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

[Bodicoteblue]

this thread sums it all up.

Sound familiar??
A bit like an ‘oven-ready’ deal which they signed up to without a plan, or any intention of sticking to it, just to get their grubby hands on power.
How far can this shiny bauble take them?

 

[Magicpole]

yet another sticking-plaster on a gaping wound. The Met stretching out the "investigation", buying time whilst murdoch and friends distract and divert providing a smoke-screen for the cabinet of corruption that leads the tory partyparty. "Levelling-up" would require a 180 degree u-turn to what they have been doing for 400 years...Ideologically impossible, completely out of the question to the hard-core tory grandees, and their russian backers. Not named londongrad for nothing.
The poll-tax attempted implementation kicked off national riots, the latest piss-taking of the general public over non-isolating mps will not. Until enough tory mps put conscience over loyalty to the most corrupt cabinet in history, the agony will continue.....not holding my breath.

More like salt in a gaping wound. They have as much desire to level things up, as I have of going bald and supporting Rangers. Thats zero.

 

[bluethrunthru]

All this levelling up bullshit. It will never ever be equal.

I am looking forward when the difference between Kensington and Middlesbrough will be invisible - frankly I'll take Kensington being levelled down for the laughs

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Why is there any debate?
anything this government proposes it will do is a lie. Levelling up? The results will be the same as the last 10 years - drops in living standards, increased poverty, more inequality. That’s what you get with a Tory government. Oh, and pitiful investment in transport infrastructure. You get that too.

Divide and rule, the stock-in-trade of the tories.
The very meaning of the word ‘conservative’ includes the dislike of change and the maintenance of those at the top.
Since they began it has been the same, setting people against each other whether socially or financially, and claiming to be the only ones to correct this.
Culminating in the biggest deliberate act of division and and lies ever seen in this country.
Brexit.

 

[stonerblue]

Only took em 3 or 4 years to flatten the North in the 80's so we should all expect to be in clover by 2026..

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Everything this Nasty Party do is a con. Take £bns off councils, give them back a few £m and we are supposed to be grateful. All a distraction. They will send a minister around the country to different places each day to be there for the news and that is all we will talk about for weeks. Party? What party?

 

[bluethrunthru]

simple fact is they have blown it - in the last 2 years they have been conned out of £4.3bn that they want to write off. A further £8.7bn wasted on useless gear. And £37bn on a track and trace system that did neither and seems to have disappeared. Thats £50bn there. Enough to "level up" sort HS2. sort the Brexit border mess - whatever they wanted to do - instead they and their mates and their party got rich off the cash that should have been laying down Johnsons legacy

 

[Gabriel]

I am looking forward when the difference between Kensington and Middlesbrough will be invisible - frankly I'll take Kensington being levelled down for the laughs

Bit harsh. There are parts of Kensington, it's north, that make Middlesbrough look like Monte Carlo. :-o

 

[Gabriel]

simple fact is they have blown it - in the last 2 years they have been conned out of £4.3bn that they want to write off. A further £8.7bn wasted on useless gear. And £37bn on a track and trace system that did neither and seems to have disappeared. Thats £50bn there. Enough to "level up" sort HS2. sort the Brexit border mess - whatever they wanted to do - instead they and their mates and their party got rich off the cash that should have been laying down Johnsons legacy

They've been rather cunning in airing much of this before any public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic is formed and its remit decided.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Not really a fan on Nandy but she nails the lie straight away here