Most people will be looking to their councillors to deal with local issues that matter day to day. Unlike at Westminster, where key issues are being ignored due to them spending so much time and money discussing Brexit.
Please, please, please - can we talk about something other than Brexit? Switch on the TV, turn on the radio, flick through a paper and it's the only news there seems to be. If you were an alien landing in the UK on your first visit to Earth, you might be forgiven for thinking there's nothing else to worry about. But of course, you'd be wrong. Brexit has a habit of burying other important issues, but that doesn't mean they've gone away - we just don't seem to be paying them enough attention. in September 2018, a new study found that 4.5 million children in the UK are living in poverty. That should have hit the headlines and got the whole country talking. Just think about it - that's roughly a third of all UK children living in hardship and more likely to have poor health than those above the poverty line. Surely, we should be doing something about that? Instead, Brexit is distracting our time, energy and resources away from dealing with lots of issues, yet it won't fix any of them. Brexit won't fix the NHS - w
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