You know I thought when I left I would miss this little island nation. 5 years later I returned. And to what? £2500 for a room in London? No job prospects here for my field. Crippling destruction of wealth from inhumane companies who make gross amounts of profit.
I see old men who can’t cross the road because their carer didn’t arrive for the second time this week so I help.
I see an old woman in McDonald’s because she is alone and it is cold at home, she doesn’t want to go back.
When does this all come to an end?
Will it be this winter? When our energy reaches record levels at 4x what it was last year for a family bill?
And when I left brexit had just happened… they said that would surely make things better…
Do you think Boris or Farage will be that old man? The man who worked 60 years for this god forsaken island. Will Liz be that woman who has to sit in McDonalds because it’s too cold at home?
They have destroyed your work. Your housing. Your energy. Your water. Your infrastructure. And yet time and again this is passable? Or even plausible?
There can be NO defence now of Boris or prior and or subsequent Tory governments. They have destroyed this country to the core.
I think it is time to leave again.
[and don’t even get me started on the NHS, the most beautiful system in the world, tattered]
TLDR: deeply troubled and upset with my homeland
Edit: people seem confused about the old woman, this lady was seen around march time. Not as recently as the chap I helped cross the street. Regardless of a heatwave now, this situation will only get worse this winter.
Edit: As people seem to think I am from a government agency, Russian or what not. No I am British, I am from the south of the UK. I’m not “doomsposting” and I’m not a teenager I’m 30 and have worked incredibly hard over these past ten years, more so when I was working abroad.
I am dyslexic so sorry for any bad grammar.
Here is a link to an en-suite in London city that costs £2500 a month I just found this ad on SpareRoom, check it out at https://www.spareroom.co.uk/16344552
Now I know that this is an expensive end of the spectrum this place. But it highlighted to me a massive problem.
Even this. I’m sorry but what? https://youtu.be/UHZNlAE5594 inflation at 18.6% stop defending all this…
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Won’t get fixed until the tory voter base is gone. A lot of them will be gone this winter though at least…. Then hopefully we will have an electorate that is more focused on improving theirs and other people’s lives instead of voting for parties that solely tries to make other peoples worse.
At least you’re talking about it. From what I see most people accept the bullshit and the moment you criticise this country they accuse you of being a low class scum who’s not getting on
JFC calm down lad.
We have been declining since roughly 2010 imo, the quality of life has been destroyed by our same government that only knows how to bring us austerity whilst they live in prosperity and we continue to suffer because of their decisions. To me it feels like most British people never stand up for themselves in these situations, they prefer to suffer in silence instead and hope the government implements better changes which never arrive and this keeps repeating every election, even our supposedly “opposition” party isn’t doing enough to call these actions out, some of the people here don’t seem to realise that the government is not on our side but is in fact robbing us of our livelihoods – for such a large contributor of the global economy the wealth disparity is disgusting. Like you said the democracy is so flawed that young people wouldn’t even attempt to vote to change this; personally I do not see a hopeful future, we might quite well be of the end of UK’s history. Even other countries have stopped taking us seriously or as any power that the UK once was.
I left 15 years ago, moved to the states for a job for a year and ended up staying because the recession hit and I knew I wouldn’t get as decent of a job back home. In the time since, everytime I’ve thought the states is too fucked up, I should go back, England does something similarly ridiculous and I think fuck I might as well stay here where I have a good job and some stability! My mum has been the biggest proponent of encouraging me to stay put because at least I’m in a liberal forward thinking area compared to the rest of U.S
When you described the NHS as “the most beautiful system in the world” I realised this post was an exercise in creative writing and hyperbole.
As a former NHS doctor (and former doctor) – when will people realise that there are other systems that work? It doesn’t have to be something run like a communist bureaucracy (it is, look at it – monolithic single entity that controls everything (including physician and nurse compensation), complete with large-scale indoctrination/propaganda a NKVD-style suppression of dissidents and cover-ups of its egregious failures along with many, many inefficiencies). If anything the NHS should be warning about the dangers of nationalisation.
I question the validity of your claim of an old woman being in McDonalds because it’s cold at home.
It’s been fucking boiling hot lately.
I get it you want a rant, but don’t lie
It’s the whole world that’s fucked. Greed. Greed is what’s screwing it up.
This gov gets told by the rich what to do.
The replacing party will also be told what to do by the rich, they will make it a little less bad. But only in the interests of the rich.
Need to get rid of these 1%er
This isn’t your personal blog mate.
