What enrages you about modern day Britain?

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Polz34@reddit

Right now, anyone who is taking and not giving \- it's all those coming in on boats illegally and getting to stay here and we pay for it, I can't work out why it's so difficult; if someone come here legally and works/contributes I'm 100% happy with that. \- it's those who play the benefits system when they are capable of working or contributing, I get some cases are genuine but a lot aren't and no one seems to be checking if someone is 'never able to work' 'not able to work right now' 'totally able to work in certain jobs' or 'totally able to work in many jobs'

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SkankySandwich@reddit

Those people who are taking and not giving though, if they're here legally they can and do work. The problem is, those who come here illegally and have to wait months and years to get clearance to work, they're not allowed to. And they almost certainly want to!

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No-Assignment-5287@reddit

I'm (relative to you) quite right wing and essentially agree that we shouldn't restrict the right of migrants to work. They are working under the table anyway, they may as well pay taxes. Standing policy should be that immigrants must look after themselves and cannot resort to the benefits system until they have citizenship.

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Dannypan@reddit

Your list is lacking a few entries: - tax dodgers and off-shore bank account holders - companies that don't pay their tax - companies that receive govt contracts just because they were friends with the govt and did/do nothing

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TyphoidMurphy@reddit

Shhh don't talk about that, we have some manufactured outrage to get out of our system please ignore the staggering wealth inequality that is only getting worse, please focus your anger elsewhere.

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TyphoidMurphy@reddit

Add Reformers to that list. Though at least that gaggle of traitorous cunts are taking from the Kremlin as well as from us.

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oojiflip@reddit

It's ridiculous that on top of the existing benefit scroungers, we then allow thousands upon thousands more to enter the country illegally to do the same thing, weakening our tax contributions and the NHS

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Fine_Cress_649@reddit

I'm absolutely enraged by the Epstein stuff but I think so is everyone. The cancellation of the northern legs of HS2 was the other thing most recently. I thought it was a particularly stark example of a general pattern of underinvestment in the north of England, but also a giant waste of time and resources. We spent billions on planning it, people had their houses bought and demolished, then they cancelled the majority of it for - as far as I can see - no good reason (probably because some rich land owners didn't like the idea). We probably spent 90 odd % of what it would have cost to actually build the thing and then have basically nothing to show for it. The fact that Sunak announced the cancellation in Manchester because he thought it would be popular there showed just how utterly out of touch they are with the country outside of the southeast.

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noodledoodledoo@reddit

I'm from Manchester and now work in London (classic pattern there, also driven by regional underdevelopment) and every time I see the HS2 workmen from the building work they're doing down here I get fully raging about this all over again. (Sorry to any HS2 workmen I've startled by frowning, it's not your fault!) It's really easy for me to understand why people who have lived really London/southern-centric lives don't understand this as well, because there are problems down here that need fixing. But FFS getting on the Thameslink felt like getting on a spaceship compared to the equivalent services up north, which are still running on trains from the 70s and 80s as far as I'm aware. Don't get me started on how fancy the Elizabeth line is compared to the complete lack of a metro in Leeds, and the almost total lack of underground services generally.

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orange_lighthouse@reddit

They should have started building HS2 in the north if they wanted to show they were serious.

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hsiboy@reddit

100% By starting in London, the project was always vulnerable to being lopped off from the top. If they had started by building the Manchester to Birmingham or the Leeds to Sheffield sections first, then the "spine" would have been anchored in the North. To get any value out of that massive investment, the government would have been forced to connect it to London eventually. Instead, they built the London end first, thereby making the Northern sections "optional" extras that were easily sacrificed when the budget got tight. It was planned from the start.

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TyphoidMurphy@reddit

They should have started building it in Wrexham, seeing as how Wales footed their share of the bill and not an inch of track has or ever will be laid anywhere near Wales.

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Fine_Cress_649@reddit

God yes I forgot about how shafted Wales got by this too.

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hsiboy@reddit

This is actually the "Golden Rule" of civil infrastructure, something that we completely ignored, and it's a huge part of why the project feels like a betrayal to anyone north of Watford. The "Start in the North" argument shouldn't be about "optics" or left Vs right spats on twitter; it’s about national economic gravity.

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noodledoodledoo@reddit

I think the problem is they were never serious.

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hsiboy@reddit

Candidly, the engineering is world-class. The Chiltern Tunnel and the Colne Valley Viaduct are genuine marvels. The 30,000+ people working on it are doing incredible things. It’s just a shame that their talent is being funneled into a project that has been politically lobotomized. We’re spending upwards of £60bn+ (depending on whose math you use) to create a high-speed shuttle between London and the West Midlands. It’s like planning and designing a state-of-the-art kitchen but later deciding you can only afford to cook toast.

