Exactly right. The connection between declining mental health and our downward trajectory on identifiable economic issues is undeniable. On almost every facet of our society - health, mental health, housing - there seems to be a unifying thread which is the abdication of responsibility by those we elect to run things. The ability of crucial services like mental healthcare to function, has been put entirely at the mercy of the free market. We desperately need leaders with a vision beyond the next election cycle, who are invested in improving society. And the worst part is, we DID have a chance at electing one of those potential leaders only a few years ago.............

AUSTERITY has had a massive effect on people’s mental health but unfortunately it’s the only policy that the Tory’s have 😢

"It's shit, this country sucks, it's a bad place to live and there is nothing on the horizon" is honestly the perfect way to describe England and should be our new "Keep Calm and Carry On".

00:22 It’s not just council houses that need building. You need to build more facilities to go with it….more GP’s practices, more primary school and nurseries, more dentists’ offices etc etc. That’s as much as what has been wrong with housing developments over the past 20 years….houses built but only houses. Good example is in Bath, on the south of the city across the river a couple of exceedingly large housing developments has gone up right on the river. With lots of lovely 3 storey town houses and it all looks very nice, except that’s it. Nothing else. The nearest corner shop where you could pick up some milk is a ten minute walk away. The nearest GP is ages away. You need more than just more houses being built, you need communities.

When someone is prosecuted for keeping their dead mummified parent in the house it always crosses my mind that it's maybe because adult children that live in social housing, caring for an elderly parent are evicted when that parent dies. I know several people who have been evicted after the death of a parent despite being sole carer for that parent for years.

Airbnb. Pushing prices up and have taken many properties off the general rental market. I don't know the solution to this.

Another key is allowing houses & flats to stay empty for years or decades for tax purposes including new building. It needs a doubling tax every week on vacant homes from £1 a week to two, four, eight, sixteen et al to bring these homes back onto the housing market.

A few months ago, the shadow mental health secretary Dr Rosena Allin-Khan came to my school to talk to the politics students. She's pretty much a model MP and was very forthcoming about her true feelings on the government, but I did notice that she always stressed the importance of mental illness treatment rather than prevention.

27, living at home with a Masters in Maths. Been saving up to buy my grans place so we can get more fund for her care home and keep the house in the family. Found out it has gone up £50k in value in 2 years 🙃

On Mental health I started with Anxiety Last October, was told I'd have to wait 15 weeks to talk to a therapist. Thats way too long especially for people who need more urgent help.

"is a key a microdose" 😂

Council Housing was always a profit making enterprise for councils too. They derived a lot of income from it despite keeping rents reasonable. It wasn't just that they stopped building and the 'Right to Buy.' They were forced to sell vast amounts of stock to the Housing Associations for a token price. Cut off their external income supply which gave them some independence, then crush them as a political force.

5:41 Brilliantly articulated and completely right. The podcast is absolutely fantastic to listen to. I’d love for Pubcast and Tyskysour (Novara media) to do a joint episode down the line.

I have suffered psychosis for 14 years and on daily medication, it's a grade from low to F-ckin high. Nowadays every single person has a trauma etc etc keywords. If you have a mental health issue it can take over 6 months minimum, to speak to a professional and by that time you are f-cked or you took a bad option. I can only say phone SAMARATINS and speak to someone who will listen and help. I will not promise that you will have all problems fixed but quote"one death is terrible, 1 million is a statistic"don't be a statistic. Peace and Love🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😊

Everyone is unhappy, on site people never stop moaning, all they want to do is drink, smoke and take drugs, that is all they look forward to, they hate every day at work, and long to go home just to get wasted, they long for friday on monday morning, and at the weekend all they do is get wasted, that is the grim reality of life in the uk, no one is happy unless they are wasted.

Is not the housing crisis alone, it is the total incompetence of ministers in particular but also civil servants in all departments like transport DWP which is part of the home office which should be SPLIT UP, NHS , Rail and public transport, energy. ETC.

Social houseing in leeds a (Labour Council) are been demolished and replaced with private buy homes ,beyond the reach of most people. Yet Labour shouts for social housing every week they go on about the waiting list. Mental health in the uk lets people down its become a leaflet policy, people who need help are left to find it themselves the doctor can't refear you you have to refear your self .

