Indeed thanks to our friends in the North East we were the authors of our own doom on the subject of regional devolution in England:
I would genuinely stress that more politicians on the public gravy train is in no way the answer here. They tend to have
very limited understanding of aviation, this is tempting but illusory.
On a general note if we had a degree of federalism in the UK we might see a fairer playing field with regards this subject but with our rabble
What federalism
might offer is the ability to buck the market with taxpayer subsidised offers that a commercial operator could not justify.