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The fact that 21% of my country's population thinks things are going in the right direction here is fucking insane to me. The UK is literally one of the worst countries in the world right now.
Everything I've read about the UK recently makes it sound like hell on earth.
It pretty much is. People are literally pulling their own teeth out because they can't get dental care, the cost of living crisis is so extreme that at one point I was spending £50 a week on food for just myself, the NHS is basically on its last legs due to conservative incompetence and people are dying of easily treatable cancers and illnesses because by the time they're actually seen to it's already too late. On top of that our government is sending money to Ukraine and supporting Israel, our politicians are turning the lynchings of trans people into a game of political football, and the entire political system is literally primarily based on documents that were written between the 13th and 18th centuries. If you think America sucks I genuinely do not see the UK surviving this decade.
Yeah, that's grim af, I do think UK breaking up is a very likely scenario at this point given that the current political system has no chance of turning things around.
I think Scotland will be the first to achieve independence from England since a good amount of people are starting to get sick of parliament. The UK used an obsolete law that's never been enforced just to make life harder for trans people and that's kind of been a big catalyst in Scottish independence gaining traction again. I don't think Northern Ireland will last much longer in the UK after that. The inevitable abolition of the monarchy will put an end to the UK since we wouldn't even be a Kingdom anymore. Either way this is definitely the end of the United KIngdom now and it's going to happen within the century.
That's my impression as well.