Britain 2023
We were told that privatising water companies would make the water we get through our taps cleaner and cheaper.
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We have rising bills, leaks all over the place , sewage in our rivers and millions being paid to shareholders including Foreign owned companies
We were told privatising the electric companies would make our energy bills cheaper, make our service more reliable and create investment.We still get power cuts in poor weather.
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We have rising unaffordable bills, energy crisis, companies forcing prepayment meters on the most vulnerable of society.
We were promised an NHS fit for purpose where everything would be free at the point of use and where everyone could get the care they need.
Instead
The NHS is being allowed to die, ambulances take an age to get to patients because they cannot drop the patients they already have off in hospital as the hospital beds are full of patients in need of social care. There is not enough or adequate social care so there is nowhere for the patients to go.The care homes are being closed .Mental health facilities have been reduced to near zero and the police will no longer respond to issues involving mental health because they are so low in numbers they simply don't have the manpower.It can take weeks to see your GP and if you haven't already got a NHS Dentist , your going to have to go private
We were told that the planning system was designed so that everyone could own or rent their own home.Councils would replace the homes they sold off and the right to buy would ensure homes for everyone.
Instead
Development after development ignores local need and are allowed to build high profit executive homes,as slowly or quickly as they like, timing it to maximise profit. Council housing has been slashed as housing associations sell off inefficient or expensive to repair homes and right to buy continues to reduce numbers. Mortgage rates are becoming unaffordable for many and house prices are such that affordability is beyond most people.
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We now have to work for longer before we can retire.Many of our schools are now privately run , this means someones making a profit. We see lack of investment in schools.Youth Clubs and young people's services have been closed, cut or removed meaning young people quite often have literally nothing positive to do in rural areas.
Our roads are a national embarrassment. Potholes and decay that damages the cars you pay a fortune for. If you can run a car the fuel prices are so expensive you may not be able to fill the car with petrol to even get to work to earn the money to pay for the car.
You can't catch a bus or a train because we were told that privatising the buses and the trains would mean cheaper , efficient and modern services.
Instead
We get reduced or no services , on poor quality transport , where you often have to stand up and that's if it turns up at all.It also cost a small fortune to travel a few miles and when to get to the station or hub there's no further infrastructure to take you to where you wish to go.
Food prices in supermarkets are at all time highs, there are security tags on Cheese.
Food banks have become normal and are being used by people working full time,
Health
Water and water ways
Housing
Schooling
Childhoods
Policing
Transport
Energy
Roads
And even being able to simply feed our families.
All these fundamental things, things for society, things society needs are failing
This is Britain in 2023, is this what we want ? Is this what we deserve ? Is this the way forward ?
We are not attacking the Government or on any party
We are saying that the current political system , the party system has had its time and is now failing Britain.
We need a reset, we need to admit that the path we have travelled has made the few very rich but made the majority worry and stress.
It doesnt have to be party v party, ideology v ideology.
We need a new way of doing our politics, just because somethings always been there doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't change change
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