The British state is collapsing under Conservative watch | Armando Iannucci | New Statesman

[@ianfraser6161]

Is the UK broken? Yes.

[@tonywilson4713]

I'm Australian and all what they are saying is going on EVERYWHERE. We are living in an age where the whole "kick the can down the road" policy of government has finally arrived at the inevitable pile of cans. If you kick all the cans in the same direction it will eventually pile up. Go watch a few episodes of Yes Minister or Yes Prime Minister and you'll quickly see that the purpose of government is to hold the staus quo on everything until it becomes someone else's problem. All the stuff that hasn't been fixed or hasn't been done has finally come to a its inevitable conclusion. Anyone who actually tried to fix anything got screamed at or got swamped in committee meetings. Anyone who actually succeeds at getting things done is labelled a heretic.

[@Themistocles30]

The Tory snowflakes who live in wonderland don't think it is.

[@rodneycooperLMSCoach]

I feel dreadfully ashamed that this country has been led for so long down a road of poverty and injustice. I was brought up after the war to believe we were better than that although ordinary people are resourceful it's our leaders that should hang their heads in shame.

[@raydavison4288]

Yes, but "the people" keep electing these yahoos to high public office. It's the same here in the US. Seemingly good people are voting for charlatans & mountebanks & then they complain because the system isn't working.

[@AM-fs1je]

It's austerity-- taxpayers money goes into tory pockets so tories can bugger off to Barbados. These volunteers have been doing governments' work without the £hundreds of thousands in pay & perks. I hope these women get the assistance they need, and that they find time to write best-sellers & make £millions on the guest speaker circuit. Tory gov does nothing for anyone but tories. England needs to cut out gov/Westminster & implement programs these women have.

[@wildcampingharry]

Well said. 👍🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@BobQuigley]

Born in 1952... IMO US and UK have been sliding since Thatcher and Reagan. Many warned at that time the policies they pursued would not result in a decent life for all. False sense of earth as an endless cornucopia spewing all of life's needs forever. Might makes right foreign policies which are collapsing. Unleashed marketing. Sure they were a power couple with news pouring praise on the short term upside. Media once held responsible for accurate reporting unleashed. Financial policies thrown to the wolves of London and NYC. In the end though we fell for the fantasy hook line stinker. Lies and corruption grew. Bloodlust for endless militarism and wars.

[@acenmitch1048]

I’m gonna leave as soon as I finish uni smh I used to love this place

[@Azphreal]

Let us not forget that a member of the Tory government (Mogg i think) said he thought food banks were wonderful as it shows how people take care of each other instead of being ashamed that they have to exist.

[@michaelavilliers-kendall8854]

Food banks are now more necessary than ever because of this disastrous government; people are not ashamed because survival for so many depends on them!

[@Azphreal]

@@michaelavilliers-kendall8854 I think you misunderstood what i was saying. It is the government and its MPs who should be ashamed they have to exist.

[@danieladams9950]

Mogg a living characture of a Dickens villain.

[@michaelavilliers-kendall8854]

@@Azphreal Glad about that! Could never stand Mogg..

[@PADABOUM]

Where do people thing Rees-Mogg send his nanny for groceries? Food bank obviously, transfer from the poor to the rich, he loves that!!!

[@christopherward5065]

In one of the richest countries in the world, there should never be such criminal neglect of people. Generating poverty to protect profits in companies that don’t pay taxes and keep wages low is a scandal, especially when the results are fatal. The people who out of humanity fill the gaps are running out of road. Our nation is struggling and the government gives the poor austerity. What is the end game? The economy is big enough to do better but the Government supports corporate greed over people.

[@Bernard-ux2eb]

It isn't one of the richest countries in the World. The "wealth" is just a measure of the money laundering in the City of London.

[@richardwilson57]

Wrong this country was rich about 100 years ago…….. then it blew all its wealth on two world wars……. It blew all its oil in the 80s and 90s……. This country has nothing but debts and funny money

[@itsPenguinBoy]

It's like we have these small bubbles of kindness trying to survive in a sea of cruelty... What there really needs to be is a sea change.

