Bertie's Legacy

[madura]

All Bertie's legacy amounts to is sprawling housing estates with no public transport, no public amenities, no community spirit, no sense of design or warmth and no hope for change in the foreseeable future. All Bertie's legacy amounts to is long commuting times of up to 4 hour round trips for workers every day. That's 20 hours a week of leisure time gone. That's why quality of life is better on the continent.

Apart from the small matter of unemployment or low-paid jobs. The Dutch example is not that typical.

[The Last Socialist]

But we have the jobs and the economy what we are lacking is the services and amenities and that is where we have gone wrong.