There was no Socialist rhetoric at all, there was a statement of fact that the capitalist policies this country has followed over the last few decades has led to huge inequalities and it is a matter of fact that the UK is now one of the most unequal countries on the planet.
Those inequalities lead to poorer parts of the country being neglected, that is not Socialist rhetoric that is a statement of fact.
If you close a library in Ancoats, it will have far more effect on the local populace than if you closed a Library in Alderley Edge, why? because the people in Alderley Edge are on the whole more wealthy and can buy books, the people of Ancoats can not.
Again not Socialist rhetoric but the Gini-coefficient on education has the UK just above Latvia, right at the bottom of the pile. At the top the pile is Finland, there education system is the best world, why, Finland is one of the most unequal countries in the world.
Not Socialist rhetoric but the UK Govt expenditure is 35.4% of GDP , in Finland it is 56.1% of GDP
It is not Socialist rhetoric to suggest that increasing Government spending reduces inequality, it is a fact as I have just shown,
The cutting of Government spending to the likes of Manchester has resulted in the inequalities that you describe, that is not Socialist rhetoric it is fact, it is the failure of Neo-Liberalism that has created inequalities in great cities like Manchester, where you can have multi-millionaires buying City centres apartments and 1 mile away you have people in poor housing relying on foodbanks.
Under a social-democratic welfare regime, poverty relief should rely first and foremost on the state, as opposed to the market or civil society, this is the Nordic model and as I have shown it works. In the UK we do not subscribe in the same manner as Nordic countries and rely on free markets, individualism and increasingly Libertarian initiatives that just exacerbate inequality and cities like Manchester suffer.
It becomes very easy then to demonise the people of Manchester's poorer areas as being feckless, idle, druggies, etc etc, because the RW media owned exclusively by very rich white men guard their wealth and do not want to share any of their fortune with the poor of Manchester. This notion of the sovereign Individual much beloved by the Rees-Mogg faction of the RW nutjob factory is freedom for those with wealth and servitude for those without wealth. Manchester in effect goes back to the days of the dark satanic mills, with a huge underclass whose only saleable asset is their labour and they are beholden to the fabulously wealthy in their city centre apartments looking down on them. It is almost a master -serf relationship, which is in danger for want of a better synonym becoming like Gotham city, with criminals running the streets because their is no other way out of their predicament.
Now if you wanted Socialist rhetoric i could have given it to you in spades, I haven't though, but I do care about my city, i do care about the people, I work trying hard to improve the lives of Mancunian people because in my mind it is a great city with great people that sadly happens to be in a country run by cunts.
