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Original poster

Why do we all just take it?

35 replies

Cantkeepmyeyesopenmuchlonger · 28/02/2023 20:55

Price increases in food are just ridiculous now..electricity, petrol, mortgages etc…what’s going to happen and why is everyone just accepting it?
I’m British but don’t live in the U.K. at the moment…the same is happening where I am, but the country is less known for ever really making a stand..but Britain? We always did, didn’t we?
Where is it all going to end?

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Stopthebusplease · 28/02/2023 21:01

It seems like most Brits are too idle to piss downhill these days OP, hence they just accept what they're given, and moan about it without actually doing anything. Unfortunately I'm seriously disabled and so can't do anything but sign petitions and write to my MP, but at least I do what I can.

Unananana · 28/02/2023 21:17

I'm working too much to pay the bills I would be protesting/making a stand whatever that means against. As a single parent, its just me that keeps our household afloat.

When do you suggest I protest or take any other action? How am I meant to house and feed my DC if I take time off work to 'make a stand'?

Most people are 'taking it' because, like me, they have no choice.

Lcb123 · 28/02/2023 21:19

But what are we Meant to do? Mortgages rates are returning to average rates, and it will benefit the economy. Most people are too busy working and caring for their family to do anything else

girlfriend44 · 28/02/2023 21:20

What are you suggesting op, we all turn Suffragette.
There are reasons why the food has gone up not sure civil disobedience would help.

butterfliedtwo · 28/02/2023 21:22

Because we're exhausted making a living to pay those higher bills. I also don't see what we're meant to do. Politicians don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves.

Tootsey11 · 28/02/2023 21:26

Was thinking the exact same thing Op. This is affecting millions of people, yet we all just sit by and accept it.

JustFrustrated · 28/02/2023 22:03

For the reasons mentioned.

And also, not everyone is suffering. A large proportion of people...notice the increases, but actually....it doesn't make much difference to their lives.

Nowthatlovehasperished · 28/02/2023 22:06

Do what exactly? And how many people would need to do that to have any influence?

Most people are too busy working etc to start a revolution.

Whyisitsososohard · 28/02/2023 22:10

I feel like we have collective peasant brain.

Hbh17 · 28/02/2023 22:21

Well, mortgage rates have been ridiculously low for years. Unfortunately, people just treated it as normal and didn't make any provision for rates going back to a more usual (say) 7%. We can't just lap up the good times and then make a fuss when things get a bit tougher - we should know that there will always be economic ups and downs.

ChiefWiggumsBoy · 28/02/2023 22:32

Didn't you post this the other day about inflation?

I'm not sure what you think can happen, or what the common man can do?

Original poster
Cantkeepmyeyesopenmuchlonger · 28/02/2023 22:34

@ChiefWiggumsBoy No…I haven’t posted anything else 🤷🏻‍♀️

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thaisweetchill · 28/02/2023 22:37

How do we fight back?

stbrandonsboat · 28/02/2023 22:53

I've considered staging a demonstration outside the council offices, but everyone would just laugh.

What exactly are people supposed to do? A general strike might do it. Successive governments taking the piss out of the population by running the country into the ground has left people more depressed than angry.

Neededanewuserhandle · 28/02/2023 23:13

Whyisitsososohard · 28/02/2023 22:10

I feel like we have collective peasant brain.

^This. Any time there's a thread like this, or a radio phone-in etc loads of wonks turn up and start spouting shit about "Blitz spirit" etc etc as if having a shit time is somehow virtuous - I swear some people would pay their employers to go to work.....it's a fucking annoying race to the bottom in the UK .

Boxe · 28/02/2023 23:23

Maybe you should move back, OP. Contribute something.

Ilovemykittycat · 01/03/2023 00:00

Look what happened last time Britain made a stand! We ended up with bloody brexit which has caused a lot of this. So I hope all those who voted for it are happy now. You fucked it up for all of us.

TheBigWangTheory · 01/03/2023 00:02

Why do people keep posting this daft question, or similar?

OP, what do you imagine is the alternative? You want to "not take" price increases in your food and electricity etc? What does that look like?
You could choose to not eat or heat your home I guess, you crack on with that but I'll still be going to Aldi and paying my gas bill thanks.

Whyisitsososohard · 01/03/2023 20:49

Neededanewuserhandle · 28/02/2023 23:13

^This. Any time there's a thread like this, or a radio phone-in etc loads of wonks turn up and start spouting shit about "Blitz spirit" etc etc as if having a shit time is somehow virtuous - I swear some people would pay their employers to go to work.....it's a fucking annoying race to the bottom in the UK .

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I'm glad you got what I meant by peasant brain 😂

Why are we like this though?

OldandTired66 · 02/03/2023 22:08

I'd say teachers strike, nurses strike, junior doctors strike, postal strike, rail strikes would suggest that people are not just putting up with it?

TheLaughOfRustyLee · 02/03/2023 22:13

Well we can't exactly refuse to buy food, refuse to run our cars to get to work or refuse to pay our inflated mortgage rates. What kind of protest do you envisage? The walking around London with placards type? the rioting type?

Yellowdays · 02/03/2023 22:14

I was noticing the different prices of tins of beans on another thread yesterday. Sheer profiteering in some cases.

FatFilledTrottyPuss · 03/03/2023 00:21

I’m putting up with it because I’ve been on so many marches and demos and protests with friends and colleagues and my elderly parents and while we’ve had a great sense of camaraderie, we’ve never achieved anything. The country has still gone to absolute shit.
I’m despondent and apathetic now, and lost my faith in politics altogether.

MavisMcMinty · 03/03/2023 00:30

We all “just take it” because despite the lies we were told in 2016 we have no control, we have never had and never will have any sovereignty ourselves, and because we started voting for really stupid things and electing lying narcissistic sociopaths to “deliver” those really stupid things.

JungleBoobies · 03/03/2023 00:48

The Brits are no good at kicking off. Most I know won’t even return a faulty item. It will be a long time before there’s a revolution on these shores. Brexit was a damp squib.

The French OTOH are another matter - they can’t wait to don yellow vest!