Uk is in big trouble - what do you think will happen?

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Thames water on brink of collapse. All those CEOs getting fat bonuses. Water shortages and rising bills.

the cost of living is off the chart. Every bill has gone up. Pop in to Tesco for toothpaste, butter and chicken and it costs an insane amount for just a few items.

the government are crap and taxing the hell out of us.

my salary is stuck. I feel constantly poor now. 10 years ago when I earned significantly less, I felt ok money wise. Chatted today to a colleague about science graduate son who is stuck doing a minimum wage job as there are no jobs here. I’ve noticed this myself in my town. The council have a few, other companies outsourced to India years ago, the pharma company moved out years ago and the land will soon be a new housing estate.

the nhs is a total mess.

housing costs make me want to weep! No chance of moving. Feel bad for my kids. They just keep building expensive houses here all packed into poorly designed estates. Tiny gardens. But no infrastructure. The promised schools get cancelled and drs surgeries and hospitals are rammed with patients. My mortgage of course is up.

in my industry… everyone is obsessed with AI and I’m sad to say it has taken some jobs already. There is a huge push towards AI.

there seems to be underlying tension here re migrants. People getting increasingly annoyed.

this country feels like a right mess. Making rich people richer and poor people even poorer. The middle earners are getting squeezed. I hate it.

i don’t remember it being this bad ever before.

why is it so terrible? And what do you think will happen?

Surely childlike is pledging various sound bites and then failing in a way people can clearly see. Or inexperienced and incompetent perhaps.

I've never heard of the Euskardi-whatsit either.

Yep. Funny how they always resort to name calling isn’t it?

I didn't say anything about housing.

Illegal immigrants are those who have overstayed their visas or are failed asylum seekers. Illegal immigrants have no right to be housed.

Asylum seekers coming on small boats represent a tiny percent of immigrants and are not a strain on resources. I'm not sure why you're blaming them for people who aren't being paid enough to live; they're not responsible for low wages or the cost of housing.

I'm not sure what your point is about traffickers. Which towns in the UK are no go areas?

Oh my. Do you truly believe that? In the same breath you accuse others of lacking intelligence and being childlike. Astonishing lack of self awareness you have going on there.

Labour have totally shafted huge swathes of the electorate. They lie as often as they breathe. They have taken an improving but fragile economy and thrown a grenade at it. They left disabled people frightened and desperate, screwed over our children, farmers, fishermen, SMEs, I could go on. Starmer is an embarrassment, as is his Chancellor. But you carry on defending them.

Because that's their true nature and belief about anyone who dares to crticise Labour. They will defend Labour to the absolute end. Can't be reasoned with. The last resort is always, without fail, name calling.

I answered the question.

I have no idea why you think you upset me - you made a claim and I asked you to evidence it. If your response to that is "no mileage" I assume that you can't evidence your claim - ie you were imagining what you were saying about Farage's effective use of social media. Which is disappointing as it was quite a strongly made assertion on your part. If however there is evidence after all then please do share and please don't worry about upsetting me.

Thanks for answering about your team.

Oh, well done, twistyizzy.
You had my perfectly innocuous comment deleted. Good for you. Worried it might strike a chord?

Not really, just something about a petition for an election in the early days when Labour hadn’t yet done anything - although I would argue they started the damage from day one.

It was deleted due to the personal attack. I wouldn’t keep going with it.

(If anyone cares, I said their opinion/comment was dickish. Which it was)

I'd say WFA (mysteriously absent in their manifesto) was the starting gun?

Ok.

You're not doing yourself any favours here.

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honestly - we are all fucked.

The end.

Yes that was pretty early on - July maybe?

Repeat. Their opinion was dickish. Been here since the beginning. Will that opinion get me banned? Possibly. Don’t give a shit. There are so many dubious posters here these days. Disappointed? Yes, that MNHQ doesn’t do more to flush them/it out.

I reported it because I felt it was a personal attack on the poster you were replying to.

Dubious in what way exactly?

Good for you. Fair enough.

This is what happens when you read nothing but the right wing press. You don't see changes to improve the NHS, free school meals, negotiation with the US and Europe, improved labour laws, housebuilding, focus on VAWAG and so on.

You conveniently forget 14 years of austerity which included Brexit, millions of food banks, huge rise in child poverty, NHS in crisis, Windrush, 40k backlog in asylum claims, failed Rwanda scheme, Trussenomics, bankrupt councils, men in women's prisons, judicial crisis, failing public sector, prison crisis and COVID running rampant through care homes. Apparently it's now worse. Sure it is.

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Really?

Three weeks I believe? I remember the smirking and cheering from Labour.

What do you mean re the pp?