Yep.

Currently engaged in psychosis crew checking in.

We need a new government 13 years of a Torry government the country is crying out for a change the pm as no mandate

Too much sense here. If only our politicians could think and speak this directly.

Firstly, when Thatcher sold the council houses, and the policy was backed by many following Labour governments, the number of homes on any one street stayed the same. People buying tended not to move on as they were settled. They could also then make the house their own, a freedom they didn't have when renting. Problem isn't council houses, problem is the free market doesn't want to provide houses that get trashed in the low end of the market. That they can't deal with bad tenants and it's always landlords that are blamed. You're looking to private individuals to provide a house to someone who then doesn't look after it! Secondly, the electorate was given a choice between Boris and Corbyn and they choose Boris. They don't want to go back to subsidising nationalised inefficient industries with their taxes. To have picked a habitual liar instead of Corbyn demonstrates how much they don't! Yes, people's mental health is going to be ruined by the pressures of modern life. But Brexit has made those pressures worse, everything costs more and the value of your pay has gone down as the currency crashed. If there's anything you can do, it's get back into the EU to try and fix the damage Brexiters did to the UK.

Politics has always been like this. The only difference is everyone has access to it on smartphones nowadays.

This is so relevant to people's lives in the UK at the moment. Unfortunately the health system is in the same state, so even if you do have a broken arm it's increasingly likely you won't get the help you need.

And if you happen to be from a marginalised section of society...😮

'Raising Awareness' is a pure Humphry-ism(Yes Minister). When government need to look like they're doing something but aren't actually.

I think its underestimated how much our awful government affects the mental health of the average people in this country.

I'd argue they're ruining some of our lives

That’s why we have to have a “movement” of people who work together outside (and not just inside) of the state and corporate structures. Political parties are a dead end, we have to start fighting for ourselves.

State pension age likely rising to 68 should help the mental health of anyone without a substantial private pension…

Dude as soon as my antidepressants can do what weed does for me, ill be golden... xD

Another Maggie T policy, Care in The Community, with no added money to actually give support in the community. Smdh!

restrict credit, raise interest rates, let bad banks go bust, make banks buying up properties ILLEGAL, make sure everyone knows GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BAILOUT THE HOUSING MARKET, build council houses, make three year rental contracts standard it is all about supply and demand, so make demand harder, make supply easier. Pretty much the opposite of public policy for the last 30 years

Council's stopped building houses years ago, then sold pretty much all their stock to housing associations. Why? To raise cash and keep maintenance costs down. Private Housebuilders now build affordable housing along with high end housing and Housing Associations take the role of building housing for us minions.

Having worked in construction for 40 years, I agree the housing situation is terrible. Atm there is a fantastic opportunity for the right new politicians. Just an observation, back to front baseball caps & swearing is not the answer to be taken seriously. Great video.

Who decided to give council houses to housing associations, they give the people’s property to chief executives

housing should be a human right,, then,we will not waste our life's to pay of a mortgage.,., think of the human capacity , that is lost.

Your mental health? What about ours? Rishi and BoZo keeps on calling us 😱 Lizzy escaped the white soft room 😱Farage and that haunted broom are in television 😱

500,000 net migration last year maybe?

Getting too much microphone interference

Why ask how someone is if you don't want to hear the answer? Especially a one sentence answer. You kind of just look like a hunt.

Birth rates are below replacement rate in the UK. Have been for a while. Additional requirements for housing come from outside the UK. If this ceased, pressure on housing would deflate via simple population demographics. So the choices are thus, concrete over green spaces to create housing, or an alternative that this lot won't mention.

PoliticsJoe now sponsored by Kleenex. Young people complained about lockdown's impact on their education but now refuse to leave their homes to go to their office job. Mental health has become a crutch for too many which impacts those actually suffering and in need of support. I'd like to encourage everyone to grow up - the world is not a nice place, it does not owe you anything. We're actually incredibly fortunate to live in a country with such a vast safety net. The trouble is - too many abuse it.