When it’s your job to sit around and dream up inventive policies to help northern economies, you think you’d manage to come up with something a little better than ‘abandon ship’.
Not if you work for David Cameron’s (old) favourite think tank Policy Exchange. The charity (thank god they don’t make money for this kind of codswallop) published a report today which claimed that the regeneration of northern cities has failed.
It continued to advise the government that in order to close the economic gap between the north and south, it should invest more in the south. 3 million new homes ought to be built in Oxford, Cambridge and London and all the skilled workers should then move from the north to the south.
How exactly this would serve to address the inequality in employment opportunities between the north and south is anybody’s guess. Surely, all it would achieve is that everyone would live in the south so no-one would care the north was a bit rubbish anymore anyway?
Aside from which, while Bradford and Sunderland may not be the most charming of cities, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle all have booming economies which are bucking the national trends of the credit crunch quite nicely.
Has the author of the report been to Luton recently?
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Haha – so true – besides which they can’t just keep building on the fertile land in the south, it doesn’t make any sense