see url:
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2021/jul/15/boris-johnsons-speech-on-levelling-up-decried-for-lack-of-substance
see full story....Economic disparity continues to worsen between the
prosperous South of England and the poorer North...The North is asking
for more money and resources and industry and is being offered their own
Mayors for the large conurbations instead...with a little bit more
money. The South says that the North is being given resources which
should have been given to them. The government has offered them less
planning restrictions and doing away with areas of the green belt, but
house owners don't like losing out on the green belt, particularly when
a new super duper railway line for carrying business commuters between
London and Manchester is being developed, so taking away their green
belt and affecting house prices...and the government sees the increase
of house prices as keeping their voters happy, and as a yardstick for
the prosperity of the economy...
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Boris Johnson’s flagship “levelling up” speech has been criticised by
experts for containing scant new policy as concern grows among
Conservative MPs that the guiding principle of his premiership risks
becoming little more than a soundbite.
Thinktanks including the Institute for Fiscal Studies and IPPR North
said it contained nothing new and that it was time for “deeds not words”.
Johnson said in his speech that strong leadership was “the yeast that
lifts the whole mattress of dough, the magic sauce, the ketchup of
catch-up” and suggested he would like to see more local mayors, perhaps
at the county level. He then appeared to say he would not want to
devolve too much power in case the “loony left” took charge.
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