with a shrinking welfare state you GOT to be kiddin me...
Posted on 05/29/2018 8:15:19 AM PDT by Ennis85
After eight years of budget cutting, Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States, with a shrinking welfare state and spreading poverty.
PRESCOT, England — A walk through this modest town in the northwest of England amounts to a tour of the casualties of Britain’s age of austerity.
The old library building has been sold and refashioned into a glass-fronted luxury home. The leisure center has been razed, eliminating the public swimming pool. The local museum has receded into town history. The police station has been shuttered.
Now, as the local government desperately seeks to turn assets into cash, Browns Field, a lush park in the center of town, may be doomed, too. At a meeting in November, the council included it on a list of 17 parks to sell to developers.
“Everybody uses this park,” says Jackie Lewis, who raised two children in a red brick house a block away. “This is probably our last piece of community space. It’s been one after the other. You just end up despondent.”
In the eight years since London began sharply curtailing support for local governments, the borough of Knowsley, a bedroom community of Liverpool, has seen its budget cut roughly in half. Liverpool itself has suffered a nearly two-thirds cut in funding from the national government — its largest source of discretionary revenue. Communities in much of Britain have seen similar losses.
For a nation with a storied history of public largess, the protracted campaign of budget cutting, started in 2010 by a government led by the Conservative Party, has delivered a monumental shift in British life. A wave of austerity has yielded a country that has grown accustomed to living with less, even as many measures of social well-being — crime rates, opioid
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They have a noisy radical protest group, Uncut UK, that is all about staging ugly protests to get budget cuts reversed.
Yes, notice how the “austerity” ALWAYS is pointed out (true or false) to involve the buildings and “services” that most people approve and support . . police, library, parks
Unless the budget was cut to zero, or the powers that be are pocketing all tax monies, then the $$$ must be being spent on individual welfare cases.
Or perhaps the NYT is lying.
The welfare state, any welfare state, exists for the purpose of perpetuating poverty.
with a shrinking welfare state you GOT to be kiddin me...
Yes, this is always the end result of socialism. You create a dependent class then you run out of other people’s money which ultimately results in an economic crash. You can only survive on imaginary money in the guise of deficit spending for so long.
Sounds like they need more Muslim Migrants to boost their economy.
Why do I keep reading about the government putting people on the dole in fancy homes if the situation is so bad?
So it’s the opinion (obviously) of the reporter and the NYT that communism is the answer. How many times does he point out rich corporations and rich people having it made. It’s time for the people to rise up, take the money from the rich, and live in heavenly bliss with all things being equal. Thanks for the barf alert. It really makes me gag.
The cut services but not gov employee salaries.
Perhaps the biggest prob w/the brits is their tracked education system. As I understand it, folks are tested early on as to whether they are academic or trade. When in your caste, you can’t change.
And Muslims everywhere.
“and more like the United States, with a shrinking welfare state and spreading poverty. “
uh, yeah. spreading poverty in the U.S. ... the degree of lying by The Slimes just keeps growing on a daily basis ..
I have friends in the UK.
They have ran out of others peoples money.
Poverty is spreading in the US? Really? The UK is toast. Socialist loving tea swilling Brits let in thousand of Muslims who are turning it into a Third World sh!thole. Too bad for them. They do nothing but sneer at us anyway.
You understand wrongly. That hasn’t been the case since the compulsory 11-plus exam was abolished in the 1970s.
Does a student need an A level/s to get into a college or uni?
#FREETOMMYROBINSON
Until then, everyone on that Island can just shut up!
In sane realistic words :
Poverty is an incentive to actually work for a living instead of too easily being a parasite of others.
Leftists encourage parasitism because they KNOW how destructive it is.
To University, yes, but ‘college’ covers a wide spectrum of institutions. You don’t always need A levels to get on a vocational course in a College of Further Education - usually just a selection of GCSEs.
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