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hsiboy@reddit

For someone who has to travel to that there London on the regular several things that irked me about HS2 The name for a start. It was never "high speed" - it should have been called "a bit more capacity" but that doesn't sound jazzy enough. Why they had to connect it to Birmingham when it's well serviced already. Go round Birmingham. When they decided not to fulfill the HS2 plan, they still built it to Birmingham. Make that make sense. Even if HS2 had been fully implemented. How does it take the same amount of time to get to Glasgow from London as it does to travel London to Lyon by train?? HS2 may have cost an arm and a leg. But civil engineering projects are one way for a country to literally build its way out of economic decline.

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forfar4@reddit

It was supposed to knock 15 minutes off the journey time from London to central Birmingham. Wow... The train terminates in Digbeth in Birmingham - which is pretty much a fifteen minute walk to New Street (the shops, not necessarily the station).

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AdditionalSky1238@reddit

No. It was supposed to prevent compounding delays due to faults of any nature because the wcml is beyond capacity.

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Fine_Cress_649@reddit

>HS2 may have cost an arm and a leg. But civil engineering projects are one way for a country to literally build its way out of economic decline. Putting aside the north-south divide aspect, this sums up whay winds me up about it the most. Declinism and lack of vision in a nutshell.

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HorrorShake5952@reddit

That the government doesn't really care for the people. People become too afraid to speak up about rudeness or stupidity.

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poptimist185@reddit

The slow car crash towards of dubious parties gaining power because liberalism is chronically unable to get its act together

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BuddhistThomas@reddit

The government, companies and people in general using ‘safety’, ‘the environment’ and other such excuses to manipulate people and fulfil their personal agendas.

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No-Snow-9605@reddit

This green and pleasant land is long gone. We now have a shithole in the making. We have a government that looks after illegal migrants better than it's elderly and disabled population. The cost of housing and caring for illegals, and the out of control welfare system combined with continuing higher taxation, plus the astronomical cost of going green will bankrupt this country.

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Saw_Boss@reddit

I'm confused. You complain about the government not trading the elderly or disabled, but then complain about the welfare bill which those same people rely on. To care for those people better will absolutely mean more welfare. > plus the astronomical cost of going green will bankrupt this country. Just wait to see how much it'll cost when shit gets really bad. We are already seeing more extreme weather in the UK. Winter this year has barely dropped to 0.

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ExplodingDogs82@reddit

The fact that every single political party are an utter shambles and whoever anyone votes for and regardless of whom is in power, I cannot foresee a future where any of the options will do anything remotely good or sensible.

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CooStick@reddit

FPTP. It just isn’t democratic. The delusion that it is makes us a nation of cuck’s.

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Elegant-Pie6486@reddit

I'd go with the Nazis. They seem like the worst thing.

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Curiousinsomeways@reddit

They couldn't even fill a non-league football ground, seems a waste of energy having them top of the list.

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HiroPr0tag0nist@reddit

Nazis in modern day Britain?

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Dannypan@reddit

Sadly yes: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/countering-radical-right/many-faces-neo-nazism-uk/

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birdstrike_hazard@reddit

I was gonna say reform uk but you said it better

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idontlikemondays321@reddit

The crippling fear of offending people to the point problematic or dangerous issues continue. Babies are still circumcised for no reason other than their parent’s beliefs. Children who attack other kids are welcomed back in the classroom time and time again because it’s easier to pretend that they and their parents aren’t the issue. Some travellers will leave weeks/months worry of rubbish all over fields but authorities will do absolutely nothing about it. Balloons releases continue to be a thing as it’s unthinkable to tell grieving relatives to do something else.

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Widget_widge@reddit

There is no benefit to do the right thing and loopholes are rife. Want to hide profits to pay less tax - easy, provide an abysmal service strip away all the assets and just have the government foot the bill - easy. I work closely with planning and see honest people have to jump through hoops at reasonably large expense just to provide justification and paperwork for something that already exists or is pointless to modern life.

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socratic-meth@reddit

There are still people that litter and don’t clean up their dog’s shit.

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CooStick@reddit

The bag a turd up and throw it in a tree brigade are the worst.

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Nuns_In_Crocs@reddit

The dog shit clean up is infuriating, the owners that leave it know when to walk their dog as well, it’s almost like they know what the are doing is wrong

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noodledoodledoo@reddit

I remember growing up there were SO many things telling you not to litter. Seems like they've just stopped doing that but I really think it worked. I think people forget that this sort of PSA thing has to be ongoing, or new generations might not get taught. The number of irresponsible dog owners increased a lot during COVID.

