Cost of living felt easier under Conservatives

[Poinlessss]

I felt like there was more pressure to help the public.

I remember getting help with gas and electric and they had the cost of living payments too.

Councils used to help out more and there were more warm hubs.

Now it feels like this is the new normal get on with it.

It kind of is the new normal though. Austerity and then the pandemic and all the money spent on furlough, vaccinations, etc. plus current global instability - and people feel they are paying more tax than ever for substandard public services. Plus they keep putting the minimum wage up which drives up prices. It's not a situation I'd want to unpick.

The cost of living payments and help with bills were only available to people on benefits.

That’s not quite true I don’t think as there was something where the energy companies were refunding everyone so much a month at one point ?

How did councils help more? Are there fewer warm hubs?

Liz Truss's mini budget fucked the interest rates completely.

Brexit has irreparably damaged the economy

And you're grumbling about Labour?

The tories took a massive dump on this country and are now standing at the sidelines complaining about the shit they caused.

Felt better under them, bollocks did it.

Well yeah I guess it was nicer in the short term to have £300 of bung money to compensate for the drastic fall in living standards that government left us with after Brexit, covid contracts and trussonomics. Paying for it now though aren't we. In fucking spades.

This! The fact that there are more food banks etc. under Labour isn't because Labour are failing, it's the cost of inheritance from the former government.

The UK is bankrupt. No party, no budget, no manifesto can fix it. The money simply isn't there. You'd have to scrap the entire NHS to even stand a chance of balancing books.

The good times are over. We are now a poor country. Young people today won't have the same standards of living that their parents did. There is nothing now but a slow, steady decline. Each year will become more difficult than the one before. Those who can have already left. Millions more are desperate to leave and resorting to trawling through their family tree looking for an Irish relative. It’s embarrassing to be British now.

Rock and a hard place between labour and tories nowadays (they're both busted flushes) however I preferred Sunak to Starmer, and I'd've liked to see the former given longer with the economy.

That was a post pandemic thing. I suppose they can't do it forever.

Well interest rates were very low so people didn’t notice the years of wage stagnation so much

The can was kicked down the road big time & now we are running out of road.

Austerity started in 2008, caused by the Conservatives (and George Osborne in particular).

We never recovered from the 08 crash productivity wise, I do find it odd that people are only just noticing it though. It’s been nearly 20 years!!

Brexit has really diminished us. Who caused that? The Tories. Fuck the Tories.

That's true. The BoE started printing extra money that year. From that point every hour you worked was worth less money. The money you managed to put into the economy, for goods and services rather than servicing the mortgage/rent on your insanely priced dwelling place, a lot of it was eaten up by Brexit. Truss crystallised this so that every £ you had, amassed by your already declined-in-value labour, had lower value still. And what little there was left swilling around for public consumption, got passed on to friends of boris for public funded contracts.

For sure there's no money. Don't forget who took it.

This!

I guess some people saw their property value soar during the Tories so felt richer because of that.

Felt easier under the Tories, @Poinlessss?

Frog. Boiling.

Yes, or turkey. Christmas.

There is plenty of money. It's simple profiteering by energy companies, banks, supermarkets, employers, in fact any and all corporations.
It has been lobbied for by said corporations and businesses. What we need is a windfall tax on excessive profits, a big rise in corporation tax and a wealth tax on all millionaires and billionaires.
The cost of living crisis is really a cost of greed crisis perpetuated in the main by successive Tory governments.
Added to this is the massive own goal of Brexit which has screwed our GDP among many other things 😡

Austerity
Brexit
Covid
Truss budget left people paying more for their mortgage.
The cost of living bungs were only to those on benefits
Not all utility co's refunded money. My bill is now permanently 250 a month for both gss and electricity in a 3 bed semi.

Labour are trying to keep things stable to improve lives in the longer run.
If either reform or green get in I'd expect financial disruption causing a similar impact to the truss budget.

The Tories created mass poverty with austerity and then Truss crashed economy. That’s when they brought in fuel bill help. Warm hubs were set up by councils to try and mitigate the damage. Of course, the Tory destruction of this country goes back a lot further to Thatcher selling off our public assets and destroying workers’ rights. The current government are stymied by a vindictive media run by the ruling classes and are too risk adverse to take the necessary action to put right the damage of the Tories and Brexit .

Austerity came in as labour left the country in a mess previously , people have short memories. They also are not doing great now, they knew the defecit so manifesto should have considered this. They have u turned on everything Pretty much. I too am worse off and expecting to be more so with next budget. Basically both rubbish , no hope for british politics it seems. Net zero is also costing a fortune and will save hardly anything with just the uk doing it, pointless.

Whilst I am not a fan of Gordon Brown, I doubt you can blame labour for the worst global financial crisis for 70 years.