actually feel parts of the NHS are working better to their credit - its a mixed picture for me - on the better side there is much more checking of people now and things like Flu jabs are common.
I’m not sure there’s any evidence of more flu jabs taking place to 25 years ago? As a whole, it’s pretty undeniable that the nhs is in a worse state than 25 years ago. The waiting lists alone tell you that and that was before covid
Energy prices feel to me they have come down recently and energy consumption is down on 25 years ago as houses and devices are more energy efficient than 25 years ago.
Devices are built to more efficient correct, but 25 years ago we didn’t have 4 mobiles in
The house, we had smaller the. I’d be surprised if any drop in electricity use is anything more than negligible
Look at all these FMTTM posters paying 4p to 5p per mile to drive around in the electric cars!
Outliers really. It’s energy companies selling cheap electricity at 3am as the demand is low and it’s cheaper to sell at a lower price than have the infrastructure to store electricity that’s in the grid.
There are less physical Police but there is less old style crime (a lot is now scams, cyber etc) say joy riding
Crime is crime. It impacts and costs to all of us
National debt was lower agreed, but 99.9% of population don't notice.
We all notice as it costs the government more to borrow and can hit inflation through quantitative easing measures
GDP growth is similar and again average people would not know - they look at their income and costs,
Jobs and quality jobs exist when gdp is high. People notice it indirect, they just understand why it’s important
The wealthy have got wealthier, but most people are not wealthy or poor.
Studies show an increase in people below the poverty threshold. There is only so much money in the economy, when you let it move to the very wealthy, everyone else has less.
underclass living on foodbanks, begging, sleeping rough which is worrying.
We’ve all read and heard about people with full time jobs needing foodbanks. It’s not an underclass anymore, many working class people are trapped in low paying jobs and poverty
Cuts in some welfare benefits since 2010 are hurting.
Add in cuts to councils and the services they offer and cuts to government employees wages, and cuts to services that reduce crime too
One definite improvement is the rise in the minimum wage from £4ish to £11.44 living wage - well above inflation.
Yes that’s one improvement, but factor in the propensity for zero hour contracts and you can see why it’s not really enough
I do think life is tougher for younger people with bigger student debts and bigger mortgages and rents, but older people have more wealth so it sort of balances out as a society.
I’m not sure it does, the older people are living longer and tying up the housing and the wealth, making the number of young people struggling even higher than 25 years ago. The cost of higher education is a good point, and probably going to get worse as cost of living crisis and drops in foreign students has impacted revenue
There are a lot more demands on the NHS and people expectations have risen a bit. It is creaking, but there were problems in 1999 too. For example 50,000 people a year died of flu and people died a bit younger than now
Nhs demands will always go up, ensuring the service capacity is a government job and it’s failed over the last 10 years
