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

The peak was closer to half that!

I'm not hating on anyone. I just think everyone should be pulling together to fix the country.
The youngsters of today are just being spiralled with government debts

This is such a ridiculous statement given what Johnson, Sunak and Truss managed to wreck. It’s these types of comments (and these types of threads) that feel like a opposing political party intern stirring up the pot. Journalists post on Mumsnet all the time, and political parties do too. Go touch some grass.

That’s just nasty.
Every generation has different challenges. I remember when interest rates were 15% and I was in negative equity and couldn’t sleep at night. I consider myself very lucky to own my home now but for years I was stressed about it. It’s very difficult for people starting out on the housing ladder now and I’ve tried to help my family. But it doesn’t mean that everyone always had it easy.
No-one ever handed me anything on a plate.

Grow up.

As someone born and raised in Belfast, huh?

These riots have nothing to do with the government. Can you explain why you think they do?

My OH is a boomer - ex coal miner and he worked for every penny he got and risked his life in the process. I get sick of hearing that boomers had it easy.

Not sure celebs need to be ashamed any more than anyone who voted for them if you think that way about it.

Kemi / Conservatives are losing seats left right and centre. They are in no way ‘gaining ground’. In fact the Conservative Party are at risk of being obsolete.

Sorry, typo, I meant 20%. Interest rates peaked at 18%, and mortgage rates are usually a few percent above the bank of England Base rate.

20% is still pretty brutal though

She is currently polling as the most popular party leader.

I can't see him calling a GE. A GE within months would see Labour crucified.

They will hang onto the bitter end hoping something will turn things around,

I’m in my 60’s and I too remember it being bad. No electric most evenings because of miners strikes, bins overflowing with rubbish and rats everywhere.

In the 70’s, shivering in front of a coal fire with only candles for light, while listening to my mum and dad worrying about money. And we weren’t poor! Dad was an accountant, mum a nurse and we had a chalet my parents rented out. So god knows what it was like for those on the breadline.

Then the 80’s and worrying about the 3 minute warning and doubting, and I mean seriously doubting, you’d make adulthood. Watching public information films on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. Regular IRA terrorist attacks
on mainland Britain, over 700 people were murdered in the 80’s alone!

So no. Seen it all before, I’m still here and this too will pass. Watch the fashions. You can always tell when an economic boom is on its way!

But her party isn’t. The candidate in Makerfield is a good one and he’s expected to lose his deposit.

I'm so sick of these propaganda posts. FFS give it a rest Nigel.

Look for a Reform/Conservative coalition. Labour are a disgrace

I remember the power cuts in the 70s. Playing cards by candlelight. DB cheating because the light was so bad. Happy days.

So you think its right a 2 bedroom house costs £222000? Meanwhile uk debt is getting bigger and bigger.
And people wonder why the young generation have zero motivation.
Not all pensioners are skint.

Really? All is good with Labour?

No notice of resignations

Oh, deary me.

Hmm of course you changed it, but no it still wasn’t 20% it was 17% which sounds high but compared to the average house price at the time and benching that against contemporary highs of 6.8% in 2023 and those average house prices it was still more affordable to pay 17% on a 19k home in 1980.

Seriously Nigel, go find something else to rage coldly at. Not gonna lie, low-key, this is giving desperate.

Just in case anyone was looking the other way while the Conservatives were running the country for 14 years, let’s not rewrite history.

This was the period that brought us austerity, Brexit, Partygate, Covid scandals, revolving-door Prime Ministers, and the disastrous Truss mini-budget.

Meanwhile, public services were stretched to breaking point. NHS waiting lists soared, schools struggled for resources, police numbers fell before later recoveries, local councils went bankrupt, infrastructure projects stalled, and economic growth lagged behind many developed countries.

No government is perfect, and Labour will rightly be judged on its own record. But anyone claiming our problems began in 2024 conveniently forgets who was in charge from 2010 to 2024.

I was 37 before I could afford a house. It wasn’t handed to anyone on a plate in fact when I bought in 1991 people were handing their keys to the lender because they couldn’t afford their mortgage, lots of people were in negative equity and some were repossessed so they lost everything. I think the triple lock should go if that helps you any.