http://www.thisishullandeastriding....councils-war/story-17799172-detail/story.html You can only despair at the degrading spectacle of local councillors rubbishing each other as other regions get their act together and make hay from it. Hopefully Alan Johnson and Co will have a word with these dickheads and get them to shut the **** up and put the electorate first. If ever you needed an example of local political ineptitude to demonstrate why this area has failed over the decades, you could just read this article to see the calibre of turd who represents us.
You have to admire the patience and loyalty of Alan Johnson MP having to babysit his local Labour council who refuse to help themselves (and us). Let's hope Siemens don't get wind of this. (see what I did there?)
".....local......."????? One is in Hull and one is in Grimsby. Culturing nothing in common and as different as Liverpool and Manchester. Non-story!!!!!!!
No, Mussie, I disagree. The point is the idea of using both banks of the Humber Estuary and each hinterland - combining for the general, overall good. And those ****wits are involved in a squabble - equivalent to "My dad's bigger than yours". "Yeah, but my dad's harder than yours". FFS!
Yes you are right CA, while these councillors continue to be elected Hull will always be behind in terms of progress. Until St Stevens was built we still had derelict buildings in the area which were damaged in world war one. Almost no progress in a hundred years or thereabouts. I lived in the area, went to school with one of them and lived next door to another.They made little progress for them selves also.
Irrespective of what people say about Humberside and how consigning it to the history books was the best thing ever to happen, it provided the best opportunity for cohesion across the area. We now have a situation where we have 4 autonomous authorities doing what they like. Grimbsy are doing there own thing and getting pissed off that Hull is trying to take a leading role but what does it expect? We're a City and they're a ****ty little backwater. "You, you, you and you, shut up, sort it out, or you can all **** off to Siberia". There's much to be said for dictatorships in situations like this!
The rivalary between Hull and Grimsby has gone on for centuries and you are not going to to change that. It needs the areas MP to grab the stupid sons of bitches by the scruff of the neck and bang their stupid heads together. We are talking about jobs here and the Labour Party should say to them" you have two choices you work together for the region or we chuck you out the Labour Party, end of"
We should just invade North Lincolshire, make it part of East Yorkshire, deport everyone to Lincolnshire and make it into a nature reserve.
The inability of those concerned to work together, the title of the local website it's on and the fact it's about the Humber Region and not once is 'Humberside' used, confirms what most were explaining in that long thread. The poor handling and lack of real local representation with the local Government changes of the 70's is still coming back to bite us. It's why the word 'Humberside' should never be used as it is divisive. In my view, it needs the politicians taking out of the equation and Estuary based industry to lead. The industry needs to utilise both banks of the Estuary with regular shipping across, especially of people so that the distance between us is less apparent.
The Green Port/LEP (although mostly north-bank) looks like a way forward. Even so, the politicos are pretty heavily involved, I should imagine?
It wouldn't be hard to round them up, just stick the ones with webs between there fingers and toes in the back of a wagon and off they go
I think maybe we need to force a local election and vote in someone who'd know what to do with £150m. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...lead-the-way-in-test-for-devolution-1-5298030
