Cameron denies North is toxic to Tories (From The Northern Echo)

......plus additionally attracting Hitachi to invest £4.5 Billion creating 950 jobs building trains with Hitachi in Aycliffe, and helping resurrect steel production in Redcar.

Could anyone explain how Labour helped anyone in the North East? Firehosing benefits at single mums doesn't count.

johnny_p wrote:
......plus additionally attracting Hitachi to invest £4.5 Billion creating 950 jobs building trains with Hitachi in Aycliffe, and helping resurrect steel production in Redcar. Could anyone explain how Labour helped anyone in the North East? Firehosing benefits at single mums doesn't count.

Mainly done to the actions of local Labour MPs, sorry not supposed to mention that.

Then of course there was the Teesside Plan which would've created 100,000s of North East jobs which was only cancelled because of the mess the USA put the world in.

yes jonny i don't know why the government bothers ,the people of the north east are so ungrateful, i don't know if they should go ahead with these schemes to help the region.

Labour always screws everything up and the Conservative have to clean it up …
What a joke the Labour Party conference ended up as … millionaire Miliband’s One-Nation speech … He made it sound like they have renamed themselves the British National Party 2 … the hating-all-others-pa
rty, applauded by Labourites.

It’s impossible to find a legacy or something or anything that people like Labour MPs and Labour Councillors have done … evidence that the Labour ain’t interested in improving the quality of life when votes are assured free.

Virginia Ironside a journalist, agony aunt and author launched her one-woman show earlier entitled … Growing old disgracefully …One of her perks of taking her show around the country was that she got a glimpse of the North East of England and was really impressed as we learned from her account in the Spectator Magazine … she wrote … CRIKEY, it really is grim up there in the Labour neglected heartland, where many shops are boarded up and covered with graffiti and the streets are lined with pasty-eating obese men, women and children lounging around because there’s nothing to do … Evidence of the Labour Party legacy that blights many parts of this country, where the words Labour, Thrift, Dignity and Diligence are carved into the crumbling pediment … and it makes you want to weep !!!

What are you fretting about George,your party is in power to rescue us again.Why don't you give us some tory tips on running the economy,some labour politicians may read this blog and you be able to educate them.Maybe one of their skills is not spending anything on the n.h.s or on state education,like they did during the eighties and nineties?

Lots of supporters for the Posh Boys on here I see!

Face it, none of them are fit to lick Thatchers boots!

st-george1 wrote:
Labour always screws everything up and the Conservative have to clean it up …
What a joke the Labour Party conference ended up as … millionaire Miliband’s One-Nation speech … He made it sound like they have renamed themselves the British National Party 2 … the hating-all-others-pa

rty, applauded by Labourites.

It’s impossible to find a legacy or something or anything that people like Labour MPs and Labour Councillors have done … evidence that the Labour ain’t interested in improving the quality of life when votes are assured free.

Virginia Ironside a journalist, agony aunt and author launched her one-woman show earlier entitled … Growing old disgracefully …One of her perks of taking her show around the country was that she got a glimpse of the North East of England and was really impressed as we learned from her account in the Spectator Magazine … she wrote … CRIKEY, it really is grim up there in the Labour neglected heartland, where many shops are boarded up and covered with graffiti and the streets are lined with pasty-eating obese men, women and children lounging around because there’s nothing to do … Evidence of the Labour Party legacy that blights many parts of this country, where the words Labour, Thrift, Dignity and Diligence are carved into the crumbling pediment … and it makes you want to weep !!!

Virginia Ironside - not a woman I'd want to quote too much of. In 2010 she stated "If a baby's going to be born disabled or totally unwanted, surely an abortion is the act of a loving mother." and added "If I were the mother of a suffering child - I would be the first to want to put a pillow over its face...
She rather sums up the hard-hearted attitudes of your typical Tory – she writes for the right-wing press - the Mail and, of course, The Spectator which carried the article and no doubt were overjoyed to pay for that anti-Labour spew.
Yes, the North East has poor areas – now, too many boarded up shops courtesy of the bankers and the current shambles of a government which has taken any demand out of the economy.
But are London streets paved with gold? – wow, if you think its grim here go out of the West End on your next London trip.

Its interesting when Cameron talks of re-balancing the economy from public sector to private sector.
all these new private sector jobs? Really? What they don't say is that the majority of the change is due to reclassification.
Colleges of further education and sixth form colleges moved from public to private. Then there's the banks taken into public ownership and thus classed as public sector - now moved back to the private sector.
Well over half the supposed private sector increase in jobs are not new - smoke and mirrors folks, smoke and mirrors.

It makes me laugh...All a Lefty will say is, "it's the Tories fault, we must tax them!" All the Righties will say is, "It's Labours fault for giving money away!"
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The bottom line is the country is spending more than we earn, if this continues we become bankrupt!!!!
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How do we stop this? Well I think there is a case for cutting benefits, chucking out people who have no right to be here and ensuring we close tax loopholes so those who earn lots, get taxed on it and sort out the bloody banks. I'm sure there are qualified economists out there who will be able to articulate this better than me.

