UK general election live: Rishi Sunak says UK is ‘better place to live now than it was in 2010’

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1. I dunno 2010 was pretty shit too, but things were cheaper and we didn’t have all the cuts.

2. Lol, of course it is.

   If you’re Rishi Sunak.

   For everyone else? Not so much.

3. I have never lived in the UK, but I’ve spent a lot of time there and from an outsider’s perspective, people felt A LOT happier in 2010 than they do now. 

4. 2 years after a global financial crisis is hardly a high bar Rishi.

5. Well it isn’t 2010 but from 2013 but you could see the underwater trend.

   https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/United-Kingdom/happiness/

   Happiness index in 2023 is lower than 2013.

6. I think the UK peaked in 2012, I was full of optimism about the future after the olympics, such electric energy, inclusivity and just all round good vibes; it was all downhill from there.

7. And it is, if you’re part of the 1% that they governed for the last 14 years.

   The other 99%, not so much.

8. Cost of housing has risen by at least double the increase in average earnings in that time period. Explain to me how that makes the UK a better place, Rishi.

9. My immediate thought reading that was “fuck off”. I think thats pretty much how most would see it.

   2010 was rough, but I would happily go back to 2010.

10. Is he trying to lose on purpose? So he can go to the US before the start of the next school year

11. It absolutely is not better than the 90s, the greatest of all decades.

12. At this point he just joining with Truss in trolling us. They know it’s over.

13. Tory say something that isn’t a lie challenge (impossible)

14. Up until 2008/2009 financial crisis life was exponentially better.

15. “…Only for those of us with 750+ million in the bank”

16. People didn’t hate Labour in 2010, they just felt like a change was needed after 13 years. The Tories couldn’t even muster a majority and had to go into coalition. People absolutely hate the Tories after their disastrous 14 years and they will be destroyed at the election. This is because things are so much worse for everyone but the richest.

    Time for Rishi to eff off to LA.

17. I’ll have to disagree with you rishi. As an autistic man, this country has gone to shit since 2010.

18. All you have to do is buddy up to a billionaire’s Nepo-project and of course this place is much “nicer”, for the rest of the Prolls not so much……….

19. In 2010 I remember most of my family working for minimum wage and being loads better then today

20. The UK he exists in does not include the majority of its people.

21. Nope. UK had bigger military, more Police Stations, more Police, more Fire Stations, more NHS Dentists, Better hospitals, better schools with more places. Better GP surgery’s performance. Lower rents, lower cost of living, Less traffic jams. Lower cost of illegal immigrants. Less crime, fewer murders and knife crimes. I remember 2010 very well.

22. You must be having a laugh Rishi!
    I’m on a fairly good salary, with mortgage paid in 75% and still I am worried what tomorrow will bring. Quality of life in UK went down the pot since Brexit vote. Get real, oh hang on, you can’t get real because you are living on a different planet called ‘I’m mega rich’

23. I mean, if you are on the gravy train then he’s not incorrect.
    For the vast majority of the population however, despite how shocking the post 2008 crash years were, he is just outright lying. It’s a shitshow out there, everything is rancid and almost everyone is struggling.

24. How the fuck has he worked that out?

    Some people are saying we peaked in 2012, 2012 was a vintage year. But for me, early 2000s. Might be my age and the rose tinted glasses, but for me everything seemed so optimistic. Everything worked, we didn’t have (or least no knowledge of) knife crime. I’m not saying it was a utopia. But the decline started after then. 2012 perhaps marked an acceleration to the decline that followed.

25. He’s a fucking idiot, average house price is close to double what it was in 2010, average salary has increased by about 35%. And still no council houses. 

    People waiting months/years for hospital appointments. No way to access an nhs dentist. Kids going without lunch at school. Unsustainable living expenses. Energy companies making record profits. 

    Fucking twat. 

26. How can you say this. I’m a warwick graduate software developer in the south east of England. I can’t even afford to rent an unfurnished ground floor 1 bed flat in my local town, let alone think about buying anything. The intergenerational wealth divide in this country is ridiculous, food, petrol, bills are astronomical. This country is becoming harder and harder and less enjoyable, all whilst wages are stagnant and way off what people earn America. We’re meant all meant to accept this for good public services but where’s the evidence of that? NHS, schools and community centres cut in real terms drastically.

27. I preferred 2010 Internet, it wasn’t perfect but a lot more innocent than it is now.