They also screwed up to the cost of 30bn (with trusses no tax for the rich facade) and are STILL happily in power… How much will the long suffering supplicant UK public take?!
“Failing” isn’t the f-word I’d use to describe what they’ve been doing to us.
To be fair interest rates were 15% when they were the younger generation
/s
Been chronically ill for about 5 years now, and had mental health issues long before then. All my individual (and joint attempts, i.e through NHS or private doctors) have been futile in improving my health. I’d probably have a better chance at getting better through private healthcare but I can only ‘afford’ it when it’s heavily, heavily subsidised. Even then it was a burn to my wallet in the past. I’m still trying to get better but it looks like I’ll be stuck this way for a long time, if not forever. I’ve only worked one day in my life because of my health issues. My childhood of abuse and poverty likely lead to my chronic illness. I feel pretty failed by ‘the system’ but the worse part is failing the country myself. I don’t want to be a burden on taxpayers. I really hate the state of myself and my life right now. It’s indescribably frustrating.
Tories have failed everyone not just my generation, neoliberal policies over the last 40 years have fucked us all.
I’m 29 and have not known a time the country wasn’t going through a crisis of some sorts.
With what they’ve done to education in this country they’ve failed the next one too
The bit that gets me is the tories have doomed a generation to work in wage slave jobs with almost no chance of purchasing houses or retiring and then are surprised when these people are depressed/have no work ethic. What’s the point in getting up 5 days a week to waste 70% of your life driving up wealth for the comfortable few when you know at the end you’re going to be a burn out spending a state pension on rent back to the fucks who’ve just enslaved you for 40 years
Eh? they’re failing more than one generation.
They view people based on their actual/potential economic contributions. If they think or know you cannot work then they view you as dirt, if that, which is why benefits are meagre and have become so difficult to claim. They want those on them to be afraid and willing to accept any work possible to get off them. Underfunding the health and care services just add to this, despite the fact that investment in those would help people get back to work sooner. A combination of a Victorian work ethic and a lack of desire to invest in public services makes for a terrible pairing for those affected by chronic ill health.
They’re vandals.
While they and their bovine support whinge and whine about Albanian flags draped over a statue of Winston Churchill, they quite happily engage in (and cheer) real vandalism against their own country. Whether it’s dumping literal shit into our beautiful rivers or suffocating young people with substandard housing and bleak job prospects, who needs enemies when you have Conservative party (and their supporters)?
I take offence a “A”. X,Y,Z and Alpha are all being failed and screwed.
I’m one of the 25-34 bracket on long term sick- however it’s not due to mental health etc- I had surgery in June on my lower back and haven’t recovered properly yet- I had to go to the nurses every day to get the wound cleaned/dressed for 4 months. My 2 takes from the situation are how shocking our sick pay is in this country- my employer offers 1(!) paid sick week a year and then SSP, I’ve gone from earning 520 quid a week before tax to 95- through no fault of my own. I don’t qualify for UC due to my council tax band/mortgage and having some savings still- which are rapidly shrinking I can see how someone in my situation could very very easily have gone bankrupt at the age of 27 through medical bad luck. If I didn’t have the lifeline of parents willing to help me out I can easily see the stress/anxiety of the situation leading it all to spiral downwards and my mental health taking a complete pounding- leading to even more time off and a vicious cycle. The second point is, as we all know, the nhs is stretched to the brink- I was being fitted in between slots, after hours etc. for my daily appointments because they just had nothing at all even weeks in advance. This is in a fairly Tory area so the GP surgeries are doing a lot better than less affluent nearby areas too. The nurses knew I needed to be seen every day and they could barely manage it- taking their own time to do so.
Tory HQ: “Quick, get all the media to focus on immigration!”
The most laughable thing is Brexit was about controlling borders/ending freedom of movement and we now have more “illegal” immigration now than before!
First they blamed the E.U for all that was wrong in the UK – leading to Brexit.
Now they go back to blaming immigrants – it is the invasion of people, that is whay you can’t see a doctor for a month/we can’t pay anyone apart from our banker donors properly.
Tories, and a large part of the country, cannot face the fact that they are responsible for the current slide downwards of our contry and would rather blame anyone but themselves.
Just today Rishi refused to apologise for Truss’s budget 6 times!
Raab under investigation, is there actually a good Tory left?
It is depressing to be born in such a batshit crazy country where people would rather stay ignorant and blame other people rather than accept blame and develop from mistakes and GROW!
Fuck the tories and anyone that votes for them! the UK is worse than my arse after a shitty kebab and food poisoning!
