RE: What motivates Trump supporters?6 Feb 2024 12:31
Not the case Mr T- UK House prices were on average approx £140k and in Nov 2023 they were on average £280k, so a doubling in 20 years. I've owned properties for 35 years.
Agree on UK state pension is very poor. People often ask why over the past 50years why there is a UK obsession on buying a house compared to many other countries, well the answer is clear- how on enough can you pay the rent when you're over 67 if you didn't buy a house? Other countries state pensions are generally far superior, so this rent issue for pensioners is no where near as severe.
The biggest problem is the rent rise over the past 20years.
All govts in UK have generally been poor. The same media commentators are moaning about the debt are those same people who more lockdowns and furlough- bonkers... and causing enormous govt debts.
Agree on dentists and NHS in general. Again, media are generally to blame too. A friend recently had cancer, was passed from pillar to post to get it sorted, so many departments and hand-offs involved where rationale given was "we can't see this data due to data protection, go to this dept" and so on, causing huge delays...
If an AI data sharing utopia there would have been access to millions and millions of scans where scan images could be compared in a second to ascertain likelihood of cancer issue, whereas all they could see was some local data to compare and then it's up to the local experts to take a view before proceeding to next stage which of course is very limited.
Limited data sharing, beaurocracy built up other many years to "protect data" due to the 1 in a million chance of an issue and litigation has meant probably about 40% of the entire NHS is spent on beaurocracy causing bonkers delays!
Rant over...
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