I live in a northern former mill town. We are edge of beautiful countryside but like other similar places, our town centre is devastated. Poor employment opportunities, families where it’s three generation since regular employment was part of life. People working two jobs and needing food banks
Towns like mine were dismissed by one Tory as all those awful places beginning with B - Blackpool, Burnley, Blackburn, Bolton. Blackburn council lost forty percent of govt funding from 2011 onwArds. Kensington got an increase
I’m sure there is some poverty in Royal Tumbridge Wells but anyone visiting that area who lives in a B town will be struck by the wealth in the area. I was there a couple of months ago
Rishi Sunak - seriously, what does he know
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