Brazil wrote: Thu May 02, 2024 3:35 pm
I lived in London throughout the entirety of Johnson's tenure. It was a great time to live in London, but that was pretty much entirely down to the national government for that time (Labour), who's policies improved life generally but particularly for the poorest, of whom London has more than its share. Almost immediately as the Cameron Government took over you noticed increases of homeless people, and then came the deliberate degradation of our infrastructure, particularly the assault on TFL, by the Tories who hate the nation's capital whilst they wrap themselves in the flag.
I'm related to someone who worked in this area and the trend in homelessness and rough sleeping was downwards to 2010 due to the work of the Rough Sleepers Unit headed by Louise Casey, with stubborn pockets in certain areas of the country but they were still lessening. That was reversed almost immediately after the Tories took office and continued to an all-time high around 2018 with year-on year growth