How do we resolve the Brexit mess?

SkyBlueFlux said:
I remember back in 2010 when they got in, one of the first times I remember being directly impacted by their policy, they cut funding from a local cafe/art gallery that was run by students as a means to help them sell their artwork.

Not only was it a way for young budding artists to get their work put somewhere where people would see it but it was also a central hub of the student art community. Such was its pull that people like me (STEM students) went there too to engage in the art scene and have discussions with people who had a totally different perspective on life. I loved it because I always imagined this was the kind of place where you hear stories of intellectuals and great minds meeting to do great things (I wouldn’t be one of them, but it was cool to think I might be in the same room). For me the value add for local artists, the community and society at large was so obvious - and it really can’t have cost much to run, it was basically two rooms and a coffee machine.

When it closed down I knew we would never be allowed to have nice things again while this lot were in charge. And 13 years later I can say I was wrong. It’s not that we can’t have nice things, we can’t even have basic, life sustaining things.
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Swimming pool, closed- check
Local tip forecast to close forcing 10 mile journey (and +++ fly tipping) - check
Library hours reduced - check
Payment for garden waste imminent - check
Gritting of known dangerous roads in winter stopped - check
End of road gulley cleaning service - check
Planning permission granted to build on peat bog - check
Local Social Services budgets slashed - check
Sale of playing fields, open spaces etc - check

etc

CNN Analysis Council Budgets 22-24 reports county authorities in England faced with £3.5b in inflationary and demand costs 22 and 23.

Forecasted funding gap by 2025 is £7.8b

Not sure about last 2 full years but by 2020 local authorities will have wrestled with a reduction to core funding from the government of nearly £16b. In real terms councils will have lost 60p in every £1 the gvmt had provided in 8 years back in 2012.

Wonder how Westminster fared? Levelling up and looking after citizens my arse.

Anybody care to post how they or their local community has benefited from this government?
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
Swimming pool, closed- check
Local tip forecast to close forcing 10 mile journey (and +++ fly tipping) - check
Library hours reduced - check
Payment for garden waste imminent - check
Gritting of known dangerous roads in winter stopped - check
End of road gulley cleaning service - check
Planning permission granted to build on peat bog - check
Local Social Services budgets slashed - check
Sale of playing fields, open spaces etc - check

etc

CNN Analysis Council Budgets 22-24 reports county authorities in England faced with £3.5b in inflationary and demand costs 22 and 23.

Forecasted funding gap by 2025 is £7.8b

Not sure about last 2 full years but by 2020 local authorities will have wrestled with a reduction to core funding from the government of nearly £16b. In real terms councils will have lost 60p in every £1 the gvmt had provided in 8 years back in 2012.

Wonder how Westminster fared? Levelling up and looking after citizens my arse.

Anybody care to post how they or their local community has benefited from this government?
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Just a gentle reminder that the Tories have committed to a barge to house immigrants costing £1.6 billion .... which would actually solve the social care crisis ... but hey lets keep voting them in power eh ?
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
Swimming pool, closed- check
Local tip forecast to close forcing 10 mile journey (and +++ fly tipping) - check
Library hours reduced - check
Payment for garden waste imminent - check
Gritting of known dangerous roads in winter stopped - check
End of road gulley cleaning service - check
Planning permission granted to build on peat bog - check
Local Social Services budgets slashed - check
Sale of playing fields, open spaces etc - check

etc

CNN Analysis Council Budgets 22-24 reports county authorities in England faced with £3.5b in inflationary and demand costs 22 and 23.

Forecasted funding gap by 2025 is £7.8b

Not sure about last 2 full years but by 2020 local authorities will have wrestled with a reduction to core funding from the government of nearly £16b. In real terms councils will have lost 60p in every £1 the gvmt had provided in 8 years back in 2012.

Wonder how Westminster fared? Levelling up and looking after citizens my arse.

Anybody care to post how they or their local community has benefited from this government?
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Scary when you look in detail at what’s been cut. Then you realise that our borrowing has continued to rise and try to figure out where all the money has actually gone?

