Hardly surprising. Watching the same grocery items increase in price 3 times in 6 months, sometimes to over 150% of the original price, it was clear people were going to be in trouble.

Pair that with skyrocketing rents, especially in the landlord's paradise that is London. And the fact that even getting into a rental often requires a lot of money upfront. The cracks are widening.

A lot of people were barely holding it together before. It's only going to get worse unless drastic changes are made.

Be sure to thank a Tory.

Nothing good in history has ever come from conservatism. Nothing at all.

The sick man of Europe once again.

"Sick man of Europe" is a label given to a nation located in Europe experiencing economic difficulties, social unrest or impoverishment. ... Throughout the 1960s to the 1980s, the term was also most notably used for the United Kingdom when it lost its superpower status as the Empire crumbled and its home islands experienced significant deindustrialization, coupled with high inflation and industrial unrest – such as the Winter of Discontent – including having to seek loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Since the mid-2010s and into the 2020s, the term being used for Britain began to see a resurgence after Brexit, a cost-of-living crisis and industrial disputes and strikes becoming more commonplace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_man_of_Europe

I saw David Cameron was still travelling around the world getting paid thousands of dollars to give speeches at companies' events.

The man gambled the future of the UK for mildly more power than he already had, and when it blew up in his face he ran away. If the people of the UK had any balls he'd be looking over his shoulder everywhere he went.

Take away more public benches! Install more spikes! Continue to expand police powers against citizens without a fixed address!

That'll fix it!

Didn't they promise to cut all homeless people in half by 2024? 😂

Edit: I just checked again because I forgot, but the phrase was made by an artist and not by a party. Still funny though :)

In wealthy countries, the wealthy of those countries don't like to share their wealth.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The data, published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), also reveals that the number of people facing homelessness because they received a so-called ‘no-fault’ eviction notice increased by 27.4% to 24,260.

The stark findings come alongside more figures released by the DLUHC, which shows that councils across England spent a record amount of money last year tackling homelessness.

The city of Manchester has one of the highest levels of homelessness in all of England, with one local charity estimating 1 in 80 people there have no fixed address.

While the government says repeatedly that they are doing everything they can to alleviate the problem, many councils across England say they simply don’t have enough staff to manage the enormous caseload put upon them by the homelessness crisis.

Speaking at last week’s Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, MP Mike Amesbury explained that the definition of affordable housing should be changed to “make it relate to the income in people’s pockets and their household budgets”.

With the Labour party very much seen as the government-in-waiting, councils will be hoping their commitment to the growing homelessness crisis will be significantly more robust than the Conservatives’.

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In 2008 we had the first great recession.

When it hit, public services were in a good place, and people did have enough saved to help cushion the blow. While I'd like to say Labour are to thank for that, their introduction of tuition fees (a measure now destroying higher education) shows that it isn't always the case.

This time, public services are already "unhealthy" due to years of systematic under-investment and minor privatisations (why buy an MRI when you can rent it right?). People don't have the savings to weather it due to a decade and a half of stagnant wages. A lot of this is thanks to Tory policies, and a good chunk of blame lies there.

So, we're seeing a surge in people losing out, rather than overextended companies going bust. It feels "worse" this time because it isn't people losing their jobs because a company went bust, it's people starving and freezing while working full time.