[@Skylark_Jones]

What a great statement - and I love your choice of words, so poetic.👍 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is the nub of it: we're heading towards a stateless State: nobody in govt to protect and support the people and people having to fend for themselves and each other while the very wealthy govt bankers and big companies are taking all our money. The trouble with the British people is: where are the big protests? Are we that subservient, ignorant of politics and gullible to govt and media propaganda? Remember the European football Super League? They came out to protest about that (!!) But when it comes to austerity and cuts being imposed on us we merely grumble but largely accept and have been doing so for 12 years! Why aren't Brexiters out on the streets protesting that they've been conned? If this had been the French there would be mass demonstrations!

[@scottyfive4319]

@@Skylark_Jones Bread and Circuses.

[@sempressfi]

@Skylar Jones as an American I've been contemplating hopping over there and showing yall how to dump things in the Thames 😆😝 Excuse the levity, please, have tears in my eyes after listening to this and truth is, it's not too different here in the States. It's been this way for a while but I think because we have any more people way more spread out and also a generally decent enough sized middle class that kind of masks the substantial amount of poverty if that makes sense. Sending lots of love and solidarity. Have been thinking a lot how we all need to band together at least online and help organize and take action for change 🇺🇲💙🇬🇧

[@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689]

@@sempressfi Yeah from my understanding the level of extreme poverty in the states is worse than over here. A colleague of mine from CA was telling me how there would be breakouts of infectious disease in skid row and the police would occasionally just move everyone out and then the whole area would essentially be fumigated. Not that we don't have homelessness here but I don't think its that extreme. That said I live in an affluent rural area and in the last ten years the visible amount of homelessness has increased drastically which makes me wonder how much worse it's gotten in cities.

[@buzzukfiftythree]

How can a PM with a family fortune of £730 million and a Chancellor who is, reportedly, worth £17 million, have a clue about what life is like for those far less fortunate than themselves? Massive praise and thanks to these wonderful women who are fulfilling such essential services that government should fund. So many millions in our population simply don't have the resources to be able to survive without help. That help used to be available, even under Tory governments, but that is no longer true. Yes, Britain is broke now and I can only see it getting worse until we get rid of this uncaring government.

[@Skylark_Jones]

Britain is in a terrible state; If one could label it according to level of severity I'd say it was at the critical level: the only people that don't seem to know it are the Tories who are in a persistent state of extreme denial. It's because they are wealthy so can't see how their policies are affecting the rest of us. They really have lost the plot this time.

[@archvaldor]

"It's because they are wealthy so can't see how their policies are affecting the rest of us" You are giving them way too much credit. They don't care. The ignorance is just a by-product of that. The Labour party aren't much better. People really need to get past this "If only our politicians would implement policy x" mentality - they never will because you are not important to them.

[@captainpawpawchannel]

Same in most countries around the world, it's the failure of representative democracy, we need real democrarcies

[@ianfraser6161]

Brave, kind women. They and their organisations need support from governance. What they do should be in addition to, not instead of.

[@celt456]

I moved to europe two and a half years ago. At the time I left, the already concerning state of public services, in what was becoming an increasingly authoritarian country, now seems dire on almost all fronts.

[@christopherwright8811]

Levelling up is a slogan, nothing more. And an empty one at that.

[@Pobotrol]

These women and the other volunteers are amazing, they are the real entrepreneurs saving this country. It's an outrage that all this falls onto their backs.

[@ParcelOfRogue]

"Is Britain working?" Well available workers are pretty much all working ( despite real pay cuts ) but there are no longer enough workers and we have lost too many back to the EU, so overall, the answer is NO!

[@chriswitter8067]

It's not crumbling: it's being deliberately taken apart and ordinary people are being deliberately robbed.

[@DennisMoore664]

People like these ladies and the other people who help them give me hope.

[@Alex-pr6zv]

I was shocked when it was recently reported that the NHS has introduced food banks for its employees. Nurses earn only 20 to 25,000 GBP a year, which is barely enough to house, feed and clothe a family on, least of all in London. Yet they are expected to work without a break. Unbelievable.

