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Levelling up-the winners and losers
Levelling up. The great con. Managing to be worse under Sunak than Johnson.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/01/19/rishi-sunak-pumps-levelling-money-south/
Biggest winners this time compared to last? London, North West and East That would be where MPs have homes, the bit of the Red Wall where they think they have a chance, and the East, that is overwhelmingly Conservative.
Biggest losers? Yorks/Humber, East Mids/West Mids. Those well known areas where people are not the richest. In fact, one of the few Yorkshire Awards went to Rishi's own, fabulously wealthy, constituency. Lowest amounts of money? Northern Ireland, North East, Yorks/Humber. Really? Really really?
Levelling up awards are made, not on the basis of need, but on how well the bids are prepared, coupled with decisions made for political reasons.
I'm willing to believe that Boris genuinely wanted to make a difference, as well as feather his own nest.
Not true now. Not even close.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/01/19/rishi-sunak-pumps-levelling-money-south/
Biggest winners this time compared to last? London, North West and East That would be where MPs have homes, the bit of the Red Wall where they think they have a chance, and the East, that is overwhelmingly Conservative.
Biggest losers? Yorks/Humber, East Mids/West Mids. Those well known areas where people are not the richest. In fact, one of the few Yorkshire Awards went to Rishi's own, fabulously wealthy, constituency. Lowest amounts of money? Northern Ireland, North East, Yorks/Humber. Really? Really really?
Levelling up awards are made, not on the basis of need, but on how well the bids are prepared, coupled with decisions made for political reasons.
I'm willing to believe that Boris genuinely wanted to make a difference, as well as feather his own nest.
Not true now. Not even close.
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He (Rishi Sunak) said: “We inherited a bunch of formulas from Labour that shoved all the funding into deprived urban areas, and that needed to be undone. I started the work of undoing that.”
Because, of course, deprived urban areas tend not to vote Conservative.
And the money is not going to deprived rural areas. It's just being used as an advert for the Conservative Party. As per usual.
PS. One example of funding. Here are the 2 nearest to me:-
"A DLUHC spokesman said a further £19.6m would be spent "reimagining" Colchester's cycle routes and another £20m would go towards 28 affordable homes and and adult learning space in Clacton-on-Sea on brownfield land."
So-cycle routes. And £20 mill towards 28 affordable homes? That's Clacton. Not Mayfair.
They don't give a sh1t about the public.
But I do expect them to at least pretend they care.
I know this has nothing to do with levelling up but maybe it is because there is no investment in the city , people from all over the country used to come to Hanley it was vibrant , not like the big cities but still it was a fantastic night out now it's like the zombie apocalypse
I'm sure she is telling the truth......but as far as I can see there's no way of verifying the time, and that it is 11.30pm...... it could be 5am for instance
If you think about Stoke geographically is perfect for businesses central to Manchester ,Liverpool , Birmingham , Derby and Notts to the east , it's 2hrs on train to London ffs
Something needs to be done to re-invent this great working class city rather than letting it rot like a festering corpse...Rant over
Now the only reason to go Hanley, Longton or Castle is if you want a fight, drugs, weapons or need a doorway to spend the night.
Oh and get to a gym because the Zombies will eat the slow moving ones first.
We're just left in the wilderness
I spent nearly 30 years working in the night time economy.
Now that would definitly revive Hanley nightlife......
...... tho' obviously all the 'Aged Wetherspoons' customers in Hanley must go home for their Cocoa at 11pm