Spending cuts trap Britain's poorest in boarded-up ghost towns

[Leonid Brozhnev]

So yet again, the poorest are hit the hardest by the spending cuts so the government can save a few more pennies to put towards Royal Weddings and Aircraft carriers their never going to fucking use :rolleyes:

The people opposed this scheme to begin with, but the Government went ahead with it any way. Now with the regime change, the Government has scrapped the scheme half way through due to austerity measures leaving people living in derelict squalor.


Tens of thousands of residents in England's poorest communities are finding themselves trapped in streets filled with demolished or boarded-up houses after an ongoing £5bn Whitehall housing renewal project was cancelled.

Residents living in mostly Victorian terraced homes in parts of Birmingham, Salford, Teesside, Merseyside, Lancashire and South Yorkshire that were due to be refurbished or demolished and replaced with new housing are in limbo after the government's Pathfinder scheme was halted in October's comprehensive spending review.


The project was controversial from the outset with "save our homes" campaigns springing up in some areas scheduled for demolition. Some residents argued the homes were fundamentally sound and often of historic architectural interest and merely neeeded refurbishment. There was also criticism that some councils involved in the scheme deliberately hastened worsening conditions in some areas by failing to look after amenities.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/18/pathfinder-housing-renewal-scrapped

[Dimentio]

Let's see what will happen.

I hope to be proven wrong, but my guess is that the Cameron cabinet will be down to 25-30% in popularity by 2012, then the government will cease with it's reforms (as it has made most of them) and focus on foreign policy or the environment or something, the unemployment will decrease somewhat and for 2015 people would have forgot most of this and probably re-elect the Conservative Party to power.