Levelling up?

Curryman

Curryman

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I was both dismayed and surprised, or maybe not, to hear Boris yesterday spouting on about spending another near £40m on a North to South Crossrail in London to compliment the already overspent extremely late Elizabeth line.

What about spending a bit on the north Boris? Hull to Liverpool, Sheffield to Leeds, Leeds/Bradford to Manchester, Newcastle to the others. You have already saved money by not extending HS2 to the East of the Pennines but seem to shy away from spending anything north of Watford.

Whilst I'm at it levelling up on jobs. It's stated that unemployment in the country is running at an all time low with companies crying out for staff. But, that is not the case in some deprived areas, where up to four people are available for every job vacancy, partly due to jobs being moved to other areas to centralise offices, but this centralisation increases the number of jobs in places which require others to travel to on overcrowded, often late trains and buses.

If you are banking on support from the ex red wall, I would rethink what you are doing.

Levelling up, my arse!!!
 
Depends on the job of course, but where you can work from home then I can’t see why you couldn’t employ people in those deprived areas and pay them London wages rather than insisting the staff return to the London office.

Now that would be levelling up!
 
Curryman said:
I was both dismayed and surprised, or maybe not, to hear Boris yesterday spouting on about spending another near £40m on a North to South Crossrail in London to compliment the already overspent extremely late Elizabeth line.

What about spending a bit on the north Boris? Hull to Liverpool, Sheffield to Leeds, Leeds/Bradford to Manchester, Newcastle to the others. You have already saved money by not extending HS2 to the East of the Pennines but seem to shy away from spending anything north of Watford.

Whilst I'm at it levelling up on jobs. It's stated that unemployment in the country is running at an all time low with companies crying out for staff. But, that is not the case in some deprived areas, where up to four people are available for every job vacancy, partly due to jobs being moved to other areas to centralise offices, but this centralisation increases the number of jobs in places which require others to travel to on overcrowded, often late trains and buses.

If you are banking on support from the ex red wall, I would rethink what you are doing.

Levelling up, my arse!!!
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If he can build the North/South Crossrail for £40m he deserves a medal.

Especially as he managed to spunk away £46m on the London Garden Bridge without a brick being laid
 
Curryman said:
I was both dismayed and surprised, or maybe not, to hear Boris yesterday spouting on about spending another near £40m on a North to South Crossrail in London to compliment the already overspent extremely late Elizabeth line.

What about spending a bit on the north Boris? Hull to Liverpool, Sheffield to Leeds, Leeds/Bradford to Manchester, Newcastle to the others. You have already saved money by not extending HS2 to the East of the Pennines but seem to shy away from spending anything north of Watford.

Whilst I'm at it levelling up on jobs. It's stated that unemployment in the country is running at an all time low with companies crying out for staff. But, that is not the case in some deprived areas, where up to four people are available for every job vacancy, partly due to jobs being moved to other areas to centralise offices, but this centralisation increases the number of jobs in places which require others to travel to on overcrowded, often late trains and buses.

If you are banking on support from the ex red wall, I would rethink what you are doing.

Levelling up, my arse!!!
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It comes as no surprise. Infrastructure investment in the North is an afterthought.
 
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