.Haven’t we seen it all before with President Blair in 1997?
If you can name a single idea that Starmer has you’ll be doing better than 99% of the British public. All he has at the moment is “not a Tory” and that doesn’t get you very far
what could blair have done for you and yours that he didn't?
Precisely. If all you're talking about is money in your pocket then you're always going to vote conservative for the supposed tax cuts. If you're talking about society then labour invested in new hospitals, new schools, Sure Start etc etc. What did for Labour was a global financial crash which Brown did extremely well to navigate through without major banks (other than northern rock) collapsing.
Being " not a Tory" is a bloody good start. As for for the rest of your statement get your head out of the sand and read some of Labours policies on the environment, policing and Council tax - you might actually learn something.
Interesting. I grew up in Worthing 20-25 years ago and it was pretty dire then - basically a crumbling retirement home with a smattering of chavs. I don't live there now, but from my 2-3 visits a year it seems to be have improved considerably - plenty of decent independent pubs and restaurants now for a start.There are, and I have absolutely no idea, but off the top of my head…..
Give it a good clean for starters, it always feels dirty these days.
Try to encourage bigger shops to the town.
Reduce parking charges significantly.
At night, there is an uneasy air about the place. I think all of the building infilling, cheaper housing and people moving in from elsewhere has lowered the age demographic which has eased middle aged to older people out. That may be considered good or bad, but having lived in the area all my life the standards are significantly lower than previous…
Not a great answer, but how I feel
Well ’not Corbyn’ went along way to getting this shower of shite in, added to that half the country voted to leave the EU without a clue of what it actually meant, so I beg to differ. Let’s face it how can it be any worse.
Fair question.
, Roger this is a football forum, and we both share a love for the Albion, so let’s agree to differ and park this, and both look forward to Europe 
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Sorry Ted, but it is Sunday.Debatable.
2 or 3 decent restaurants I would argue.
The problem is everything you have mentioned will cost money and one of the biggest issues with British politics is the electorate do not like paying tax.Fair question.
Not just for my children but for their generation in general……
Eradicated poverty, specifically child poverty.
How many kids will go to school, in 21st century Britain, on Tuesday hungry?
We have more people using food banks in the UK than ever before
Actually tackled racism and real injustice?
It was only 4 years after when he took power, but Stephen Lawrence should have been this countries ‘George Floyd’ figure, yet 30 years on three of his alleged killers have never been brought to justice, and our capital cities Police force is still reported to be institutionally racist.
The care system, we still live in a society where people work hard all of their lives, pay into the system via tax and national insurance, yet many have to sell their houses to fund their care costs, whilst the super rich and the larger companies seem to go through life not paying their real dues. (Which in Blair‘s defence they seem to do with all governments, even when this very nice people the Dim Libs were in power)
Again not just Blair but the system, that **** Sir Phillip Green has appeared to get away almost Scot free for what he did to the staff of BHS and the pension fund.
The wrong doers just don’t seem to be accountable, even in a perceived ‘civilised and fair society’?
Rant over
There’s a great theory that we and the Yanks may have won WW2, but Japan and Germany ‘won’ the peace.
I agree with the general point that nobody should have to use a foodbank but when Brown left office ~40k in the UK were using foodbanks. It's up to almost ~3m now.We have more people using food banks in the UK than ever before
Tories did that just last year remember? 1.25% on NI ring-fenced for social care. everyone piled in against it. LibDems for years campaigned on 2p Income Tax rise ring-fenced for health, got them no where. general public don't want to pay for the services but still demand them.There’s a great theory that we and the Yanks may have won WW2, but Japan and Germany ‘won’ the peace.
We could learn so much from other countries.
Re the tax issue, though I doubt it would ever happen but if a party, any party, actually stated what the extra 1p or 2p in the pound tax would go towards, maybe people wouldn’t mind paying more tax?
I’d imagine things will get better when the NHS gets the extra weekly funding the Brexiteers promised at the time of the referendum
Blimey. How many posh seats at the Amex and trips to Vegas do you want?
I’d imagine things will get better when the NHS gets the extra weekly funding the Brexiteers promised at the time of the referendum
You make a good point. I do feel it will be an easier sell if healthcare was taken out of the general income tax pot and ring-fenced. Over here it's further broken down so you know what portion goes to your health now and your care in old age. Something I learnt recently is that certain elements of health care, mainly rehabilition based stuff, which is actually paid for by your pension. So we actually pay over 14% as there's a chunk covered by other means.There’s a great theory that we and the Yanks may have won WW2, but Japan and Germany ‘won’ the peace.
We could learn so much from other countries.
Re the tax issue, though I doubt it would ever happen but if a party, any party, actually stated what the extra 1p or 2p in the pound tax would go towards, maybe people wouldn’t mind paying more tax?
I’d imagine things will get better when the NHS gets the extra weekly funding the Brexiteers promised at the time of the referendum
Voted to stay old love.You need to be careful when you start losing all memory of what you've done at our age Lenny
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