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GOVE’S DIM UP NORTH OVER GALA
The image sums up Johnson’s problem as he promises voters in northern towns that he will “repay your trust”. Does he understand and will he actually do what is necessary?
Those lifelong voters have heard this sort of promise before. What ever happened to the “northern powerhouse” so recently rolled out as the solution for all the left-behind communities?
They got left behind and the decline there continued.
Boris the convert would like us to believe that under his leadership the Conservative party has been remade, earmarking £80billion for northern constituencies over five years. It may not be enough for the size of the task ahead, particularly where transport is concerned. Buses, rail and road networks need creating before anything
SO much for the new Government’s concern for the North. Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove seems a tad confused about where it actually is.
Gloating with post-election overblown superiority, he drew wild applause from a crowd of celebrating supporters when can start to regenerate the economy outside big cities. All roads literally lead to London, where public spending is already disproportionately higher.
“Rebalancing” is Boris’s new mantra inside Downing Street. Failure will see voters’ precious trust falter, just as it punishingly did for Labour.
As it begins the search for its own new brand and a new leader, the focus is again on the North. Already it’s clear that anybody with a chance of winning has to be a woman from the North. boasting that the Durham Miners’ Gala, the symbolic gathering of working people and trade unions, would now take place in a Tory seat.
Wrong Michael. The one-time Prime Ministerial hopeful got his geography completely wrong.
The City of Durham, where the
To which many at Westminster are saying: “About time too.”
As MPS trooped back for the first new week in Parliament, the air was blue with vituperative condemnations of the previous leadership regime, Jeremy Corbyn and his cohorts.
You couldn’t help wondering if so many were so wise about his unpopularity, why didn’t they do something about it? Some MPS, it turns out, were even toying with the idea of an insurrection if Labour won, planning annual gala takes place, remains a Labour seat, though with a reduced majority. Unvanquished by the Boris bulldozer.
“It’s Labour and it’s going to stay Labour,” says first-time MP Mary Foy. “And Gove isn’t welcome here.” But he is tipped for a job involving lots of travel. to demand the sacking of failed strategist and “terror” Seumas Milne.
Labour survivors and their staff are frothing mad as they watch Seumas strutting about on his £100,000-plus salary as redundant colleagues pack up their desks for an uncertain Christmas.
As the runners and riders for the top Labour job limber up for the race, they and the party members who will make the choice should remember it will take a touch of humility, rather than arrogant continuity, to win back trust.