This used to be Little Lyntus an ancient woodland in Staffordshire. It had stood for 400 years, part of our beautiful and vital nature.
So it was chopped down for HS2 …. Which was then cancelled!
Don’t lecture me about net zero & the environment when we are destroying the irreplaceable for profit 🔥
Yesterday morning I took an elderly lady shopping. My heart broke for her.
She's been placed in a house miles from everything. There are no shops, no doctor's surgery, nowhere she can walk to, hardly any neighbours, and she's been separated from her daughter and grandchildren. Every time she needs to see a GP, buy food or simply get into town, she has to pay for a taxi. I'd imagine she's spending around £100, at least, a week just on taxis. There are no buses to her house ans she cant walk far. She doesn't have the internet, only has a landline, and every week I see her becoming a little more lonely, a little more confused, and a little more overwhelmed. She worked all her life from 12 she told me, paid into the system all her life, and this is what she's left with.
My next passenger was a lovely Bangladeshi lady in a 4 bed council house on the estate the elderly ladys daughter lives on. She was genuinely really nice and sweet - this isn't a criticism of her at all.
She was travelling the train station to go to Plymouth to sit her citizenship test. She asked me for a receipt because her transport would be reimbursed, told me she has a free rail and bus pass, and receives food vouchers. If she passes, she hopes her family will be able to join her here.
This is absolutely nothing against her.
But surely people can understand why so many of us feel something has gone badly wrong with the system.
An elderly British woman, who paid taxes for decades, is left isolated, spending a huge chunk of her meagre pension simply trying to buy groceries and see a doctor, while the state is able to fund transport and other support elsewhere, in a county where over 30 thousand native Cornish are homeless, and the council is in £1.3bn of debt - this is absolutely insane.
Our priorities are completely upside down.
Australia forced Cadbury to remove palm oil from Dairy Milk.
We have the same power.
Buy British & real food when you can 🇬🇧
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