To overthrow our government

[DahliaRose3]

Another pay day, and another depressing financial month ahead. I’m fuming that our nursery costs are so high! No, I don’t want to have to cut back everything because I work a stressful job at 40+ hours a week and I want to enjoy my life at 40+ years old & the coffee & occasional weekend brunch I buy. I don’t have the option to cut back hours in my job.

My partner and I earn well on paper (for the first time in our lives we were getting ahead financially), but have next to nothing to show for it. No new clothing, nor fancy trips, nor fancy dates out. We aren’t flash. I genuinely worry about my pension, this deficit is contributing to the fact that I don’t own a home, or have decent savings.

How are we the British public standing for this extortion! We are being exploited as women, families, and the general public.

AIBU? We need to all stand together, and walk out. Strike! The parents, the grandparents filling in as free childcare, the nursery workers.

Don't even bother replying if you’re not in agreement at the absolute sh*t show of a set up!

This has nothing to do with being grateful, it’s an horrid potion that they’ve forced families into. Having a baby is for the wealthy, as many can’t even afford children.

There is an election coming, and they are likely to lose office. The children in the nursery phase doesn't last forever. I wish the cost of living was lower, but I can't see how any other government will be able to change this overnight, I suspect your kids will be in school before any major change.

OP 'Don't even bother replying if you’re not in agreement at the absolute sh*t show of a set up! '

so why start an AIBU? - you are just having a whingefest about your particular situation - many people have it much harder and face their own difficulties
Perhaps you need to grow up a bit and appreciate your good fortune - if you don't want replies that don't fit your agenda.

It’s not a whingegest. I’m well aware that I’m very fortunate, but again it’s not a race to the bottom. The AIBU was about our government & the undue pressure they have put on parents of young children.

Is it really too much to ask that we should all
be okay financially, irrespective of what job we do and the titles we hold? I want everyone to be okay.

I was homeless at one point in my life, so this isn’t about a lack of gratitude and I’m well aware that there will always be people that are less well off.

Don't even bother replying if you’re not in agreement at the absolute sh*t show of a set up!

😂😂

If you are young probably look to leave and get a job someone abroad.

If you think things like taxes and house prices/availability are going to get better for working people if we change to a Labour government then you are living in a dreamland.

Furthermore why should we have such low expectations for our daily life? That to just be happy with whatever we are given.

You could become an MP....there are opportunities opening up soon I understand.

Yeah im with you it's disgraceful at the moment. People expect so little. Why?

Yes yes yes, I want to overthrow the lying greedy conniving incompetent useless bastards 🤬🤬🤬

Inflation has fucked us all over.

I an with you and I don't even have child care costs.

Most families are at least £500 plus down than several years ago. Its just awful.

Yes we know there were problems but the way they have been dealt with haven't been great.

Good luck.

Labour will be in soon, and will do absolutely nothing - they won't improve anything. It would make me laugh that people think they'll fix all the issues, but it's really not funny.

People won't strike because striking costs money.

Our hands are tied.

Because this country has a 'race to the bottom' attitude. People who work hard and do well and chose to pay for things from their hard earned cash are called 'entitled' 'snobs' 'tory sympathisers' 'out of touch' 'selfish' and all kinds of other things. We don't reward hard work, we tax it, and then tax it again in another way, and for all this tax we have awful public services

My parents, both brought up on poverty line, worked extremely hard to give us a better start than they had, gradually after many years built up a reasonable pension through sheer slog and going without, and then Gordon Brown raided it with taxes to point was effectively worthless, so my Dad is still having to work at 73 years old (having started work at 15 years old) to afford the surgery my mum has been waiting for for over a year and can't wait anymore so going private. It's so wrong that someone who has worked all their life, never claimed any benefits, paid in hundreds of thousands in taxes, can't get the surgery they desperately need without having to work at 73 to pay for it.

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If you can't beat them, join them.

maybe it's timef to create a MN political party

some of the replies on this thread 😂- yes op, be grateful you’re not a castaway, with an arm hanging off, and eating seagulls to survive … so entitled of you to want to enjoy your life a teeny tiny bit …

I don’t think you’re unreasonable at all, every headline about how big the Tory losses at the next election are predicted to be just makes me more irritated they won’t just get on with it and leave!

Labour will obviously not fix all the damage the Tories have done immediately, and have their own shortcomings, but we have to start somewhere

We have elections in this country for a reason. Such a moronic thing to say “overthrow the government” your power is at the ballot box like other peaceful and democratic countries

I had exactly the same issues when my kids were little when labour was in government ,I earned to much for much help with childcare ,but not enough to not just scrape by

There will be a general election by the end of the year at the latest Labour are apparently on target to be elected ,I doubt much will change myself but let's see.

Possibly relevant

The problem is, OP, they are ALL horrendous. We are forced to accept one of them. That's really not a choice.

When I saw your thread title, I felt a fillip of excitement that you had a plan to dispense with them all... <wistful>

You're not wrong, we all deserve better, not these self-serving twats but, they're all at the trough, ideals long-forgotten, and they won't give that up for anything, particularly not for the people they are supposed to serve.

You can hardly reference the OP as moronic when you write a post like that. There are two main parties, both are shit.

I don't disagree that they are all horrendous, I think this is to do with the types of people who are attracted to positions of power.
It's up to us to hold them to account so that they can't be horrendous.

How, 0sm0nthus? I'm genuinely interested in how we would actually achieve that?

'They' get into power, jointly and severally make bad decisions, and we're stuck with them, in one horrible form or another.

I've often wondered whether the elite should be precluded from entering parliament at all. It would never happen but, would 'the man on the street' step up?

In a democratic society, we shouldn't have to put up with this. I would like to see proportional representation about specific issues, be able to vote on those. Other countries do this, we don't. How would we even get there when our politicians wouldn't vote for this ever - turkeys and Christmas, and all that.

Children cost money?

Childcare is expensive?

And in related news water is wet 💦

Out of curiosity, how many posters are politically active? Do you vote at every single ballot? Parish, Local, Borough, District, National etc? Do you attend Council meetings, write to your MP, understand how Government works on a local and national basis? Who is getting involved, joining a Party and trying to influence from within?

I've often wondered whether the elite should be precluded from entering parliament at all
I think the problem is that they become elite when they enter parliament.
🎶The working class can kiss my arse I've got the Foreman's job at last🎶
Once people reach a certain level of power /wealth /status they tend to view those beneath them as a lesser beings who deserve to be treated in an inferior way

As for how shall we hold them to account, good question!
We have to pay attention to what they are doing, take interest in politics and all that, all that very boring stuff that makes everyone's eyes glaze over 😶