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The Great Squeeze: Cost of Living Crisis 2022

They really don’t, can you hand on heart say you felt that things where this tricky in 2001?

No they were not - but

We hadn’t just come out of a global pandemic

We didn’t have Brexit on top of the pandemic

And we didn't have a war in Europe either


So we are in uncharted territory really.
 
Even if we hadn't had Brexit, the war in Europe and the pandemic - we would have still had a decade of massive cuts to public services in this country.
 
No they were not - but

We hadn’t just come out of a global pandemic

We didn’t have Brexit on top of the pandemic

And we didn't have a war in Europe either


So we are in uncharted territory really.

Okay so next question, in 2015 did you think things where better than 2001?
 
The country is on its knees after 12 years of Conservative mismanagement and people are still undecided how to vote...? 🤪

Is there anything in this country that's better than it was 12 years ago?
Broadband connectivity, although that's more a progress thing than a governance thing.

No is the answer basically.
 
No they were not - but

We hadn’t just come out of a global pandemic

We didn’t have Brexit on top of the pandemic

And we didn't have a war in Europe either


So we are in uncharted territory really.

And you don't think the government that has been in charge for 12 YEARS bares any responsibility for any of this?

Granted, they didn't cause the pandemic, but they chose to respond to it the way they did.

I really don't need to explain their role in Brexit to you do I? We're all intelligent people here so let's leave it at that shall we?

You're incorrect, we did have war in Europe. Russia annexed the Donbas and Crimea in 2014. The UK government, like most of their western allies decided to do almost nothing about it.

So if we are in uncharted territory, it's the government that we've had for (and I repeat) 12 years that has played a part in sailing us into those waters.

How many other excuses can be made for this government? I fully accept that HM Opposition aren't doing a good enough job but have we not witnessed a whole summer of government members THEMSELVES telling us all how bad their own administration is?

I'm 40 and I've never known this country to be so forgiving to such a failed administration. In the last 6 years, the world really has gone mad.
 
I’m not making excuses, I’m saying what has happened in the past 2-3 years and being realistic, I doubt any Government would have done a good job of handling all three.

I don’t deny what has happened over the past 12 years, but going back to my original question, so could we have run the country because I don’t see anyone out there at the moment who seems up to the job.
 
The country is on its knees after 12 years of Conservative mismanagement and people are still undecided how to vote...? 🤪

Is there anything in this country that's better than it was 12 years ago?

Yes, who to vote for. Labour? You really think Labour will do any better? That’s your hope but I don’t think they will. No Lib Dems around either.

I’ll vote for whoever I think is best up to the job of running the country. I don’t care what party they belong to - but at the moment I don’t see anyone worthy of my vote.
 
The thing is, the Tories have *proven* they cannot run the country. There is hard evidence of that.

For Labour and the Lib Dems, they haven't proven they cannot. Nor that they can. But that is better than the former.
 
The thing is, the Tories have *proven* they cannot run the country. There is hard evidence of that.

For Labour and the Lib Dems, they haven't proven they cannot. Nor that they can. But that is better than the former.

Fair point - but let’s not forget Labour haven’t exactly got a great track record either
 
Fair point - but let’s not forget Labour haven’t exactly got a great track record either

I would say that Labour did better between 1997 and 2005 than Conservatives have done since 2010.

At least we had investment in public services back in the late 1990s.
 
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