I've got to assume the people in the 7% who think services have improved don't actually have to interact with those services?
I've got to assume the people in the 7% who think services have improved don't actually have to interact with those services?
Or don't realise that polls don't register their sarcasm.
The top 1% have never had it so good, so everything is working as planned. Thatcher espoused Victorian Values and this recent batch of shysters have taken that ball and run with it leaving many of us in Victorian Living Conditions - skipping meals and only being able to heat one room (if we're lucky). I don't think they've got enough time for a full Bonfire of Red Tape (one prime reason they wanted to leave the EU) but with zero hours contracts and the like we aren't far off Victorian Working Conditions and that worked out so well for my family (it killed one of my Dad's grandfather's and three of his great-grandfathers).
Don't be mistaken - this is all deliberate.
Not just the enshitification of the services that meant life here was slightly less shit than in the other capitalist "superpowers", but also the lamenting of the "good old days" which will 100% move in to a "Make Britain Great Again" type campaign for the sleaziest tory to pick up and run with, and easily win, because they'll talk about how the NHS needs to be restored to its former glory, but in reality they just want marginalised people to be ignorable (if not punishable for existing) again.
Remember the NHS bus? It's going to happen again.
And sure, some people will vote for it because they see through it and to them the cruelty (and racism, queerphobia, ableism and so on) are the point, but most others will vote for it because they either fall for the co-opting of leftist ideas and/or buy in to whatever the media tells them because we're not taught critical thinking skills at school making our general population extremely easy to manipulate.
And don't even get me started on the impotent "opposition" we supposedly have to replace them.
There is no voting or reforming ourselves out of this, the system is designed to make you think you're only allowed to play by its rules, because those rules ensure its existence. The only way to free ourselves is by abolishing the systems that keep us down for the benefit and enrichment of a handful of people.
Absolutely correct.
I often wonder whether the UK is used as a petri dish for neoliberal macroeconomic experimentation in the West (in the same way China does with certain megacities and provinces). How far you can cut taxes, how low you can drop living standards, how well you can use the media to manipulate the way that a population behaves.
That would be the US. Wealthy conservatives here have discovered they can go so far as to even kill or maim large numbers of us for no reason other than amusement. What's the worst that'll happen? A strongly worded opinion piece on the news, a peaceful protest or two, maybe even a riot that destroys the working class part of town. All easily ignored by people who can jump on a private jet and fly to any corner of the world at a moments notice.
My fear is the rise of fascism. Just saw a poll this morning that showed a large number of young people have no interest in democracy and would welcome a strong military take over.
Frightening when you consider yesterday was the anniversary of Pinochet’s seizure of power in Chile.
A majority...... 52%
Oh gawd... it's the numbers again. Not again. Not like theeese. Not like theeese.
based on excluding fraud and online crimes from the data.
Hahahahaha what.
Funny they're both things that have gotten dramatically worse over their time.
Not least of all, when we also had 2 years where that was pretty much some of the only crime possible?
I mean, good, but stop fucking voting for them then... also I would consider myself lower middle class but the upper middle class I expect have barely even noticed any of the issues plaguing the rest of us and thats a good chunk of the country judging by all the new BMWs and Mercedes swanning about- they'll still vote Tory.
'Britain's best days are behind us' is, like, a key tenet of British Conservatism
Yeah. That's what you get when you vote Conservative.
Oh look, hoovering up all the money makes for a shitty country, who’d have guessed it?
Its like the whole “we need to privatise x so private companies invest in those services… “ except the only thing private companies invest in is cost cutting and bigger hoovers to suck the profits off to there tax havens! 🙄
But the bigger question is, how has no other party stood up and capitalised on the current shitshow? I mean, it really makes you wonder who runs the puppet show?
But also, how can the rich continue thinking the way the do and watching the decline as it becomes harder to suck up the money up because treating people like shit drastically lowers productivity… which effects there income because clearly all they want is to stuff there ego’s with money to counter that “I’m a shitty rich moron” feeling every morning! 🙄🤦♂️
Things really need a massive reset! 😞
Crime goes up under conservatives as there's less help and resources for people and they get desperate. It's a disgusting circle they create which makes it look like they're doing something when they hire more police rather than deal with the issues at hand.
Weren't Britain's best days like 100 years ago?
thanks for using Leebra!
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Stop fucking voting them in.
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