One word to describe the U.K.

Plus the weather is rubbish at the moment

CoolCoco

My one word- Dreadful
To those who think the UK is wonderful must live in an affluent bubble- think people need reminding of what life is currently like in the UK and did not used to be the case.
Potholes galore. .
Beaches and rivers getting sewage discharged into it.
Wildlife depleted.
We have more street homelessness than I have ever seen in my life time, and I am old.
Crumbling schools
More local food banks than ever before.
More litter and less street sweeping.
Much longer queues at A and E and queues of ambulances outside.
Long waits for operations.
Shoplifting up.
Housing unaffordable for many young people
I am not a negative person and know I am fortunate compared to many, but I hate what austerity has done to this country. - another word -Embarrassed

"austerity" Some made up nonsense. Makes it sound like WW2, all pulling together. Instead of what it really is.

My one word- Dreadful
To those who think the UK is wonderful must live in an affluent bubble- think people need reminding of what life is currently like in the UK and did not used to be the case.
Potholes galore. .
Beaches and rivers getting sewage discharged into it.
Wildlife depleted.
We have more street homelessness than I have ever seen in my life time, and I am old.
Crumbling schools
More local food banks than ever before.
More litter and less street sweeping.
Much longer queues at A and E and queues of ambulances outside.
Long waits for operations.
Shoplifting up.
Housing unaffordable for many young people
I am not a negative person and know I am fortunate compared to many, but I hate what austerity has done to this country. - another word -Embarrassed

Mutating

Unrecognisable!

disillusioned

Hell

be a long road

grandMattie

Wonderful!

Never forget that for all its faults, the UK is so much better than most other countries despite all its problems and difficulties.

I like this. I know about all the troubles and divisions and difficulties, but I’d still rather live here than anywhere else. Whilst visiting my daughter in New Zealand earlier this year, I was asked if I liked New Zealand. Of course I said yes because it’s a beautiful country and has lots of pluses, but I wouldn’t want to live there and I said so. I’m British through and through, and I love meeting people from all over the world, but this is my home and my roots are here.

This too shall pass

There will be better times. I feel sure of that, but it will a long road.

It is a good article.

When I first moved to the US, I spent a lot of time saying two things:

- that asking, as many Americans did, how much tax Brits paid was the wrong question (the answer broadly was ‘about the same as you’ when direct and indirect taxation was considered). The right question was ‘how much more per $ do you get for it’;
- ‘you know those food collection baskets you have in supermarkets? We have those for animals, not people’. Embarrassed nowadays at how bloody smug I was, sure that we’d never have a system that failed so many.

Divided. Sadly, tomorrow won’t make any difference to that.

NotSpaghetti

I read the Zadie Smith piece too -
Here it is if anyone else wants to:

www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/03/zadie-smith-on-hope-trepidation-and-rebirth-after-14-years-of-the-tories

thankyou.. great article..

I read the Zadie Smith piece too -
Here it is if anyone else wants to:

www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/03/zadie-smith-on-hope-trepidation-and-rebirth-after-14-years-of-the-tories

Home. It's where my heart is.

Mixed.

Farmor15

Banjaxed!

😂😂😂

Banjaxed!

LauraNorderr

Free

This too.

Exhausted.

Unequal

dragonfly46

henetha

Thanks 🙏👍 Oreo and others who agree ....this is a wonderful country.

I totally agree - there is too much negativity on here. I doubt a change in government will alter that.

One person's negtivity is another person's realism.

I had actually forgotten how things were until I read Zadie Smith in The Guardian today.

I’m actually optimistic that things will change, which happens to be Labour’s catchword, that rings true with the vast majority of voters.
It’s not a party political opinion it’s up to the new government to make optimism a reality. The last GE was a total disaster because nothing the Tories promised has been delivered and they are getting the defeat they deserve.

henetha

Thanks 🙏👍 Oreo and others who agree ....this is a wonderful country.

I totally agree - there is too much negativity on here. I doubt a change in government will alter that.

Deluded

Lovely.