The End of Boris Johnson

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

I have to admit a combination of delight at the spectacle with envy for a country with real political consequences for evil demagogues.

[BBally81]

youtu.be/0O0dBlikJkU

[Madner Kami]

So, almost two months later, just one to four months away from the proposed "Elections in Autumn 2022". Johnson is still glued to the seat with no change in sight.

At least he's doing something useful for once:
UK's Johnson pledges more help for Ukraine in last visit to Kyiv as PM (Reuters)

[Riedquat]

So, almost two months later, just one to four months away from the proposed "Elections in Autumn 2022". Johnson is still glued to the seat with no change in sight.

At least he's doing something useful for once:
UK's Johnson pledges more help for Ukraine in last visit to Kyiv as PM (Reuters)

There is change in sight, that's the date at which the Conservative Party votes for its new leader.

Unless you mean "no change in sight because here comes the new boss, same as the old boss," which sadly looks rather likely.

[Madner Kami]

With either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss? Yup, I expect a "Let's keep doing what we did, but try harder to put the square peg into the round hole. It will work this time around, swearsies!"

[Draco Dracul]

It's going to be interesting if the UK survives the great gouging. Because the kind of food and utility shortages they're going to be facing this winter are the kind of thing that can destroy countries.

[clearspira]

It's going to be interesting if the UK survives the great gouging. Because the kind of food and utility shortages they're going to be facing this winter are the kind of thing that can destroy countries.

Part of the problem is that Millennials and Gen z have had it too damn comfortable and easy for too damn long and I say that as a Millennial. This isn't the first time this has happened, it was just as bad in the 1970s when essentially decades of post-war recession and the collapse of the Empire finally reached their zenith. But those people were used to toughing it out. They remember war, they remember rationing, they remember a world before the NHS and unions.
30 and younger today? They don't know what real struggle is they merely think that they do. And boy-oh-boy are they about to learn just how good the 1990s-2010s actually were now that the 1970s have returned.

And worst of all, what the modern generation has done (and we saw this in the 2008 crash too) is live on credit cards. If you are thousands of pounds in debt then you are screwed whenever any hardship comes along.

Soft times breed soft people, hard times breed hard people. That's the way it works. And times are a-changin' to the point that these soft people need to grow up. Or as you say, countries collapse.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Bojo lol.

[hammerofglass]

Thirty or under means joined the workforce 2008 or later (I've been working since 16 which is normal here, localize accordingly). After that great economy you say made them soft collapsed.

[Madner Kami]

Millenials and Gen Z has it too easy? Really? Is that your final verdict? The generations which haven't seen a pay increase in literal decades despite increasing productivity? The generations which famously live with their parents until they are fourty, because they can't aford even an apartement near their working space? The first generations which will have to live through the whole planet's climate-change, thanks to the Boomers making it impossible to progress away from traditional "values" and points of views and who are still dominating politics both due to the shere amount of votes they get in relation to the ever shrinking follow-up generations and because they have more politicians their age than any other generation? Not to even talk about what eastern Millenials and Gen Z went through when the Soviet Bloc collapsed... For many of us Millenials and Gen Zs, this is literally the first time in their life where they, as a work-force, are in a position of power due to a wide spread of lack of available hands in all industries. Some of us had to wait 40 years for that...