Levelling Up Broken Britain

[Roobaba]

Levelling up risks damaging faith in high street revival
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67451928

'It says while support for levelling up is strong, "broken" is the word people most often associate with Britain.'

..nuff said it's official, Britain is broken #britainisbroken

So how do we mend it..?
 

[newmodarmy]

Let elected governments govern, support result of democratic votes on EU, don't try blocking everything they try to do, and stop whingeing about Brexit...for starters

[ichkeria]

"Levelling up" and "broken britain" are both in my opinion unhelpful,  meaningless terms. The former is unachievable and the latter is, well, meaningless. 

[ToraToraTora]

Why have you described Britain as "broken"? If it's so bad why is the Channel full of people trying to get here?

[gulliver1]

Brexit has done more damage to the UK than even Thatcher managed to do.

[gulliver1]

09.21..Big problem facing these people crossing the channel is they don't know they are arriving at Brexit Broken Britain.Where the streets are no longer paved with gold....The Tories dug it up and paved over it.

[New Judge]

09.21..Big problem facing these people crossing the channel is they don't know they are arriving at Brexit Broken Britain.

Really? So when they arrived here and found this out, did they not get onto the phone to their mates waiting on the beach in Calais for the next rubber boat, telling them to save their fare, not risk their lives and stay put?

The fact is, gulliver, that as bad as it appears to be, the UK has a ready made society and public services that those arriving by boat "to start a new life" could only dream of. They should, of course, reamin in their homelands and contrbute towards their improvement (as our ancestors did). Instead they choose to decamp to western Europe to take advantage of the ready made facilities here. The UK is top of the list of their destinations of choice because they know that once here, the chances of expulsion are next to zero and they will want for nothing for the rest of their lives. So please don't expect us to believe otherwise.

[Atheist]

NJ "our ancestors" came from all over the place. I'm surprised at you!

[nicebloke1]

How do we mend it? according to the government the levelling up fund is transforming communites and regenerating the high street, is it? And how is the above done?

Not to many weeks back in a small run down area near me they opened a Tesco Express, and a local councilor stood outside along with the manager and staff of that shop having their photo taken for the local paper, the councilor claimed/ bragged that the opening of this Tesco Express was part of levelling up, and partly funded by the levelling up fund. How is my question? are they paying Tesco to open up shops. I might add that one third of this Tesco Express is full of cheap booze, and the basic foods stuffs are round about 50% dearer than their own big supermarkets. How does the above transform communites other than encouraging more drunkeness than it already has. If this is regenerating the high street they can keep it.

Theres only one way to level up in my opinion, and it can really only be done by the people of that community, ( with a little push from government) get off your ass and find a job, but the latter has NOT what the government has encouaged over the last few years. 

What we have at the moment are high streets full of mobility scooters going back and forth with their drivers stuffing Greggs pies, smoking their lungs off and waiting for someone to open the door at Tesco Express to inable them to stock up with booze for the evening. These people claim to have health problems and cant work? well if its true, and I doubt not, is it any wonder with the above life style? ( and yes I know) some people are ill for real, OK.

All in all I've never seen so many mobility scooters scooting around, and they are not older people, 40/50, the older people are still managing to walk, plus carry bags of shopping. But eh, the government are shouting (again) about sorting these people out, pigs will fly I guess.

 

[Canary42]

Not pigs again ! ! ! 😃  😃  😃  😃  

[nicebloke1]

^^They are everywhere :0)

[New Judge]

NJ "our ancestors" came from all over the place. I'm surprised at you!

Indeed they did. But the transformation of this country from one with a predominantly agricultural economy into an advanced industrialised nation (which makes it so attractive to those seeking a “new life”) only began in the early 1800s. The GDP of Britain was next to nothing at the start of the 19th Century and all of its advantages have been accrued since then. The only significant level of immigration into Britain during the 19th Century was from Ireland and much of this was prompted by the famine there that occurred mid-century. Despite that, the foreign-born population in Britain at the start of the 20th Century was around 1%. Today it is near enough 20%.

There is simply no comparison between either the numbers or the motivation of the relatively few people who came here in the 19th and early 20th centuries and the huge influx that has occurred in the last couple of decades or so.

[Atheist]

NJ; you should have gone into politics.

 

[New Judge]

"NJ; you should have gone into politics."

Nah. I wanted to do something worthwhile!  😀

[douglas9401]

"The UK is top of the list of their destinations of choice because they know that once here, the chances of expulsion are next to zero and they will want for nothing for the rest of their lives."

 

Well if that ain't broken I'm not sure I know what is.

[nicebloke1]

Glad I'm not a youngster trying to make a career choice.