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NoisyGog@reddit

>People forget that this sort of PSA thing has to be ongoing, or new generations might not get taught. Patents are still supposed to be a thing

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noodledoodledoo@reddit

They were supposed to be a thing back then as well as far as I'm aware.

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Glittering-Mentat-4@reddit

Definately. I went down a road yesterday, and there was so much litter it looked like the 3rd world.

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Agitated-Equal-8162@reddit

More and more.

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Own-Lecture251@reddit

Queueing in pubs. I was in a 'spoons yesterday and a sort of half queue had started to form at the bar. Not everyone but there was definitely a queueing element in action. The pricks.

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Sea_Pomegranate8229@reddit

Lack of critical thinking leading to hypernormalisation.

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ZoltanGertrude@reddit

Potholes everywhere.

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Own-Lecture251@reddit

Arseholes too.

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whittingtonwarrior@reddit

Judging by current sentiment in Oxfordshire, this is the number one gripe of the entire population.

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Darkus185@reddit

The total and utter lack of space. No parking No GP appointment No dentist appointment Every shithole little town having a “rush hour” Tiny houses Tiny roads and swerving for potholes.

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Ultimate_os@reddit

Potholes are so dangerous now.

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quite_acceptable_man@reddit

Yep, there are a couple near me where, if there's traffic com9ng the other way you have to come to a complete stop, wait for it to clear and move over the white line to get around them. This is on an A road. How can we be one of the wealthiest nations in the world, yet have roads that are crumbling and dangerous?

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forfar4@reddit

We don't tax large businesses properly/enough. Companies like Amazon, Starbucks and many others use UK tax law to siphon money out of the country whilst paying almost zero tax. That's stopping an income from tax which could be used for roads, law enforcement, schools and many other things. It would be easy to fix the tax system - if we had politicians with guts and integrity..

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Ultimate_os@reddit

Yeah, on my road there’s a section that is only drivable on the centre it’s so bad, cars stop to give way.

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GFoxtrot@reddit

We really need to move away from car first mentality in the UK. It’s unpopular so it won’t happen but every household now having 2+ cars isn’t really an option here in the UK.

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Saw_Boss@reddit

It's unpopular because there's no alternative as it stands. You'd need to invest in public transport first, which inevitably means more vehicles on the road when talking about buses.

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Easy_Effort7985@reddit

Huge underinvestment in public services and transport. Privatisation and unchecked fare rises. It’s actually cheaper for me to drive into London than it is to get the train. Especially when work will provide free parking and cover congestion charges. I’d happily get the train, but £40 return for a day. Having to walk to the station in the dark & rain. And the fact it doesn’t run early enough are all reasons I’d prefer to drive. As for TFL. Why oh why does the tube need to be so modern? Why do we need to get the latest and greatest trains for something most people spend <15-20 mins travelling on. In most European cities, they run old graffitied grubby stock. But it does the job. And tickets are €2 not £8. UK culture has always been car focused, it’s a hard tide to turn. But responsibility has been dropped at the feet of LA. Selling off land to housing developers, whilst also cancelling numerous local bus routes and failing to maintain the roads. It’s a disaster.

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wybird@reddit

Constant negativity like this post

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Obvious-Water569@reddit

The fact we're going the same way as America isn't something I find pleasant.

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gagagagaNope@reddit

Nope. Far, far worse. We have scandinavia taxes and american public services.

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Maleficent-Win-6520@reddit

That’s been happening since 1942.

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Orsenfelt@reddit

All the moaning.

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insertitherenow@reddit

I don’t know about holding the nation back but hardly anyone has the ability to walk whilst looking where they are fucking going anymore.

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inanzb@reddit

The Americanisation.

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Prize_Papaya_4985@reddit

The fact we make it harder and harder for legal migration whilst just letting on in those who are unvetted unskilled and can’t even speak English

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Evening-Tomatillo-47@reddit

Lol how long have you got?

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orange_lighthouse@reddit

The money's gone. Can't make things better without it.

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Aromatic_Contact_398@reddit

Creeping nasty blame culture, ignorance can't be blamed from being born in an older time but a lack of personal accountability from facts freely available on complex issues to justify petty fears.

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Ultimate_os@reddit

The ‘I’m alright mate’ philosophy that’s swept across the nation since Covid.

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musicallymotivated93@reddit

That's definitely been around far longer than covid.

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Ultimate_os@reddit

True.

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Amazing-Heron-105@reddit

People whining about modern day Great Britain. Country has its issues but we're still better off than most.

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bez_lightyear@reddit

That we still haven't been paid back for bailing the banks out in 2008 and we still haven't got to the Sunlit Uplands that were promised us in 2016.

