Is the UK doomed?

I have no answer to the first 3.

But after that:

- Because you are (far) less likely to be shot whilst simply going about your daily life in the UK

- That’s old news. People pretend to grieve cause it’s the cool thing to do. Queen is already out of peoples memories.

- We have made the semi and the final in our last 2 major tournaments. Results and performances since then are indeed worrying, but let’s wait until the World Cup to decide if we are now indeed sh*t or not.

Women's football team won the Euro finals this year. The men's team have been doing well especially as it's more competitive. There are a fair amount of good teams to compete against, they're not going to finish high up every time realistically.

If you keep away from the news and media spin, life here can be good for a lot of people. You can still buy a nice flat or house in a lot of areas for under 100K. People may snub these areas but they are often areas with a great sense of community, and lots going on if you choose to look. There are still sports teams, projects, community events, lots to do and see, lake district, peak district, lots of places to go and enjoy.

However, I think this new 'mini' (massive) budget is an absolute disaster. I would have pretty much done the opposite (to increase public spending). I don't think the tax cuts will make that much of an impact on lives, it's like about £90 for someone earning 20K, but slashing services will.

Sorry was doing two things at once there. I would have increased NI this year to fund public SERVICES.

It honestly feels sometimes like they are intentionally fukking it up, that or the people pulling the strings don't really have the UK's best interests in heart. I mean right at the top not Kwarteng. And I don't see how they can defend that budget as fair to all! Doesn't it benefit some people about 60x the amount it does others? I also would've put higher tax on alcohol and cigs... a bit like Aus... and used that to fund various things. Those to me are more like luxury goods but I know a lot won't agree. I also feel they are MORE like choices whereas the basic tax rate isn't a choice.

The trouble with this is it is paid by working people, who are least able to pay. Pensioners have had bigger increases in their incomes, so it is unfair for them to be exempt (i.e. an increase in income tax would be better than an increase in NI). Better still would be increases in taxes on capital gains, or property taxes (in line with most other countries).

The most worrying thing me is how are public services going to be funded when taxes are cut. The NHS is on its backside after years of Tory under investment . Ambulance wait times are at their worst ever in many places, violent crime is up and there are not enough police on the streets. Liz Truss does not appear to care about public services. Nothing has been mentioned about them and I've not heard one journalist ask about public services in response to this.

Truss comes from the trickle down school of economics. Wants to make everything about the free market. So much for levelling up and all the other Tory lies. This budget gives the very wealthy massive tax cuts and does little for normal working people.

There does not seem to be any logic in the bank of England raising interest rates to try and control inflation and tax cuts by the government at the same time. Total mess.

How is it that you can elect a prime minister and cabinet in this country based on promises in their manifesto, and then two years down the line they can completely rotate out the ENTIRE cabinet and introduce completely different policies and manifestos from the government that was initially elected in???

What's to stop a hypothetical situation where labour wins the next election under Starmer, then they kick him out after a couple months in the job and appoint Stalin 2.0 in his place who then chooses to go full communist with the country?

How on earth was there not another general election after BoJo and the conservative cabinet proved themselves to be too inept to manage the upper echelon of government?

David Cameron booted Gordon Brown out of Downing Street in 2010 by arguing the UK needs to pay down the national debt and reduce the deficit between spending and taxes in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Sky News even put a national debt clock at the bottom of its broadcasts. What it meant was the same taxes for worsening services. None of this made too much sense but everyone assumed the deficit was contributing to the debt and the debt meant an overspend, and this gave the Conservatives the mandate to take an axe to the public sector.

After 12 years they are realising that despite loosening the state and cutting funding to schools, hospitals and welfare the economy has not grown "as one would expect". If you assess them on their own arguments, they have failed as the national debt has grown substantially during their time in office due to the lack of growth in the economy.

They're now pursuing the other conservative move of tax cuts with the hope the beneficiaries will provide the investment the British economy needed a decade and a half ago. There is no guarantee that British millionaires will invest in the British economy as it's more sensible to put the cash in better performing markets but here's hoping.

Since 2008 when interest rates have been historically low and borrowing was free and they could have invested cheaply, Tories encouraged spending reductions and now interest rates are going up Tories are borrowing to fund tax cuts. In another 12 years when that hasn't worked either they'll bring out the national debt clock again and pursue another round of austerity and the UK will be in a permanent spiral.

The UK has had multiple elections since to avoid this disaster (2015, 2017, 2019) but would rather have stagnant wages for 15 years instead of electing the Labour party because it's leaders can't eat sandwiches normally and wear wonky glasses.

1) That is exactly when you have to borrow more, as your tax revenues are lower

2) Cheaper pound will help ending the recession sooner

3) Mini-budget, in addition to the headline tax cuts, was more significant in helping out small businesseses by reversing previous regulations..

4) You will be surprised how few people want to move to US these days (and lets stop at that)

5) Like her or not, the crowds were real

6) Yawn

Overall they just had a head start on everyone else

It's common for the Prime Minister to make big changes in the Cabinet and introduce different policies. So whilst I agree with the concept of having a general election when a Prime Minister resigns, I don't think the current situation is very different.

My main complaint is that the process to determine the new leader took so long. I think once the narrowed to two candidates they should have voted immediately.

Their last leader was a proven racist anti semitic communist.

I really dislike Corbyn but I dont believe he was a racist person or an anti-semite.

He should have stepped down way earlier and I feel his own arrogance got in the way of what was the best for the country. If he truly wanted to help people without much money like he claimed he should've stepped down as it was clear he was damaging the party. Instead he carried on, and the damage worsened and worsened.

Look at the state of other European countries though. Some are doing well, some are doing pretty badly. Ireland seems to be doing well interestingly.

Clearly you do not understand the UK election.

Every polly has to win their seat. If the leader of the party lost the seat, they'd no longer be the leader of the party, and another would step up.

The PM is selected in advance by the others up for election. If they win, they become PM. If they lose, the person would be the leader of the opposition.

If they do a poor job they'll face recall by others in their party.

And elections can be called outside of the schedule.

And far more likely to be stabbed.

Shootings in the USA occur in well known areas that are avoided by people with good sense.

Stabbings in the UK can occur anywhere.

Salaries in the UK have been a joke since 2008.

Back in 2008 we were on relative parity with the US across the service sector. We've fallen behind by an insane degree. Law firms (thanks to the US firms), and (to a lesser degree) investment banks and MBB, have somewhat kept up, but the accounting firms and the rest of the service sector have hardly bumped the pay at all since 2008, especially for earlier career employees.

Because people are stupid.