Excuse me for the naive question, England is not my country of origin so still trying to learn the system here .
I know this may seem very straightforward to a lot of people, but I wondered where is all this extra money we're putting in going? Council tax, petrol, bills, supermarket shopping and many other things have gone up in the last few years. Not even subtly but by huge amounts. Wages have either stayed stagnant or have gone up ever so slightly.
But yet despite all these hundreds of pounds we're putting in a month, public services seem to be the worse they've been in a while. Dirty streets, bad quality supermarket food, long NHS wait times etc. Where the hell is all this money going? Surely it can't all be on inflation and lining pockets of rich people. There must be enough left in the pot to change... something!?