I mean, that isn’t right, surely? The Greens have very visibly made cost-of-living a headline issue. Say what you want about their means of addressing it, but to say they don’t care about it as a concern is crazy to me.
No. I think that the Tories and Reform care. They want to raise the cost of living drastically.
It’s because we are more aware that we are being turned into ever increasing commodities for the “oligarchs!”
The problem is we all want the cost of living to improve today but it was a lack of long term investment that got us into this situation to begin with. If we keep voting for parties that gives us relief in the short term (through cuts and borrowing) we end up paying for it long term.
People need to realise that there is very little any government can do about the cost of living.
We voted for our critical infrastructure to be privatised meaning we are in the hands of private companies for electricity, gas and water. We voted for low taxes for 45 years meaning we now have a £3 trillion national debt and a £100+ billion annual deficit.
People haven’t bothered to keep their skills relevant meaning most British people have no more skills than their Indian or Chinese counterparts, but expect to be paid four times as much for doing the same job which doesn’t wash in an increasingly global economy.
Unfortunately, all our chickens are now come home to roost.
You never have a say in the UK unless you have a vote on foreign affairs and you do not have any say on foreign affairs when you have a foreign military base on your soil.
I’m not sure what I would expect a government to do to lower the cost of living. Subsidise carrots in Tesco? Pay my rent for me? Give me an electric car and somewhere to park and charge it so I don’t have to pay so much for petrol?
Labour are working on it but sections of the electorate repeatedly voted to wreck the UK by re-electing the Conservatives and choosing Brexit.
Even worse most of those responsible for this refuse to take any responsibility for their voting choices, and are often the first to moan that Labour haven’t waved a magic wand and fixed it all overnight.
The same people are now probably going to vote ReformUK to really screw over the country when it’s already on its knees.
Green Party is the only one that actually cares. Some of them are really misguided on nuclear though.
Because when Labour makes a move to counteract this, everyone complains lol.
We can’t win.
It seems many people confuse not being able to fix the cost of living crisis with not wanting to
when i was younger i was probably just too naive
these days i just pretty much universally accept that until something durastically changes in society, no party/corporation/people in power actually care about me.
Not that the Greens have been talking about it non-stop for over a year now. Do people not pay attention?
All the sensible parties care deeply. It’s critically important. That doesn’t mean in any way that the government has executive control over the cost of living. A global economy has benefits but also has global issues. No country that is heavily involved with the global economy can just wish the cost of living away, nor can they just press a few buttons to get it under control. Labour are doing an amazing job in with an incredibly difficult task. I’m not sure how much better people think it can get unless we suddenly regained control of the US
Damn, have we tried printing more bonds for benefits?
Thats true. There are culture wars ovrrshadowing the real problems that no one wants to touch and fix.
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I mean, that isn’t right, surely? The Greens have very visibly made cost-of-living a headline issue. Say what you want about their means of addressing it, but to say they don’t care about it as a concern is crazy to me.
No. I think that the Tories and Reform care. They want to raise the cost of living drastically.
It’s because we are more aware that we are being turned into ever increasing commodities for the “oligarchs!”
The problem is we all want the cost of living to improve today but it was a lack of long term investment that got us into this situation to begin with. If we keep voting for parties that gives us relief in the short term (through cuts and borrowing) we end up paying for it long term.
People need to realise that there is very little any government can do about the cost of living.
We voted for our critical infrastructure to be privatised meaning we are in the hands of private companies for electricity, gas and water. We voted for low taxes for 45 years meaning we now have a £3 trillion national debt and a £100+ billion annual deficit.
People haven’t bothered to keep their skills relevant meaning most British people have no more skills than their Indian or Chinese counterparts, but expect to be paid four times as much for doing the same job which doesn’t wash in an increasingly global economy.
Unfortunately, all our chickens are now come home to roost.
You never have a say in the UK unless you have a vote on foreign affairs and you do not have any say on foreign affairs when you have a foreign military base on your soil.
I’m not sure what I would expect a government to do to lower the cost of living. Subsidise carrots in Tesco? Pay my rent for me? Give me an electric car and somewhere to park and charge it so I don’t have to pay so much for petrol?
Labour are working on it but sections of the electorate repeatedly voted to wreck the UK by re-electing the Conservatives and choosing Brexit.
Even worse most of those responsible for this refuse to take any responsibility for their voting choices, and are often the first to moan that Labour haven’t waved a magic wand and fixed it all overnight.
The same people are now probably going to vote ReformUK to really screw over the country when it’s already on its knees.
Green Party is the only one that actually cares. Some of them are really misguided on nuclear though.
Because when Labour makes a move to counteract this, everyone complains lol.
We can’t win.
It seems many people confuse not being able to fix the cost of living crisis with not wanting to
when i was younger i was probably just too naive
these days i just pretty much universally accept that until something durastically changes in society, no party/corporation/people in power actually care about me.
Not that the Greens have been talking about it non-stop for over a year now. Do people not pay attention?
All the sensible parties care deeply. It’s critically important. That doesn’t mean in any way that the government has executive control over the cost of living. A global economy has benefits but also has global issues. No country that is heavily involved with the global economy can just wish the cost of living away, nor can they just press a few buttons to get it under control. Labour are doing an amazing job in with an incredibly difficult task. I’m not sure how much better people think it can get unless we suddenly regained control of the US
Damn, have we tried printing more bonds for benefits?
Thats true. There are culture wars ovrrshadowing the real problems that no one wants to touch and fix.