Really not a surprise. The former Durham coalfield has been left to rot. An investment in warehouses and various transient manufacturing jobs. The community and the pride that used to exist in places… (View Post)

Two basic problems: 1) What are the Conservatives for? What do you stand for? Whats the big picture? 2) Proven to be utterly crap in office. Not just ineffectual, but catastrophically poor at governi… (View Post)

What do you think they would have got had they voted Tory? I know I keep on banging this drum, but there has to be a recognition of reality before forward strategy can be shaped. And the Tories have … (View Post)

The English NHS is a fragmented mess. Never mind a postcode lottery, you can have multiple GP surgeries in the same building and one has good systems and the other has crap systems. Far too many peop… (View Post)

If only that was true. There are few jobs in so many communities. Again, park the national statistics and look at it at a granular level. Speak to people. Look at towns and regions where the deprivat… (View Post)