Gli inglesi pensano che il Regno Unito stia “andando nella direzione sbagliata” mentre il Bilancio incombe
Three quarters of Brits think UK ‘heading in wrong direction’ as Budget looms
di tylerthe-theatre
Gli inglesi pensano che il Regno Unito stia “andando nella direzione sbagliata” mentre il Bilancio incombe
Three quarters of Brits think UK ‘heading in wrong direction’ as Budget looms
di tylerthe-theatre
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we’re going to forget its the tories that got us here via fear of reform – I dont doubt Labour are misstepping but we have two massive issues – we left our largest trading partner and seemingly refuse to repair the damge done there and our other trading partner turned into a facist regime with an unreliable leadership (not to mention 16 or whatever years of greedy fucks in power doing nothing for anyone). At the same time as all that is going on life in the UK gets worse, too expensive to go out, eating in is getting more expensive, nothing is goign down, inflation is high, education is in the shitter, roads are terrible – not sure what this survey is proving what we cant all see with our eyes, there is no plan to lift us out of the shit, and even if there were is that possible rn with the international situation ?
By “Brits” CityAM mean the respondents to a poll conducted by wealth management firm Freshwater Strategy. I’m not sure if the respondents to that poll represent every day Brits but CityAM sure think they do.
I’ve got nothing against people that need some extra support, but if Labour wanted to increase taxes and increase benefits, they should have just campaigned with that. This feels like they lied to get their way in, and now are doing the very thing they said they would never do.
If you want to be the party of the non-working population, be my guest. But respect yourself by being honest and winning elections based on your true ideology. This budget sounds like it will “help” or maintain the status quo of everyone (pensioners, benefits, asset wealthy) EXCEPT the working family.
It has been heading in the wrong direction for over a decade.
When you have daily headlines telling people this, hardly any surprise
To be honest I don’t think there’s a good direction left for the UK, it’s just a matter of what type of bad you want to suffer through and how bad are you willing to risk it getting.
I’d be genuinely interested to know if there were any years in history in which Brits felt the UK was heading in the right direction. Obviously the sentiment can wax and wane in intensity but I think the idea that things are getting worse is just a pretty universal human experience, not news.
What’s emerging is a government that is addicted to raising headcount and deprivation stats. I do wonder whether the country is being gamed ahead of rejoining the EU – a greater deprivation score and larger headcount would mean more money from the EU. Kinda looks like it from where I’m standing.
To be clear, this is not just a Labour problem, its a government problem. Greta Thunberg was right when she said capitalism was addicted to “endless growth”. But its clear socialism is also addicted to “endless growth”…. its just population and deprivation.
Is that an especially helpful question though? I don’t think everyone agrees about what direction the UK is heading in for starters, what precisely is meant by “direction” (political? economic? social?), how much Labour is responsible for it…
Yes we need to turn this country around stop heading North and go South for the winter like the birds do
I don’t mind paying more tax, so long as public sector services are improved and it goes towards actual, long-term, public-owned infrastructure, and is put towards making things cheaper elsewhere, such as transport, such as energy, such as utilities. Nor do I mind it going towards Ukraine’s armaments to defend itself against Russia, since what happens there has a direct impact on the security across Europe and our own security.
I don’t want my tax money to go towards the WASPI who were warned that the state pension age would rise, when with how unsustainable the pension system is looking right now, means I’m unlikely to get any of the same benefits 30-odd years down the line.
Nor do I want it to go towards a £3.4bn deal for Mauritius over islands that weren’t historically its because it never even existed as a populated island when it were originally colonised, and that has had no input or self-determination whatsoever from the Chagos people who were formed as part of the colony.
Most Brits don’t have the slightest clue. The country is fighting a poor recovery from COVID, Brexit, a lunatic in the White House, a full scale war in Europe, a soft war with Russia and 14 years of Tory legacy. Yet they think everything can be solved in a matter of months. Its going to take well over 5 years to even start fixing stuff.
I know people will downvote me to hell but the way this government and country has gotten has turned me into a crook. Ive lied in my CV and got into high paying jobs. Ive dodged tax plenty of times by not declaring other income. I feel like if I didn’t become a crook I wouldn’t have made it like I have made it in life in the environment im in. Maybe thats why the top government officials, millionaire business owners etc are all also crooks, and the real way to makenit is to join them being crooks
All this rubbish is literally right wing press propaganda aimed at getting Reform high polling before the election. Keir Starmer is quite obviously the most competent prime minister since Gordon Brown despite the fact I don’t like him.
Of course he does, avoiding the fact his parties brexit and his parties dishing of billions out to Tory mates over COVID has meant the finances and economy is just stuck.
Along with 14 years of his party gutting the country via austerity while still increasing borrowing while nothing works.
One of the reasons why many are losing faith in the countries leadership is due to saying one thing and doing another. You cannot say you won’t raise taxes on working people and proceed to raise taxes to fund benefits. This is after breaking the international development pledge, after redefining the fiscal rules they said they’d abide by and after raising employers NI.
I’m not getting into the immaturity of people like Peter Kyle around the OSA, The Chagos mess, Reeves employment history. Lack of focusing on the biggest thing they campaigned on, housing?
This is labours bed they’ve made and honestly, I don’t see them getting out of it. It’s a shame but they really should not have campaigned on the “not the tories” mantra and actually what they wanted to do. Breaking a manifesto pledge rarely goes unpunished. This is coming from someone who voted Labour last election.
Its not really heading in any direction, for better or for worse in my opinion. Just is as it is.
There is absolutely nothing to be postive about.
My shopping still feel expensive. So do my bills.
I don’t mind paying a bit more tax but Labour said they would improve things by being growth focused. The constant tax rises are doing the opposite. More unemployment and a stagnant economy. And all I see are more costs being piled onto businesses, the OSA being my new favourite bit of legislation that is costing businesses a few billion quid a year to comply with but providing very little benefit to anyone.
The UK is fucked. Everyone’s on the take, there’s no money, barely any international investment, our workforce is horrendously underskilled, the majority of our universities are really just sham corporations designed to extract international wealth from students that don’t want to study here any more. If you get unwell you can look forward to days in a chair in a hospital corridor, laying next to someone covered in their own shit as they slowly die. Our schools have no money, our councils are bankrupt, our roads are breaking apart and people are getting laid off by the thousands. Apart from that it can be quite nice – you just need private Healthcare, a private dentist, a waitrose card, your kids at a private school, a good source of self employed income, a good chance of being left some money when your boomer parents finally die and enough of an investment portfolio to weather the odd economic storm.
Heading ? I think we have already hit the iceberg and currently handing out the last of the life jackets.
Well… –*gestures at… everything.–* We’re not wrong.