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There are many reasons why previously prosperous towns and cities in England face serious hardship today. Low incomes, levels of employment, health, education and crime are all factors in how deprivation is measured officially by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). Here we put their most recently available figures from 2016 under the microscope to discover the poorest urban areas across the country.
Tom Belger
21 June 2018
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I don't know where they get their information from, I've lived in both Leeds and Plymouth in Devon and Plymouth felt far more deprived with very little decent well paid work a lot of crime drug and alcohol issues s and child poverty and poor housing, in fact Cornwall and parts of Devon have some if the most deprived areas in western Euripe
We don't have a British government we have a parasitic London one. It gives everything to the power crazed scroungers in London.
It will never happen, but instead of rebuilding the House of Commons, relocate Parliament to Crewe. There's plenty of space there, good train and road links, and it would be easier for most people to travel there from other parts of the UK. It would also more sharply focus on more equitable funding for regions outside London. Let's get rid of the London bubble.
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