Abandon northern English cities to the rats and pigeons, argues Tory-influencing think tank
Proving conclusively that the phrase ‘think tank’ is misleading in suggesting that such influential groups actually involve any thinking, a think tank has announced that northern England cities such as Liverpool, Sunderland and Bradford are ‘beyond revival’ and residents should move south. Policy Exchange is a very influential right-wing think tank credited with many ideas taken up by the Conservative Party under David Cameron.
Policy Exchange said current regeneration policies were ‘failing’ the people they were supposed to help, and that a mass migration to London, Cambridge and Oxford would stop them becoming ‘trapped’ in poorer areas. One of the report authors, Tim Leunig, a lecturer in economic history at the London School of Economics, has acknowledged this may be seen as ‘barmy’. A Liverpool Labour MP, Peter Kilfoyle, has called it ‘utter nonsense’.
tags: Bradford, Cambridge, Conservatives, Liverpool, London, madness, northern, Oxford, policy, southern, suburban, Sunderland, think tanks, urbanVegetarian? “I make you chicken soup without chicken,” says restaurant manager
I had a stand-up row of the highest magnitude yesterday with the manager of restaurant called Hemingways in Skipton. It was my second and last visit to the venue, which has an outdated appearance and seems predominantly frequented by the over-65s. But I was there because my parents, who are both well past the age of 65, and one of my sisters, who isn’t 65, wanted to eat there, remembering our first visit, about three months ago, when we had all enjoyed a lovely meal.
tags: argument, cities, complaints, customer service, dissatisfaction, food, old-fashioned, outdated, provinces, provincial, restaurants, suburban, towns, urban, vegetarianism
