There’s a growing feeling in the UK that things simply don’t work anymore: roads full of potholes, rising crime with little consequence, weeks-long waits for GP appointments, and asylum systems buckling under pressure — all while political parties shuffle papers and offer vague promises of “change.” 

It seems that what we’re living through isn’t just a rough patch. It’s gradual systemic decline. 

It would seem that politics as usual, from both Labour and Conservatives just isn't working. Their policy agendas just aren't up to sorting out the mess we're in, we simply need something more radical. 

### Public Services Are Failing — And People Know It

We now have a country where phone theft has effectively been decriminalised, the roads remain in disrepair, and immigration enforcement seems to have been left largely undone. Meanwhile, getting a GP appointment takes weeks — and navigating the welfare system is a nightmare.

And these are not abstract, academic concerns, they are impacting ordinary people's ordinary lives. The public notice when they cannot report an offense and expect follow-up, or an elderly parent not being able to obtain care without a exhausting bureaucratic battle - feed the sense that the system is becoming neither just nor functional.

Voters aren't merely frustrated — they're disillusioned. And in this vooid Reform UK are making headway. It's easy for them ATM to put out some ideas for radical reform, and a very clever name for the party, I mean we do NEED reform! 


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### Out with the old...

Labour has had a pretty bad first year, and everyone's moaning, but maybe it's not actually a question of bad management, maybe they just don't have the right policy tools for the job, I mean look at the backbench revolt over benefits recently, the cuts were hardly that radical, but the resistance was old school 'keep things the same' - they had months to come up with something radical, and the result, nothing! 

We seem to be in the age in which our public institutions cannot serve the public anymore. 

### What Next
We need some radical ideas on how to transform our public services, digital infrastructure, taxation, housing, immigration, and policing — the key foundations of an effective state.

And that begins with an acceptance of something uncomfortable: the UK is not just in performance decline, something deeper is going on. 

The rest of the world knows it, now our politicians needs to fess up! 

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