AIBU to feel life in the UK has worsened since Covid?

[MerryAmberViper]

feel everything is just getting worse since covid

Im on a good salary of 32k live alone entitled to no benefits and lucky enough I can afford to put heating on in winter but have to be careful

crime everywhere with lenient punishment or sometimes no punishment at all
everyone seems entitled angry or depressed and no one seems to care about following the law
clear resentment and disagreement in country people on social media saying vote green or vote reform and if you dont you are terrible
divided country especially with brexit when inflation being caused by covid and the war brexit hasnt changed much
stagnant salaries if you can even get a job at all
everything expensive
people on great salaries of 100k+ moaning about the tax they pay because they are bad with managing their money even though they are on over double average salary when people like myself manage on much less
massive wealth inequality
NHS and public services run down
terrible government both tories and labour

what does “the ticking timebomb of an ageing population” mean?

(as this sounds threadworthy)

how convenient ! (to your ‘argument’)

I don't have any older relatives. I live in London.

an astonishing comment
very Henley-on-Thames

Same here, minimum wage jobs living in niceish area don’t buy rubbish or glued to social media to read all the doom and gloom posts

I'm sure your comment sounded better in your head than it reads...

I'm happy you're happy too.😊

or maybe Chipping Camden…

It all comes from the 2008 financial crash, just as things were starting to get better, covid struck. Economists said it would take 10 years to recover from 2008. Then Covid! At least another 10 years. That’s just economically, there are also the social aspects of both.

It was blindingly obvious that shutting down for months would have devastating effects on the economy and socially, but so many people enjoyed being paid to do nothing so were in denial about the repercussions. Unfortunately no one had the choice so were swept along with the madness. Lives ruined, businesses ruined, public services on their knees.

We need some kind of major reset otherwise we’ll just limp along for another decade of stagnation.

Some bit affect me and some bits don’t .

I work in a school as a ta and so see first hand that we have halved our ta numbers (and lunch staff and caretakers) in the ten years I have been there. Yet sen numbers have gone up.

I also see that we( ta ) are fairly regularly used as cover for sickness and ppa , where as ten years ago that would never have happened, a supply would have come in. (still on minimum wage though 🙄)

that’s purely because schools have absolutely no money and going into a deficit

we live in a low crime area generally, but still see an increase in boy racers during the night , vandalism and no police anywhere.

daughter going to uni to study nursing- but apparently there’s a recruit crisis (not too worried as she could go into nursing homes , and they will start hiring eventually) money to send her comes from parent top ups if you are earning- even if it’s a very low wage (ie a ta with a degree on minimum wage)

i Do think lots of people are addicted to phones and social media, more then we realise (and I probably included myself in that number) that’s going to highlight as a real problem in a few years.

behaviour in schools since Covid has seen a real decline, and I know lots of people blame different things, but honestly I think it’s a mix of lots of different issues that cause an overall problem (having half the staff isn’t helping, a generation of parents that can’t say no/ cope when their child is disappointed/ kids coming into school already 3 hours of YouTube deep for the day and then being separated from their beloved device and the withdrawal- but both parents have to work full time so what are you going to do ? Someone needs to babysit the kids and before school YouTube does it)

personally for me life is better than in Covid , because my kids are now fairly independent (ish) we have more money (husbands wage not me ha) and our very old mortgage is low, I am 8 stone lighter and we have a lovely allotment to escape to which is nice to even just go sit in on a sunny day with a cup of tea- especially when we have little money. I even have £1500 in my savings/ shares account (slightly mared by the 4k of household debt we have, but that’s less debt and more savings then we had in COVID)

You lost me at ‘good salary of 32k.’

That’s barely above minimum wage.

I really agree with this. I’ve been on a few long bus journeys in London recently, everyone was fine, friendly and helpful, staff and passengers. I went past Trafalgar Square at around 9.30pm on Friday and it had been taken over by Middlesbrough supporters, even visiting northerners know how to have fun and enjoy themselves 😹
I would add that I have had outstanding NHS treatment and experiences for years and so have many of my extended family, in different areas although all South East. Without Brexit we would have to follow EU rules on gender self ID so I’m grateful we are autonomous on that issue

Yes there have been numerous threads about it. The ticking timebomb is that unless governments start to seriously address the problem that in the next twenty/ thirty years time there will not be enough people working and paying tax to support an increasingly ageing population then we are going to have some very difficult choices to make.

Careful not to peak too soon. You're really really funny.

Let me fix your thread title for you:

AIBU to feel life in the UK has worsened since Brexit?

Of course Brexit is a factor. It is incredible that a country like this has scored such a terrible, self destructive own goal.

the 2008 crisis is where things started going wrong, Brexit is nail in coffin and Covid and Ukraine / Iran wars have compounded everything.

😂 oh hello Nigel

I can’t believe there are people still peddling this bullshit. On paper yes, but economists broadly agree on the negative effects of Brexit for this country.

I’m also struggling to believe this although I agreed with a lot of your post. A 15 minute delay is pretty significant. I can’t believe that you didn’t see one person acting like a dick or didn’t see any shoplifting, graffiti, etc.

All that money that was wasted during covid didn't help (paying people to stay at home/dodgy PPE contracts and fraudulent bounce back loans) hasn't helped. Did people really not realise it would need to be recouped?

Unless you have one or two kids in nursery and lose your 30 hours free childcare to the tune of thousands a month because you earn one pound over £100k

Against the sort of delays you can come up against in road traffic sitting with a coffee on a train platform waiting for 15 minutes is a pleasure.

I honestly didn't see anyone acting like a dick. School kids larking about, a few people a bit drunk yes but no shoplifting. Of course I saw graffiti but I come from a city famous for street art so perhaps am immune to it.

And its unnecessarily nasty.