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cingu777@reddit

The fact that people are comfortable with housing and land resting in the hands of a minority which extracts wealth from society without contributing to it

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Legal_Release_4402@reddit

The hypocrisy and self sabotage at all levels. We expect our farmers to produce food to the highest standards globally, yet willingly allow imports from other parts of the world, with vastly lower standards, at lower prices and tell those same farmers to stop crying poverty, because they have intangible wealth tied up in the assets to produce that food to the highest global standards. We have some of the highest energy costs globally, due largely to policy, not the actual energy source. We've sold out private utilities to make shareholders money at the expense of tax payer's service levels. We make local manufacturing vastly less competitive, but willingly import cheaper, lower quality, lower sustainability from the far side of the planet, whilst patting ourselves on the back for being a "leader" in emission reduction. We seem to be falling into the American us vs them model of left vs right, despite crystal clear evidence that it slowly destroys a country.

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Admiral_Mongo@reddit

The authoritarian nanny state The huge numbers of net recipients of state funding The lack of talent in politics and culture Not being able to interact with service staff because they can't speak English

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gagagagaNope@reddit

Entitlement, and its only getting worse.

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musicallymotivated93@reddit

- The extortionate cost of living - The shit state of the roads - The worsening standards of drivers - Water companies dumping shit in the rivers and somehow getting away with it

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ldn6@reddit

Everyone says they want investment then becomes an apoplectic NIMBY the moment a proposal comes through.

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yow-lhr@reddit

The complaining and the laziness. Culturally, I really don’t like where we are at. There is no sense of creating your own luck.

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AdditionalSky1238@reddit

How utterly soft everyone seems to have gotten. Cars are used in place of coats when it's a bit rainy. People seem incapable of dealing with slight weather changes.

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Logical_Hat_47@reddit

I agree, the car dependency is appalling.

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autisticredsquirrel@reddit

The amount of thinly vieled 'I hate the UK' shitposts we get on a regular basis on this sub.

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Darkus185@reddit

Go and make some posts about how great the UK is then. The great thing about living in a liberal democracy is we can all voice an opinion.

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Kapika96@reddit

Not being in the EU.

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Bibdabob@reddit

LITTER! It's bloody everywhere.

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RohanDavidson@reddit

Agreed. This is such a weird problem for an advanced, civilised society to have.

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LiteratureCertain654@reddit

People who think they're special because they managed to make people do what they want/get away with something. Just because you argued with someone in a shop till they gave in doesn't make you clever. I'm not impressed that you did something wrong but got away with it. The general level of people who think they're entitled to have things go their way regardless of the rules or how it effects other people. I'm specifically talking about the smaller things here, the things that would barely be an inconvenience, but they'll be terrible anyway. There's no need.

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DrSalvador1996@reddit

The Sun newspaper and the people that read it

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Glittering-Mentat-4@reddit

Too high a percentage of people who have no regard for others. It reaches every step of society, from litter, pets, noise, parking, driving, graffiti, theft, right up to the big stuff.

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TheRebelPercy@reddit

People putting feet on the seats of buses and trains. People playing music or videos on loudspeaker on trains and buses. Fees. Admin’, booking, card, bag, delivery, change, service fucking fees. Polarisation of opinion. All nuance is lost. Actually, almost everything.

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Blind_Warthog@reddit

Everywhere I go, indoors or outdoors, I have to taste gobfulls of disgusting vape clouds. I’m almost at my wits end.

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Basic-Pangolin553@reddit

The way everything is determined by funding cycles/elections. There is no long term strategy any more.

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Party_Shelter714@reddit

Everything is also a zero-sum competition between regions. London wins while Newcastle gets left behind. Manchester wins at the expense of Liverpool, Birmingham wins at the expense of Leeds, and then the entire SW gets left behind. So on and so forth. Everything is a competition.

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Ultimate_os@reddit

We’ve had far too many prime ministers come and go in such a short space of time. It’s poor for development, for all parties.

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Icy_Gap_9067@reddit

That the cost of living crisis has just become the norm and we are still paying far too much for essentials such as rent and energy.

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GuybrushFunkwood@reddit

Cadburys cancelling the Fuse bar … I hope the executive who made that decision always has really itchy athletes foot …

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Legal_Release_4402@reddit

Chocolate getting enshitified in general.

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worldworn@reddit

The selfish attitude, it seems to have gotten worse since COVID. Why should I care? It doesn't affect me. I do what I want. Some people only exist to benefit themselves, existing without empathy or sympathy. It is such a terrible thing to be ok about.

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discoveredunknown@reddit

Lack of consideration for others. For instance, parking like a prick in car parks not leaving you any room, being blissfully unaware in places like supermarkets when you’re blocking a whole shelf with your trolley whilst you browse a large selection of cheeses with no concept of others waiting

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WalkingMaggotFood@reddit

Constantly feeling like one is being ripped off.

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