Well yes, but it's a far cry from 2008, and the optimism you had back then.
There are times (as back then), you did your best to stand up for people, as you're still doing your best to do now Dannie.
That was part of the reason you were elected as Guild president.
However, back to the DWP - sadly civil servants aren't what they once were and the world has changed (or maybe I'm too careful over my words).
The MP where I live (Birkenhead) is the DWP Minister of State for Employment (Alison McGovern), yet Birkenhead has not been well served over the years by various governments.
The mass labour needed for the docks and shipyards went with mechanisation, leaving behind, abandoned whole communities, communities without hope in a brighter tomorrow, with those who grew up in them knowing that it was best to leave, which just perpetuated the cycle.
There are times I wonder what I'm still doing here in the town I was born! I think one politician (since deceased) told me I'd never run out of problems here. :/
Yet I know in my own way I can make a difference!
Thanks for writing and publishing this - it leads to policy changes (slowly) even if changing the DWP is like altering the course of the Titanic!
Well yes, but it's a far cry from 2008, and the optimism you had back then.
There are times (as back then), you did your best to stand up for people, as you're still doing your best to do now Dannie.
That was part of the reason you were elected as Guild president.
However, back to the DWP - sadly civil servants aren't what they once were and the world has changed (or maybe I'm too careful over my words).
The MP where I live (Birkenhead) is the DWP Minister of State for Employment (Alison McGovern), yet Birkenhead has not been well served over the years by various governments.
The mass labour needed for the docks and shipyards went with mechanisation, leaving behind, abandoned whole communities, communities without hope in a brighter tomorrow, with those who grew up in them knowing that it was best to leave, which just perpetuated the cycle.
There are times I wonder what I'm still doing here in the town I was born! I think one politician (since deceased) told me I'd never run out of problems here. :/
Yet I know in my own way I can make a difference!
Thanks for writing and publishing this - it leads to policy changes (slowly) even if changing the DWP is like altering the course of the Titanic!