Manchester’s emergency services
Credit to Jack Edward Mitchell for assembling this data and making these excellent points. (And he is happy for others to share, please do):
3. The number of Accident and Emergency departments closed in Manchester since the Conservatives entered government.
4. The number of Greater Manchester Police stations sold off to plug funding gaps since 2010.
10. The number of Police station front desks Greater Manchester Police have had to close because of budget cuts in the same period.
2246. the number of officers Greater Manchester Police have had to let go since 2010, formerly 8200, now cut to 5,954.
£134,000,000. the cut applied to Greater Manchester Police’s annual budget between 2011 and 2015.
Emergency services in Manchester did an amazing job on Monday night, but take Theresa May’s condolences with a hefty slug of salt because this is how she and her party have consistently attacked those same emergency services over the last 7 years. This is why we have soldiers on our streets, because the UK has 11.7% fewer police officers than it did when we last had a Labour government.
My husband was quite touched to see that the two Manchester Football teams, one of which he despises and the other he likes, have joined together to help out, and called it A City United.
Perhaps if people came together all the time like they do during a tragedy, we would have fewer tragedies.
Ah, yes. That recipe for a strong, stable, stable, strong, stable society! Cut the emergency and welfare services to the bone then claim that problems with said organisations are the result of the inefficiencies of publically owned services…
My favourite comment that’s cropped in relation to the Manchester incident is the dismissive, “We’ve been bombed by a better class of bastard!”