Il pessimismo si radica nel Regno Unito mentre gli acquirenti faticano a permettersi i beni di prima necessità | Crisi del costo della vita nel Regno Unito
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/30/pessimism-takes-root-uk-shoppers-struggle-essentials-iran-war-prices
di JackStrawWitchita
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No shit. Every time things are looking up a bit, someone – more likely than not a billionaire – comes along and fucks things up again.
I can’t even comfort eat through it (thanks, wage stagnation, shrinkflation, enshittification, and whoops I had kids before I realised I was in the worst timeline).
Would be excellent to have just six months without one crisis or another. Just six months?
I’m 40 years old, we went into recession just as I left uni, every time life looks like it’s improving for the country something happens to fuck that up.
Its the sort of thung that makes you think “am I the idiot?”. Shoplifting is going fucking crazy, nobody is getting punished for it either. You just look at the prices and think “am I the idiot for actually trying to do the right thing and not be a thief? Am I just being naive? Does everyone else just not feel guilty? Does nobody else care about the social fabric?”
I’m not gonna steal but I’m beginning to understand why even those that don’t NEED to steal nonetheless do so.
People are not pessimistic, they are facing reality. Right now many people like me work so they can get to work and are blamed for not getting a better job in a job market that has stagnated wages and training for decades whilst services to the public are destroyed along with continuous rhetoric that “this is necessary to get through the tough times” political sound burst with nothing improving.
People are in survival mode and they know it but you can’t point that out because then you have to take responsibility as a government instead of finding a new way to blame the people.
I just spent a week in Paris on a business trip and dashed into a big Carrefour shop for a salad on the one day we didn’t go out to lunch as a group.
I was astonished to see that the food there was less expensive than my local Aldi by about 10% & seemed better quality, after you convert the euro to the pound.
Christ on a bike!
It’s not a cost of living crisis, more of a greedy business crisis.
I certainly feel pessimistic about Britain much of the time.
Progress was going well, a sensible government and then the USA disrupts and ruins things
And these are the economic ‘good times’ before AI starts creating mass job losses…
This headline could be any time from the last 18 years.
Maybe we should just build a big wall around the usa most of the shite can be traced back there
MPs are getting paid more, benefits are going up. Anyone else getting fed up with being told they have ‘[broad enough shoulders](https://mol.im/a/15690007)’ to manage?
My heating oil has doubled in price (no cap on heating oil) too, so that’s a nice reminder.
I can pick up 10-15 items and I’m paying around £50. The same stuff would have cost only £20 a few years ago.
What’s the fucking point?
You know what we need now to fix the country?
A million unskilled immigrants to put on welfare 👍