[@Jay_Johnson]

It’s not much of a surprise when in 2011 the NHS was the second most cost efficient health service after Ireland in the western world. Is it much of a surprise that the 11 years of so called ‘efficiency savings’ have been stripping away more than just redundant parts. When they say the NHS was already in crisis on the picket lines they were right. My dad had a heart attack (he’s ok now) this time last year and the paramedics didn’t even bother taking him to the reception they took him straight to the department with the OR as the hand over time at a&e is soo poor he may have died waiting to get in anyway. So I support the nurses strike because they may as well be on strike anyway given the current staffing issues.

[@daviddorward7684]

Great interview, wonderful intelligent and beautiful interviewer. Thanks from Canada for this. So sad to see what has become of the UK where I still have my grandfather's relatives living. I don't see any way out of this with the Tory or Labour government. They have no coherent strategy or compassion.

[@mhacviet1012]

It's the ERG's fault. It's time to disband this group.

[@Veeger]

They are funded from tory mps expenses, so the tax payer pays for this for the CON party.

[@erictottman-trayner6976]

Politics aside - but only for a moment - I found it uplifting and heartwarming to hear and see the dedication and love that volunteer 'leaders' and helpers have for their communities. It gives me hope that this inherent 'goodness' (what else can you call it and where else does it come from?) will help people through these difficult times. But back to the politics! I'm disheartened that the current situation is seen as an opportunity to reduce the size of the state and continue the retreat of responsibility for past and current actions and consequences. What a parcel of rogues in a nation! Unfortunately, the general population has limited opportunities to change the fundamentals of government until the next general election but that is no excuse for not trying at each and every opportunity. I am fortunate to live in a place, by choice, that has a better-developed sense of community and fairness and that has some devolved powers to mitigate the consequences. We must resist whenever we can. Love and best wishes to everyone.

[@marchekate]

I live in Uganda and mutual aid is vital to the survival of a huge proportion of society as state support for the poor is minimal to non-existent. I'm a great supporter of the concept of mutual aid propounded by Kropotkin, but in the 6th richest state in the world where the vast majority of the tax burden is shouldered by the poor and squeezed middle this is an inexcusable state of affairs. Massive props to these amazing women. Devolution of powers to local authorities must be met with a massive increase in a share of national tax revenue, not just council tax funding which punishes poorer boroughs with a greater level of expenditure. Great podcast as usual. Well done for again giving airtime to proper grassroots activists.

[@opanike87]

On my life, warm banks. People just need to sack the government by breaking into Westminster and demanding the Tories leave. This is madness.

[@danieladams9950]

The contributors were eloquent and passionate. The fact that their efforts are unrecognised is appalling.

[@1943-h6l]

Everything that the conservative government does to try to make things better actually makes the situation very much worse. They need to change or get out before they bring the country to its knees financially.

[@nommohunzuu9298]

They absolutely do not try to make things better, it’s thinly veiled lies whilst they suck all the money away.

[@rsmith4339]

Ohh wow ! That's local governments problem , and we cut their budget . That's a page out of Ronnie Raygun's book . We've lived with it so long , we don't even notice it anymore .

[@pmarsden89]

12 years of the torries and what a bloody state we are in that possibly cant be ever fixed

[@eddys.3524]

".... collapsing under Conservative watch" No, it's collapsing by Conservative hand.

[@raydavison4288]

Except for brief periods of enlightened governance, hasn't this ALWAYS been the usual economic conditions in Great Britain? Most of the people live in mortgaged poverty while the privileged elite live lives of luxurious splendor as they blame the poor for their poverty.

[@zuzanazuscinova5209]

Exactly. This is nothing new. Peasants always had it bad.

[@muhamedhassan7785]

Love your videos. They tell the truth.

[@ausbrum]

It was always stuck together with string and glue and the overwhelming need to grovel to those above them. Memories: it took me 4 weeks to get a NI number (the equivalent issued in an Italian provincial town over the counter, 4 weeks to get a police clearance to work, a bank which lost my customer application and has coughed up three different payments of compensation. I remember getting a blood test at Hampstead hospital in a room with a queue outside and watching a whole army of people having the same experience.

[@a.michaelsen2389]

As long as you have people in Britain like these two ladies, there is still hope.

[@lizbrown1822]

If this is the model that works, why isn’t it being funded? This sadly is not a new story, but it’s increasingly becoming the case. If the authorities and government can’t or won’t provide the services, then they damn well should support and empower those who are willing to provide them.

