God its a bleak old time isn’t it. Anyone got any good news?
For anyone as curious as I was, the title is a little misleading – he started doing this 22 years ago and the current situation is the worst he’s seen in that time. There wasn’t something awful that happened 22 years ago as far as I can tell – feel free to correct me though, I was young at the time.
Ever since 2015 everything has felt like we’re being chipped at *just a teeny wee more* than before, getting less for the cost of more…
Everything.
* Crisps
* Video games
* Gadgets (you can already tell where my priorities are with these three)
* Alternatives to meats
* Trains
* Concert tickets
* Petrol
* Takeaway coffee
* bloody magazines?! How are books which get outdated every month **this** expensive?
* Insurance
* Phone contracts (and without EU roaming too, the audacity)
* well-made (not necessarily branded) clothes
* Rent.
* SHAM-BLOODY-POO.
I could go on.
When Martin Lewis is telling poverty-stricken families there’s nothing more he can do, you know Sunak fucked up.
When the majority of a country are going to have to start choosing between food & heating I don’t really think you can class it as a first world country honestly.
Next winter is going to properly grim for millions.
We’re living in true poverty.
Being able to have a fucking Dr Pepper is, ‘treating myself’ now. Let alone anything else.
Cant afford a hobby. Cant afford to eat out once in a while. Can only go on so many walks to somehow fill the void.
We live to work and thats it. If I have to do this for another 40 – 50 years id like to check out now.
What I find telling is how often recently he’s said ‘There’s nothing you can do about this’ which is something he absolutely *never* said before.
I can’t remember when it was good, maybe the 2000s?
Just had an email from my energy supplier regarding going onto a new tariff. I can either pay almost double what I’m on now (variable rate), or pay more than double (fixed). I’m actually considering going fixed because Christ knows what the energy cap will be in October.
I knew this was coming but still, the amount of the price rise still made go *WTF?!?*
Either way, that’s over 50% of my recent pay rise going on energy per month.
The plebs’ spirits must be crushed to put them back in their place.
How many more multi-millionaires will become billionaires over the next couple of years?
Rishi could bung us all a couple of grand from his own personal stash to help us out surely?
It’s all just another big transfer of wealth.
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What do the Tories have to do before we as a country say enough is enough?
They were negligent, slow to react and played corruption with OUR money in the pandemic, they have overseen a food shortage, a carer shortage, now an energy bills crisis, a fuel price crisis, the NHS creaking at the seams, with wages stagnating and life just getting worse and worse for all of us.
When do we show some self respect and stop voting for them to fuck us?
Can we start calling it the cost of being under tory rule?
Sounds about right, my generation has just started getting jobs and saving for flats, so it makes sense that we’re about to get completely fucked over considering most of us have had Tory governments in since we were 13.
The stuff happening in Ukraine coinciding with this period where our country is throwing so many to the wolves in their most vulnerable moments (and it could end up being any of us – you wouldn’t matter, unless you have the right high-level connections) had me thinking a little about how I really see this country as nothing special now. As in, this country as an institution (not the people who are your neighbours etc) has stopped being something worth risking your actual life over (like how the Ukrainians are), because the society is a shit show for the past 10+ years. Sure, we’re still better than most countries (for now) and I’d rather live here than there, but we’re at a point where almost all developed countries seem better in terms of affordable opportunities and support for those not already in a good personal financial position. Then again, maybe it’s not a situation unique to this country – maybe everywhere is run for the few and not the many.
It is horrific and warned by the Bank of England if the U.K. voted to leave the EU as a hard brexit.
Worse still its fixable but Tories won’t tax the ones who can afford it.
But they said after brexit the cost of food and fuel would go down. They did. We have [the receipts](https://i.imgur.com/96o5qJU.jpg).
Yeah, because “progress” in the last 22 years has taken the form of just trying to find enemies to fight/crackdown on like benefits cheats and the EU. Really, when was the last time we had some kind of popular national project that wasn’t about sticking it to someone?
I’ll be living with the parents til I’m 40 I reckon.
All of this whilst Matt Hancock gifted friends contracts worth millions of pounds
This isn’t a cost of living crisis.
Call it what it is: A tory crisis.
It’s entirely the fault of this government and their “ideals”, coupled with their lack of competence, and, in fact, their lack of willingness to actually do the job we have employed them to do.
They simply do not care about anything, or anyone, but themselves.
…and still, complete fucktards will vote for them.
