*Britains ruling party is sleepwalking into societal collapse whilst the man on the omnibus is evading the fare in order to feed himself
There, fixed the shit clickbait title
ETA: this man on the Clapham omnibus doesn’t appreciate having a shot article thrust in his face by a user who will share any article on any relevant sub despite the fact they have absolutely no idea what they or the article talking about
ETA 2: quite frankly it’s obvious you don’t give a shit about what you’re posting, otherwise you wouldn’t have posted this crap after midnight on a Saturday, a time when most Brits are too drunk or too tired or too hard worked on the nightshift to pay attention to you
The ruling party knows and doesn’t care
The main opposition knows and cares but has to be circumspect about its plans to remediate because of fears on how they can be elected if honest
Anyone below median income knows and is shit scared
Many people above median income know and are feeling survivor guilt and are shit scared for others
Nobody is sleepwalking here.
Hello, this is Liz Truss gaming. In this video, I set the world record for the “One Month Prime Minister Crash the Economy Real-Time Glitch.” It’s okay if you don’t understand what any of that means; I’ll go over it during the speedrun. Let’s not waste time, though, and I’ll start the video.
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Sleepwalking? How about falling fast. A few tactical nuclear weapons from Russia would put the country out of its misery right now.
It’s not sleepwalking, they’re awake they’re just very stupid
Because of this, the markets are rising because they are now interpreting the UK as a “instability.” THE ENTIRE WORK OF THIS GOVERNMENT. After Boris was expelled, we should have held elections, but the tories’ haughtiness and addiction to power mean they don’t give a shit about the nation and, like Trump, will drag us down into the mud in order to hold onto power.
Although l am very careful and conservative in my thinking l did agonise and labour over this reply.l believe l am fair and liberal in my thinking and responses.l am not green l have been around for many years so my assessment is that we have left it too late,far too late to recover as a united nation.l hope there is nothing here that will earn me a ban.
The article could be a lot shorter:
One of the primary functions of a political system is to respond to crises. The UK political system has proven itself unable to respond effectively to even minor crises as evidenced by brexit, covid, housing crisis, inflation crisis, etc. You can conclude from this that the political system in the UK has already collapsed. The political institutions technically exist, but they are inoperable. And if a society is unable to respond to crises, then at some point it’s going to encounter a crisis big enough, or a confluence of multiple crises, that will bring about its collapse.
This ought not be news to anyone who has been paying attention to what’s been happening in the UK for the last decade.
That kinda happens when those running the show couldn’t organise a ride in a brothel
I don’t think we’re sleep walking. We know all about it
An interesting article; a seemingly intelligent person oft bamboozled because of his belief that finance dictates reality and not the other way around.
The warning signs have been around since 2008. The FT have been doing a series of articles about the truly scary structural issues at the heart of our economy, but it seems the people driving have either ignored the issue or have been directly benefiting from it.
I think the important issue highlighted in this article is speed of which this will happen. It might not be a flash fire, but rather a slow burn. For me, it’s the attack on our institutions that truly heralded the end of Britain as we knew it. When a tabloid can have the disdain to publish front pages calling the judiciary ‘traitors’, that’s a bad sign.
Most of us are NOT sleepwalking. We’re wide awake and being dragged against our wills into the abyss by the elite and the power hungry.
I guess this is the logical conclusion of Thatcher’s mantra that ‘There is no such thing as society.’
How stupid and inhumane neoliberalism is as an ideology. Sigh…
You all wanted this ! Do not complain! Begged for free furlough money and restrictions that some of us did not ask for and want now we all pay the price
I love England and I love living here but capitalism is a scale and it’s tipping too far one way.you can’t creat a flourishing peaceful society if everyone’s broke and angry.
Glibertarians want to see Britain moved to their economic paradise model: Somalia.
Some unbelievable comments here. Clearly many of you don’t know how good your lot is. In the grand scheme of things if it all goes tits up in this country we’re still massively better off than much of the rest of the world.
Less sleepwalking more running while some of us have spent years screaming “wrong way!!!”
Are we sleepwalking or do we just not have any power to change it. I’m very aware that everything’s fucked but what can I realistically do about it?
Strange, I seem to remember someone with a university education saying there is no such thing as society, so how can it collapse?
I’m not sure sleepwalking is the right word here. Skipping gleefully through a decade long bomb site of tory mismanagement would be more accurate.
People knew it was bad when they elected May. People knew it was bad when they elected Johnson. Are they really so dumb that it’s taken Truss to make them realise the Tories have fucked us?
Sleepwalking into Dystopia
Illegal Protests
Jail time for the most ridiculous of no-victim “crimes
„Bank of England” Digital Currency
„International Investors” market buying land and real estate for a 50% markup
Carbon Footprint Tax, brought to you by the same Energy Company that cares so little about the private jets of it’s Board of Directors
Fight or die, people of England. Fight or die.