Nah – Reddit leans left, tories lean right so naturally it’s the apocalypse when they are in power too long – just like trump.
Tories have lost public support so labour will win the next election which will eventually cause their problems instead like overspending and wasting govt money on schemes which don’t work.
The pendulum of public opinion always swings back and forth. Right now it’s just changed so the election will solve most of w if at the tories messed up
If you look back to the 1973-74 we have literally gone full circle war, mined strikes and high inflation and a PM promising tax breaks to raise growth all ended in a snap election to try and win more seat to “show the miners who run then country” failed then labour had to try then miss thatcher came in.
Voters preferred ugly lies that allowed them to blame others, over ugly truths that forced them to examine themselves.
It’s almost like a mass/cultural case of complete learned helplessness. But this is how abusive & predatory characters exert control. It’s why so many people look on in exasperation and disbelief at the woman who can’t seem to leave and escape her abusive partner…
The only way we can collectively fight this is to start believing in our own self worth & right to autonomy again. I really think it would be beneficial for folks to read up on abusive & narcissistic relationship dynamics, and then apply this model on a cultural scale to understand better what’s happening (and hopefully how we can break free from it). Divide & conquer is not just a political tactic; it’s a method also used by controlling personalities in order to maintain control and force the victim into a permanent state of submission.
There is always hope. Get rid of the Tories by voting them out.
How was this old woman in McDonalds cold? It has been 22-26C all past month.
The only replies you will get on this subreddit is “the tories this, the tories that”. The truth is we are a capitalist nation. If you have good income or wealth then you will live very well. It sucks to be poor but its still a better quality of life than the majority of the world.
With regards to energy, the whole of western europe is affected. We have relied too long on cheap Russian gas. UK statistics show that over 40% of our electricity generation was from gas. Include that with our gas use such as boilers and central heating. Its an obstacle that will take decades to get over.
Person leaves U.K. comes back and bemoans the U.K.s failure because their pay/conditions abroad didn’t keep up. Bemoans old of people?
Ironically all the Old people that retired to Spain and the like then returned at a later point over the last 20-30 years all have this same gripe. When they left they could afford property, now they need a mortgage.
Clearly the foreign dream didn’t work for the OP either and got left behind. I’m not sure how that the UKs fault.
Time to stop following this sub again – who really wants to read 5 of these posts a day?
Bit if a weird post this isn’t it. Record heatwaves and yet cold in McDonald’s. £2500 per month rent? A lot of how it’s worded too.
Bonus points at OP history.
There’s so much more to the UK than London, you know.
The way this post is written, it doesn’t sound like this is your homeland – or maybe you’ve just spent a while abroad. Which is fine, but it just makes the whole post look a bit sus. Something isn’t right.
This entire post is made-up bullshit and people are actually lapping it up. Nice attempt OP!
Devils advocate.
I had been living in Hong Kong from 2016-2021 and returned home to the U.K.
The quality of life here is insanely good compared to Hong Kong. Granted Hong Kong is fairly shit these days, but nonetheless- it’s easy to get tunnel vision and forget how good we have it.
It’s tricky because each year for the last 8 years I’ve felt like the UK is at it’s the lowest point in my lifetime, but each year it gets even worse. It’s absolutely shameful how far we’ve let ourselves go.
The only place gone to shit is this sub. A true embarrassment to the country.
Every week or so we get these over the top wacky posts in this sub telling us the country is a living hell and we’re all doomed.
Can we just tone it down a bit? Half the things you’ve said aren’t true. We all know things aren’t going great but stop exaggerating.
Mods on this subreddit are rubbish. Constantly letting BS anti-UK propaganda slide.
Claims to be from UK yet can’t even put the £ in the right place? In USA, UK, Europe, etc it always goes first. Russia however puts the ruble after the number.
Claim of “2500£” For a room in London? You can rent a flat for that much.
No jobs in London?
Old woman warming herself in Mcdonalds as we wind down from a 2nd heatwave?
Absolute tripe that yet again gets through as mods do nothing.
£2,500 for a room? I mean, London housing market is definitely broken, but £2,500 for a room is ridiculous, unless you are looking in Chelsea.
1) You moved to London without a job and complaining about rent. Like, this is a no brainer lol
2) You’re looking for “product management in the media / events space”. Honestly, covid probably made everyone start doing this themselves. It’s not exactly a desired role with what’s going on.
With your history of crypto, I get the impression that if you were minted, you’d be making a post along the lines of “I’m wealthy just by doing crypto, I don’t know why everyones complaining about london rents and energy bills”.