London people routinely believe that things like electricity only exist in London, so it comes as no surprise that Policy Exchange (Michael Gove's toy think tank, most notable for being exposed on Newsnight as a forgers' den) thinks that there are no airports, there are no motorways, there are no banks, and there is no Internet outside the South East.
Taken together with the apparently serious suggestion that yet more people should move to the South East, this report tells us all we need to know about the seriousness or otherwise of the Cameroon project, the participants in which, as much as anything else, seem blissfully unaware that their party already holds most of the seats in the South East (although for how much longer, if the plan is to strain the infrastructure there even further?), and will only return to office by winning seats elsewhere. For example, in the North of England.
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I live in Sheffield, and am originally from London. I wouldn't move back for all the tea in China.
ReplyDeleteThe suggestion that Sheffield is a failing city with a falling population is ridiculous. House prices have increased over the last few decades in line with national percentages, and the city has a very high percentage of graduates from its two universities staying on to live and work in the city following graduation. We have the largest sixth form in the country, our inhabitants are the fittest and our city the greenest with the most parks and trees.
I don't think the report writers visited Sheffield before damning it so thoroughly. Maybe they should have.
That they want all development to be around London, Oxford and Cambridge says it all. They have no concept of anywhere except those three.
ReplyDeleteAnd remember, these are the people who would actually be running the country while "Prime Minister" Cameron and "Chancellor" Osborne spent every day recovering from the night before.
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