2021 Manifesto FINAL DRAFT - Flipbook - Page 6
A Green Post-Covid
manifesto for the
West Midlands
The West Midlands Combined
Authority was due to elect its new
Mayor in 2020, but the Covid-19
pandemic meant that this election
was delayed to 2021. Although in
some ways today’s world is a very
different place to what it was in
2020, some things have not
changed:
• our poverty statistics are still
some of the worst in Europe;
• our unhealthy dependency on the
car is as bad as ever;
• our desperate lack of safe, decent
and genuinely affordable housing
is blighting people's lives;
• our job prospects and rights at
work stay low while the value of
property and other assets goes
up; and
• the Combined Authority still
operates in an undemocratic way.