[@derekcummins9088]

Around 1980 I was doing economics, and Patrick Minford was a guest speaker. His opinion that the state only had one role and that was security of the nation within and without. In other words the state was there to provide the police and the army and nothing else. It's impossible to understate the pervasiveness of this thinking in the tory party

[@gavinreid9184]

How did he justify the distinction between enemy soldiers/armies/states and disease causing organisms - both can cause catastrophic physical harm regardless of personal circumstances?

[@derekcummins9088]

@@gavinreid9184 he never touched on that and it was 40 years ago, but his ideological prism would probably be germ warfare is an attack by other means whereas Covid would be dealt by the privitised health business

[@MishMash22]

I can’t believe that old guy is still around pushing his economic nonsense.

[@Jay_Johnson]

Social security is the security of the nation.

[@MishMash22]

@@Jay_Johnson so true. It’s a sign of a civilised nation

[@FarObserver]

Been broken since the 60's. A slow downwards spiral.

[@AM-fs1je]

Moggie would be so pleased that these women "found" the "brexit opportunities." If only the rest of the population would do government's job for it, but without the pay!

[@uweinhamburg]

I guess that there are groups willing to form some sort of local militia to go on patrol and do their policing, if only the government would supply some arms to them... 😎 A volunteer judge will be available soon enough.

[@Mercs_Beamers]

12 years of Tories and this is the result. Never vote conservative

[@screenPhiles]

The British state isn't collapsing, that implies an accident of fate. What the British state is doing is contracting by design. They're following a US-centric design, which is to move government out of the 'helping people' business and force them to fend for themselves. And as good as it is that people are stepping up, it's has an unfortunate result of distracting from what the government isn't doing.

[@heem6619]

The work these people do is nothing short of remarkable. They're a credit to their communities.

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

[@BigHenFor]

There is a great article in The Guardian about the science behind the blind spot that being privileged can induce. The sad truth is that our brains are shaped by our experiences, and will not have the capacity to deal with unfamiliar things. Our leaders literally have no idea, nor do they have the capacity to understand the experiences and consequences of poverty as they are insulated from it. Without experiencing enough of it, they won't understand or be receptive to explanations or evidence that contradicts their model of the world inside their heads. Indeed, they may even resist the pressure to evolve. This is because of how our brains evolved to economise and prioritise its processing capacity. Yes, it can be challenged by time, effort, imagination, and desire to learn, but there's an inherent inertia. People have to make the effort or be pushed to do so. So, the blind spot is real. Our leaders are clueless, but their privilege insulates and stunts the desire to learn.

[@mike-lo4rt]

Great channel , please keep up the good work.

[@NewStatesman]

Thanks!

[@davidcameron8163]

Time to buy that dinghy and paddle across the channel to France and ask for political asylum.

[@matt_cummins28]

It was said a couple of times, but it's worth saying again and repeating inside your head: this is one of the richest countries in the world. Where is all that money going? We seem to have a thriving military.. sorry "defense" industry, for example.

[@johnmoorefilm]

This is a perfect pairing podcast😊

[@cassandra2249]

In a word, Yep, it is.

[@linick9412]

Michelle God bless you

[@Plumduff3303]

Brilliant

[@dessertstorm7476]

david cameron's dream of a big society has come true

[@GabrielFlies]

God bless this lady for the work she does, maybe the government should tax us less and let good people like this do more work.

[@seamusandpat]

The state is falling apart, this is not due to 'events' it is by design of the Consevative government.

[@shaun906]

fallen not falling, its pervasive and in most services, public and private.

[@3bebles]

These ladies are amazing; they are so organised and resourceful... What conviction, what strength, what empathy... all of which our politicians are sorely missing. It is reassuring to know that there are so many volunteers like them! However THIS CANNOT GO ON! Moreover IT SHOULD NOT BE. Can someone tell me WHY WE ARE PAYING OUR TAXES? The dreadful sorry state this country is in is a NATIONAL SHAME, A DISGRACE much worse than poor cheese choice!!! And yet that shame is felt by those who are getting the RAW DEAL, not by the ones dishing it out... SICKENING

[@SuperLeica1]

Britain isn't broken, so far. But broke.

