In the high street in Rugby

Posted by harriet in Uncategorized | September 13th, 2007

Interesting afternoon with Andy King talking to shoppers in Rugby High Street. One woman complained that her 14 year old son is too young to get a job, too old to hang round the house all day and that there’s nothing for him to do. Bianca, Kelly and Caty, all 16 years old, said they can’t get into the clubs in Coventry as they are under 18 and that there’s nothing for them to do. So the roll-out of the planned youth services better hurry up. The 3 girls also asked me to tell Gordon Brown that “there should be no unnecessary violence either by going to war like in Iraq or by criminals here at home.” Lots of concern about the pavements from wheelchair-using shoppers. And a big local focus about whether the PCT will agree for 3 liver cancer patients to have some new drugs. The PCT are reviewing the cases next week. One mother of a young daughter said that tax credits are a huge help for her but she’d had problems with reclaimed overpayments and that now she’s ok but some of her friends are still having problems. She said it’s a good scheme but asked for it to be better sorted out. Then a packed private meeting with Rugby Labour Party members and Labour local councillors.