Levelling Up - more than a slogan or another Con con?

As it’s not been leaked by them, which is the usual form, I expect to see a rehashed policy that gives nothing until after the next GE.

Would be very happy for there to be something significant, like bringing public transport costs down to similar levels as we see in London, as well as a targeted approach to bring investment to all regions, not just Tory.
 
A noble idea but one that has taken Germany more than a generation and that in itself remains work in progress. The European Union is similarly seeking to level up by investing more in the East than in the West, but again that will take generations. The UK deadline of 2030 is thus overly ambitious, particularly as it’s starting when the world itself is levelling up and more money is heading from the West to the Sub Continent and Pacific Rim.

Either way, it requires enormous state intervention and an acceptance from the richer area that the sacrifice will be beneficial in the long run. Quite how long this balance of left-wing economic policies and right-wing social policies can be kept is moot.
 
Booooo where's the original thread that I spent hours formulating and posting in ?
 
Vic said:
White paper released today.

I'll start with the buses. Seriously, how do they expect to have London-frequency services in the regions without the same number of passengers or without massive subsidy?

(No news yet on supporting bus services after the current Covid support grants stop in April and bus use is about 70% of pre-Covid levels.)
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Did you write Andy Burnham's notes for what he said about half an hour ago?!
 
Gabriel said:
Either way, it requires enormous state intervention and an acceptance from the richer area that the sacrifice will be beneficial in the long run. Quite how long this balance of left-wing economic policies and right-wing social policies can be kept is moot.
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A very good point, a point which the new breed of Tory libertarian and Classical Liberals will be wrestling with.
 
An interesting comparison with the 'leveling up' can be found in the area of schooling. Labour argues that private schools' charity status should be abolished, yet the Conservatives contest that it should remain and that instead, the 'poorer' schools should be leveled up. However, that presupposes that the private schools will somehow stand still and allow this to happen, which would show an ironic lack of intelligence. If the government cannot level up in one small area, how will it achieve the same across England writ large?

Sounds like lightweight thinking and lightweight funding; probably find more money written off to fraud and PPE than will be invested.
 
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