You do make me laugh I didn’t watch the announcement mind you. The Blunkett Review showed we need electrification and the CEO of the Northern Powerhouse says the same. Whether we get it remains to be seen. It may well be part of what Rachel Reeves announced, but she may simply not have highlighted it due to us having a Reform Mayor, I honestly don’t know.
Hull has always been overlooked, even when we had a local MP as deputy PM. Compare what Leeds got when Denis Healey was deputy PM. Governments are supposed to govern for all the people yet they ignore a city which elects 3 Labour MPs every election. And the fools will them in at the next election. Just as the did when Hull had one of the largest Brexit votes and its 3 Labour MPs all voted against it. The Tories are rightly castigated when it appears they are favouring areas which vote for them but Labour do the same without a peep.
Not quite. There is a Tory mayor in Tees Valley that got funding. There is a Labour mayor in York/N Yorks that didn’t (yet) get funding.
Could it just be we only got a mayor in the last few weeks so prior to that lobbying wasnt effective? Not my preferred way of doing it, but if so it’s kind of understandable too.
I follow Transport for the North and they are always campaigning for and announcing funding for transport projects in the North West that are promoted by the high profile Manchester and Liverpool metro Mayors. West and South Yorkshire have recently raised their profile and benefited from project funding. East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire are lagging miles behind. The number one priority for our new Mayors is to level up to the rest of the North.
Some years ago I was operated on by a surgeon just before he retired, he was quite outspoken against the league tables and statistics which were being promoted by the NHS. He openly told me he only had 80ish % success rate compared to some of his colleagues who were near to 100% He went on to explain that they were doing simpler operations like vericous veins whereas he was doing the life threatening ones and unfortunately couldn't save everyone. He also said that was the reason why when I turned up at a+e on the Friday of a bank holiday weekend I had to wait until the Tuesday for my op, the others didn't want to take the risk and waited until the old guy turned up. Of course if there is a genuine mistake there should be consequences but some of the near miracles the NHS perform don't always go to plan and sometimes end badly.
It's a moot point anyway, as all she's done is announce the schemes that were already lined up from the previous regime.
I'm sure the previous regime cancelled the northern section of HS2 and promised all manor of Network North spending which deffo included Hull, someone has dropped Hull out the Transport for the North plan?
What may come in the future is unknown, but I don't see anything particularly new in the recent announcement, just a rebadge of previously agreed projects.
They can safely ignore Hull because they know people will vote Yes, someone was saying a lot of these projects were first floated by Ridhi Sunak and there is not much new money involved.
Really strange when I had an op on my left foot I thought it weird it was even written on my foot This one!! And I must have been asked by at least half a dozen staff which foot we operating on??
Ha! Had a cataract done last week, last thing before going on the slab the surgeon put a felt tip X over the eye he was doing.
I've had an op at Hull Royal and another at the Spire and they both did the same. In fairness once you're under general anaesthetic they can't really ask you can they?
If it’s owt like where I work they’ll probably smirk at each other and whistle Colonel Bogey, but maybe they’re above that!
