Originally posted @ 2:05 pm, Wed 13th Aug 2008
"Policy Exchange said current regeneration policies were "failing" the people they were supposed to help.
"A mass migration to London, Cambridge and Oxford would stop them becoming "trapped" in poorer areas, it said.
"The think tank is seen as being close to David Cameron but the Tory leader branded its findings "insane". " (From the BBC.)
And you wonder why the Tory party have tried to avoid going public on their policy.
"coastal cities like Liverpool and Sunderland had "lost much of their raison d'etre" with the decline of shipping"
Watch out Nottingham! Originally founded cos of the ease of creating caves for living in. Then made important because of the castle defending the last fordable part of the river. (Apparently all put at risk by the invention of gunpowder.)
In this global trading, electroniic age, is it really beyond us to more ably balance the country's economy so that more of the jobs are available where more of the people without jobs live and where more of the available housing could be more fully utilised?
Not apparently to the people who are, or perhaps now were, David Cameron's favourite policy group.
A basic understanding of regeneration would show that cities like Nottingham have lost tens of thousands of jobs from manufacturing, but the concentration of activity and people have led to new businesses in their place - IT, games software and now most importantly - science. (Only today, an important breakthrough on tackling Parkinson's disease was announced.)
P.S. Why not tell us how your village, town and city has thrived despite the industrial revolution and the invention of electronics?
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