody pay fairly. Also, the austerity has made public services to go down. People simply have not room for the increases. Even with help.

Not slating the country at all, am thinking about returning but many saying don’t as bills etc so horrendous.

Our government.
Over the past 12 years it has made one disastrous decision after another, destroying our country and destroying our economy.

Because we have the Tory party in charge

Ok so because things are pretty bad but not absolutely terrible absolutely everywhere nobody is allowed to comment lest it be seen as slating? Unpatriotic? Why have we readily accepted a race to the bottom? Why not imagine a better country?