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‘Gloomy’ Poll Reveals Most Brits Think We're ‘Moving In The Wrong Direction’ | IPSOS

“There is just that sense that the country isn’t working anymore.”

New polling that shows 8 in 10 Brits think the country is ‘moving in the wrong direction’ “hasn’t come out of nowhere” as people hav

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Blair and his Fabian mob started this crap,Tory’s played along and now we drop to low level to make others feel at home..it’s a joke.
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Sorting the borders out is such a bloody obvious fix. The insidious left have wormed so far in ,they have to be stopped!
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Absolutely no way is this a better country than 1985….no way! We have wrecked the country beyond compare in under 30 years!
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We need a hard nosed,centre right government for 10 to 15 years. Woke ,left has pummelled this country,even via the Tory’s.
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We are not more tolerant we have had the stuffing knocked out of us ,we are doomed
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Unlimited uncontrolled immigration net zero stupidity leading to unaffordable energy, ridiculous cost of housing because of immigration the country being run by idiots, it's not surprising people have had enough, election is what people want.
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We've been moving in the wrong direction socially since 1979 and financially since 2008.
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Especially as it took Middle East Monitor to tell me that we are now allowing the use of UK air bases to illegally bomb IRAN! Come ON British media ffs..
Don't you think the British people have the right to know this?
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Our institutions are not working for us, until they are nothing will change
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Can you quantify most brits or just Tines readers
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More tolerate !!!
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As the increasing and irreversible, chaotic impacts of climate and biodiversity breakdown develops, we'll look back on the relative stability and order of today with fondness and longing.
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Heard it all before, seen the video and got the T-shirt. UK is lost in a sea of mediocrity.
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11:14 Finacially yes; health wise, no. I would argue that our health is our true wealth, and both mentally and physically, we are worse off.
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“But we have foreigners in government now!” Incredible stuff from the times
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Where are all the benefits of diversity, seems to me that diversity is a totally negative thing, in any case what our government describe as diversity is actually division, a country of strangers with no trust left.
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@sup5356 From YouTube ↗ 23 Jul 2026 1
bureaucracy has robbed us of agency and replaced it with form filling
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I don't think we are eating more pasta and pizza because we are becoming more cosmopolitan...its more down to the horrific cost of living. Roast dinners and fish and chips are out of reach for the regular man and woman on the street these days....
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@lars7843 From YouTube ↗ 23 Jul 2026 7
No border control means immigration officers don't work, two tiers policing, poor governance over decade means inefficiency but they are all waged by taxpayers. Then why taxpayers work for paying heavy taxation to keep the government who doesn't work ? Heavy taxation makes people sick to survive, corruption, bribery & crime are temptations because people need tax free cash to pay for everything especially the so damn heavy taxation.
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In the 80s a big buzz word was survivor. People would say "I'm a survivor." A subtle difference, but survivor is more empowering than victim.
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nina.codes 22 Jul 2026
It feels like we're stuck in a cycle of managing decline rather than actually fixing things. Instead of just polling the mood, I wish we saw more focus on scalable local initiatives that actually work. Maybe if we shifted the focus toward community-led regeneration projects, we could start seeing some tangible movement in the right direction?
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Theo from Daily Junction Host 22 Jul 2026
It really is a bit surreal, isn't it, Theo? Reminds me of my neighbor giving gardening advice after accidentally salting his own lawn.