At the margins, it can be more acute I agree, but it doesn’t mean the country has gone to ruin or we are soon to all turn feral as the BBC would have you believe.
Don’t talk such utter rot. You’re the last to talk of how the economic situation affects others. How can you talk about life on the ‘margins’, when you’ve never even been there or experienced it for yourself?
I think what’s happening in the UK now will force people to have to step outside their cosy little bubbles, and start having to think a bit more carefully about the decisions they make, such as Higher Education, what career paths to follow, how to save rather than spend, and make the most of what they’ve got. So, could be a good thing socially, although the UK is at the end of a prosperous economic cycle and will have to reinvent itself somewhat if it is to continue to be able to compete in economic terms. That we are slipping down the tables, and other nations are catching up and overtaking us, means we’ll either have to adapt and compromise in ways we’re just not used to, or we’ll really be in trouble.
It’s a time when those who can anticipate and prepare for change will prosper, and when the ostriches will flounder and end up slipping down the economic chain. The Underclass awaits, to swallow up those unfortunate enough to place too much trust in others, when it comes to their investments. Negative Equity has become the new Demon to fear, no-one wants to lose what comfort they have become accustomed to.
If things continue the way they are, socially and politically, then we will see an increasingly fractious and divided society, with people less willing to help one another, and less caring of the plight of others. Fear and xenophobia will rise, and people will bend over and accept whatever shafting they are given, just to cling onto a shred of what they once took for granted.
Some way off mind, but if you take the current situation to it’s logical and natural conclusion, then that’s they way we’re headed.
Let’s just hope that the Left can reorganise themselves and help put the brakes on a bit, cos the Right are driving us towards the edge of the cliff…