00:01Forty years. Forty years on the wrong path. A path that has damaged communities across the north.
00:12The deindustrialisation of the 1980s was devastating for places across Makerfield, like Ashton in Makerfield, Oral, Winstanley, Hindley, Plattebridge.
00:27But you know you could reel off the same place names, couldn't you, in your community? You know exactly what
00:34I am talking about.
00:35The draining away of economic, social and political power from these places. Left adrift. That's what happened.
00:45But that deindustrialisation was then compounded by deregulation, privatisation in the 90s and austerity in the 2010s.
01:01It all adds up to 40 years of neoliberalism that have not been kind to the north of England.
01:08That's pretty good though.
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