Seems to me that many of the problems we suffer today are the result of the activities of "qualified economists"!
(be they elected or back office)

Couple of points- Hitachi was attracted following a huge amout of work by largely (but not exclusivley) Labour politicians; Principally Phil Wilson MP.

"impossible to find a legacy or something or anything that people like Labour MPs and Labour Councillors have done … " REALLY?
Massive and much needed investment in our schools for one. No more leaking roofs and one text book between 3 as we suffered in Thatchers "heyday".
GIve it a couple more years of this government though............

There is real deprivation to be found in every area, but it is indeed generally worse up here. The Tory solution.....Pay them less!
wow, thats tory economics for you, pay those in the poorest areas less than those in the wealthy areas. So much for the One Nation Tories!

"Yes, the North East has poor areas – now, too many boarded up shops courtesy of the bankers and the current shambles of a government"

ajtib3, whillst this is true it isn't the total picture. Remember a few years ago there was the campaign which conned council housing tennants to agree handing over council housing stock to a housing assocaiton?

When it happened hundreds if not thousands of families (I can't recall the actual number) were evicted from perfectly good former council homes within Ferryhill, Chilton, Shildon, etc.

Done so under the excuse "that no one want's to live in rented housing", to provide land for private housing development.

Due to the credit crunch these development plans were scrapped, leaving streets of empty houses boarded up and now derelict. While the former residents end up in temp housing, B&B, whilst some were relocated so far from their places of work that they had to give up their jobs and go on the dole.

CTRILEY wrote:
"Yes, the North East has poor areas – now, too many boarded up shops courtesy of the bankers and the current shambles of a government"

ajtib3, whillst this is true it isn't the total picture. Remember a few years ago there was the campaign which conned council housing tennants to agree handing over council housing stock to a housing assocaiton?

When it happened hundreds if not thousands of families (I can't recall the actual number) were evicted from perfectly good former council homes within Ferryhill, Chilton, Shildon, etc.

Done so under the excuse "that no one want's to live in rented housing", to provide land for private housing development.

Due to the credit crunch these development plans were scrapped, leaving streets of empty houses boarded up and now derelict. While the former residents end up in temp housing, B&B, whilst some were relocated so far from their places of work that they had to give up their jobs and go on the dole.

If you look closely CT you'll see I was talking about boarded up 'shops'.

The reality is that no Government of the last 30 years has put anywhere near the same amount of investment in the regions as it has the London and South East corner of England. Government has very clearly concentrated this country's future there following the decimation of our manufacturing sector. More money was spent by the Labour party doing up a railway station in London than was set aside for this region at that time; so its not just a one party problem.

CTRILEY wrote:

johnny_p wrote:
......plus additionally attracting Hitachi to invest £4.5 Billion creating 950 jobs building trains with Hitachi in Aycliffe, and helping resurrect steel production in Redcar. Could anyone explain how Labour helped anyone in the North East? Firehosing benefits at single mums doesn't count.

Mainly done to the actions of local Labour MPs, sorry not supposed to mention that.

Then of course there was the Teesside Plan which would've created 100,000s of North East jobs which was only cancelled because of the mess the USA put the world in.

Sorry? Resurrected by the same Labour MP's who allowed the Redcar steel Industry to fail while they were in power?

Daza wrote:
Lots of supporters for the Posh Boys on here I see!

Face it, none of them are fit to lick Thatchers boots!

Which "posh boys" are they then? Are you talking about Milliband and Blair? Tony's got a lovely mansion now. Or do you choose to forget that? But you still believe Labour represent the working man?

There is a strong argument to suggest that most of the party leaderships are much the same. Most come from wealthy familes, attended top schools/universities and have never had a "real" job in their lives!

Whilst not advocating the Prescott manner of "connecting" with everyday people, all parties really should be looking at their selection process's. Perhaps a few more working people on the lists and rather fewer career politicians would be a start.

All in this together? pah....I dont see too many of Camerons/Cleggs mates losing any sleep over how to pay their next heating bill...........

ianh wrote:
There is a strong argument to suggest that most of the party leaderships are much the same. Most come from wealthy familes, attended top schools/universities and have never had a "real" job in their lives! Whilst not advocating the Prescott manner of "connecting" with everyday people, all parties really should be looking at their selection process's. Perhaps a few more working people on the lists and rather fewer career politicians would be a start. All in this together? pah....I dont see too many of Camerons/Cleggs mates losing any sleep over how to pay their next heating bill...........

Remember politicians stem from the word politics. Which as you know is derived from the word "poly" meaning "many" and "ticks", meaning "blood sucking parasites".