Oxford? Now your getting ridiculous, most magnificent architecture in the country. Glad to see you've put in a few dour Lancs towns, you can add Oldham, Burnley and Blackburn among others
Did someone actually suggest that Level 42 are better than The Smiths or am I making that up? Comedy Gold.
Don't be such a twat. 'Still ill' and 'Heaven knows I'm miserable now' are really, really uplifting. You just have to listen right.
What dollops of money? Since when was Hull given any financial assistance comparable to the level given to London for the 'Olympics' for their deprived areas? There was an ongoing regeneration in the Newington area of Hull only for this shower to take the funding away when they came to power leaving some people living amongst boarded up properties after being given the idea that they would be rehoused. Was it Heseltine, on a visit to Hull a few years back who declared that Hull wasn't suffering enough to warrant any government help?
We need jobs, private and public sector. We are geographically isolated but still a regional centre that merits investment. Unfortunately despite having a foothold in no. 10 with Prescott and Johnson, Labour spectacularly failed to deliver these. We don't want handouts, nor call centre jobs, we want proper sustainable jobs- that's the only solution. The improved connections via rail and road will follow. From personal and anecdotal evidence, there are lots and lots of people who come to Hull from the rest of the UK to get jobs in our offices, factories and there always have been ever since I've been or working age.
* - Surely government aid is discouraged (if not, indeed forbidden) under EU law? ** - That's a 'chicken-and-egg' situation; it could be argued that improving connections will both provide work (creating them) and then lead to industrial development/job creation.
Swansea has the DVLC, Leeds and Sheff both have(had?) massive Manpower Services Commisssion depts, Liverpool has a passport office, Newcastle has Tax office etc. We never got one of these big national state offices. Which is the chicken and which is the egg? We are at the end of the line. Although from where I'm sitting London is the end of the line. Better docks trunk road, M62 stopping at Hessle not Goole, electrified rail line.............get the Siemens and govt dept in and the infrastructure will come.
I guess we're pretty much in agreement there Asbo, but (govt. dept.) office development and industrial development are quite different. Siemens, as you say, is one Hull can well do with. Rail electrification from L'pool to Hull is an absolute must. Not stopping at Selby, FFS! The docks trunk road is a problem, because of the city's layout.
The docks trunk road is the elephant in the room (see what I did there, ffs?) Status quo with traffic jams and inferior port status, or spanking new ueber road flattening our heritage? Demolishing buildings down Castle St is a big Ask (ffs, I did it again, I'm on fire)
We really aren't that isolated geographically. We're an hour away from Leeds and Sheffield, two away from Manchester, three from Birmingham and Liverpool. The likes of Newcastle, Norwich, and the South-west are far more isolated but no one ever talks about that.
I've always said that if anyone thinks The Smiths are depressing then they're not listening properly. Mozz has written some of the funniest, most optimistic lyrics of all time. I'm sure people just read the song titles and decide they're depressing.
So, I broke into the palace With a sponge and a rusty spanner She said : "Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing" I said : "That's nothing - you should hear me play piano"
If you must write prose and poems The words you use should be your own Don't plagiarise or take "on loans" There's always someone, somewhere With a big nose, who knows And who trips you up and laughs When you fall
'My eyes have seen the glory of the sacred wunderkind you took me behind a dis-used railway line and said 'I know a place where we can go where we are not known' and you gave me something that I won't forget too soon
