Nah, my town was a Tory strong hold until Blair

It was a thriving northern market town

Obviously it's not just labour, such as online shopping causing a massive dent into the town's economy.

Towns don't surivive on local shopping economy though

Didn't before, either

My DVDRW packed up. Not impressed

It’s boomer time

Shut up, Coomer

The one little Tory town in a see of red throughout the last century

Then the 90's come along and Thatcher is gone

Still doesn't tell me what -funded- your town, what drove it - or was it purely agrarian, Mikey?

It's an industrial market town

i stopped replacing dvdrw drives like.. 10 years ago because they always break and increasingly dont need them

Did the industry go, though>?

We had steel industries, train industries up here.

Sold off, of course.

It's a NE town, after all

Fortunately I have a spare to replace it with, Crafty, it has had little use

I know trains were a huge market considering the history of the town and trains in general.

They could still be if governments had vision

That's bureaucracy for you

Steel was also big here

Instead of improving and greening public transport and freight, self loathing progressive urban cunts like PeP and the PFE are insistent on taking a massive shit on living standards and people's freedom to travel

tbh buses are okay here. Even if they decided not to come every other Saturday

Is it a fleet of electric/gas buses?

Is it so cheap that it's cheaper than a car?

Which is a pain when I am at the bus stop until 8:30pm and it's supposed to arrive at 8pm

It's cheaper than a car, yes. But I've just decided to walk through town instead.

Even if I have to walk down a proper rough area of town it's w/e

But it's not electric/gas though, so it's not green

It's not the roughest area in town, but there's always a fire in a specific section because that's where some homeless sleep

But it is a fleet of electric/gas

They have that stupid white bulge on the roof

Sounds like they need to get their shit together and get these homeless people the help they need

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Someone on Radio 4 today stated it'd only cost 16bn a year to move social care into the NHS. Sounds awfully low to me

While at the same time being absolutely essential

We do have food banks and hostels here

If you've got people on the streets, then the social system has already failed them

Have you seen the people on the streets?