Further, what else you realise is that this government have managed to subsidise big business on every count. Trains are subsidised while making huge profits. All businesses are subsidised by way of Universal Credit to cover shite wages and we‘re basically subsidising private health by way of the NHS; energy. Everywhere you look, they’ve managed to syphon off money to the private sector, leaving them to make extortionate profits while leaving millions of people on their arse and have to choose between things they shouldn’t need to.

Is this what ‘they’ really meant by Brexit benefits? No wonder they’re not in a rush to sort the problem.
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
Swimming pool, closed- check
Local tip forecast to close forcing 10 mile journey (and +++ fly tipping) - check
Library hours reduced - check
Payment for garden waste imminent - check
Gritting of known dangerous roads in winter stopped - check
End of road gulley cleaning service - check
Planning permission granted to build on peat bog - check
Local Social Services budgets slashed - check
Sale of playing fields, open spaces etc - check

etc

CNN Analysis Council Budgets 22-24 reports county authorities in England faced with £3.5b in inflationary and demand costs 22 and 23.

Forecasted funding gap by 2025 is £7.8b

Not sure about last 2 full years but by 2020 local authorities will have wrestled with a reduction to core funding from the government of nearly £16b. In real terms councils will have lost 60p in every £1 the gvmt had provided in 8 years back in 2012.

Wonder how Westminster fared? Levelling up and looking after citizens my arse.

Anybody care to post how they or their local community has benefited from this government?
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Sounds like Cheshire East!
 
bluethrunthru said:
fucks given none - these pricks are self harming the country but only whine when it hits them in the pocket

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Wine tax rises 'clobber' my business, says vineyard owner

Barry Lewis, a Conservative council leader and vineyard owner, criticises increases in duty.
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Don’t give a fuck about him, he’s part of the cause, it’s the poor fuckers who now have to pay more of their hard earned to the taxman, never to see nay benefit while the corrupt cunts are in power.
 
Speaking to my exes brother who's over from Italy to see them for a few days (he left England for Italy when he was around 16 and is now 55).
He now runs an Italian furniture manufacturing business after his uncle died last year. They have international offices but trade has been hammered for myriad reasons.
Clobbered by Covid, but sales are also down to the Britain - in his own words - due to the red tape of Brexit.
He was a supporter of Brexit.
Think he realises how wrong he was on that tbf.
 
BeerIsTheBest said:
Swimming pool, closed- check
Local tip forecast to close forcing 10 mile journey (and +++ fly tipping) - check
Library hours reduced - check
Payment for garden waste imminent - check
Gritting of known dangerous roads in winter stopped - check
End of road gulley cleaning service - check
Planning permission granted to build on peat bog - check
Local Social Services budgets slashed - check
Sale of playing fields, open spaces etc - check

etc

CNN Analysis Council Budgets 22-24 reports county authorities in England faced with £3.5b in inflationary and demand costs 22 and 23.

Forecasted funding gap by 2025 is £7.8b

Not sure about last 2 full years but by 2020 local authorities will have wrestled with a reduction to core funding from the government of nearly £16b. In real terms councils will have lost 60p in every £1 the gvmt had provided in 8 years back in 2012.

Wonder how Westminster fared? Levelling up and looking after citizens my arse.

Anybody care to post how they or their local community has benefited from this government?
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Here's my list:

No access to a GP for three years despite a life-threatening illness and two major operations
No NHS dentists
Bus services and train services slashed (when they are not on strike)
Police stations closed and also local courts
Two major hospitals under investigation for: baby deaths, and terrible A and E service (both caused by cuts)
No roads repaired for years, no repairs to streetlights, no drains and ditches cleared (local flooding)
Diabolical local postal service
Local swimming pool closed down and other leisure services cut
Most libraries shut and reduced hours for those remaining
Patchy and poor broadband coverage, especially in more rural areas
The local tip was closed requiring a ten mile drive to the nearest one.

