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Originally Posted by JoshBB

It really is disgusting how the tories have used the crash to justify cuts to the NHS which have crippled the nurses - given them a harder workload, given them less pay rises.. meant that people cannot get certain treatments anymore. Then they have also made cuts so severe to the welfare system that people have died, almost a million people are using foodbanks and child poverty has gone straight up and doubled. All while this is happening they are throwing around immigration figures to smoke-screen the real issues. Honestly I am relieved that the tories are doing so horribly in the 18-24year olds opinion polls, hopefully even lower by the time people my age are eligible to vote (for me that will be 2020 for the next general election or 2018/2019 for local elections I am not sure)

They are doing badly in the 18 to 24 year old age band Josh, they would also be doing worse in the 16 and 17 year old band which is why they would be against the vote for 16 year olds.

Everything you list in your post is right,except that really in the last 5 years Nurses have had no real wage increase due to the higher inflation and wage rises kept below it for them too.

Don't worry as to patronising comments that you are naive or young and therefore maybe your views are clouded, I was only 18 when I joined and was a student, and got hammered just for being a student as to my opinions.

You clearly read up on things and have also likely seen things in life you feel and even know to be wrong and that there must be better way as to doing things too.
That comes across in your posts,so carry on.

We hear a lot from this govt; as to what we owe to the future generation but some can only put the young down,so take no notice.
Great post,full of facts again from you.

I was only 14 when I had to help care for my Grandad and then My Grandmother later, at that age,I learned far more about life and how things could and should be than I would from others,all from experience.

Keep your posts going as they are. All my best to you.