Have you noticed a deterioration in the state of our country’s roads over the past few years? With nearly 2 million potholes reported last year, do you think the extra £500 million pledged by Labour is enough to tackle the issue?
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00:00I don't think they're that bad in central Leeds, but if you go to a bit of the rural areas of
00:03Leeds and Bradford, I think it's quite abominable actually, the potholes. And I do think it's quite
00:08ironic, Labour have pledged a strong amount of money to build these potholes, but we've had
00:13devolved governments such as Tracey Brabin for a long time and she could have dealt with the potholes
00:17what she was elected in 2021, I think. She's had, you know, she had from 2021 all the way till now
00:22to deal with potholes. We have a Leeds council, Labour-run Leeds council, a Labour-run Bradford
00:26council, a Labour-run Wakefield council, they've done nothing about it. Councils should really do
00:31the job to fill these holes, because they're damaging a lot of cars and people are kind of
00:35fighting to repair the cars, but they'll get damaged because they've got the holes on their own.
00:41If it was their car, they wouldn't like it, would they? I think that the patch and repair is not the
00:46best way forward. They do need to look at doing it much more comprehensively, much more,
00:52put a little bit more into making it a longer lasting sort of thing. So, yeah, well, we'll see, won't we?