What is the North For?

Yet again a report blames London and the South East for the problems of the North.

The real problem with the North is that it doesn't create jobs. It just expects us here in the South to provide them for them. They're still moaning about the closing of the coal mines. Remember, coal is the worst producer of greenhouse gases.

Take hi-tech companies. Of the top new 100 hi-tech companies in the country, only one, Sage, started in the north.

If you look at the North-East for example, around 70 % of GDP is government spending, whereas here in the south-east and East Anglia the figure is less than 35 %.

This explains why such towns as Hastings and Great Yarmouth are such bad transport and job black spots as all our money is spent trying to breath life into other areas of the country, where it seems to make little difference. The North has been moaning about London for years.

So perhaps a better solution, would be to spend more money where wealth is created, so that the North uses its own devices to improve. It certainly shows none of that instinct now.