‘My relatives are so angry about this’: Londoners react to Labour budget and HS2 plans

We speak to Londoners who are angry about the Tory’s failure to deliver HS2, and what they think about the budget.

Transcript

00:00I think that is a wonderful thing because coming from, to be honest, coming from my home country,

00:07Trinidad and Tobago, the public services are piss poor compared to the UK, compared to London.

00:17But I know that it can be better. I think it works well, especially in South London.

00:25But I know that in North London, it's even more seamless. So I think it will be

00:31much better if more money is pumped into that.

00:35I think the NHS needs what we can give it. It's so underfunded right now.

00:40They're so understaffed. Everyone has to do so much overtime, it seems.

00:47Yeah, they're just not, there's so many strikes, but it's for a reason.

00:52As much as the strikes are annoying, that's the point, I guess, that we need to treat.

00:57Nobody wants to be in healthcare because they don't get paid very well.

01:01But it's so essential. So I think we just need more than the lockdown clapping.

01:08We need to actually put money into them.

01:10That's ideal because I feel like people need to get out a bit more.

01:14Even coming into the country, I had hoped that I would stay somewhere in the countryside,

01:22but I'm in London and I'm falling in love with London.

01:24But I definitely want to get out and visit further up north than what's not.

01:29So that would be, that's a wonderful thing.

01:31Yeah, my Northern relatives are very angry about this.

01:35We need to be better connected.

01:37It is so horrible and so transparent, I think,

01:41that basically the only good public transport is in London.

01:44I mean, we know why. Politicians, right?

01:47I mean, I would love more connectivity because there are a few high-speed trains already,

01:54but not most. I mean, most of the country is not well connected.