Happygirl79
Whitewavemark2
Someone said that you don’t judge an economy’s success by the amount of billionaires but by the level of poverty.
This economy is failing.
This!
I second This!
The level of poverty in this country is abysmal. And it's not because people are generally lazy, feckless, can't budget or any other of the myriad reasons sought to justify their poverty - it's because we can never satisfy the greed of the rich.
Greed, self-interest and individualism are now entrenched principles since Margaret Thatcher mandated these values. Boris Johnson and his chosen disciples are unsurprisingly the result of these ethics.
"Build Back Better" and "Levelling Up" are just empty slogans.
Around 11 million adults were to gain new qualifications at no cost to themselves... then behind the scenes, the Treasury pare back the funding.
We were to become a "global science superpower", but cuts in grants put thousands of jobs in peril, and the science budget into reverse.
Further education colleges - pledged £1.5 billion... with some colleges, already struggling, having to hand back £millions under the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s claw-back plans.
... the list is tediously longer than this.
Mantras, slogans, promises... and all the while the rich get richer and the rest of us stay where we are, or get poorer.
