[pasabagi]

It depends on who you ask. If you ask any british person who has been out of the country for a few years, yes, it's absolutely going down the pipes.

If you ask people who have lived there the whole time, they've been frog-boiled.

The truth is somewhere in the middle: the current malaise is a continuation of pre-existing trends. There were always holes in british roads, now there are just more of them. There were always food banks, now they just run out of food before they run out of hungry people.