Some great stuff here. Devolution for cities and specific areas is long overdue, Cornwall is an obvious non city area needing devo. Public transport infrastructure is an easy win to improve the economy and environment, Bristol comes to mind here as long overdue for a metro. Personally, I'd like to see science parks in every part of Britain, linked to local firms and local industries. Some genuine local democracy would be nice too, with more control over services delivered locally but managed in London.
Btw, Andy burnham defended Darren Whittaker’s 800m luxury development of flats with taxpayer subsidies, then Darren left the uk to Monaco to pay no tax, and paid nothing to affordable housing which he previously promised to do. This guy is kier Starmer V2, semi “for the working people” when campaigning then subsequently forgets them.
He seems to be somewhat of a fusion between Old and New Labour. New Labour focus on devolution, re-assuring markets, pro-EU, constitutional reform. Old Labour focus on industrialisation, redistribution, greater public control/some ownership, economic & class centred rather than social progressiveness.
Increasing spending in infrastructure is amazing, but to make it sustainable costs need to be lowered, so I hope Burnham’s government actively explores ways themselves to lower costs without impacting the usefulness of projects, maybe by cutting red tape and adopting mainland European practices.
For example, Paris is building 200km of new metro lines for only 5-6x times the cost of London’s Bakerloo Line extension which is 7.5km long. Imagine what the UK could do if we could build infrastructure at those prices.
Every politician supports Electoral reform until they get into power!.....
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For example, Paris is building 200km of new metro lines for only 5-6x times the cost of London’s Bakerloo Line extension which is 7.5km long. Imagine what the UK could do if we could build infrastructure at those prices.
regional transport should be under the control of regions and not an uncaring national government.