{UAH} Woolwich town centre to be boosted by £1 billion high street fund

Tony Owana,/ Ahmed katerregga/ Annette

 

I have spent most of my allotted time on earth in this small, unremarkable town in southeast London. I know this town better than I know the back of my hand. You would make a big mistake if you tried to kidnap me in Woolwich or even attempted to set up a trap for said purpose because I would smell it from a mile. All my children are born here and have gone to schools nearby. You can even blindfold and drop me in Woolwich, and I will still be able to make my way home. Woolwich is home, my second home being Iligan City in Mindanao, southern Philippines, and my third home is my ancestral village in Uganda..

 

But when I first arrived in Woolwich in 1986, it was a derelict dockyard with just one rail line connecting it to central London. The only good thing about Woolwich was its beautiful landscape, location on the River Thames, and abundance of social housing

 

 Woolwich happened to be one of the pilot towns that the socialists chose to implement their ambitious policy of eradicating poverty completely from UK soil. The Clement Attlee Labour government came to power after WW2 on the promise that no UK citizen would ever go hungry or die of preventable illnesses or have no home to live in. The socialists  promised to end poverty and to build a fairer society. So they created the modern welfare state, which has since been copied in all the industrialised countries of the world, except America.

 

Woolwich saw a massive construction of affordable,low cost housing, which still stand today. Within two years only, the socialists had totally wiped out homelessness in Woolwich and thrown it to the River Thames. Every person who needs a home would get it.

 

Woolwich has since remained a very "tribal"  or socialist labour town. It is a no-go area for Conservatives or Tories.

 

 But Woolwich has also been completely transformed in the last 30 years. It now boasts a modern rail system connecting it to the rest of London in a mere 20 minutes, and has additionally been connected to the Docklands Light Railway which connects it to East London and beyond. A lot of the Council buildings of the 1950s and 1960s are being knocked down and replaced by modern, environmentally friendlier  ones. The Thames Barrier, one of the great technological feats of the 20th century was also completed on the Thames river in Woolwich. The barrier controls and regulates the flow of the river, and in one stroke completely eradicated the perennial  floods that made people's lives a mystery since time immemorial. Environmentalists now divert streams of the river to different parts of the borough, creating what can only be described as a paradise on earth.

 

Just to see how ambitious Woolwich is is the fact that it is spending £1 billion ($1.5 billion) on its regeneration. And this is a town of only 300,000 population- hosting about 50,000 African emigres.

 

Woolwich is going to be my template when we replace your feral and corrupt regime, led by an uneducated buffoon who has  absolutely no idea or competence in development. We are going to transform Uganda in a mere 10 years. We will embark on a massive rural electrification programme, and build affordable homes for all our citizens. We will restore President Obote's free healthcare for all policy. And we will begin this from the word go- when we have kicked Kayibanda Rutabasirwa's arse, just as the UK socialists did from the word go, after they had kicked Hitler's arse.

 

Bobby

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26 August at 12:29 · 

The funding could be used to improve transport and access

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Woolwich town centre to be boosted by £1 billion high street fund

Woolwich town centre is set to benefit from a £1 billion fund to improve high streets across the country.

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