Tories Scramble to distance themselves from Tory Report Condemning Northern Cities
Tory leader David Cameron has desperately tried to distance himself from a report, compiled by a think tank made up of members of his own party, which has condemned cities in northern England as being “beyond regeneration” and which should be abandoned.
Although Cameron has tried to distance himself from the “think tank” called Policy Exchange, its current director is Anthony Browne, who was recently appointed by Tory London mayor Boris Johnson as official Policy Director.
Policy Exchange was set up in 2002 by Founder Director, Nicholas Boles, and then-Chairman Michael Gove. Until recently, Boles worked as London Mayor Boris Johnson’s chief of staff, and Gove is Tory MP for Surrey Heath and is current Tory shadow education secretary.
The New Statesman magazine once described Policy Exchange as “David Cameron’s favourite think tank.”
It is thus impossible for Cameron to deny the Tory origin of the report, which claimed that cities “in northern England such as Liverpool, Sunderland and Bradford are beyond revival and residents should move south.”
Policy Exchange said that a mass migration to London, Cambridge and Oxford would stop them becoming “trapped” in poorer areas. The authors concluded that coastal cities like Liverpool and Sunderland had “lost much of their raison d’etre” with the decline of shipping and had “little prospect of offering their residents the standard of living to which they aspire”.
It was time to be “realistic about the ability of cities such as Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle to regenerate struggling nearby towns.
The report, which implies that current government policies are failing northern cities, ignores the fact that one of the biggest problems of the region is the destruction of Britain’s manufacturing base — by previous Tory governments.
Astute readers will recall that it was under the Tories that the last large British manufacturing industries were put to the wall, sold off and exported to places like China in the interests of globalisation.
If anyone is to blame for northern problems, it is therefore the Tories themselves - something which the Tory Policy Exchange think tank ignores.
* The BNP is the only party which is dedicated to proper regeneration. An extract from the party’s policy programme: “Globalisation, with its export of jobs to the Third World, is bringing ruin and unemployment to British industries and the communities that depend on them. Accordingly, the BNP calls for the selective exclusion of foreign-made goods from British markets and the reduction of foreign imports. We will ensure that our manufactured goods are, wherever possible, produced in British factories, employing British workers.”
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They have sold out our souls for cheap goods. Rather like the Native Americans did.
I have in my cutlery draw, knives (eek !) made in Sheffield nearly 100 years ago that are as good today as they were then.
I also have some Chinese made crap that is ready for the bin after 5 years.
The Sheffield steel may have been more expensive to make and cost more to buy but which is the better value ?
People are easily dazzled by shiny things.
Cameron and his old Etonian jerkcircle haven’t got a clue about manufacturing, and apparently believe that the future prosperity of Britain can be assured by an ever-increasing service sector.
Everybody can move down south and make a successful career as Golgafrinchan Telephone Sanitisers, Management Consultants and Marketing executives:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/golgafrincham.shtml
Art-”Cameron and his old Etonian jerkcircle haven’t got a clue about manufacturing, and apparently believe that the future prosperity of Britain can be assured by an ever-increasing service sector.”
It’s completely idiotic of course. About 20 years ago I recall reading in the Guardian some comments by the Chairman of Hitachi. To the best of my recollection he said that whilst what he called “the money game” had a “certain logic” he asked how “do the British people propose to earn their living in the long-term?”.
At the time the Tories were of course all for the “money game”, funny money being nearer the reality, and perhaps some of us here will remember how the fat Tory spiv Nigel Lawson remarked that manufacturing didn’t matter and the future was all services.
This was treasonable rubbish and the “long-term” that the Chairman of Hitachi talked of back in 1986 is with us right here, right now.
We do not have the economic base to support the population of this country in the standard of living to which they have become accustomed; to say nothing of the vast increasing number of “enrichers”. Zanu continued Tory policy of course. Brown deflated like a cheap plastic football the moment that Northern Rock’s “securities” could no longer be used to raise additional funds in the money markets, and that they were worthless bits of paper. From that moment he knew that the “money game” was up.
“So what is Britain good at? Where does the UK fit in this world of changing economic geography, in which nations will increasingly concentrate on the things they do best? The answer is simple. We count the money and we do the bullshit.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/may/18/business.economics
“That is not the way the government sees it, naturally. Labour believes Britain is at the cutting edge of the knowledge economy and that Britain’s well-educated (sic), highly skilled (sic) and entrepreneurial (sic) workers are ready to kick German, American, Japanese and Chinese butt all round the global village. The essence of successful bullshit is that the really top-notch exponents not only manage to convince others but also manage to delude themselves……”
I thoroughly recommended this article, and the books written by the joint authors.
A PM in waiting? -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/08/14/do1401.xml
The Telegraph are ‘avin a larf surely?
I suspect that the appearance of relatively different levels of prosperity between North and South is something of a mirage. The economy of much of the South, especially the South East, seems to be founded upon nothing more substantial than enormous household debt.
If this debt should ever become unserviceable, then the whole house of cards will collapse.
Art - “The economy of much of the South, especially the South East, seems to be founded upon nothing more substantial than enormous household debt.”
And it is home to the machine that creates credit out of thin air of course.