More like dragged there by twelve years of Tory mismanagement and intentional destruction.
and in the process the tax-avoiding rich are getting richer shipping billions to offshore accounts and not caring what happens because when its all done, we will be fucked, but they will be richer and uneffected.
Not just us, the whole western world is on the verge of societal collapse.
We’ll probably be the first (well, us or the USA) unless the collapse is driven by mass migration relating to climate change, in which case we’ll probably be the last by virtue of us being an island on the northern edge of Europe
We aren’t sleepwalking at all.
We can all see it coming. It’s like, super, super obvious and everyone is talking about what sort of survival strategy we’re going to be using when our highstreets resembles the New Californian Republic, because for one it will look like a nuclear wasteland inhabited by raiders and mutants, and Californian because we’ll have no way to survive it without our new Americanized healthcare.
We’re all hurtling toward it because our Tory overlords are too stupid and too self-serving to do what’s best for the country. It’s a fucking disaster. They are not fit for office.
I’ve been saying this for years, but nobody listened.
We only left the EU cause the Tory cunts didn’t want to have to reveal their details of their money to the public
Having heard the first MP callingiz to Resign, brings a sign of hope.
Calling out Jeremy Hunt as Prime Minister, is unfair.
Is Rishni being discriminated? Frankly speaking.
On a personal level it feels like we’ve arrived. On Weds I interrupted a van theft. They ended up driving their car at me. Whilst on the bonnet I, perhaps stupidly and naively, smashed their windscreen 12 times with the shears I was using at the time in an effort to get them to stop. The police said it would be a week before they could take a statement. I pushed back hard and got them to come round but again I had to push to get them to realise how serious it was ie. they used a lethal weapon against me. A fair amount of this was caught on CCTV thankfully and I’ve had to start my own enquiries to get further CCTV. I feel like we’re doomed.
Ever been in a crowd surge, everyone heading in one direction, the exit after a match or concert. Pressed in shoulder to shoulder, just avoiding tripping over the feet in front? Well that’s me right now, being dragged towards a destination I don’t want. I’m not sleeping, I’m just hemmed in by the democratic rule of the Tory addict.
Sending love from the US. Sad to see us all having the same issues. I am new to the learning of your parliamentary system. So Boris got kicked and the tory party picked Truss. Do I have that right? I see people calling for a general election. Can that happen?
Being dragged is more like it, I would love to move my family to Scotland!
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More like sleepwalking into totalitarianism
*Britains ruling party is sleepwalking into societal collapse whilst the man on the omnibus is evading the fare in order to feed himself
There, fixed the shit clickbait title
ETA: this man on the Clapham omnibus doesn’t appreciate having a shot article thrust in his face by a user who will share any article on any relevant sub despite the fact they have absolutely no idea what they or the article talking about
ETA 2: quite frankly it’s obvious you don’t give a shit about what you’re posting, otherwise you wouldn’t have posted this crap after midnight on a Saturday, a time when most Brits are too drunk or too tired or too hard worked on the nightshift to pay attention to you
The ruling party knows and doesn’t care
The main opposition knows and cares but has to be circumspect about its plans to remediate because of fears on how they can be elected if honest
Anyone below median income knows and is shit scared
Many people above median income know and are feeling survivor guilt and are shit scared for others
Nobody is sleepwalking here.
Hello, this is Liz Truss gaming. In this video, I set the world record for the “One Month Prime Minister Crash the Economy Real-Time Glitch.” It’s okay if you don’t understand what any of that means; I’ll go over it during the speedrun. Let’s not waste time, though, and I’ll start the video.
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Sleepwalking? How about falling fast. A few tactical nuclear weapons from Russia would put the country out of its misery right now.
It’s not sleepwalking, they’re awake they’re just very stupid
Because of this, the markets are rising because they are now interpreting the UK as a “instability.” THE ENTIRE WORK OF THIS GOVERNMENT. After Boris was expelled, we should have held elections, but the tories’ haughtiness and addiction to power mean they don’t give a shit about the nation and, like Trump, will drag us down into the mud in order to hold onto power.
Although l am very careful and conservative in my thinking l did agonise and labour over this reply.l believe l am fair and liberal in my thinking and responses.l am not green l have been around for many years so my assessment is that we have left it too late,far too late to recover as a united nation.l hope there is nothing here that will earn me a ban.
The article could be a lot shorter:
One of the primary functions of a political system is to respond to crises. The UK political system has proven itself unable to respond effectively to even minor crises as evidenced by brexit, covid, housing crisis, inflation crisis, etc. You can conclude from this that the political system in the UK has already collapsed. The political institutions technically exist, but they are inoperable. And if a society is unable to respond to crises, then at some point it’s going to encounter a crisis big enough, or a confluence of multiple crises, that will bring about its collapse.
This ought not be news to anyone who has been paying attention to what’s been happening in the UK for the last decade.
