I call bollocks, you limey wankers!
It is not bollocks.
Many are struggling like never before, including myself. The price of fish and beef is extreme, even the price of vegetables and fruit is incredible. And seeds and starter plants through the roof. The go-to foods of our grandparents are no longer accessible because of the centralization of food processors and lack of local butchers and meat markets.
Those lesser cuts that used to get you by are gone now- the price of ox tail is insane. Beef tongue- only been able to land one in the last two years. Can’t get hearts either. Shanks? Can’t find them. Soup bones? Nope- all sent to the dog treat companies. Dogs are eating better food than many Americans. The less expensive stores were bought out by Aldis and others.
Truck prices even for used ones- insane for the limited junk available.
I don’t hear any blaming of Trump- we can see the big difference in the crime rate from what it was. But we know that the political parties raped and butchered the country and that they are all profiteering off of the carcass.
There is a general, global sense of malaise much like the 70s that set in 18 years ago or so and never left.
On the plus side, I work with engineers and things are getting better for young engineers. There is some optimism in tech, largely because of what Musk is doing. And it is definitely a relief not being plagued by the global warming propaganda as we used to be… there is the promise of nuclear power again rather than those stupid windmills.