A to be expected consequence of perpetually rising poverty and a deliberate policy of letting millions of young people catch COVID.
When we sequester our country in regimented class and wealth stratums like its the Victorian era don’t be surprised when the majority get sick like they did back then.
Unlike us though, they didn’t have a choice, modern Brits chose this with their votes.
This is true from what I witnessed at work. Younger generation (those born between year 1998 and 2004) are super stressed out and suffering from stress related burnout. They call in sick every other week as the job is stressful and there isn’t enough staff to cover the shifts.
It’s going to be really interesting when the young generation now make up the majority of the voters because the old ones have died out. All we’ve ever known is the country being turned to shit under the Tories. I’m not really sold that labour are the answer, but damn I can’t imagine ever even considering voting for the Tories in my lifetime, I will likely always simply vote tactically against them.
How the fuck are young people supposed to accomplish anything in this country. Rampant inflation on energy and food, house prices soaring, being forced to have a degree for a job and then stuck with student loans and then to top it off increased taxation.
It blows the mind that this has been allowed to occur.
It’s so depressing that as a 25 year old chronically ill autistic person whose been desperately trying to get any kind of paid work for the last 4 years since I finished my undergrad I basically have to accept that I’m not getting work, I’m not able to save and move out and I’m essentially stuck in a tiny little town in my parents house doing volunteer work. I love my parents and I’m aware that a lot of people my age don’t have the same security of not having to worry about rent, but it’s so utterly demoralising that even though all of my friends my age reassure me that I still have value despite not having a job and I genuinely try as hard as I can to fill my time with commission work, looking for more volunteering and creative opportunities and even just generally working on my mental wellbeing, I know that in the eyes of the government I’m just not a worthy human being because I have such severe anxiety and sensory issues that It takes me a little while to get used to being in any kind of environment never mind in a work place where I’m essentially competing against other people that don’t have to deal with those issues. I know that I’m doing as much as I possibly can to fill my time and find work and I’m in the process of sorting a pip application, but it’s quite frankly just shit how horrendously low my sense of self worth is because in a capitalist society I just don’t have as much value as most people exclusively because I’m not making money for the government despite the fact that if I wasn’t on my 10th month on a therapy waiting list after being told 3 months tops I would feel much more able to engage with the system. Fucked
It’s a sense of hopelessness to achieve a decent standard of living. People feel like slaves and they’re not wrong. If you work and still end up in debt and with nothing then essentially you are below a slave. Most young people realise that the economics of the U.K. and the world are basically a pyramid scheme and it’s crumbling.
Since Cameron the Tories have attacked the sick and disabled with their hostile DWP system and they are about to launch another attack that will lead to more people losing needed support which will lead to deaths.
The number of Long Covid sufferers is heading to people being unable to work and this is down to Tory policies of negligence as regards Covid and we are now seeing the results.
Also of course we have a growing issue of people with mental health issues, in many cases caused by the system that creates mental health issues in the work place.
Something has to give and it is doing so but people need to see the system is broke all because of government ideology and the pursuit of taking the pee out the population to enable the few at the top.
What they don’t say is I bet 2/3s of them are going on long term sick due to the wait involved getting a hospital appointment.
Basically, we are heading for societal instability. Steep declines in Birth rates, poor wages, insecure housing, climate change and a mental health epidemic, and the Tories just sit and chorttle while it all goes to fuck. Not realising it will be them who are in the firing line if the system goes down. I am not excited or salavating over this, but it’s the truth.
There are a lot of comments here talking about how younger generations are ‘soft’ and ‘babied until 28’.
This isn’t the case at all.
Why do you think people still live with their parents at 28? Can’t drive? Can’t get their own place? Can’t experience the world outside their hometowns?
It’s impossible to save nowadays with inflation rates. Unless you get inheritance, or have a family wealthy enough to support you, it’s impossible to claw your way to the top from ‘hard work’ alone.
‘Back in my day I sacrificed this and that, but I still saved up for a car, a house etc’ – people simply cannot work harder, grind, whatever to be successful anymore. Working more hours won’t get you anywhere unless you’re paid extremely well, even then that typically means you’ve got student loan debt etc and other hurdles to get over.
No, you can’t easily get a decent paying job anymore without a degree. It’s great that you left school at 16 and hard work got you your house, assets, whatever, but this isn’t the case anymore – the world doesn’t work like it used to.
Yes, sacrifices can be made to save but only so much – humans need to eat, to stay warm, etc. You shouldn’t have to develop malnutrition or illnesses whilst working full/over time to be able to afford property.
