Guess it's like robbing you of a hundred quid then giving you a tenner and telling you to be thankful
So after years of saying they don’t discriminate against the north they finally admit they have been doing it al, the time. Good that they recognised and admitted there is a problem. BUT their record of saying something they know they won’t do is rather spectacular so I won’t get too hopeful unless they actually startto act on what they have just said
You wouldn’t believe they’ve been in power for ten years and just realised we up north are hard done by . Ten years of austerity and they’ve just woken up
As with cutting police numbers and then expecting plaudits for ‘strengthening’ the force by recruiting novices, the government is admitting that they have under funded the north for years and now want their c0cks sucking for doing the right thing. And of course, some will fall for it. Unbelievable!
Wonder when people will accept The Northern Powerhouse is Leeds and Manchester with perhaps a slight stretch to Liverpool, the rest of us are whistling in the wind.
Admitting that they've been discriminating against northerners for a decade and expect that news to be met with praise? There is also a great irony that they campaigned so long and hard for brexit and want many votes in the north and yet now admit what anyone with half a brain always knew, that essentially the EU was the only giving northerners a fair share of cash. Millions fell for the rhetoric that we give money to Europe and get less back. In reality we've been giving money to the London centric government and been getting less back for years and yet the very people don't that were the ones tricking the turkeys into voting for Christmas
If (and its a big if) anything actually happens it is down to one thing. The old "red wall" has crumbled and a general election is now won or lost in seats like Dewsbury and Stockton. For donkey's years Labour did nothing because they took us for granted (tin hat on but they were in power for 13 years) and the Tories did nothing because they thought they couldn't win such seats. Now they are important to both sides. The tories are nothing if not pragmatists. If they want our votes again they have to deliver.
The first thing to mention for those that aren't aware...the Henri Murison mentioned, is hardly an independent voice, he is an director of The Northern Powerhouse Partnership...a group funded and staffed by many of the big hitting companies who've already made millions out of Hs2 and want to make billions. His qualifications for the job seem a little scant, a former Newcastle City Cllr who packed the local politics game in after failing to get nominated as Labour's candidate for the Police and Crime Commissioner job.
“It plans to remove a longstanding bias that has affected funding for northern England and other regions“ OH CHEERS LADS. Did they want us to stand up and give them an ovation? The fact that there was any bias at all when it comes to funding in the UK is ridiculous and that’s what we should be focusing on. Like booting someone in the face for years and then declaring “yes I will stop doing this now” and expecting people to high five you. Unreal.