To think that Great Britain is far more than just the south east

[ReallyTired]

London house prices are booming, but a lot of places in the North of England are in the doldrums when it comes to employment. I feel that only lip service has been paid to the regeneration of Newcastle.

We don't need more houses in london or the south east while houses in Newcaste and Salford stand empty. We need to regenerate these cities so that people choose to live there.

Maybe we could put the stock exchange in Milton Keynes, the straight-lined town planning and regularity of the roundabouts might counter the high risk investments culture.

Rotation would be hideously expensive. But re-siting permanently (Parliament itself and all the Government departmental HQs) would work (though I can just imagine the campaigning both for and against from all the locations that would be possible candidates).

The stock market and other commercial hubs don't need to follow (look at say Sydney/Canberra).

The scenario has led me to wonder what would move in to all the buildings currently in use (especially the listed/historic ones). And who would be able to afford to live in No10? (A Russian oligarch, perhaps?)

Oh dear bellinacup, sounds grim up there!

I've nothing helpful to add in afraid, it's one of 'those days'.

On a post earlier it states that there are 'several good universities' in the North - Well bugger me, they are letting us have an education !!!!

Yep, we're all just squatting in a ditch, shoving berries up our noses here in the North

Who actually owns No.10 and the Houses of Parliment? Is it the Crown, or the Treasury?

Oh look, great reason to get the Campaign For The Relocation Of The Centre Of The Universe (willing to accept catchier titles) up and running...

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/architecture/9030847/Houses-of-Parliament-could-be-sold-because-building-is-sinking.html

Diagram on the Crown Estate

It's owned by the Crown in the sense of the Monarchy, not the personal property of whoever is crowned at any particular time.

Gah, this sort of thing really annoys me. I love the North East, I wasn't born here but I live here and love the place. Its honest, beautiful, friendly not overcrowded and the quality of life is brilliant.

But the best bit, the bit that makes me really proud, is that we make things, really good, complicated, useful things which we sell all over the world - in fact the North East was the only region with a positive trade balance last year (and all the way through the recession). When many other places seem to have sold out to gods of Service and Retail, I like to think the North East is still useful, relevant and can be truly proud of what it does.

For those of you who may be Douglas Adams fans, there is no way the North East would be on "Ark Ship B"

Not a land of telephone sanitisers

That heat wave the whole of Britain was getting, not in Scotland it wisnae.

North East, Aberdeen??

I agree that the problem is getting worse.

I knwo someone who shall remain nameless, who I asked why his, sort of IT firm is in London. He said it was because they needed to be geopgraphically near other parts of the same industry.

So basically, and I suspect it is the same for other jobs too, if one part of the industry moved to say, Biurmingham, they would all need to move.

Sort of lost my train of thoguht now.

I suppose what I am saying, is that it could end up lots of things becoming say Newcastle centred iyswim.

England is far too centralised and it is to the detriment of the whole economy.

Whole sectors need to move out of London to have any hope of this changing.

Government and parliament could sell up and move the whole political circus somewhere else.

Or the city, or the media industry, arts, universities, any large employers/industries. Tourism will follow.

Most other countries aren't so centralised.

The NE is a beautiful part of GB. Makes u wonder why we are left to rot money wise and job creation wise

The North East's beaches have won four Blue Flag and eight Seaside awards from Keep Britain Tidy

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/family-kids-news/north-east-beaches-longsands-king-7140882

Thats not the North East of Britain though, just England.

If money was pumped in we could have some beautiful holiday destinations. As it is the seafront promenades and shops are all boarded up and left to rot

If money was pumped in we could have some beautiful holiday destinations. As it is the seafront promenades and shops are all boarded up and left to rot. Looks like they are doing it up but with flats. Imo they need businesses instead.

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/time-called-three-derelict-sites-6698616

If money was pumped in we could have some beautiful holiday destinations. As it is the seafront promenades and shops are all boarded up and left to rot. Looks like they are doing it up but with flats. Imo they need businesses instead.

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/time-called-three-derelict-sites-6698616

Looks like they are at least regenerating whitley bay but building houses instead of businesses, turning it into a holiday destination would be a better idea imo

www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/time-called-three-derelict-sites-6698616

Oops sorry, damp phone and MN froze

FannyFifer
I'm guessing you knew what I meant as you answered your own question

I did, but just making the point that Great Britain is far more than just England.
Rather hypocritical complaining about GB being London centric then forgetting that NE of great GB isn't in England.

Yes my mistake, I meant England but was looking at GB in the post. NE of GB I guess is West coast of Scotland