Over the weekend the Prime Minister introduced piecemeal funds for 55 ‘missed cities’, missed by his Government for the final 13 years.
In desperation to appease his fractured Party earlier than Conference, he has awarded the bulk to areas with Tory MPs. South Shields but once more isn’t on the listing.
Despite guarantees to sort out the inequalities which are holding again cities like ours, South Shields has been rejected from all Levelling Up bids.
But it’s not simply South Shields being levelled down, it’s the entire of the north. Ironically, this week because the Chancellor boarded his flight to Manchester for Conference, the northern leg of HS2 is earmarked for the scrap yard.
Abandoning this huge levelling-up undertaking to prioritise short-term cost-cutting over long-term funding within the north is really staggering. Failing to enhance the transport hyperlinks hindering our progress exhibits the Tories by no means did and by no means will care about northern areas and the wealth of expertise now we have.
The Chancellor has additionally launched an additional crackdown on profit claimants to carry extra folks again into the workforce.
People do wish to work however his Government has no industrial technique and is failing to create the situations for businesses to function, resulting in a scarcity of respectable jobs.
The training secretary’s huge announcement was an old one not but delivered on banning cellphones within the classroom, not fixing the colleges actually collapsing on her watch.
The Energy Secretary and Levelling Up Secretary has been caught out mendacity, claiming that Labour would introduce a meat tax and that Brexit has delivered the fabled £350million further to the NHS.
The Home Secretary is main the cost in canine whistle, divisive politics that search to divide our communities and nation within the determined hope we’ll overlook the 13 years of harm the Tories have completed.
Every single day of those charlatans in energy is a wasted alternative for our nation, a General Election cannot come quickly sufficient.
