To anyone living north of Watford Gap this has been common knowledge

[SydneyRover]

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

[Axholme Lion]

Maybe because more people live in the South?

[IDM]

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.?

[drfchound]

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.

[Axholme Lion]

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.

[drfchound]

If you lived in Mexborough you are due to  have a railway line going through your garden.

[roversdude]

Not a good feature hound - I dodged a bullet there as we were set to buy one on the new estate

[Axholme Lion]

I'm sick to death of hearing about the mythical housing shortage.

[Herbert Anchovy]

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.

[drfchound]

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.

[RedJ]

And millions upon millions of chavs.

[scawsby steve]

And millions upon millions of chavs.

And that's just the women.

[bahrain rover]

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.

[DonnyOsmond]

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.