Fred_Quimby
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Skegness ‘levelling up’? Build a new pier for a property developer. Can’t get a bus or a train there though.
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Levelling Up - more than a slogan or another Con con?
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MillionMilesAway
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this thread sums it all up.
Gove was feeble this morning when challenged that "more money" was more accurately "9% less money in real terms since 12 years ago".
As ever, misrepresenting what something really means to people. It seems absolutely required.
I'd quite like the Labour Party to commit to providing real figures rather than carefully curated figures with the context removed. I doubt any party really wants to though, as it would later expose failings, but I expect some plans to fail - I get more irritated when someone lies about the failings.
Fred_Quimby
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I did notice that there have been no aims, targets or objectives given out. So that they can’t be held to account for not meeting them. Just ‘levelling up’ which is meaningless as it was intended to be.
Gareth Barry Conlon
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And they want 10 years to do it. So in reality nothing will be done by the time you next get to vote!I did notice that there have been no aims, targets or objectives given out. So that they can’t be held to account for not meeting them. Just ‘levelling up’ which is meaningless as it was intended to be.
Gabriel
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Gove was feeble this morning when challenged that "more money" was more accurately "9% less money in real terms since 12 years ago".
As ever, misrepresenting what something really means to people. It seems absolutely required.
I'd quite like the Labour Party to commit to providing real figures rather than carefully curated figures with the context removed. I doubt any party really wants to though, as it would later expose failings, but I expect some plans to fail - I get more irritated when someone lies about the failings.
Indeed, tell people the truth. If England wants to level up and rebuild areas it has failed, then people need to know the price and should be expected to pay for it. Germans had to pay the Soli tax of 5% for nearly 30 years, but that was easier to sell when the partition could be blamed on the war and, to an extent, on external factors. Much harder to sell when the reasons for any tax are almost entirely self-inflicted by successive governments.
https://www.ft.com/content/41da496e-f00f-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195
BobKowalski
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Govts have been promising to ‘level up’, create regional economic powerhouses, improve local infrastructure, etc., since the dawn of time.
They then do the exact opposite.
They then do the exact opposite.
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I understand your frustration.Skegness ‘levelling up’? Build a new pier for a property developer. Can’t get a bus or a train there though.
I work trains into Skegness and see the massive potential for growth and investment.
I've spoken to company directors, network rail and local councillors about increasing the services and improving the station facilities to allow increases in capacity and sell the town as a great holiday resort.
All I get is patronising messages about how they all agree but none of them want to pay for it!
All this levelling up bullshit. It will never ever be equal.Wanker!
indeed 2010.Since 2010 more like. However we don't have any figures yet, and even when we do we won't know how it will be awarded, the bidding criteria etc. The large capital projects were never funded out of local authority mainstream budgets, they were always additional funding pots.
It isn't just about funding though there are reforms planned, however the devil is in the detail rather than leaked headlines.
60p in the pound cut from government grants to fund local services.