So much for levelling up!

Published date13 August 2022
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
The Cameron/Osborne austerity involved massive cuts to public spending. This meant cuts to the NHS (fewer beds, nurses and doctors, longer waiting lists), the police, the armed forces and local government spending

Social security payments were also cut. Poverty increased.

This policy caused widespread suffering but was particularly felt in the former industrial towns of the Midlands and the North.

Following successes in blaming the EU for our problems, Johnson was able to win an outstanding election victory promising to help those areas "left behind".

Never mind that the policies of his party were a cause of so much of the problem, he was able to convince enough people in the so-called 'red wall' to vote Tory.

Now...

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