[@PeterZeeke]

Yes

[@PetaloudesTouYialou]

Disaster relief. That's what people are doing. Huge NGOs do this in other parts of the world. That's why the UN's report on Britain's poverty is scathing.

[@jeremyharcup]

This was carefully planned by the Tories though they won't admit it, it's David Cameron's "Big Society", it goes hand in hand with austerity. It could hardly be more cynical.

[@tonyvincent58]

is the state collapsing - more correctly is the state being collapsed

[@50_Pence]

And still people vote Tory

[@nyxjones5797]

Good people providing support that this crappy government refuses to provide 😀

[@paulhopkins3242]

Thanks to our so called tori government. Yes.

[@deanbuck7985]

These women are incredible. They are the last bastion of community surviving in a world of darkeness.

[@steinarhaugen7617]

I think Norwegian food that goes to Africa should now go to the UK instead.

[@AM-fs1je]

That's up to Nowegians, isnt it?

[@steinarhaugen7617]

@@AM-fs1je Yes. 😅

[@thejoin4687]

I'll pass on the lutefish, thanks.

[@steinarhaugen7617]

@@thejoin4687 Hahahaha. What about cod tongue? 🤣

[@thejoin4687]

@@steinarhaugen7617 I'll have the cod and you can have the tongue :)

[@karlclark8625]

The current argument is that the public sector has been hollowed out, which is true. I would like to add that local community infrastructure has also been eroded away. The government needs to watch this and feel ashamed.

[@PetaloudesTouYialou]

Warm banks. Can they (the Tories) hear themselves!?

[@Andrew-rc3vh]

Those two have a sick sense of humour, laughing at other people's misery whilst they are OK on inflated press salaries.

[@kittykatja5961]

It's absolutely disgusting and in inhumane, that in the 21 century, one of the richest countries in the world, it's people, many of who work, are having to go to food banks, warms banks and on and on, and these good people are left , not only by their government but their local authorities, to bear the brunt. The local authorities could give them some building, free, as they are so many empty sites around, after all they are doing the work, the local authorities should be doing .

[@cedroncaine4450]

Not collapsing but scuttled.

[@oysteroid4030]

Kick the PM out , until now what are the things being done to solve all the current problems.

[@AH-iu1cw]

This isn’t new, the rot runs extremely deep. The class system (rich confident idiots promoting other rich idiots) and a politics of kicking the can down the road are to blame. You ran out of road. I emigrated to Canada in 2018 and couldn’t be happier, it’s by no means perfect but I don’t feel like the government here are a hostile force asset stripping my home.

[@jasonuren3479]

Coz they're all owned by Klaus's mob

[@leeoreilly6797]

What?

[@davem4845]

@@leeoreilly6797 WEF

[@julianshepherd2038]

It's the system of having very wealthy/powerful people and corporations that have more control than democratically elected governments. WEF is a symptom of the system, the system is way bigger and not dependent on bad people.

[@ianmccuaig9867]

Yes and thanks to the conservatives

[@marvellis6762]

Youth clubs are absolutely paramount to be in place for youngsters. Corrupt Tory Party doesn't and can't understand that.

[@alancornes8916]

Really surprised that the New Statesman can’t afford to put out a broadcast that’s not constantly interrupted by adverts,

[@barnham9388]

The problem with the broken aspects is for 40 years we have buried our head in the sand about all sorts of important issues because asking the right questions and getting the right answers is not vote winning. It’s not a question of left or right wing politics, its those politics which makes it impossible to get anywhere with the debate. We should be asking fundamental questions about the things the state in all its various forms should be doing and how, not only domestically but on the world stage, as the New Statesman’s own resident economist has pointed out, Britain’s position is not one of being a rich country, but one that is in an inevitable state of relative decline. We should be planning, long term, for the sake of inter-generational fairness to be looking at the grown up questions concerning that inevitable relative decline and an ageing population, what is long term affordable in terms of an NHS, state sector pensions, housing, benefits, education, climate change spending, defence - the answer can’t just be more money “invested” (spent). There should be hard questions asked about what and how the state can do and inevitably what the state cannot afford to be doing. Armando - you’re right the state did intervene during covid but it did so on a scale we haven’t seen since WW2 and its a world of fantasy to imagine both that that was anything other than temporary, and even temporary as it was, that it won’t have to be paid for.

