Ian Sedman

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Britain is not “tightening its belt.” Britain has sold the belt, borrowed another one on Klarna, and is now being lectured about financial responsibility by people billing duck houses to the taxpayer. The weekly shop now requires a small bank loan. You walk into Tesco for bread and milk and leave having accidentally financed a Mediterranean yacht. Heating goes on like a military operation.
“One hour only, Margaret. We’re not made of money.” Petrol prices rise every time somebody sneezes near a shipping lane most of us couldn’t point to on a globe if David Attenborough himself was helping. The NHS waiting list is so long your appendix now has a better chance of seeing a doctor than you do. Young people cannot afford houses.
Parents cannot afford food.
Pensioners cannot afford to die because funerals are apparently platinum-tier experiences now. Meanwhile the Government — regardless of colour rosette — stares proudly into the middle distance and announces another “bold package of measures” that somehow never includes fixing anything you actually use. You notice:
£8 million a day on asylum hotels.
£15 billion on foreign aid.
£24 billion borrowed in a single month. And if you politely ask whether this is sustainable, the national conversation immediately transforms into:
“Ah. So you’re literally Hitler then.” Ask once: bigot.
Ask twice: racist.
Ask three times: far-right extremist and possible threat to democracy itself. At this point you half expect Ofcom to cut into Coronation Street with:
“We apologise for Russ from Doncaster asking where his taxes went.” The reality is millions of ordinary British people are not angry because they are hateful. They are angry because for thirty years they have been told:
Wait your turn.
Pay more.
Expect less.
Shut up.
And if possible, feel guilty while doing it. Under Labour.
Under Conservatives.
Under coalitions.
Under whichever assortment of beige management consultants happened to win the election that year. The British public are essentially the bloke at the pub who keeps buying rounds while being told he’s selfish for wondering why his own pint never arrives. This is not racism. It is national exhaustion. And frankly, after this long, you would struggle to find a country on Earth that would not feel exactly the same.

Left, Ferrari Luce $645k Right, Nissan Leaf $35k

It was hotter in 1976 than it is now… yet somehow people coped without turning every spell of sunshine into the end of the world. ☀️ The UK survived the brutal heatwave of ‘76, water shortages, blazing temperatures and weeks without rain but today you’d think a warm weekend was some sort of apocalypse.

Temperatures at Heathrow have recently reached 33.5°C, provisionally beating the all-time May record

The days of glory!

The downfall of the UK should be studied

Why do women have to justify excluding men from their spaces? They said "no". That should be enough for any decent man. And it is.