this is what the Tories have done to the north

[spacepyramid]

Yet still they voted for them...turkeys voting for xmas again

spacepyramid. Good try. 😴😴😴😴

Labour have run my area for donkeys years and it was getting worse and worse. They just didn’t care in the end, no effort from any of them alongside childish tactics in the run up to the vote.
Tory MPs have really shone over the past couple of years. They’ve made promises and stuck to them.
I would usually support labour but after seeing the lack of care they have shown I couldn’t bring myself to vote for them.

Have you ever been to Blyth Valley?

Yes. Worked in schools there for several years.

The largest two groups are the 30-39 and 40-49 age ranges.

We must have got our data from different places. I attach various screenshots from a 2014 Public Health England report.

Life expectancy is in line with National averages and the main regional hospital (NSECH) is a specialist emergency care hospital which performs slightly above national average in terms of targets.

NSECH opened in 2015, so you can see why people might perceive that as something that happened under the Tories. In any case, it had a bit of a bumpy ride when it first opened and as a result has a not-great reputation locally, whatever the targets say.

Secondary schools are performing at slightly above the national average and whole unemployment is very slightly above the national average, it is not rampant.

DH has my tea ready, so I'll need a bit more time to get back to you on that.

Child poverty is of course a concern but Blyth Valley isn't even in the Top 25 of constituencies with the highest levels of child poverty (plenty of London ones on there though...)

Do you think anyone who's struggling to feed their kids says to themselves "Well, of course, there's even bigger shitholes several hundred miles away, mustn't grumble"?

'Labour have run it into the ground', despite having a tory government for ten year, Bloodycats?

and you think its sensible to vote them in locally as well?

I said child poverty is a concern, I didn't say anyone in poverty should count their blessings as others are worse off. Don't twist my words. What I did say was that Blyth Valley is not the worst area for child poverty which is what you had implied.

NSECH has a good reputation amongst everyone I know, they cared very well for my father during a two year period of ill health. I'm having surgery with Northumberland Trust, by the date of my operation I'll have waited a total of nine weeks from initial diagnosis to operation completed. The RVI is also within striking distance and available as a choice for anyone who doesn't wish to use NSECH. The A&E at NSECH gets very busy during peak times but that's true of all A&E's, not helped by 111 sending people there who would be better cared for by other services.

I got my figures from the 2017 census.

That picture is not from that census, wrong screen shot.

The 2017 is available online though.

Which party runs the devolved parliament of the poorest area, West Wales (according to the OP)?

I'm so glad I don't live in "the north"

Haha, as if anyone from down south gives a fuck about the North East unless its to be utterly condescending.

The Labour Party has been in charge of most of these places for the entirety of living memory by the way.

How do you slot that disgusting betrayal into your narrative about how great Labour are?

No surprise about most of the areas listed in the poorest, apart from parts of Scotland not being there (mainly name checked in the second verse of 'Letter from America' by the Proclaimers).

Very surprised at Brussels being amongst the richest, and Inner London.