To despair at this government??

[IllTakeACheapSeatPlease]

This shambolic government - its utter chaos, the Tories were bad but Christ this lot are on another level.
Im really worried about where we’re heading, riots breaking out everywhere, the armed forces imploding, the police untrustworthy, we’re a laughing stock on the international stage.
Id say to call an early GE but I’m not a fan or reform either. At this point - I’d take the Tories back.
WTF is going on? I’m approaching 50 and I’ve never known the country in such a state.

AIBU to think we’re literally on the edge now? And what can actually be done to save it??

I am prone to anxiety so feel free to tell me on catastrophising

We’re not on the edge.

i’m 48 and I personally remember multiple years of riots.

we’re not (a total) laughing stock on the international stage.

there’s a disagreement about funding the army.
the world is not falling apart

Meanwhile Putin has probably marked us down in his calendar.

I feel the same. Worried for the future of my children in this country at the moment.

This always happens. Blair bucked the trend somewhat (he was a closet Tory anyway) but people vote for ‘change’ and what they think is good old fashioned do-gooding socialism but what they get is loony, woke idealism to bankrupt the country.

We might have been able to weather that, 10, 20 years ago but in a world of economic uncertainty, climate change and political instability we can’t afford the luxury of sixth form debate society idealism.

Just turned in the news and another minister has resigned since the defence secretary resigned this afternoon.

I cannot believe how incompetent Labour are.

Every celebrity who endorsed them in 2024 deserves to be shamed.

Yeah we need Nigel and the quality people he has behind him in power.

That will sort things right out and it’ll all be brilliant

💐

Go for a walk, get some fresh air and stop reading the news! There’s not a single country at the moment that doesn’t have its own problems and as for being a laughing stock on the international stage,have you heard of Trump?

That would be Carol Vorderman, for starters.

I am with you OP - this government have been the most disastrous in my memory, at least.

And the chaos is far from over.

Did you read the bit where I said im not a fan of reform??? I’m sick of hearing about bloody Farage

You'd take the tories back? Who do you think has got us to this point?

Look over here.

Riots in the U.K.:

wiki has a list of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_riots

2024 Southport,
2011 London plus elsewhere lots of looting
2001 riots in Oldham and other northern towns

plus Belfast has had practically annual riots my whole life.

what’s unusual about Belfast is it isn’t a religious riot.

You should live in the US. I'm not certain the country will ever recover from the divide we are experiencing.

In a heartbeat.

You don't understand sarcasm either

Im really worried about where we’re heading, riots breaking out everywhere, the armed forces imploding, the police untrustworthy, we’re a laughing stock on the international stage.

But none of the above is new?

@IllTakeACheapSeatPlease my mum is 87 and she doesn't remember it being this shit

Except for a labour government in the 70s - I wouldn't know because I was born in 1976. So it's fair to say I wasn't really paying attention till 1990.

She's very well balanced about these things so it is a matter of great concern to me that that's how she feels about it.

No one was thrilled with the Tories but I am hoping that Kemi can turn things round.

The sense of hopelessness around the economy is such a worry. Don't get me started on the social stuff.

I didn't vote for them, but I actually wasn't terribly worried about them getting in. I think I was willing to give them a chance for about six months and then I realised we were in a really really bad situation.

Agreed

What have they done that's so bad? The Tories were much worse under Johnson.

I'm over the moon we're not wasting billions on defence tbh, anyone who thinks Russia are capable of invading us are crackers

Every celebrity deserves to be shamed, wtf?!
They exercised their democratic rights to vote as they wished and should never be shamed for that.

Cound not disagree more. Interested to hear precisely why this government is so much more of a disaster than the last one? There are some very short memories.

Scared too. I feel unsafe in city centres now, on edge when I go to work

You would take the Tories back? They did absolutely nothing for ordinary people. They wasted money on vanity projects and stripped public services to the bone. At least the new government is trying to fund things again and investing in children. They certainly aren’t perfect but the Tories couldn’t be worse imo.