Tuesday 21 April 2015

IS LONDON RACIST AGAINST THE REST OF THE ENGLISH

This is a question i have been asking myself for a long time now as it appears that as living in Cornwall we get very little in the way of services and infrastructure and really the prosperous world ends at Exeter.    Once you pass Exeter there is no Motorway, safe rail service and no well connected airport and some of the lowest wages in the country.   Yes the wages in SE Cornwall are below £14 k on averages for those who work in the area, whilst the averages in London is £28k (more in inner London), yes over double.   Take infrastructure in London the spend £2k per head of population yet in the South West the spend £19 no wonder London is booming and jobs created.   Will this change in the elections, I believe not as when our MPs get to the great city they change, the fight for us outside the M25 stops.  But why should this be, well look at the fact Londons population is 8.3 million of which 37% were not born in this country yep 3 million.  The total for the number of people living but born outside the uk is 7.5 million or 13% of the population a staggering figure.   The population of this country has grown 5 million since 2001 without the corresponding increase in services and infrastructure, no wonder the hospitals, schools and housing suffer with capacity issues.   The NHS relies on foreign workers because the country in the 80s and 90s failed to train the doctors, nurses and dentists to match the known vacancies that the baby boomers would leave vacant.   Most of these come from countries that are is desperate need themselves for the same people with the same skills, yet all we do is throw foreign aid to them costing us .7% of GDP and spent £11.4bn in 2013.   School in many inner cities have students that speak in some instances up to 100 different languages and with so many students with English as their second language you can see why they struggle.    As I have said above housing is now critical for so many people and housing standards for so many are sub standard.   With population growth as it is housing benefits are out of control, a lot of people making a lot of money out of the misery of so many.   Currently the country spends £16.94 billion (2013) supporting housing yet the investment in affordable and social housing does not match this.  In Cornwall housing benefit costs the government £187 million (2013) nearly the same amount as the cuts to local government over the next four years.   Is this the best way to use our taxes which appear to be recycled to those rich property owners?  How many people will be able to afford to purchase a home. the real truth is not many of them and by renting they can't save for a deposit as rents are to high.   A recent survey by Shelter showed that the added cost of renting over a lifetime is £600k to families.  

The government is critical of Education received in many parts saying that our educational standards are not good enough to get our children into work or training.  Yet it is parliament that sets the rules and standards, why keep our youngsters in education until they are 18 get them out in the world with a decent basic education and teach them trades to skill them.  No child should be allowed to not take up a trade, further education and university.  But to penalise them if the do go onto degrees the now pay £9k a year for tuition and many are now coming out with debts of 10s of thousands of pounds.  Simple idea if the country needs Engineers etc if they take those degrees they get the education for free, no doctor or nurse should pay but should be committed to the NHS.  

As i have said in a previous blog during election time we live in a promised land and at present the parties are out bidding themselves for our votes.   I ask you to vote but take care they will change and the party line has more pull then your local needs.

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