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God its a bleak old time isn’t it. Anyone got any good news?
For anyone as curious as I was, the title is a little misleading – he started doing this 22 years ago and the current situation is the worst he’s seen in that time. There wasn’t something awful that happened 22 years ago as far as I can tell – feel free to correct me though, I was young at the time.
Ever since 2015 everything has felt like we’re being chipped at *just a teeny wee more* than before, getting less for the cost of more…
Everything.
* Crisps
* Video games
* Gadgets (you can already tell where my priorities are with these three)
* Alternatives to meats
* Trains
* Concert tickets
* Petrol
* Takeaway coffee
* bloody magazines?! How are books which get outdated every month **this** expensive?
* Insurance
* Phone contracts (and without EU roaming too, the audacity)
* well-made (not necessarily branded) clothes
* Rent.
* SHAM-BLOODY-POO.
I could go on.
When Martin Lewis is telling poverty-stricken families there’s nothing more he can do, you know Sunak fucked up.
When the majority of a country are going to have to start choosing between food & heating I don’t really think you can class it as a first world country honestly.
Next winter is going to properly grim for millions.
We’re living in true poverty.
Being able to have a fucking Dr Pepper is, ‘treating myself’ now. Let alone anything else.
Cant afford a hobby. Cant afford to eat out once in a while. Can only go on so many walks to somehow fill the void.
We live to work and thats it. If I have to do this for another 40 – 50 years id like to check out now.
What I find telling is how often recently he’s said ‘There’s nothing you can do about this’ which is something he absolutely *never* said before.
I can’t remember when it was good, maybe the 2000s?
Just had an email from my energy supplier regarding going onto a new tariff. I can either pay almost double what I’m on now (variable rate), or pay more than double (fixed). I’m actually considering going fixed because Christ knows what the energy cap will be in October.
I knew this was coming but still, the amount of the price rise still made go *WTF?!?*
Either way, that’s over 50% of my recent pay rise going on energy per month.
The plebs’ spirits must be crushed to put them back in their place.
How many more multi-millionaires will become billionaires over the next couple of years?
Rishi could bung us all a couple of grand from his own personal stash to help us out surely?
It’s all just another big transfer of wealth.
[deleted]
What do the Tories have to do before we as a country say enough is enough?
They were negligent, slow to react and played corruption with OUR money in the pandemic, they have overseen a food shortage, a carer shortage, now an energy bills crisis, a fuel price crisis, the NHS creaking at the seams, with wages stagnating and life just getting worse and worse for all of us.
When do we show some self respect and stop voting for them to fuck us?
Can we start calling it the cost of being under tory rule?
Sounds about right, my generation has just started getting jobs and saving for flats, so it makes sense that we’re about to get completely fucked over considering most of us have had Tory governments in since we were 13.
The stuff happening in Ukraine coinciding with this period where our country is throwing so many to the wolves in their most vulnerable moments (and it could end up being any of us – you wouldn’t matter, unless you have the right high-level connections) had me thinking a little about how I really see this country as nothing special now. As in, this country as an institution (not the people who are your neighbours etc) has stopped being something worth risking your actual life over (like how the Ukrainians are), because the society is a shit show for the past 10+ years. Sure, we’re still better than most countries (for now) and I’d rather live here than there, but we’re at a point where almost all developed countries seem better in terms of affordable opportunities and support for those not already in a good personal financial position. Then again, maybe it’s not a situation unique to this country – maybe everywhere is run for the few and not the many.
It is horrific and warned by the Bank of England if the U.K. voted to leave the EU as a hard brexit.
Worse still its fixable but Tories won’t tax the ones who can afford it.
But they said after brexit the cost of food and fuel would go down. They did. We have [the receipts](https://i.imgur.com/96o5qJU.jpg).
Yeah, because “progress” in the last 22 years has taken the form of just trying to find enemies to fight/crackdown on like benefits cheats and the EU. Really, when was the last time we had some kind of popular national project that wasn’t about sticking it to someone?
I’ll be living with the parents til I’m 40 I reckon.
All of this whilst Matt Hancock gifted friends contracts worth millions of pounds
This isn’t a cost of living crisis.
Call it what it is: A tory crisis.
It’s entirely the fault of this government and their “ideals”, coupled with their lack of competence, and, in fact, their lack of willingness to actually do the job we have employed them to do.
They simply do not care about anything, or anyone, but themselves.
…and still, complete fucktards will vote for them.