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They also screwed up to the cost of 30bn (with trusses no tax for the rich facade) and are STILL happily in power… How much will the long suffering supplicant UK public take?!
“Failing” isn’t the f-word I’d use to describe what they’ve been doing to us.
To be fair interest rates were 15% when they were the younger generation
/s
Been chronically ill for about 5 years now, and had mental health issues long before then. All my individual (and joint attempts, i.e through NHS or private doctors) have been futile in improving my health. I’d probably have a better chance at getting better through private healthcare but I can only ‘afford’ it when it’s heavily, heavily subsidised. Even then it was a burn to my wallet in the past. I’m still trying to get better but it looks like I’ll be stuck this way for a long time, if not forever. I’ve only worked one day in my life because of my health issues. My childhood of abuse and poverty likely lead to my chronic illness. I feel pretty failed by ‘the system’ but the worse part is failing the country myself. I don’t want to be a burden on taxpayers. I really hate the state of myself and my life right now. It’s indescribably frustrating.
Tories have failed everyone not just my generation, neoliberal policies over the last 40 years have fucked us all.
I’m 29 and have not known a time the country wasn’t going through a crisis of some sorts.
With what they’ve done to education in this country they’ve failed the next one too
The bit that gets me is the tories have doomed a generation to work in wage slave jobs with almost no chance of purchasing houses or retiring and then are surprised when these people are depressed/have no work ethic. What’s the point in getting up 5 days a week to waste 70% of your life driving up wealth for the comfortable few when you know at the end you’re going to be a burn out spending a state pension on rent back to the fucks who’ve just enslaved you for 40 years
Eh? they’re failing more than one generation.
They view people based on their actual/potential economic contributions. If they think or know you cannot work then they view you as dirt, if that, which is why benefits are meagre and have become so difficult to claim. They want those on them to be afraid and willing to accept any work possible to get off them. Underfunding the health and care services just add to this, despite the fact that investment in those would help people get back to work sooner. A combination of a Victorian work ethic and a lack of desire to invest in public services makes for a terrible pairing for those affected by chronic ill health.
They’re vandals.
While they and their bovine support whinge and whine about Albanian flags draped over a statue of Winston Churchill, they quite happily engage in (and cheer) real vandalism against their own country. Whether it’s dumping literal shit into our beautiful rivers or suffocating young people with substandard housing and bleak job prospects, who needs enemies when you have Conservative party (and their supporters)?
I take offence a “A”. X,Y,Z and Alpha are all being failed and screwed.
I’m one of the 25-34 bracket on long term sick- however it’s not due to mental health etc- I had surgery in June on my lower back and haven’t recovered properly yet- I had to go to the nurses every day to get the wound cleaned/dressed for 4 months. My 2 takes from the situation are how shocking our sick pay is in this country- my employer offers 1(!) paid sick week a year and then SSP, I’ve gone from earning 520 quid a week before tax to 95- through no fault of my own. I don’t qualify for UC due to my council tax band/mortgage and having some savings still- which are rapidly shrinking I can see how someone in my situation could very very easily have gone bankrupt at the age of 27 through medical bad luck. If I didn’t have the lifeline of parents willing to help me out I can easily see the stress/anxiety of the situation leading it all to spiral downwards and my mental health taking a complete pounding- leading to even more time off and a vicious cycle. The second point is, as we all know, the nhs is stretched to the brink- I was being fitted in between slots, after hours etc. for my daily appointments because they just had nothing at all even weeks in advance. This is in a fairly Tory area so the GP surgeries are doing a lot better than less affluent nearby areas too. The nurses knew I needed to be seen every day and they could barely manage it- taking their own time to do so.
Tory HQ: “Quick, get all the media to focus on immigration!”
The most laughable thing is Brexit was about controlling borders/ending freedom of movement and we now have more “illegal” immigration now than before!
First they blamed the E.U for all that was wrong in the UK – leading to Brexit.
Now they go back to blaming immigrants – it is the invasion of people, that is whay you can’t see a doctor for a month/we can’t pay anyone apart from our banker donors properly.
Tories, and a large part of the country, cannot face the fact that they are responsible for the current slide downwards of our contry and would rather blame anyone but themselves.
Just today Rishi refused to apologise for Truss’s budget 6 times!
Raab under investigation, is there actually a good Tory left?
It is depressing to be born in such a batshit crazy country where people would rather stay ignorant and blame other people rather than accept blame and develop from mistakes and GROW!
Fuck the tories and anyone that votes for them! the UK is worse than my arse after a shitty kebab and food poisoning!
