Katie59
We are not going to see a national strike on the scale of 100years ago, despite the reluctance of the government to pay more wages and benefits they are going to have to rise. Alongside that we are all going to need to tighten our belts, travel less, spend less, eat less, we are a long way from crisis level, we can survive that.
Alongside that we are all going to need to tighten our belts, travel less, spend less, eat less, we are a long way from crisis level, we can survive that.
Yes, we're all in this together... except that we're not.
While you fastidiously and responsibly tighten your belt, many of the privileged (and I mean seriously privileged, not high-income earners) will be doing nothing of the sort. And of course there are those who through necessity have already tightened their belts and have no other options than to travel, spend and eat less.
And you're right, there will be no national strike, the dynamics have changed from 100 years ago. We are now a very individualistic society for starters.
We need a government that is focused solely on what is best for the nation as a whole. What we have is one that is driven largely by its desire to stay in power (Johnson, allegedly, wants to remain at the helm until 2030); one that spends an inordinate amount of time extricating itself from accusations of lies, sleaze and corruption, and one that is hell-bent on maintaining its majority by drumming up support for a trade-war with Europe.
Do we even have a government-in-waiting, or a coalition, that would / could focus on the needs and best interests of the nation?