| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 15:37 - Mar 15 with 792 views | BlueBadger |
Our passports are a nicer colour now? |  |
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 15:39 - Mar 15 with 777 views | Ftnfwest |
Working on several of these (in terms of capital schemes) with majority held up because the original estimates were done pre 2022. Inflation then took off and the schemes are having to go through phases of cos cutting to meet the original budgets. They originally allowed for inflation but not to the level we've experienced. |  | | |
| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 15:43 - Mar 15 with 763 views | eireblue |
That’s the sort of thing that someone worried about educational attainment of boys from deprived economic areas would very annoyed with the Tories about. |  | | |
| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 15:47 - Mar 15 with 751 views | ITFC_Forever |
Who knew. |  |
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 15:49 - Mar 15 with 750 views | BrianTablet |
Yeah, but what about Pitt the Elder? |  |
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 16:20 - Mar 15 with 695 views | factual_blue |
Yeah, but they got brexit done.
So that's all good. |  |
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 16:23 - Mar 15 with 685 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
“Only 10% of flagship levelling up funds spent, say MPs”
…the other 90pc is just ‘resting in their accounts’… |  | | |
| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 16:25 - Mar 15 with 679 views | factual_blue |
| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 15:49 - Mar 15 by BrianTablet |
Yeah, but what about Pitt the Elder? |
His grandfather sold a diamond in 1717 to the Duke of Orleans for £135,000, which is in excess of £37 million in current values. | |
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 16:40 - Mar 15 with 655 views | factual_blue |
| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 16:23 - Mar 15 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
“Only 10% of flagship levelling up funds spent, say MPs”
…the other 90pc is just ‘resting in their accounts’… |
The Treasury love these sorts of initiative, as they retain control. It means applicants have to go through impossible hoops designed by The Treasury to get any money. Ministers love them because it's not their fault the money isn't spent. | |
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 16:41 - Mar 15 with 655 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
"Has this government done anything that has actually benefited the country? Anything at all?"
I think, I think, the plan was to do a poor imitation of benefitting the country whilst massively benefiting themselves and their best mates. |  |
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 17:24 - Mar 15 with 615 views | DarkHorse |
We got are country back. Or something. |  | | |
| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 18:32 - Mar 15 with 571 views | Swansea_Blue |
| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 15:39 - Mar 15 by Ftnfwest |
Working on several of these (in terms of capital schemes) with majority held up because the original estimates were done pre 2022. Inflation then took off and the schemes are having to go through phases of cos cutting to meet the original budgets. They originally allowed for inflation but not to the level we've experienced. |
Yeah, we’re on the end of some of these funds and that’s one of the biggest issues. The implementation of them has been poor too, with a lack of clarity around things like eligible costs, claims documentation and processes, etc. To some extent that’s to be expected with new schemes. The biggest problem for us though is the money available is a fraction of what used to be available. A tiny fraction at that - at our organisational level it’s covering well under 10%* of what we did get and so we’ve lost dozens of staff. This is supposed to be the flagship replacement for things like EU structural funds, but is nowhere near close. It’s pretty crap.
*and that’s now. We’ve had virtually nothing for the previous 2 years. [Post edited 15 Mar 18:34]
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 18:38 - Mar 15 with 557 views | Swansea_Blue |
| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 17:24 - Mar 15 by DarkHorse |
We got are country back. Or something. |
Look on the bright side. There are 76 million fewer Turks here than would have been by now, simultaneously taking all our work and all the benefits. Or something.
I don’t think I’ll ever get over how people fell for all that bullsh*t. | |
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 18:45 - Mar 15 with 548 views | BlueBadger |
| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 18:38 - Mar 15 by Swansea_Blue |
Look on the bright side. There are 76 million fewer Turks here than would have been by now, simultaneously taking all our work and all the benefits. Or something.
I don’t think I’ll ever get over how people fell for all that bullsh*t. |
But the people selling Brexit were all so honest, decent, open minded, compassionate and competent! | |
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 19:46 - Mar 15 with 509 views | Swansea_Blue |
| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 18:45 - Mar 15 by BlueBadger |
But the people selling Brexit were all so honest, decent, open minded, compassionate and competent! |
As we said back in the 80s -
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 19:55 - Mar 15 with 494 views | noggin |
They are standing up for democracy in the Middle East and so protecting the British people from extremism. um..... |  |
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| So levelling up was just a catchphrase with little substance behind it? on 20:24 - Mar 15 with 472 views | cbower |
The saddest thing of all is many in those 'red wall' communities who needed the investment to start to repair years of neglect actually believed the Johnson bull pucky. They voted him in in droves out of desperation and got what many of thought all along, platitudes and a few crumbs from the big boy's table. Nobody ever seemed to ask the bigger question either - why does the co untry need levelling up in the first place? Who has perpetuated the economic divisions within the UK? Why do we put our trust in the same institutions that cause our problems in the first place? |  |
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