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Title: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: SydneyRover on December 05, 2018, 11:56:31 am
North hit by spending cuts since Tory austerity while South sees increase in government money, study finds.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/north-south-divide-tory-austerity-conservatives-government-cameron-recession-a8667666.html
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: Axholme Lion on December 05, 2018, 12:30:19 pm
Maybe because more people live in the South?
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: IDM on December 05, 2018, 12:54:28 pm
Maybe because more people live in the South?

Has the population in the south significantly increased and that of the north decreased, to warrant increases and decrease in public spending respectively.?
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: drfchound on December 05, 2018, 01:26:48 pm
Ah well, just hang on a bit until the start of HS2.
That will really put up the amount of money being spent in the North, just building the damn thing.
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: Axholme Lion on December 05, 2018, 02:22:53 pm
The last thing we want is more building up here.
There is too much urbanisation going on. I don't want to look out of my window at a concrete jungle. The countryside should be left as it is.
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: drfchound on December 05, 2018, 03:27:34 pm
If you lived in Mexborough you are due to  have a railway line going through your garden.
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: roversdude on December 05, 2018, 03:59:57 pm
Not a good feature hound - I dodged a bullet there as we were set to buy one on the new estate
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: Axholme Lion on December 05, 2018, 04:13:22 pm
I'm sick to death of hearing about the mythical housing shortage.
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: Herbert Anchovy on December 05, 2018, 04:24:23 pm
This doesn’t surprise me. Back in the 80’s me and a pal spent some time labouring on the building sites in East London and Essex. Loads of the lads who we worked with considered anywhere up north to be like the dark ages. It wasn’t long after the miners strike and their perception of Yorkshire was men in donkey jackets stood around burning oil drums and women in soup kitchens. In a way I understood what they meant. The amount of work down there at the time was incredible and we could pretty much name our price on the building sites. When we compared this to Donny which was really struggling at the time we might as well have been in a different country.
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: drfchound on December 05, 2018, 05:26:41 pm
A lot has changed since the 80’s though.
Now it is mostly obese men in donkey jackets and very obese women in the soup kitchens.
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: RedJ on December 05, 2018, 06:44:28 pm
And millions upon millions of chavs.
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: scawsby steve on December 05, 2018, 06:51:52 pm
And millions upon millions of chavs.

And that's just the women.
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: bahrain rover on December 06, 2018, 08:51:24 am
A lot has changed since the 80’s though.
Now it is mostly obese men in donkey jackets and very obese women in the soup kitchens.
Crop tops and sweat pants/ pyjama bottoms.
Title: Re: To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge
Post by: DonnyOsmond on December 06, 2018, 09:45:29 am
The last thing we want is more building up here.
There is too much urbanisation going on. I don't want to look out of my window at a concrete jungle. The countryside should be left as it is.

Doesn't need to be a concrete jungle, we just need to use some space better. There's the cinema in the town centre thats been shut 30 odd years, along with the arcades. Make use of that land instead of it being an eye sore.