This country (the UK) has gone to shit. Discuss.

[scientificred]

Should be a tax on being in the tory party and another tax if you voted for them

My thoughts remain, and as you say!

[dicko1969]

More racist
More divided
More hate
Than ever before.
Seems a very sad world , money orientation.

[scientificred]

More racist
More divided
More hate
Than ever before.
Seems a very sad world , money orientation.

But there are peoples/communities/individuals rising to some of those challenges.
Not just free meals or food banks or heat banks but interesting designs like this one about crisp packets being turned into something like space blankets for the homeless, and indeed those in cold homes
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/making-lifesaving-blankets-out-of-crisp-packets#:~:text=A%20blanket%20made%20from%20crisp, use%20plastic%20going%20to%20landfill.
It is interesting as to how far this/or future governments will be pleased that others are taking such care of what in my opinion is a government responsibility, or else take action lest those such others may indeed rise up against them one day

[justincredible]

It's The Kalergi Plan playing right out in front of us. When you vote, you're voting for an illusion.....
Look at the most beautiful city in the world, Paris.... it's now a burning cesspit.
There's no voting our way out of this, but the tide (people power) has to turn soon....

[Martyboy]

It's The Kalergi Plan playing right out in front of us. When you vote, you're voting for an illusion.....
Look at the most beautiful city in the world, Paris.... it's now a burning cesspit.
There's no voting our way out of this, but the tide (people power) has to turn soon....

Yep absolutely.....Think millions around the world are waking up to this now which is good...Still far too many FAST asleep though...

[redebreck]

Yep absolutely.....Think millions around the world are waking up to this now which is good...Still far too many FAST asleep though...

People need to take to the streets.
Problem in the UK is that people don't react. The French had/have the right idea.

[shminkyred]

I thought we would be living in a roddenberristic universe by now.....

[redebreck]

What does it say about the UK when we have poverty, food-banks, people unable to afford heating and/or food, homelessness, armed forces veterans living on the streets.
While energy companies are earning obscene fortunes, and "the elite" are rolling in wealth?

[teesred]

Any of you people watched any Adam Curtis films? A lot are currently on iPlayer and well worth watching.
Hypernormalisation
Can't get you out of my head
The power of nightmares

All very thought provoking and really quite grim and depressing views of the post war world we live in.

[Daffydd]

What does it say about the UK when we have poverty, food-banks, people unable to afford heating and/or food, homelessness, armed forces veterans living on the streets.
While energy companies are earning obscene fortunes, and "the elite" are rolling in wealth?

In the past year the UK has donated $5billion to the Ukraine war.

[redebreck]

Any of you people watched any Adam Curtis films? A lot are currently on iPlayer and well worth watching.
Hypernormalisation
Can't get you out of my head
The power of nightmares

All very thought provoking and really quite grim and depressing views of the post war world we live in.

BBC, ITV, CH4, CH5? (sorry, just being lazy)

[teesred]

BBC, ITV, CH4, CH5? (sorry, just being lazy)

BBC iPlayer.

[redebreck]

Thank you, tees

[CCTV]

Any of you people watched any Adam Curtis films? A lot are currently on iPlayer and well worth watching.
Hypernormalisation
Can't get you out of my head
The power of nightmares

All very thought provoking and really quite grim and depressing views of the post war world we live in.

He makes a good documentary imo, I've posted a bit in the petrodollar thread on modernity, and going to bump it again to deal with a few topics from one of the world Cup threads.

Steveo had a little issue with English people being mostly grand as I said to HLOGI, a small matter.
AND there was steveos immigration issue, a very lefty presentation devoid of a touch of realism, and without reference to the realities of increasing diversity.
Theres also the reality, or paradox, that whilst people find such virtue in refugees/immigrants there will be an incentive to keep the drivers of immigration in place. A no war world, might see no virtue signalling benefit derived from refugees, no standing with raytheon in Ukraine
Here Curtis is also a bit head in the sand as its a value such people cherish, whilst often very perturbed by similar consequences from income inequality.
I get it over here now, like Ireland is supposed to be a nation of immigrants because of social media thinking, Like America the original nation of immigrants, so diverse after the displacement of natives into an ethnic minority in their own lands. Irelands history is as a nation of fuck off outsider.

Then there's Eggys - will there be a rise in Fascism as a simple comment/query.
Sadly this word is very loaded, and rarely used rightly.
Fascism as defined by Mussolini is the fusion of state and corporate. By this metric, diversity is our strength is a central tenant of western fascism.
Even the tories maligned as racists, had Lizz truss proud as punch reveling in the reality that none of the top 4 posts in the UK were held by a white man.
Instead so diverse, labour so for diversity they covered up child rapes which tories have done little about, colleges diversity, nhs diversity, Police rainbow dildo cars #diversity, even the army's gone woke, corporations so woke, even raytheon has vaginas in the board.

It's all so diverse, everything must be going the right way

http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/

[ianlfc]

I was in the shop earlier and noticed its now £1.10 for a twix chocolate bar !!