Three years from now?
A lot worse I think. By then there will have been a major shift in the job market. A.I will have displaced a large number of roles, the "economically inactive" rates will be significantly higher. Current Uni students will be graduating into longterm unemployment.
Uncontrolled mass immigration into the EU and subsequently into the UK, will change the demographic of the country. By 2030, if rates remain unchanged, we will have added over a million (mostly young males) to the population. If we dont provide meaningful employment for this unprecedented number of immigrants, the alternative is a million pissed off young men, who have no allegiance to the UK, and no desire to integrate. It would be catastrophic to allow that situation to develop. Regardless of what you think about illegall immigration, it is happening, it will continue to happen, and the numbers I have mentioned are the best case scenario.
We will see the beginnings of a CBDC by then, that, coupled with the new "Digital wallet" that the government has introduced, and the linking of your National Insurance to your bank account, will kill off any notion of privacy or autonomy. The government will own you at that point. There will be the introduction of "climate credits", a digital system of control measures, designed to "encourage" compliance with an ever more reductive set of environmental rules. For example, your bank card will be blocked from certain transactions, like flying, or buying more than your allocated amount of red meat or alcohol, even geographical restrictions will be put in place, so your cards won't work outside your curfew area. Anyone speaking out will be accused of hate speech and arrested. This is currently being done with critics of certain religious practices and those who oppose the housing of illegally immigrants. So it absolutely will be done to anyone speaking up about environmental restrictions.
We will all be significant poorer, with millions dependent on a government which will want something back for the "support" it will have to provide. The unemployment rate will be such that UBI will probably have to be introduced. A handful of huge tech companies will be responsible for controlling the majority of industry, and consequently, the tax revenue. Impartiality will be a thing of the past, government will do whatever those companies say, because without them, there won't be any functioning economy. Imagine how little autonomy or influence you will have when you are unemployed, dependent on UBI, to a government that is beholden to a few tech companies, and if you complain about any of it, you get accused of Hate Crime. Welcome to the future.
And don't think it will never happen, Covid demonstrated how quickly people turned on their neighbours, reporting breaches of "the rules". When we are bombarded by media stating the "new rules" and how its "all for the good of the environment", people will turn each other remarkably quickly. Especially if their UBI was dependent on it.
"Are your neighbours or friends breaking their curfew?"
"Every time a citizen breaks the law, they are contributing to CLIMATE CHANGE and HABITAT DESTRUCTION"
"They are stealing your child's future"
Three years from now, the above rethoric will be common place. We are heading into a very dark period.