Community as an antidote to ‘Broken Britain’
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In London’s poorest boroughs, there is increasingly a sense that public services can no longer be relied on. People look instead to their local community for support. Shani Orgad, Divya Srivastava and Diana Olaleye offer three policy proposals for harnessing the power and value of communities.
By Shani Orgad, Divya Srivastava and Diana Olaleye
We’re not in the Dickensian times and yet it feels like we actually are!’ Cynthia, a resident in one of London’s most socioeconomically deprived boroughs, is not alone in expressing despair, disappointment and anger about the current state of affairs. Britain is in the midst of a polycrisis: the convergence of the cost-of-living and NHS and social care crises in the aftermath of Covid-19 pandemic. A sense that ‘nothing works’ was prevalent among the 49 residents we interviewed and aligns with public opinion as measured in other recent polls and focus groups. Across the political spectrum, there seems to be an agreement that Britain is broken.
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