Who will bang drum for North?

From: Paul Emsley, Hellifield, Settle.

WHEN interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the Transport Secretary spun out the same phrase about “Government investment in the railway network” being “at an all time high”.

What Chris Grayling didn’t say, was, that take away the money being spent (wasted?) on HS2 and ‘Crossrail/Thameslink’, which will only benefit London travellers, and there is precious little left for transport here.

And where are our local MPs banging on Mr Grayling’s door? I’m not sure the Rt Hon Julian Smith MP knows where Skipton and Harrogate stations are!

Why are our local Parliamentary representatives not asking the right questions about Northern’s performance, a lack of resolution of the RMT train guards’ dispute, the lack of new rolling stock and so on?

The only representative banging a drum on all these issues is Greater Manchester’s elected mayor Andy Burnham and, unfortunately, he is no longer an MP.

If it takes a change of Government to resolve these major UK infrastructure issues, then so be it. David Cameron didn’t give a damn about public transport. Theresa May is carrying the poisoned chalice of Brexit. None of the other Conservative toffs are interested. A Labour government couldn’t do any worse, could it?

From: Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire.

THERE is one thing about the North/South divide we should not forget, and that is you can get a lot more in Yorkshire for your money than you can in London. Plus the people are friendlier.