I was a child in the 80s and a kid in the 90s, a young man in the millennium decade and now a mature adult with a child, at the doorstep to the 20s decade. If anyone should judge my island it should be me, my verdict would be accurate.
I think that we are nincompoops.
We privatized our railways. So now the British railway network is a fragmented overpriced pile of tosh. It used to be integrated and cheap but now it is not. The so called competitive pressure between operators doesn't exist they all have a manopoly on their bit of the track.
Our government tried to bring out a poll tax so every adult pays for the cost of the local authorities civil servants. It was obviously un-enforceable plus we had many riots. However the VAT went up to what is now 20% from 15% then 17.5%. There was no riot, yet you are paying more tax you nincompoops!!! When you buy 5 t-shirts, one of them is just tax. Let that sink in.
We use water that is clean enough to drink to flush our toilet. The water has lime in it so it ruins washing machines. Yet rain water with no linestone in it fails on our roofs every 3 days or so.
There is more but I don't like putting down my nation.
