One north east bashing is fashionable this week it seems.Whartons comments are amusing and, as often is the case with new mps, betray a lack of knowledge of the matter in discussion.Hardly surprising as he was probably still in the lower sixth when One North East launched its efforts to assist the councils in ridding themselves of the previous "developer"s plans for the cargo complex on the south side, the various "ransoms" that were in place and paving the way for the introduction of a private investment which, whether you like it or not , did result in a few years positive progress for the place before it all went tits up in the face of a global economic recession. This thread is obsessed with laying blame at anyones door, past or present directors, Government quangos, local councillors, government ministers, as yet no one has had a pop at the Pope but there's time yet. Theres lots of stuff that happened at Teesside
Airport that wouldnt have happened without One North East as a careful scrutiny over the last ten years papers would remind you. As a REGIONAL development agency they could hardly ignore the interests of the bonnie lads and lasses up the road whilst sinking our money in to Teesside where arguably it had less of a chance of a result.Thats just not how it works.
And the region has still got a nice flat development site where who knows one day some jobs might be created. And wouldn't that be a good thing?