Pilgrimandrew
Can't believe the number of deluded left wing voters on this forum, especially when the demographic must be such that most are pensioners. Any vote for Labour is a vote for the continued down grading and destruction of our wonderful nation. Most of us on here must be old enough to know, and have experienced, that socialism doesn't work, it never has and never will.
Perhaps you’re a fan of “austerity”.
I can assure you that having spent 13 out of my 14 years in the Civil Service, under the Tories, and can confirm many services were cut to the bone in many areas (during this time I was Chair of Finance and Deputy-Chair of a local primary school).
I was personally worse off year on year with my salary frozen for 10 years, yet my NI and pensions payments rising year on year.
At the primary school I governed (not part of an Academy) we watched with horror our healthy school budget decrease year on year and the services received from our local authority diminish, year on year, with the schools support services haemorrhaging staff til there were just two left to support our 26+ schools (unitary authority).
Even today at my daughter’s primary school (teacher not pupil), she regularly buys her own supplies and teaching assistants are down to their lowest levels.
It’s a deprived area and has many Special Educational Needs pupils, but due to cuts in their almost bankrupt LA, they’ve cut the staff required to assess children, so no extra money given to bolster school budgets in order to employ the staff needed to give both pupils and teachers the support they so richly deserve and require.
It’s not the Labour Party who’ve wrecked our country.
It’s not the politics of envy, it’s not even the division that the likes of Farage and Lowe have created, it’s sheer greed.
The greed that encourages people to build wealth, yet not to “share”.
The ridiculous myth that working all the hours god sends results in a high standard of living.
We are still a society of “haves” and “have nots”, and it’s not as simple as get a job!
Many many of those not doing well financially have jobs, full time jobs, work very hard and it’s those middle salary, hard working folks that teach, nurse, can our food, deliver our food, in many cases grow our food, cut our hair, clean our streets, bake our bread, many many jobs which leave families simply “getting by”, whilst those at the very top “hide” their money offshore or spend shedloads outside of our country.
People who create wealth inside this country aren’t always the people spending it here, inside our own economy.
It’s the “little” people who do that.
Whilst those in our privately owned utilities and services give lip service to its users and pay fat dividends to shareholders, take huge bonuses and leave us with tainted water, old, dirty public transport which rarely runs on times, postal services where we receive our hospital appointment notifications after our appointment has passed, and so many other failings.
Yet here we are, blaming people arriving on boats for all our struggles.
Frankly, it’s pathetic and not good enough!
