Why do we all just take it?

[Cantkeepmyeyesopenmuchlonger]

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?

I don't protest because it won't help.

I'm a single parent too, and focused on paying the bills. Family are doing ok. Heads down, working hard, because in the end that's the only thing that will improve the situation. GDP goes up, interest rates come down.

Kicking off, having a few riots, smashing windows and bus shelters will just land society with a bill for new windows and bus shelters. And police overtime. It achieves nothing.

Carefully selective support - eg. for the NHS - is most effective when used sparingly.

Meanwhile, we need to learn to use less fossil fuel, to fly fewer miles, to eat more healthily. We can't carry on consuming at such an excessive rate, making ourselves unhealthy, throwing away a third of our food and buying clothes to wear one season.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Commuting was essential until Covid, now wfh works fine. A lot of change is coming, and will be out of the comfort zone of many, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing.

I agree. Those of us who have been around a while remember the days of much higher mortgage rates, but if it was mentioned younger people treated it as so much nonsense. We can't always live in good times, but need to be prepared for the downs. I don't live in the UK but surely the same thing is happening all around the world - why should the UK be exempt?

Any chance of a source for this?

Or are you just making things up?

I have been thinking the same OP. Seems like every industry is jumping on the back of war, Covid, brexit - yet make record profits at the same time.

Even going back to more recent years with state pension age rise AGAIN. No one bats a blooming eyelid!

Can't try this with the French!

If we lived in France we'd be protesting or striking!

I'd join in a march to get rid of this government!

No, we wouldn't. We're not truck drivers or air traffic controllers.

Get this of this government and get what instead? And how?

Many of us did protest Lockdown.

Not sure there are options for cutting Govt right now.

There isn’t a political party that aims to cut Govt, cut regulation, allow the economy to get back on its feet.

I'm in despair but I don’t think anything can be done? And if you have a revolution, you tend to get a more totalitarian Govt rather than less.

Well our protest laws are some of the most restrictive in europe now. We are not allowed to protest peacefully if anyone finds in annoying. The case law on whats annoying isnt there yet. But its feasible just being stood still with a placard could annoy someone.

I also think there are a lot of protests despite this new law but they dont get reported on.

"People knew what they were voting for."
Not policy strategies I wanted, but is what democracy produced.

@Spendonsend
Yes.
Both good points.