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The National overplays the threat to the Barnet Formula. Burnham’s main beef are the subsidies that decade after decade flow to the SE of England.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with that Mr B. Remember Boris Johnson and his “Levelling up”? Within weeks his Chancellor, Rishi Sunak was caught on camera phone telling his wealthy constituents in the SE of England that the subsidies would keep flowing in a SE ward direction just as they always had since Thatcher came to power (and probably before).
HS2 is a case in point. It required an act of Parliament, and it was sold on the false premise that it would help rejuvenate “the North” (whatever that is?).
Even the most perfunctory examination would have shown HS2 to be the opposite to what it said on the tin. Were the citizens of London going to use the high speed rail connection to flock to the world famous theatre district of Birmingham to spend their ill gotten gains? Were they going to visit the museums, art galleries and concert venues of Birmingham? Of course not, HS2 was just another means of accelerating the leaching of the life blood of everywhere that wasn’t the SE of England.
Huh. I had long discarded the Vow as broken beyond useless, even before the last of those three party leaders resigned and subsequently not even worth bringing up.
ReplyDeleteBut one of the candidates being floated as Burnham's chancellor is Ed Miliband. To put him in charge of dismantling the Barnett formula...!