That kinda happens when those running the show couldn’t organise a ride in a brothel
I don’t think we’re sleep walking. We know all about it
An interesting article; a seemingly intelligent person oft bamboozled because of his belief that finance dictates reality and not the other way around.
The warning signs have been around since 2008. The FT have been doing a series of articles about the truly scary structural issues at the heart of our economy, but it seems the people driving have either ignored the issue or have been directly benefiting from it.
I think the important issue highlighted in this article is speed of which this will happen. It might not be a flash fire, but rather a slow burn. For me, it’s the attack on our institutions that truly heralded the end of Britain as we knew it. When a tabloid can have the disdain to publish front pages calling the judiciary ‘traitors’, that’s a bad sign.
Most of us are NOT sleepwalking. We’re wide awake and being dragged against our wills into the abyss by the elite and the power hungry.
I guess this is the logical conclusion of Thatcher’s mantra that ‘There is no such thing as society.’
How stupid and inhumane neoliberalism is as an ideology. Sigh…
You all wanted this ! Do not complain! Begged for free furlough money and restrictions that some of us did not ask for and want now we all pay the price
I love England and I love living here but capitalism is a scale and it’s tipping too far one way.you can’t creat a flourishing peaceful society if everyone’s broke and angry.
Glibertarians want to see Britain moved to their economic paradise model: Somalia.
Some unbelievable comments here. Clearly many of you don’t know how good your lot is. In the grand scheme of things if it all goes tits up in this country we’re still massively better off than much of the rest of the world.
Less sleepwalking more running while some of us have spent years screaming “wrong way!!!”
Are we sleepwalking or do we just not have any power to change it. I’m very aware that everything’s fucked but what can I realistically do about it?
Strange, I seem to remember someone with a university education saying there is no such thing as society, so how can it collapse?
I’m not sure sleepwalking is the right word here. Skipping gleefully through a decade long bomb site of tory mismanagement would be more accurate.
People knew it was bad when they elected May. People knew it was bad when they elected Johnson. Are they really so dumb that it’s taken Truss to make them realise the Tories have fucked us?
Sleepwalking into Dystopia
Illegal Protests
Jail time for the most ridiculous of no-victim “crimes
„Bank of England” Digital Currency
„International Investors” market buying land and real estate for a 50% markup
Carbon Footprint Tax, brought to you by the same Energy Company that cares so little about the private jets of it’s Board of Directors
Fight or die, people of England. Fight or die.
More like dragged there by twelve years of Tory mismanagement and intentional destruction.
and in the process the tax-avoiding rich are getting richer shipping billions to offshore accounts and not caring what happens because when its all done, we will be fucked, but they will be richer and uneffected.
Not just us, the whole western world is on the verge of societal collapse.
We’ll probably be the first (well, us or the USA) unless the collapse is driven by mass migration relating to climate change, in which case we’ll probably be the last by virtue of us being an island on the northern edge of Europe
We aren’t sleepwalking at all.
We can all see it coming. It’s like, super, super obvious and everyone is talking about what sort of survival strategy we’re going to be using when our highstreets resembles the New Californian Republic, because for one it will look like a nuclear wasteland inhabited by raiders and mutants, and Californian because we’ll have no way to survive it without our new Americanized healthcare.
We’re all hurtling toward it because our Tory overlords are too stupid and too self-serving to do what’s best for the country. It’s a fucking disaster. They are not fit for office.
I’ve been saying this for years, but nobody listened.
We only left the EU cause the Tory cunts didn’t want to have to reveal their details of their money to the public
Having heard the first MP callingiz to Resign, brings a sign of hope.
Calling out Jeremy Hunt as Prime Minister, is unfair.
Is Rishni being discriminated? Frankly speaking.
On a personal level it feels like we’ve arrived. On Weds I interrupted a van theft. They ended up driving their car at me. Whilst on the bonnet I, perhaps stupidly and naively, smashed their windscreen 12 times with the shears I was using at the time in an effort to get them to stop. The police said it would be a week before they could take a statement. I pushed back hard and got them to come round but again I had to push to get them to realise how serious it was ie. they used a lethal weapon against me. A fair amount of this was caught on CCTV thankfully and I’ve had to start my own enquiries to get further CCTV. I feel like we’re doomed.
Ever been in a crowd surge, everyone heading in one direction, the exit after a match or concert. Pressed in shoulder to shoulder, just avoiding tripping over the feet in front? Well that’s me right now, being dragged towards a destination I don’t want. I’m not sleeping, I’m just hemmed in by the democratic rule of the Tory addict.
Sending love from the US. Sad to see us all having the same issues. I am new to the learning of your parliamentary system. So Boris got kicked and the tory party picked Truss. Do I have that right? I see people calling for a general election. Can that happen?
Being dragged is more like it, I would love to move my family to Scotland!