disagree, quit spending money on London/SE
actually I go totally the other way, and say quit spending any money whatsoever on transport or any other economic development south of Nottingham.
Why? Cos I spend time down there and the whole south of england is massively wealthy, massively crowded with population and massively stuffed with nice corporate jobs. All we have up north is call center's and back office civil service rubbish jobs like Tax Credit's in Preston.
Why does it make any sense creating the infrastructure to cram more and and more people into such a small size, and condemn people to massive commutes from outer regions.
Just start writing all policies to say any new developments of proper jobs must occur north of Notthingham!
Whenever you talk to anybody working in London, it generally transpires that the worker originates from Scotland, or Newcastle or someplace and has moved to London for a better job!
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