To think that labour are fixing our roads?

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There are lots ofcroad works atm which is a pita but lots of smooth new road surfaces, freshly painted markings...apparently a dodgy bit on the M5 near me is being fixed.
At last pot holes are being.fixed.
I feel that my tax payers money is being well spent and not going on parties in Downing Street.

Delighted in Oxfordshire here! Our roads have been appalling for ages and suddenly they’re all getting smoothed out.

Fingers crossed they will make it to Hampshire then we have roads we call pothole alley!

Roads are still in a terrible state in Stoke on Trent! Doubt ours will be sold for a long time

No sign of it up here in Lancashire. Roads are disgraceful. Just lots of hole filling which barely lasts a month.

Yeah, that's fantastic.

Meanwhile my DH waited 15 months for an outpatient cardiology appointment after a heart attack. The follow-up has a wait of over a year too.

Edited to add, at least the journey to the hospital will be a bit smoother. 🤷‍♀️

Huh? Where? Probably Labour HQ out in force spreading propaganda this morning

I thought potholes were the responsibility of local councils.

I think we credit reform for this. At least they run my local council.

You're not STILL banging on about parties in Downing St, or has Sir Keir been up to something?

Lucky that the government is also now prioritising the NHS then, isn't it?

Op, I haven't seen much improvement in the roads around my way, but my city has been given a nearly £50m regeneration pot for public transport links, which is much appreciated. My view is that the government is actually quietly getting on with its job and making loads of really sensible decisions that are baby steps to repairing the UK. We also have someone at the helm who is repairing damaged relationships with the EU, making trade deals with the orange blimp to protect British industries and behaving like a proper adult where peace and world affairs are concerned.

Sadly, things like WFA and PIP make the headlines though and are the things people will remember.

There are fewer craters in the local roads than a year ago. Last spring I was regularly swerving aound contenders looking likely to cause damage. There's been a number of roads resurfaced rather than just patched.

Winter 2023-4 was particularly wet which caused a lot of damage to road surfaces. This year's mild wet winter was less aggravating to worn surfaces.

Central government does fund councils and can allocate money for ringfenced budgets so it's not purely a council issue.

The road that shocked me most in the last 18m was M6 through the north west. I'd never seen such a worn, potholed motorway.

Not near me they aren’t. Take a look at your local council’s spending budget. Has it been increased since Labour won the election? I bet it hasn’t.

Our council has always been Labour, our roads have always been awful.

Yes! Weird threads popping up all over.

No improvements here. Labour have been our council before and it was no better then.

Your political post is wasted on me. I won’t be voting for them again.

So her wait started 2.5 years ago?

Agreed.

Your local council have control over roads

Unless the gvt (which ever gvt) has given them millions of pounds of funding for eg. Cycle lanes and Low traffic neighbourhoods. In which case the councils need to spend said money or else get no more money in the next round of gvt funding.

The Labour media campaign is off the scale at the moment to try and salvage some credibility, but they keep shooting themselves in the foot.

Most recently I’ve seen Kier celebrating how much he’s done to keep transport costs down by keeping the fare at £3…ignoring the fact that under his government it increased from £2 to £3. Though as we all know, economic literacy and competence are not the governments core strength. And then his much vaunted US trade deal was undermined by Trump at the weekend (who would have guessed) when tariffs on multiple goods were increased to 25% despite Kiers ‘agreement’ which, ostensibly, put us in a better place than the EU at 10% Out here in France there is much crowing about that one. Then on the NHS front there’s the cancellation of new hospitals with no coherent plan.

The whole thing is best described as a shambles…while bond yields march steadily upwards…They ‘inherited’ a £7 billion ‘black hole’ (actually just decisions that hadn’t been made before the change of government), spun it to £22 billion, raised taxes by £40 billion and now have a £60 billion black hole 😂

Our town has had a Labour council for as long as I can remember. They don't care about fixing the roads anymore now than previously. They still do half an attempt on a repair that needs doing again so months later. Definitely don't feel like my money is being well spent, just constantly pissed up a wall.