RE: The good news about the tory victory16 Dec 2019 11:00
Hi Kalan,
Let me be very clear, I absolutely believe that people who are able to do so, should help themselves, people who can gain work should work, buyback they should be paid a living wage, if I was in government I would legislate to ensure that, and to ensure that able bodied people who claim unemployment benefits would have to work in their local communities and thereby benefit society, but I would also pay them a living wage so that they would be able to pay there bills and not have to go to foodbanks.
I do however believe that some of your comments are far too broad brush, I struggle to believe that there is only one rough sleeper in Rotherham, but in any event that is absolutely not the case around the country, I walked past a woman in an underpass yesterday morning, she coughing like mad and has been sleeping in that subway for at least a couple of weeks as I’ve seen her before, she does not beg, so not all rough sleepers are the same and they don’t all have choices.
My upbringing was similar to yours, we had no central heating, never went out for meals etc. So I understand all to well, however your assertion seems to be that all those people who go to foodbanks, gamble, eat out, get there nails done, have foreign holidays etc. Which frankly is ridiculous, clearly there will always be a small amount of people who take advantage, but by far the majority of people going to food banks do not do so, I know of nurses whose pay is insufficient to pay their bills, yes they could move to a cheaper area, but then there would be even less nurses in the local hospital, which already has a massive shortfall, which of course means that the nurses and the doctors are under a tremendous amount of stress and pressure.
As for immigration, if it was for immigrants working in the NHS it would be much much worse than it is, there’s thousands of vacancies for nurses so no immigrants are stopping uk citizens from doing those jobs, there’s thousands of doctors vacancies, despite there’s being many foreign doctors in the NHS, the reason why we have so many doctors vacancies is because there are not enough courses at university and also the cost for those from working class backgrounds is prohibitive, as for the shortage of nurses blame the tories, they made it far to costly to train to be a nurse, it has absolutely nothing to do with immigration, oh, and it will be interesting to see how the farmers get there crops harvested without the foreigners who have for many years done that work.
The tories have been in power for 9 years, i haven’t seen anything improving in those nine years, the rich have got richer and the poor have got poorer, Johnson has 5 years to show that he is governing for all, and to ensure that society becomes fairer and thereby brought together rather than driven further apart.