You can't blame all these on Brexit but you can blame most of them on the worst Government I have ever suffered under. None of this has been helped by the ongoing pathetic performance of our main opposition party. I have stopped voting because I believe voting gives an endorsement to a corrupt and undemocratic political system which suits both the main parties and has devastated most of the country outside Greater London.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Here's my list:

No access to a GP for three years despite a life-threatening illness and two major operations
No NHS dentists
Bus services and train services slashed (when they are not on strike)
Police stations closed and also local courts
Two major hospitals under investigation for: baby deaths, and terrible A and E service (both caused by cuts)
No roads repaired for years, no repairs to streetlights, no drains and ditches cleared (local flooding)
Diabolical local postal service
Local swimming pool closed down and other leisure services cut
Most libraries shut and reduced hours for those remaining
Patchy and poor broadband coverage, especially in more rural areas
The local tip was closed requiring a ten mile drive to the nearest one.

You can't blame all these on Brexit but you can blame most of them on the worst Government I have ever suffered under. None of this has been helped by the ongoing pathetic performance of our main opposition party. I have stopped voting because I believe voting gives an endorsement to a corrupt and undemocratic political system which suits both the main parties and has devastated most of the country outside Greater London.
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Not sure how you can judge the opposition as being pathetic. All they can do is vote against legislation and attempt to hold the government to account in Parliament and in select committees. The most visible is PMQs and unfortunately we have a system where the PM can deliberately not answer the questions asked with no consequences. They get more of a grilling in select committees but very few people are interested in seeing those sessions. I really don’t know what else the opposition can do when the government has a healthy majority.
 
west didsblue said:
Not sure how you can judge the opposition as being pathetic. All they can do is vote against legislation and attempt to hold the government to account in Parliament and in select committees. The most visible is PMQs and unfortunately we have a system where the PM can deliberately not answer the questions asked with no consequences. They get more of a grilling in select committees but very few people are interested in seeing those sessions. I really don’t know what else the opposition can do when the government has a healthy majority.
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I understand the opposition is always limited but there is no energy, no vision and no hope from them for me. Just more of the same old tit for tat politics. The country is 30 years behind the times and needs a modernising agenda. Where is the innovation and drive coming from. The political structure is absurd with 800 plus unelected cronies (from all parties) in the House of Lords. Half the world manages better than us with a single chamber.
The country needs inspirational leadership but Starmer is flat as a pancake. I am not that impressed by the Select Committees either. Westminster is full of talking shops. Nothing actually gets done in the UK.
I realise he is a divisive figure these days but Tony Blair had vision, strategy, and charisma. Look at the state of Labour's website for starters. Most of the pages haven't even been updated for months or even years. The Home Page is dominated by a picture of the white cliffs of Dover. It is pathetic.

labour.org.uk

The Labour Party

Labour is delivering our Plan for Change. Get involved today.
labour.org.uk labour.org.uk
 
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bobbyowenquiff said:
I understand the opposition is always limited but there is no energy, no vision and no hope from them for me. Just more of the same old tit for tat politics. The country is 30 years behind the times and needs a modernising agenda. Where is the innovation and drive coming from. The political structure is absurd with 800 plus unelected cronies (from all parties) in the House of Lords. Half the world manages better than us with a single chamber.
The country needs inspirational leadership but Starmer is flat as a pancake. I am not that impressed by the Select Committees either. Westminster is full of talking shops. Nothing actually gets done in the UK.
I realise he is a divisive figure these days but Tony Blair had vision, strategy, and charisma. Look at the state of Labour's website for starters. Most of the pages haven't even been updated for months or even years. The Home Page is dominated by a picture of the white cliffs of Dover. It is pathetic.

labour.org.uk

The Labour Party

Labour is delivering our Plan for Change. Get involved today.
labour.org.uk labour.org.uk
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Agree with you about Blair, however a big part of his wide appeal in the run up to the 1997 election was driven by the fact that he managed to get most of the media onside, which was a huge enabler to be able to share his vision and strategy. At the moment, anything radical proposed by Starmer would be immediately be shot down by the Sun, Mail, Telegraph etc, and we know the impact they have amongst a significant proportion of the electorate. Starmer is doing what he has to do to get elected, and I’m still hopeful that we will see something different once in power and the media narrative becomes less relevant (at least for the first 3 years of a Parliament with a big majority). I could of course be totally wrong and he may well be a huge disappointment but a Labour government has got to be better than the current shit show, if only due to the fact that less of them are likely to be blatantly corrupt.
 
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