Nördlich England
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/09/north-of-england-lost-out-on-140bn-for-transport-in-decade-of-deceit-study
Von topotaul
Nördlich England
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/09/north-of-england-lost-out-on-140bn-for-transport-in-decade-of-deceit-study
Von topotaul
4 Kommentare
Laughs in Welsh…. Welcome to the club! Sucks doesn’t it unless you are London based or it’s beneficial to London, they don’t give a crap about you. See HS2 and the new Oxford to Cambridge rail line being classed as England and Wales projects, to deny Wales comparable investment.
I’m absolutely shocked that the Tories would under-invest in Labour areas, and over-invest in Tory areas.
Running the country for the benefit of the, well, whole country has never exactly been a strong suit of theirs.
If the north had received the same per-person spending as London
That will only happen if the north produced as much GDP per person as london.
>The East Midlands fared even worse, with an average of £355 per person spent – less than a third of that received by London.
I eagerly await the professional northerners to overlook this fact and say how Manchester and Leeds should get all the money.
[The original research is interesting](https://www.ippr.org/articles/on-track-to-prosperity). It bands together the entire South East (who often get little transport investment) with London (who get loads). It also shows that the South West and Northern Ireland get even less than the North, while the North West gets just below the average amount of transport investment of the rest of the country.
Its obvious everywhere outside of London needs investment in transport infrastructure. But this framing of the issue as a „North v. South“ thing when its a „London and Everywhere Else“ thing doesn’t help.