They are all fat, that’s true.
No money for projects outside of London
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Because you can't attract global talent to work in places like Wigan or Sunderland.
Either way, I am glad for a final decision and go ahead with another crossing on the east side of the thames, Dartford crossing is the worst and is so over used currently.
Shame that once its built, I'll be out of the area and wont reap a single benefit.
Shame that once its built, I'll be out of the area and wont reap a single benefit.
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Stuff them, I'm picking this hill to die on.
The fact that every company apparently needs 'global' talent, and will pay stupid money in London, rather than actually utilise the people living in the country for slightly less, is part of the problem.
Then again, most money goes on execs who are the 'global talent', who largely provide the least 'real' work and just spout out 'best practices' as if they actually worked a day in their life.
Nissan (and other manufacturers) would also disagree: https://careersatnissan.co.uk/life-at-nissan/manufacturing-hub/
If you're going to claim that manufacturing workers aren't what the country needs, I suspect you've already drunk the kool-aid.
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Consider yourself lucky to even get a mention. Us in the middle get completely ignored all the time as it's always North v South. Nobody gives a **** about the middle.
Not with that attitude. Here’s what Sunderland could attract:
£25m for Sunderland's Crown Works Studios confirmed in budget - BBC News
It is estimated Crown Works Studios in Sunderland will create 8,000 jobs.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Perhaps the term north-south divide was created by Londoners, to them everything above Milton Keynes is the north.
Spain, Switzerland, France, Germany. They have global talent in other places apart from their capital cites.
The UK can easily do the same but they want everyone to pile into London on top of each other. While everything there gets more expensive.
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It is frustration with the London centric mind set many in that bubble seems to have.
We aren't using everything we have when it's all about London.
There should be other centres of the country.
I'd like to see areas; in England, like the south west, midlands, north get investment. In Wales, particularly in the north. As well as parts of Scotland.
As the UK we're massively under performing.
We aren't using everything we have when it's all about London.
There should be other centres of the country.
I'd like to see areas; in England, like the south west, midlands, north get investment. In Wales, particularly in the north. As well as parts of Scotland.
As the UK we're massively under performing.
I lived in Germany myself for five years. In Munich though, probably the only city that I'd have been attracted to move to for work there. Berlin maybe. Somewhere like Dusseldorf, Dortmund or Hamburg? No thanks.
Unfortunately when people in demand have the choices of Munich, Madrid, Paris then somewhere like Stoke on Trent isn't really going to appeal (there you go Northerners, I chose somewhere more South
). I left off Switzerland, because nobody would ever really want to live there apart from to save on taxes. I know so many people who moved to Zurich or Geneva and moved away within a year. Yawnnnnn. I think only Luxembourg would be more boring.Yes but nobody is saying "if you want a good paid job, move to Berlin as its the capital of the country" Unlike in the UK, you want a well paid job its London this and London that. The UK Government doesn't do anything to help opportunities outside of London. Bring everyone in under one city. Which doesn't help growth of the UK's economy. Pushes up prices in London, as if that isn't a problem already with people living there.
Unfortunately when people in demand have the choices of Munich, Madrid, Paris then somewhere like Stoke on Trent isn't really going to appeal (there you go Northerners, I chose somewhere more South). I left off Switzerland, because nobody would ever really want to live there apart from to save on taxes. I know so many people who moved to Zurich or Geneva and moved away within a year. Yawnnnnn. I think only Luxembourg would be more boring.
Ive been living in Zurich since 2019 and didn't move here to save on taxes
And I have no intention of moving back to the UK to deal with London or Birmingham.
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The way i see it..... if they sell jellied eels or rock salmon in a chipshop and not gravy then its the south.
if they serve gravy, and proper mushy peas then its the north.
any combination of the above then they dont know what they are so we can call that the midlands
if they serve gravy, and proper mushy peas then its the north.
any combination of the above then they dont know what they are so we can call that the midlands
Dont conflate the south with London.
If we look just at capital spending which strips out salaries etc London is by far in the lead but the south is not, its pretty low down with many parts of the north ahead.
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You won’t find jellied eels outside of London or Essex.
Given how the East End of London has changed over the years, you might not get them there anymore.
Given how the East End of London has changed over the years, you might not get them there anymore.
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Literally the opposite of the truth in this case!
One question that is never asked about aircraft fuel and hence carbon deficit.
Rachel, if the aircraft is fuelled in the UK, it may have carbon efficient fuel. If the plane is fueled elsewhere, the very high chance is that the fuel may not be recycled chipfat or whatever special recipe it is?
Rachel, if the aircraft is fuelled in the UK, it may have carbon efficient fuel. If the plane is fueled elsewhere, the very high chance is that the fuel may not be recycled chipfat or whatever special recipe it is?
why do you think the population down south is bigger? is it perhaps because for hundreds of years that's where all the money went?
didn't the industrial evolution start up north... southerners must have hated that and did all they could to shift power back to london.
Nonsense. Power was always in London anyway. Its really with the rise of the services economy that London has zoomed ahead.