[rvieira]

I second that. Perhaps it's a perfect storm of COVID (NHS degraded), international economic problems (inflation, fuel, food prices), Brexit (bankrupcies, universal shortage of staff, Horizon science funding, etc), fatigue of a decade+ Tory government, sometimes all bundled in one (travel chaos, no staff at airports due to Brexit and COVID), and a "fill your pockets while you can" atmosphere (billions of taxpayers money wasted on PR stunts, alleged fraud, etc), slow erosion of democratic institutions (lowering of standards laws, bonfire of enviromental and worker protection laws, losing trust in the police) but there's this gloomy atmosphere that things will get a lot worse before they get better.