GB News spent a week listening to Britain and the message to Westminster is clear, writes Mick Booker

GB News spent a week listening to Britain and the message to Westminster is clear GB News's Editorial Director Mick Booker delivers his verdict on Britain's neglect for its young Sign up to the Opinion Newsletter I agree to receive updates and information about my account, the GB News Community, and related products and services from GB News. Email address Sign up By signing up you agree to the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy and Community Rules.

Thank you for signing up! See the latest from GB News here . Choose GB News on Google - add us as a preferred source Choose GB News Support GB News Champion free speech and independent journalism while unlocking exclusive benefits. Support us I'm sat here writing this surrounded by bottled water, gherkins, baked beans and toilet paper. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I’d suspect that the Government’s recent work had mainly focused on boosting Britain’s toilet manufacturers.

After all, if you put together the Budget measures to slash tariffs on fibre-rich foods and their panicky ‘stockpile the basics’ messaging, then we’ll certainly be able to cope with staying ‘regular’ during the apocalypse. In that vein GB News has spent the last week travelling the country to see if people like you and me think we really are headed for the end of the world. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say From what I’ve seen I don’t think the four horsemen need to get down the blacksmiths to get their mounts re-shoed just yet.

That said, they may not stay stabled for long if things don’t quickly improve. We were determined to get around Britain as much as we could before and after the first Budget from Andy Burnham’s government. I’ll admit, as Editorial Director here at GB News, I feel I’ve been letting you down in recent months. John Healey could be left in a difficult position juggling Government spending and the bond markets | PA We’ve spent the past five years standing up for you – giving you a platform to be heard.

Wherever you are The People’s Channel has been at your side. But on reflection recently I’ve become concerned that we’ve been suckered into caring what matters to people in Westminster more than what matters to you. That’s why we hit the road last week as much as we could. LATEST DEVELOPMENTS Labour is failing women in towns like Middlesbrough and £15m won't make them safer - Andy Preston Britain cannot defend itself with Healey's empty promises and wishful thinking - Stuart Crawford Donald Trump’s border chief has exposed the main flaw in Britain’s border policy - Lee Cohen The only time we really cared about Westminster was the hour John Healey was on his feet revealing what was in his red box.

The rest of the time we just wanted to hear from you. We did what we do best – talking to people on their own patch, people in the street, in their homes, in their businesses and letting them let rip with their frustrations. In Swansea we discovered that publicans and hospitality workers are furious. Speaking to our Meg Cope, they described fighting ever-escalating energy bills, spiralling staff costs and alcohol duties that left them in need of a stiff drink… if only they had the profit to pay for one.

A hoped for cut in VAT never came – leaving them feel like they’d had a bar room door slammed in their faces. The mood was similar in South Yorkshire – Conisbrough, aka the Chancellor's doorstep. There Miriam Cates and the team toured a town riddled with scepticism and fear, and not just because it’s Halloween. From the Chancellor’s own constituency, we found a deep sense that what’s going on in Numbers 10 and 11 Downing Street is completely disconnected to what’s needed for the long-term survival of small, independent businesses as well as the jobs of regular working people.

In Ashton-in-Makerfield, Glasgow and Sunderland with Sophie Reaper, Dougie Beattie and Miriam once more, we showed places battling with a cost-of-living crisis that’s killing any sense of hope for a bright Christmas let alone long-term future. We have a government that says it wants to give us hope. But who is it that is crying out the most? It’s Britain’s young people, specifically the million currently not in education or employment.

Where is their hope? And why did the Budget not deliver? That’s what you wanted to know. Back in Conisbrough, Miriam spoke to 83-year-old former builder Winston Rigg. He – like many of you – couldn’t understand why we don’t get behind our young anymore, relying instead on cheap, foreign workers filling the gaps. He told us: “I’m a big backer of young people. “They had grandparents and parents who did it (worked) with their hands. “You have to have builders to build your house, joiners to fix the roof, plumbers to put a boiler in.

“And we are fetching builders into the country… we’re not training our own. “So many young people are not working, we’re leaving them behind. “It’s shameful.” Wise Winston speaks for the rest of us. He can see what we are crying for and it’s not just hope. It’s action. It is shameful. We are leaving them behind. A society that fails to look after its young doesn’t have much of a future. It’s not the end of the world - but for Britain's forgotten young, it certainly feels like it.

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