Today’s Times is crowing that the South East is less hit by the recession and will pull the rest of the country up “once again”.
Well give us £9bn investment in a northern Olympic city, £20bn in a new underground line, £5bn airport terminals, high speed railway lines and stations, endless other investments and big government departments and maybe the north would be less effected.
Then again Preston is due a £700m investment in the Tithebarn Project but others in the region don’t want it. Looked at from the bigger picture this could look like an own goal. In Blackpool and Blackburn they think a small amount say £50m each each is better than one getting a big top up. Maybe if Blackburn got a big project Preston would object, hard to say.