sockwithaticket wrote: ↑Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:20 pmEven prior to recent issues of Covid and Brexit - chronic wage stagnation, continuous fall in real terms purchasing power, under-employment, private monopolies on key public services (rail, certain utilities) delivering services at grotesque mark ups with no possibility of competition to assist consumers, 10 years of Tories reducing the manpower of the police and health service alongside sundry other cuts, ever rising food bank usage and rates of homlessness etc. etc.Tichtheid wrote: ↑Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:13 pmRandom1 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 16, 2021 7:46 pm
Absolutely. The country is doing fine. We’ve got lots to work on, but necessity will drive our invention.
The one aspect that I am concerned about is actually being played out in this Fred - there are people (internal and external) trying to divide us into tribes and categories, and we’re at risk of falling apart and losing what makes us a great place to live.
Our democracy is central to this and so, yes, I agree, murdering an MP is more significant to the country than most other murders.
Not sure why that’s controversial.
Dearie me, the country is NOT doing fine.
I don't remember it being so polarised since 1984, there is a pandemic on and our daily case rate is terrible, the supply chain issues are well publicised, the government is a mixture of corruption and ineptitude, we've just left a a huge trading partner where there was a great deal of security, there is a very real chance that Scotland will leave the Union, the Good Friday Agreement is under attack and it could very well lead to violence being back on the streets of Ulster and elsewhere on these islands.
We are not doing fine.
Aye, I wonder what "not doing very well" would look like in some peoples; eyes.