Taking Notes: We keep being told it will be terrible under labour,

in #media6 years ago

In the UK we keep being told by those who want to tell us what to do how terrible it will be under a labour government and not like now where we have a safe and stable conservative government.
Under their watch, courtesy of that great and wonderfully biased BBC we know

1000s of nurses short, thousands of doctors short, hospital AEs overwhelmed, Bed blocking.
Social Care Homes and Care collapsing . hospital services privatisation laws. Youth Mental
health services hardly exist, mental health care hardly available and usually miles away from
family support.
Schools in want, teachers and support staff axed. Teachers leaving and posts not filled. Staff feeding children.
4000 special needs children waiting unsupported. Thousands of children off rolled.
20.000 cut in police . Youth services cut. Prisons short staffed while theres overcrowding and rioting.
Self harm incidents and suicide. Private probation service deemed not fit for purpose. Youth services decimated.
Sure starts closed down. Universal Credit nightmare, Lord Freud, refused to monitor the
number of claimants suicides. Single parents leave jobs because they can’t afford to pay for
childcare costs up front. Company contracted to save money by cutting benefits to people
doesn’t actually save money because its decisions are overturned in a great number of cases.
Record homelessness. Record foodbanks UN report on poverty including child poverty.
Railways private franchisers allowed to take profit then terminate the contract early so the taxpayer pays.
The one public train Company that made a £1m profit was wound up and profit given to private franchisee instead who once again wasn't happy with its profit so was allowed to terminate contract. taxpayer pays again. Southern Rail has a contract where it is reported some losses are born by the taxpayer. Recently it has come to light that franchisees haven't been responsible for workers pension fund. Is The government ie the taxpayer on the hook for some railworkers pensions?
Then there is HS2 and Crossrail over run in time and costs, and ferry companies without ferries.
Do all the googles, amazons, Neros, starbucks pay their fair of tax towards health, education, roads etc
that they benefit from. How does an enterprise that pays business rates Vat tax etc compete with someone
whose only costs are minimum wage. And then there’s the Brexit word.
Oh and one more thing according to resolution foundation incomes of the richest households grew
by 4.7 per cent last year – while the incomes of the poorest fell by 1.6 per cent.
low paid just got a rise of about £120 a year so they can pay the increased bills
while higher paid got about £600 a year

Yes I’m sure it will be terrible under labour

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000448s/newswatch-12042019
If you ever wondered how the BBC staff can claim lack of bias while being totally biased take a listen to their political editors explanation of impartiality on newswatch clip I think hes claiming anything can mean anything if you explain it well enough.
available for about another 3 weeks.

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