Improvements in the U.K. since 2010

Oh Bodach please tell me how leaving the EU has been an improvement.

We have got less plastic bags, we are doing more recycling and our council is collecting our food waste and using it to generate power. Whether things like this will survive the Rees Mogg creature's dumping of all the EU laws remains to be seen.

Bodach

We're no longer in the EU.
(Takes cover behind sofa....)

How has that improved life in the UK?

We're no longer in the EU.
(Takes cover behind sofa....)

Upskirting legislation.

Same sex marriage legislation.

Ban on point of sale display of all cigarettes/cigars.

Free school meals for all infant school children.

Raising of standard of school meals following Jamie Oliver's campaign.

Raised bus stop platforms

Beginning to get more sensible and usable cycle routes.

Lidl and Aldi popping up everywhere.

Rosie51 I get raised eyebrows too, for the same reason.

Ilovecheese

The stopping of PFIs

There is beginning to be a real issue with them as the contracts end.

It seems (unsurprisingly) that this government has not thought the stopping of them through.

The stopping of PFIs

I do approve of bag charges but when I shop for my food bank donation I always buy carrier bags because the food bank dispenses the food in them. For my own shopping, even clothes etc I always supply my own bags. I wonder if people are inwardly shaking their heads when I buy them two or 3 at a time, even as I fill just one.

Bag charges! 👍

Oh yes - charges for supermarket plastic bags.

One improvement - excellent.

Second - pupil premium

Wales has gained confidence in itself, there’s been a noticeable increase in national pride and ownership, against the odds.

We introduced the supermarket bags charge in 2011 by the way!

I think I've found an improvement not (yet) cancelled by the Tories.

The 5p charge (on plastic bags) was introduced in supermarkets in 2015 and since then usage at the main retailers has dropped by a staggering 97%. Meanwhile, over £200 million has been voluntarily donated by retailers to good causes in that time.

As a result of the charge, the average person in England now buys around three single-use carrier bags a year from the main supermarkets, compared with around 140 in 2014.

The charge was last year increased to 10p and extended to all businesses. This has helped further bring the number of bags used down by over 20% from 627 million in 2019/20 to 496 million in 2021/22.

www.gov.uk/government/news/10p-bag-charge-turns-the-tide-on-plastic-waste

varian

The pupil premium policy of the LibDems was good, but did the Tories subsequently destroy it?

It still exists.

The pupil premium policy of the LibDems was good, but did the Tories subsequently destroy it?