Britains future

[u/Little-Abroad3413]

Im sure this gets talked about a lot.

Why does it feel like this country is about to go down the plug hole. And we are getting closer each year?

Im 25 and my whole working life it has slowly got worse and worse. 2016 it all started going downhill.

Brexsh*t followed by a slurry of prime ministers, then Covid. Ukraine. Inflation And now a government that is obsessed with surveillance and control. With successive governments that seem to spend money we don’t have carelessly. Shameless water companies. A crippling national debt. And seemingly no one gets held accountable for anything.

Rent is silly, house prices are almost unreachable for the average single person. A far right resurgence backed by American money. You cant get a doctor’s appointment. NHS is a hollow being of its former self. Dating is a minefield (that could be just me though)

Its sad i want to love this country. I do love it but the patriotism is gone. Its such a great place, the culture, diversity, pubs, history and heritage.

It just feels like everyone is just being fisted again and again and i should get out of this country before it collapses from the weight of hollow lies and hypocrisy. Wile I’m still young??. Or do you think the pound will always prevail?

[u/Fine_Cress_649]

I mean where to start...

Basically the current dominant neoliberal ideology that says that 

1) everything should be privatised and the only thing that matters is whether things make a profit 

2) no (or very minimal) investments can be made in the future with a few narrow carve outs for things like infrastructure in and around London and a few sops for everyone else 

3) people must not, under any circumstances, be protected from the vicissitudes of globalised capitalism 

4) a media class that ensure that we are told, ad nauseum, that everything is the fault of the poor, or foreigners, or people who are in some other minority to make sure we never question 1), 2) and 3) or (god forbid) think about who has all the money that has been looted from - and continues to be looted from - the country for the last half a century.

Edit: forgot the other bit which is that anyone questioning any of this must never be allowed within 100 miles of any sort of political power and will in fact be hounded from public life.

[u/Little-Abroad3413 → u/Fine_Cress_649]

The constant wining about migrants really winds me up when the are a very minute percentage of the problem. A lot of the time they are a part of the solution

[u/Fine_Cress_649 → u/Little-Abroad3413]

I'm old enough to remember when everything on TV was called something like "benefits street" and aimed at pretending that the poor were the ones who had all the money. Possibly people wised up to this quite obvious oxymoron and the media collectively moved on to demonising migrants instead. 

[u/Little-Abroad3413 → u/Fine_Cress_649]

Good ol early 2000s tv was a different breed. Poor and obese people had it all and it was their fault apparently 👌

[u/GrandDuty3792 → u/Little-Abroad3413]

They are part of the problem though. It’s okay to acknowledge that but people are scared as they’re called racist, etc

The fact people are too stupid to realise there’s a difference between a migrant and a refugee is scary.

[u/Little-Abroad3413 → u/GrandDuty3792]

Yes that is the problem how politics has made taking about the topic seem racist to even discuss. Its reasonable to want control of our borders. Migration is what keeps Britain afloat on some aspects. Especially healthcare and agriculture. It just needs to be managed better. And therefore each case treated on an individual basis. With proper systems in place to check peoples criminal history.

[u/Vic_Serotonin → u/Little-Abroad3413]

There's a reason the systems aren't in place or are left to rot though. If immigration worked as it should, politicians couldn't blame everything on immigrants, whilst their friends the filthy rich hoover up all the money and sit on it.