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Agree. That will be another genuine reason to go into town.

At the minute the only reason I have to go in is to visit the shawarma van outside Broadway, Hustlergate side. There can’t be a better value take out food option in West Yorkshire. For a fiver, at a time when food prices have gone through the roof, the bloke is offering a tremendous deal. Proper tasty food, not cheap filth like a Rajas

 

www.ilivehere.co.uk
some of the places on here make Bradford look nice

 

This gets discussed re Elland tip every year, if closed down fly tipping would hit a new height for sure ..

 

I moved from Bradford to Leeds and the difference was immense, The people of Leeds seemed proud of the City and seemed to care about the city they live in whilst in Bradford no one was bothered or cared at the state of the place they lived in, I travelled from Leeds at 8.30 in the morning and the Leeds City centre was buzzing with commuters. workers shoppers with shops and cafes open and busy, Got to Bradford around 9am and it was deserted with very few people and anything open until around 10am and even then not many around, No wonder its in decline

 

N Norfolk , and no she hasn’t.

 

With two cities so close and one of them has far better road and rail link infrastructure you would be crazy to waste money investing in the city that doesn't have that. It makes logical sense to put that investment into the better equipped area, Bradfords geography doesn't lend itself to infrastructure, it's one of the reasons they never linked the railway stations, the handicap of the lie of the land made the costs astronomical. A cost they would have never recouped.

 

Anyone who ever believed that ridiculous bullshit needs their heads tested. The idea that a Tory government would pour money into the north at the expense of their core southern shire voters is for the birds. I’m utterly amazed that anyone fell for it.

 

I’ve ClicKed ON ThHT link for thE past ten MInUtes it’s not workinG.

 

Because that is the logical thing to do. There is absolutely no point investing huge sums of money in a place like Bradford, it's role now ultimately a dumping ground for low cost workers from Eastern Europe or Africa. You simply will not get a return on any investment in Bradford. I've mentioned this before, an architect at College 30 odd years ago said exactly where Bradford and Leeds would be 30 years later, that Leeds would go on to be the rapidly expanding city due to its infrastructure. He said back then it would be madness to throw money at a place that wouldn't be built these days.

 

I know, I was joking and pretending to be computer illiterate.

 

Not an M&S shopper myself, nevertheless, that's another hammer blow for the city

 

There are plenty of town/city centre dumps in the South too, not least in our capital

 

Yes, I’m well aware of that. I spent the first 24 years of my life in South Essex. Ever been to Basildon or Tilbury?
Fourteen years of Tory economic mismanagement have decimated plenty of previously prosperous places further south, as my post above about Bedford highlighted. But that doesn’t alter the fact that the south gets far more investment than the north and that they have slashed council budgets in the north much harder.

 

Last in Tilbury about 40 years ago due to my then job, apart from the docks cannot remember much about it.

I'm not disputing the fact that the south probably get more investment, but if anyone thinks that will change under Starmer, or indeed under any Labour government, they would be mistaken.

I wouldn't trust Labour to manage my grandkids pocket money.

 

I remember going back to the 90s, millions wasted on absolute madness like the transperience tram park just the tip of the iceberg. People need to get this idea out of their heads that city centres have been decimated the last 14 years just to suit an agenda, its been going on for decades. What you have to understand is an area has to have the ability to change, areas like Liverpool have transformed due to clever innovation and use of areas like the docks. Same with Leeds around the river and canal basin areas. Bradford simply doesn't have any defining feature to be able to redefine itself.

 

Despite the fact that every Labour government has paid off billions in government debt racked up by preceding Tory governments. Before the global banking crash we had the best NHS we’ve ever had, reduced crime rates and people had money in their pockets.
Look around you. Nearly 1.5 decades of Tory cuts, privatisation and general economic incompetence has decimated our health and social care services, police, public transport, post office, education, you name it. Businesses going bust. Galloping inflation. Lowest real wages in living memory. Nothing works anymore. How much more evidence do you need, FFS?
The economy has consistently underperformed compared to our economic equivalents. If you’d deliberately set out to completely feck up this country you couldn’t have done any worse than what the Tories have been doing since 2010. Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and now Sunak. Totally useless, the lot of them. The myth of Tory economic competence compared to Labour is precisely that - a myth.

 

You can't beat demographics. No matter how much money you spend you'll have a crappy city if it's inhabited by crappy people who don't give a damn about the wider society. People have warned about this in Bradford for 30 or more years so we are where we are.

I walked through town for the football on Saturday for the first time in ages. Walking past Fattorini's was an absolute shocker to me. A once well respected and high class jewelllers now stacked high with bog role and £1 clothing where they haven't even bothered to change the signage.

Then up past a fella in a wheelchair whacking out unrecognisable tunes from a speaker and onto Petergate. Once the home of Moss Bros and M&S is now a mess a jumble sale hovels.

Broadway has sapped the life out of the actual centre (as people thought it would) and the council have wasted millions on trash (as people thought they would) but I can only blame that so far. You can't walk around the city and think that investment came then people would appreciate it, people have tried over the years and all have failed.

 

For a City of our size to not have a bus station or even a toilet let alone a shop between BOTH our train stations combined is nothing short of a tragedy.

 

I had a nice interaction with the regular beggar out side the Barclays bank on Market St yesterday.
After hurling abuse at a woman who resisted his advances, he asked me for change, no, I said, I haven't got any to which he shouted paedo, paedo at me as I walked away.
Was sorely tempted to go and give him a slap, but thought better of it, no doubt I would be the one in the wrong.
A horrible excuse for a human, the sort who plagues Bradford nowadays.