The EU do not have any say in what our government spend out taxes on, and long may it remain that way..
My point is the amount of taxation spent on infrastructure which is 24x higher in London and the South East than it is in the North East which is probably in most need of the money but gets the least spent in the whole of Britain..
Don't know how its all calculated but i would imagine it might have something to do with the way the population is growing? Only a guess though. It might also be how much monies is generated around the London/South East areas in comparison to other areas? I can honestly say though that i cant tell the difference when the money has been spent.
Speaking from a strictly Sunderland/Wearside point of view, which is my primary concern, we need the metro system extended from Sunderland centre urgently to include links to Ryhope, Seaham, Doxford, Houghton, Chester le Street and Durham. On a wider North East/ North West scale we need decent rail links as the current ones are inadequate. This would do for starters.
My argument is that if they invested more in the regions, it would make it possible to create the jobs and wealth more fairly around the country which in turn would slow down the population growth in the South East.
We're having the Metrolink extended throughout parts of Gtr Manchester, it's a nightmare to be honest, the roads are closed everywhere and it's just creating gridlocks. I think the city has been ruined by the public transport and cyclist adjustments that have been made, it's an eyesore and it's gone beyond reasonable now, it's like drivers are being treated like ****. I'd rather our budget went to Sunderland and they left this city alone.
I can appreciate the metro needs extending, one of the best things to happen when i lived up there, left around 1989. I must say as well that the local transport around Newcastle to South Shields areas is far superior to what we have down here, cant comment on what the transport is like further afield though. I would move back tomorrow if i could but work and wife restrict that choice a little, its a rat race down here where as back home everything seems a lot calmer and the pace of life more relaxed.
There is a huge case of both sides in my opinion. I'm very much on the fence. One day I want to stay in and on the other, I'm an "outer". Watched a programme on the 70s referendum and the questions and issues then are that same as today.... Crazy!
yes i can relate to that, but people down here are totally ignorant on what the North East has to offer. You can tell them what it is like, but they don't believe you.
I'm not sure on where you live but my experiences down south line up with what you said. They class anything north of junction 16 of the M1 as wasteland and pointless. It wound me up during uni but I just accepted it towards the end. Their loss. The north (north east in particular) is a far superior area to live in and I wouldn't trade it again.
Farnborough in Hampshire, half hour drive into London and literally 5 minutes from Farnborough Airfield where they host the air show. If the North East had the weather from down here and i could get a job up there i would move up yesterday.
Only reason I was able to come back was because I demanded my southern wages back up here. Although I don't live in the North East (my aim is to retire there) I now have a decent life and I am much happier here than I am down there. Farnborough is a lovely area. Hampshire is pretty decent (I went to uni in Southampton hence why I know the area). You should come home though ha! That being said, taking this discussion off topic for a while, you aren't a million miles from Oxford. You should go play my old course, Studley Wood. The courses here do not compare to that one! I think you'd probably rip is apart (I go round in at +8 and my handicap is 15)
i will have a look later, live 40 minutes from Southampton and have bit of family there. About 3/4 hour from oxford too so not too far to travel. Used to live in Southampton when i first came down here, place called Totton, worked in Eastleigh (dump).
Was on the radio this morning that there is a very low turnout expected for voters, today was the last day to register apparently. I've convinced myself now, that in the event of a miracle out vote, Corbyn will mobilise his tree hugging rodents into a massive protest and it'll go to a re-vote.
There are still 7m unregistered voters. If there's a tiny majority for Out, I can see the government saying they don't have a mandate, given the voting numbers.
How long have we all known the euro mp's have been fiddling there expenses.. There have been T.V. documentaries news paper reports exposing the greed of this thieves and they are still doing it under the guess of a loop hole in the system.
