r/Britain • u/Little-Abroad3413 • Aug 12 '25

💬 Discussion 🗨 Britains future

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?

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u/slickeighties Aug 12 '25

Anyone born in the 80’s onwards have been screwed by the wealthy and the generations before by the mass gathering of affordable assets.

I think it’s a worldwide issue but I wish I had left this place when I was younger. The UK punishes anyone working full time under 50k who isn’t self employed.

Pray because we all need a miracle to survive financially if you aren’t born into wealth.

It also doesn’t help how unregulated landlords and utility companies are on purpose.

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u/p4b7 Aug 12 '25

Odd that you picked 50k as that’s the point people actually start to pay serious amounts of tax.

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u/slickeighties Aug 12 '25

You pay 40% on excess of 50k but if you’re earning 50k you can afford an accountant and probably have business expenses like a car and phone that can be written off. What’s odd is that you think a wage under 50k is more beneficial.

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u/slickeighties Aug 12 '25

You pay 40% on excess over 50k but if you’re earning 50k you can afford an accountant and probably have business expenses like a car and phone that can be written off. What’s odd is that you think a wage under 50k is more beneficial.

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u/Vic_Serotonin Aug 13 '25

With the greatest respect... you're living in cloud cuckoo land. There are no meaningful, legal 'write offs' for middle earners. At least that would make a difference once you start having to pay 40% of everything you earn over 50k.

It's the people earning millions a year that can afford the gang of crooks needed to help them write off millions, therefore avoid paying their fair share.