Where is the breaking point for you?

Ayahuasca said:
Beyond the cost of living crisis, there are many challenging issues facing people across the UK right now. From economic uncertainty to social and political divisions, this is clearly a difficult time for the country.

In the face of these mounting pressures, at what point would you feel compelled to take more active measures such as protesting or going on strike? There still seems to be a very restrained "keep calm and carry on" mentality among many. It's hard to say what it would really take for most people to break decisively with this traditional British reticence and take to the streets or walk out in protest.

But it's an important question to consider - what level of economic pain, social injustice or political dysfunction would it take for you personally to abandon resignation and make your frustrations known through direct action? And what does the seemingly high threshold here say about the state of activism and unrest in modern Britain?
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I'd say I've 6-8 months before I quit the NHS entirely.
There will need to be significant change within NHS provisioning of dental services within Northern Ireland within that time, or we'll just have to covert everything to private.
We're slowly evolving that direction, but have historically and morally been against switching to a fully private service.
If a new system isn't in place by next April here, it'll be the end of it, it simply isn't suitable now, it fails dentists and patients, and our politicians who have to make the decisions remain unable to attend work due to the DUP.

Once a service goes, it never returns, and the ******** cut funding by 10% last month. I've never seen such utter stupidity, coming out of a period where less was done, with a massive backlog, and they cut funding.
Scotland have a new system starting in November, if we copy that it'll be a step towards keeping people, but it won't bring any back. It'll at least stop the degradation. Anything short of that, or a half arsed implementation and I will be beyond breaking and will quit.
 
We don't like the French because everytime they have a disagreement it's normally us that suffer the most inconvenience.
 
My wife has worked in the NHS for 29yrs in various roles on the domestic services side and now as a receptionist. In that time moral has gone down to rock bottom for most as they have people in charge that have no knowledge of the job, no skills on how to communicate and pure arrogance in some cases. They have someone leave and it takes months to get a replacement so that leaves the others to take up the slack then they'll get pulled up when standard's fall. The best one is they are expected to clean a hospital with just water basically, no cleaner or bleach as they use too much and the budget isn't there for that but it is for complete refurbishment work on office spaces.
 
I keep saying if the Tories win the 2024/5 election, I'm off. It's not something I'd want anyone to hold me to, but that will be the point at which the UK has officially jumped the shark.

If we put the Tories back in after this past few years - Truss and Johnson and everything else - then there is absolutely no hope for this country's future.
 
It won't matter if Labour get in either as no party is actually capable of running the country in a way that benefits the whole of the population due to the inefficiency of the government departments.
 
tonys said:
It won't matter if Labour get in either as no party is actually capable of running the country in a way that benefits the whole of the population due to the inefficiency of the government departments.
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The only good result would be a hung parliament where sufficient number of pro-electoral reform MPs are elected to force a coalition where FPTP gets scrapped.

Then we can stop forever being wed to a Tory/Labour dichotomy.
 
To a certain extent countries are service providers and the people it's clients. If you no longer like the service being offered then take your business elsewhere.
 
mattx4 said:
To a certain extent countries are service providers and the people it's clients. If you no longer like the service being offered then take your business elsewhere.
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Except nowhere else is obliged to have you. Even less so, now. If you want to go elsewhere you have to show your chosen destination that you offer something in return, or they'll tell you to bogof.
 
Even then they won't be able to take effective action due to the nature of our way of implementing legislation. The way my history teacher explained it 45yrs ago was the first 3yrs office they are trying to get rid of the previous governments policies they then have a year to try and get their policies inplace only for us to get impatient and vote in another party and so it continues. Even when one party is in power longer, each new policy or law takes time to find its own way though the various government systems. Also put external forces in the mix and the voters take a different view of everything.
 
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