Subject: State of Winsford
The recent report in the Chronicle is alarming and I share the author’s concerns. A town now larger than Northwich with over 30 000 population has a shopping centre with 18 empty shops. Where are all the shoppers going to anyway? I can remember a vibrant town with no empty shops at all. Well empty shops encourages vandalism too. What is the council doing about this sorry state of affairs? Britain was once heralded as a nation of shopkeepers – not any more.
Posted by: Sax
Subject: Classless society
Everyone wants to go to university, live in a detached house (we are swallowing up vast areas of Green Belt to build more houses whilst knocking old terraces down because no one wants them) and generally live a good life. It doesn’t matter that not everyone is capable of astrophysics or that someone needs to empty the bins, we’re all being told that we deserve better. Personally I feel that this shift in society is linked to the increase in cases of stress and depression.
Posted by: Padriag
Subject: Classless society
They have the heart, they have the energy, but they will have the same excuse that is given in trade union meetings when there is a call for industrial action, “hang on a bit, I can’t do that, I have a mortgage to pa”, ie, the wider picture is less important than the needs of today. So their hearts and energy are focused on keeping what they have strived to obtain. I can’t remember what the term was that we used in the Army, but it was something about Jack and being all right.