A to be expected consequence of perpetually rising poverty and a deliberate policy of letting millions of young people catch COVID.
When we sequester our country in regimented class and wealth stratums like its the Victorian era don’t be surprised when the majority get sick like they did back then.
Unlike us though, they didn’t have a choice, modern Brits chose this with their votes.
This is true from what I witnessed at work. Younger generation (those born between year 1998 and 2004) are super stressed out and suffering from stress related burnout. They call in sick every other week as the job is stressful and there isn’t enough staff to cover the shifts.
It’s going to be really interesting when the young generation now make up the majority of the voters because the old ones have died out. All we’ve ever known is the country being turned to shit under the Tories. I’m not really sold that labour are the answer, but damn I can’t imagine ever even considering voting for the Tories in my lifetime, I will likely always simply vote tactically against them.
How the fuck are young people supposed to accomplish anything in this country. Rampant inflation on energy and food, house prices soaring, being forced to have a degree for a job and then stuck with student loans and then to top it off increased taxation.
It blows the mind that this has been allowed to occur.
It’s so depressing that as a 25 year old chronically ill autistic person whose been desperately trying to get any kind of paid work for the last 4 years since I finished my undergrad I basically have to accept that I’m not getting work, I’m not able to save and move out and I’m essentially stuck in a tiny little town in my parents house doing volunteer work. I love my parents and I’m aware that a lot of people my age don’t have the same security of not having to worry about rent, but it’s so utterly demoralising that even though all of my friends my age reassure me that I still have value despite not having a job and I genuinely try as hard as I can to fill my time with commission work, looking for more volunteering and creative opportunities and even just generally working on my mental wellbeing, I know that in the eyes of the government I’m just not a worthy human being because I have such severe anxiety and sensory issues that It takes me a little while to get used to being in any kind of environment never mind in a work place where I’m essentially competing against other people that don’t have to deal with those issues. I know that I’m doing as much as I possibly can to fill my time and find work and I’m in the process of sorting a pip application, but it’s quite frankly just shit how horrendously low my sense of self worth is because in a capitalist society I just don’t have as much value as most people exclusively because I’m not making money for the government despite the fact that if I wasn’t on my 10th month on a therapy waiting list after being told 3 months tops I would feel much more able to engage with the system. Fucked
It’s a sense of hopelessness to achieve a decent standard of living. People feel like slaves and they’re not wrong. If you work and still end up in debt and with nothing then essentially you are below a slave. Most young people realise that the economics of the U.K. and the world are basically a pyramid scheme and it’s crumbling.
Since Cameron the Tories have attacked the sick and disabled with their hostile DWP system and they are about to launch another attack that will lead to more people losing needed support which will lead to deaths.
The number of Long Covid sufferers is heading to people being unable to work and this is down to Tory policies of negligence as regards Covid and we are now seeing the results.
Also of course we have a growing issue of people with mental health issues, in many cases caused by the system that creates mental health issues in the work place.
Something has to give and it is doing so but people need to see the system is broke all because of government ideology and the pursuit of taking the pee out the population to enable the few at the top.
What they don’t say is I bet 2/3s of them are going on long term sick due to the wait involved getting a hospital appointment.
Basically, we are heading for societal instability. Steep declines in Birth rates, poor wages, insecure housing, climate change and a mental health epidemic, and the Tories just sit and chorttle while it all goes to fuck. Not realising it will be them who are in the firing line if the system goes down. I am not excited or salavating over this, but it’s the truth.
There are a lot of comments here talking about how younger generations are ‘soft’ and ‘babied until 28’.
This isn’t the case at all.
Why do you think people still live with their parents at 28? Can’t drive? Can’t get their own place? Can’t experience the world outside their hometowns?
It’s impossible to save nowadays with inflation rates. Unless you get inheritance, or have a family wealthy enough to support you, it’s impossible to claw your way to the top from ‘hard work’ alone.
‘Back in my day I sacrificed this and that, but I still saved up for a car, a house etc’ – people simply cannot work harder, grind, whatever to be successful anymore. Working more hours won’t get you anywhere unless you’re paid extremely well, even then that typically means you’ve got student loan debt etc and other hurdles to get over.
No, you can’t easily get a decent paying job anymore without a degree. It’s great that you left school at 16 and hard work got you your house, assets, whatever, but this isn’t the case anymore – the world doesn’t work like it used to.
Yes, sacrifices can be made to save but only so much – humans need to eat, to stay warm, etc. You shouldn’t have to develop malnutrition or illnesses whilst working full/over time to be able to afford property.