[@arthurmetaxas4653]

Yes Great Britain is finished. How ironic that what made Britain great was that way way back it was a single market when Europe was full of small principalities.

[@albertbrammer9263]

Thought Diane Abbott was Hackney MP? Surely she would help with a building?

[@bigmeltie1]

Answer yes

[@Neddoest]

Hang in there, UK- 😞 Hey…. At least y’all don’t have regular mass shootings and gun violence…

[@paulmontgomery2726]

Dear NS, Why are you microphones so huge compared to all other broadcasters?

[@vixen1143]

Menstrual cups should be more normalised. If you give someone a sanitary towl it's lasts one use. If you give someone a menstrual cup it will last them years. They are not always suitable for use but it's a better option for those who can use them. It seriously is disgusting that there is so much need and so little help from the government because they are more interest in helping big businesses than helping the population.

[@petebateman143]

More important than any of this. Vote. If you want to help, vote the tories out. If you can't be arsed to get up and vote against them don't pretend that you care about this. You don't.

[@fbenbow2197]

Where is the money we should have because we stopped paying our debts to the USA for the second world War in 2006 and stopped paying for the EU since Brexit? The tax money needs to go towards living wages for the nurses, sailors, farmers, fishers, teachers, rail workers in the UK and all other people doing the necessary work. In cases where they are doing good work instead of environmental damage, it needs to go to the farmers as well. Plus a safety net for all who can't work for health and age reasons. We need a functioning social democracy. Not only a sell everything that belongs to everyone mentality. We need our manufacturing back, such as Wedgewood and we need investments in green energy with jobs in Britain.

[@hitachi9778]

The big companies are experts in making money - and so if you give them tax cuts and they make more money, they will siphon more money from the poor. Trickle down does not happen because the process of money-making is very efficient and involves concentration of money in the accounts of the rich and its dilution in the poor. As long as the experts are in control of the money-making process of companies, net trickle-down is impossible. It may happen at times, but the net direction of flow of money is always upward. You can't infuse the whole society uniformly with money. Then money will be useless. Money is effective and meaningful only because there are lots of people who don't have it and so would be prepared to serve you to get money from you. Therefore you can't make money without increasing poverty amongst the poor. If you could make money while making the poor less poor, you will end up in a state where the poor have almost as much money as you have - this means you won't have the advantage of having significantly more money than others around you. If you have two million pounds and everyone around you has half of what you have, you won't be rich, will you? Because then you lose the advantage of being rich -which is to have many times the money that the majority (the poor) have. In order to be rich, you have to be richer than the majority by several fold - that's the truth about the economics of richness. This is the elephant in the room that people miss registering. The rich, in order to preserve their richness and control, will have to ensure that the majority remain poor - so that they will be willing to serve the rich for lower wages. Richness means having a lot of people to serve you - either directly or indirectly where you own things that a lot of people worked for long periods to create. Therefore the ideologues and think tanks of the right wing political parties will not promote the welfare state. But the welfare state is a must if you are aiming to have a developed, civilized and democratic nation. A welfare state can be created only by siphoning significant amounts of money from the topmost economic layers of society and channeling it to improve public services - healthcare, education, energy and heating, housing and so on - that are provided free to everyone in society. The sensible way is to tax the top layers of the economic pyramid and use the money to run a strong welfare state - a state that provides all that is needed for a healthy and happy life totally free and not to force people to work to satisfy their basic needs. Growth in terms of the rich companies having more money is not important. What's important is welfare. Growth of the welfare state is the only growth that makes sense.

[@annenunney9907]

Sorry I don’t want to be a pain but my mum use to go to work all day and come home and cook a meal and so have I all my married life

[@buildingcollege]

You are being a pain. Research the reasons people can not and do not cope. Heads up to start you off. Poor housing.

[@simongarrettmusic]

About time we joined the EU.

