Hard not to agree. My god-daughter struggles to study at UCL without huge debts, my local primaries are all spending money and effort on promotion, despite being amazing, and my local area struggles for any kind of complex or detailed scrutiny of local politics.
I agree, I was in my 20’s in the 90’s and it was a wonderful time to be a Londoner - the city was thriving.
I still love London and wouldn’t live anywhere else, however, 14 years of the Tories has definitely torn something away. Pubs have shut, nightlife is struggling and everything is so expensive.
I know some of my fellow countrymen hate to hear a foreign language spoken. It fills me with pride that people want to come here although Brexit and anti-immigrant policies by govt seem to have really reduced the number of visitors. London 2012 is long forgotten, it’s like it never happened.
It's hard not to see echos of the north east. From my terrace in Gateshead I would refer you to the IPPR report that points out that if we had the same transport investment as London we would be £140 billion less well off.
London was spared the austerity felt in the rest of the country. The experience of London today is the experience of the austerity agenda outside London. A land where being unaffordable is normal. Stagnant pay is normal. Anger and a sense of grievance is normal. Politics is conducted at a level of feelings without rationality. Brexit has turned into the ideology of Brexitism. Which itself was generated by making us all poorer.
The local media outside London has been denuded of any semblance of journalism. Reach has bought out local newspapers, stopped printing them and infested their website with clickbait and Farage friendly "news". An inspection of the comments on their website and Facebook pages of once proud local knowledge is a litany of badly spelt racism, conspiracy and Starmer hate.
Reach publishes the Daily Express. Local coverage is now Express grievance writing across the country with local branding.
In this putrid environment the idea of democratic debate, a battle of ideas, has gone. Shouting is in. Typed in uppercase.
Perhaps the reason why the Green slogan of making hope normal again had resonance in the recent Parliamentary by-election.
Hard not to agree. My god-daughter struggles to study at UCL without huge debts, my local primaries are all spending money and effort on promotion, despite being amazing, and my local area struggles for any kind of complex or detailed scrutiny of local politics.
I agree, I was in my 20’s in the 90’s and it was a wonderful time to be a Londoner - the city was thriving.
I still love London and wouldn’t live anywhere else, however, 14 years of the Tories has definitely torn something away. Pubs have shut, nightlife is struggling and everything is so expensive.
I know some of my fellow countrymen hate to hear a foreign language spoken. It fills me with pride that people want to come here although Brexit and anti-immigrant policies by govt seem to have really reduced the number of visitors. London 2012 is long forgotten, it’s like it never happened.
It's hard not to see echos of the north east. From my terrace in Gateshead I would refer you to the IPPR report that points out that if we had the same transport investment as London we would be £140 billion less well off.
https://www.ippr.org/media-office/ippr-north-and-ippr-reveal-if-the-north-had-seen-the-same-transport-investment-as-london-under-the-previous-government-it-would-have-received-140bn-more
London was spared the austerity felt in the rest of the country. The experience of London today is the experience of the austerity agenda outside London. A land where being unaffordable is normal. Stagnant pay is normal. Anger and a sense of grievance is normal. Politics is conducted at a level of feelings without rationality. Brexit has turned into the ideology of Brexitism. Which itself was generated by making us all poorer.
The local media outside London has been denuded of any semblance of journalism. Reach has bought out local newspapers, stopped printing them and infested their website with clickbait and Farage friendly "news". An inspection of the comments on their website and Facebook pages of once proud local knowledge is a litany of badly spelt racism, conspiracy and Starmer hate.
Reach publishes the Daily Express. Local coverage is now Express grievance writing across the country with local branding.
In this putrid environment the idea of democratic debate, a battle of ideas, has gone. Shouting is in. Typed in uppercase.
Perhaps the reason why the Green slogan of making hope normal again had resonance in the recent Parliamentary by-election.