British Enshitification - What is going wrong in the UK?
It is fair to say that Britain is going through a period that might be known as the Great British [Enshitification]. (tab:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification) A slow progress towards everything getting worse, but slowly and almost like an unstoppable tide of sewage down the Thames.
Below is a starting list of the things that are going wrong in the UK.
- Obsession with top-down centralisation by the Westminster-Whitehall duopoly.
- Cash flowing up and out to London or abroad instead of around communities.
- Two-tier public realms allow the chattering classes/political classes to live in an alternative Britain.
- The UK is lopsided and does not work in its current form from an administration perspective.
- Our rivers are full of Shit.
- Family life is eroded by a political-economic system that rewards words over deeds and has made the 2 income household the default way of living.
- Councils are strangling local business life with petty rules and regulations.
- Mass immigration is not being managed in a manner that creates a trusting society.
- Housebuilding is stalling.
- Private Rents are rising above inflation, year-on-year.
- Landlordism is the only growth industry.
- Home ownership rates are decreasing year-on-year.
- Political elites are ignoring the economic warning signs and focusing on trivial culture war nonsense.
- Foodbanks.
- In work poverty is increasing.
- The majority of benefit claimants are in work.
- Aircraft Carriers with no planes are being commissioned.
- Military Drone teams without drones.
- Demographic issues are ignored in all political debates.
- High streets are full of empty shops, charity shops and so many barbershops.
Let's be fair, there are far more specific examples I could be using, this is more a tasting menu of problems in the UK and does not constitute a fully referenced systematic analysis of the problems.
So why is this happening?
I have a theory that Britain is falling apart because of one simple issue, The political, media and economic elites are isolated from the daily lives of the country and do not benefit from solving the country's problems.
If you can afford private healthcare, private schooling and live in the leafy posh suburbs of London, it isolates you from the problems of outer London and the rest of the country.