[@MaterLacrymarum]

Largely through our own greed, we have chased personal wealth at the expense of everything else. Fueled by the banks and bankrupt and ineffective government, we have given away generations futures in a desperate grab for another pound note. People are falling into poverty? People are working but still can't pay their way? Basics such as driving a car or going down to the local pub has become a luxury? Who cares, as long as the majority feel as though they are getting ahead. That is, until they're falling behind too. We have failed the working man by convincing him he's middle-class and the working class are just lazy losers. We gave away our housing stock over decades so people could go on holidays abroad and buy new cars. We talk about the "National Health Service" ignoring that large chunks of it was privatized, meaning public money is funneled into the pockets of for profit businesses interested only in driving down costs. And where are we now? We have a government that should never be in power. That we're not getting a general election is a scandal. We have a lack of regulation which allows energy prices to decimate homes. We have stagnant wages since 2008. Why? because people have been able to use their homes as their own personal bank to keep the illusion of wealth going. In the mean time, extremism has taken a hold, and we're heading down a dark road. From the immigrant crisis to the housing crisis, to the cost of living crisis. Never has our government been more irrelevant. Tories - PLEASE GET OUT. You have had more than a decade to lead us, and you've led us here. You are not good enough. Your ideas are dead in the water. You've no idea what to do next. You got rid of Truss not because you didn't agree with what she wanted to do, but because you didn't like the way she did it. Those are the wrong policies at the wrong time. You are done. LEAVE.

[@MrdjMob]

Well 2 month later strikes has worsened

[@andrewsalmon100]

Conservative policy: at every turn be a duck. Sensible or Duck. Duck please. More duck.

[@wynbrown7321]

Yep same as Ireland.

[@seankavanagh7625]

Ireland's doing better than this. We have a housing problem. They have an everything problem.

[@Mercs_Beamers]

@@seankavanagh7625 we have a lot more problems than just housing in Ireland 😊 lol

[@seankavanagh7625]

@@Mercs_Beamers Still doing better than the tans.

[@markelmslie6832]

Every aspect of life in Britain has worsened, not because of covid or the war in Ukraine, but solely because of the Conservatives incompetence, corruption and invalid economic beliefs.

[@misterman3643]

Sunak is only our "temporary" pm ? We voted Johnson in 😂 "who voted sunak in" ?????????? Sunak can only carry out act as pm till an election "not" make policies. Is everyone forgetting that ????????????????

[@dnickaroo3574]

Britain deserves everything that is happening. What society is more corrupt. And it has brought it all onto itself. 20,000 Doctors and 40,000 Nurses left the NHS in 2021 when they were threatened with mandated injections. Such behaviour inevitably results in collapse of Health Care Systems.

[@sprobablycancr4457]

Workhouses next.

[@fretish5425]

Time for the Communists to come in and clean up the mess.

[@EstevanValladares]

Problem with the UK is that from long time until now, the heritage of the British Empire allowed it to live a way of life it could not sustain forever. Now that time has ended. And the UK had to have learned to live like every other country that wasnt the British Empire lives. Pretty much what the US much faster reached too. Every empire passed that step in different intensities given their Empire ascension and peak. The portuguese had theirs softer than the spanish, and them softer than the UK, and the UK slower and softer than the one US is living now. All due to being faster and higher to get to its peak. That is why former empires trying again, which learned their lessons, now get the best from the Empires that did not. China and Russia probably will do better after their next peak. If the UK and the US survive theirs to be an Empire again, they might survive better too.

[@uweinhamburg]

Broke - yes! Broken - not yet!

[@fbenbow2197]

We paid for the second world War until 2006. Everything else afterwards was conservative deconstruction. We need investments in education and health to maintain the low standard and so it doesn't get worse.

[@paulhopkins3242]

Unfortunately yes thanks to the toris.

[@RK-um9tu]

So UK is complaining about something that their "Iron Lady" exported to the world...lol

[@kalebdaark100]

To be fair, the ideas were dreamed up in Austria, developed in America, implemented in the USA and UK and then exported to the rest of the world. But fundamentally yes.

[@mickadatwist1620]

"The British state is collapsing". Are sinking to the level of tabloid?!

[@natsdaley9615]

Yes it is but you get what you vote for silly rabbits 🐇

[@stephenstone8968]

Yes but we give million to foreign countries