We reached tipping point last August. There has been talk recently that mortgage lenders should be allowed to swop new mortgages for Treasury gilts so that they can raise cash on the strength of them - in other words there is so little confidence that the state is expected to effectively launder these loans for the money-lenders. Thus would we all be reckless lenders now, King(BOE) has distanced himself from this. But Zanu and liblabcon generally are so desperate that they may well try another spin of the roulette wheel.
But where do they go? They have ramped up the debt serfdom to the equivalent of one year’s output. How much further do they think they can push it? Do they think? Are they capable of thinking beyond the most squalid immediacy at all?
This is a bloody silly report. What are they trying to do? Get more people to relocate to the already overcrowded South East? If the North is less affluent than the South that is the fault of successive British Governments who destroyed our heavy industry which was traditionally located in the North and Midlands. The further you live from London the more you don’t count.
I use on a daily basis a sterling silver cigarette case made in Birmingham in 1891, which belonged to my Gt. Grandfather, my Grandfather, and my Father before me. It will see out my lifetime. I also use for writing letters a British-made fountain pen, manufactured in 1965, which has an indefinite life still ahead of it.
As far as I know, they dont make cigarette cases in Britain anymore. The ones you can buy are cheap and shoddy. The particular fountain pen I use is now manufactured in the Far East. Wilkinson Sword, for a long time sword cutlers to the Armed Forces, some time ago sold its machinery and tooling to a company in India. The only British sword makers I can still find on the Internet are those who make novelty and ‘replica’ swords, which more often than not are made of cast or drawn spring steel, rather than forged. Beautifully forged swords are still manufactured in France, and are supplied not only to collectors, but to various branches of the French armed forces and to Francophone armed forces in Africa.
I have a travelling razor set, boxed and with spare blades, made in the early years of the 20th century, which belonged to my Grandfather, and is still functional today.
These things are only examples of items I have at home. More significantly, we have hardly any shipbuilding industry left at all:- the latest Queen Mary was built abroad. We no longer have a substantial heavy machineries industry; we sold off Westinghouse a while ago, the only remaining British company which could have built new nuclear power stations in Britain; we have sold off our ammunition industry, and have to source ammunition for our armed forces handguns and light tactical weapons from abroad. (This means that when the BNP comes to power, and we have to defend our country from an armed EU response, we had better have been in covert contact with senior members of the armed forces procurement teams for some time, so that we shall have been able to build up a stockpile of ammunition for our weapons).
Askari - “so that we shall have been able to build up a stockpile of ammunition for our weapons).”
The traitors have determined to leave us without ammo
“I represent a constituency with a proud history of providing our Army, Navy and Air Force with the means to do the job. In Bridgwater, we make bombs and explosives and have done so efficiently, economically and successfully for more than 50 years. Some of my constituents are the best legal bomb makers in the business. They are true specialists, and, as the Minister is well aware, dedicated to their work. However, in a month or so there may be no more work for them to do. BAE Systems runs the old Royal Ordnance factory just outside Puriton and, as the Minister is aware, it intends to close the place.”
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200607/cmhansrd/cm070417/halltext/70417h0008.htm
I’m at a loss here, I can’t call them swine - pigs seem nice friendly creatures. I can’t call them rats, they are lower than vermin. I can’t call them snakes, for they are lower than a snake’s belly.
I’m not often lost for words, I am now though.
On this subject see:-
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/north-ghastly–200808141171/
Should raise a smile
Cameroon is this the type of person that Northerners refer to as a southern nancy boy. It seems a description that fits most of the Tory tribe, I like the post title as well Tories Scramble….. eggs….. people’s brains. Take your pick or make up your own.
Cameron is a distant relative of the Rothschild banking dynasty - he never was anything other than a puppet, and a chinless, over-educated fool. Northern cities now, the rest of the country next. Abandon ALL three main parties, and join the not so quiet revolution if you are simply looking in. If not, write as a proud British nationalist northerner, and complain about the fact that he would not abandon ”ethnic areas”.
The reports that I have heard have all said that it is a report done by a right wing think tank. I believe it is done hoping that people will associate the wording ‘right wing’ with the BNP, especially as Cameron called it ‘barmy’. This apology for a man needs to be watched closely as his lack of brains is made up with cunning. I am sure that this man is suffering mental problems and regular readers of this web site will know why I think that. The BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY IS THE ONLY HOPE FOR THIS COUNTRY. It is reported on this morning’s news that the USA’s white folk will be the minority within forty years, eight years sooner than thought, being out-bred by Asians and Hispanics, ring a bell ? Play safe -vote, join, donate for the BNP. YOUR LAST CHANCE.
Cameron and his ilk can distance themselves all they like from anything concerning the north , just like our friends in the north have distanced themselves for years of anything Tory . As a southerner I can only hope they have all wised up about the NuLabour con trick that they have followed so slavishly and will now consider very seriously the only viable alternative - the BNP !
Anthony Browne has done his best to expose the truth about immigration (and one of his books is sold by Excalibur on this site). I’d examine this report a bit more carefully - maybe there is some caveat - perhaps he’s being ironical…
Well it is now OFFICIAL. The Labour Party is disintegrating and the Conservative Party is “throwing the towel in”. Unless I am a bit simple that is telling us to vote BNP.
A minor point. Can we still get the “Ethnic Enrichment” to move South and remove the “STOP SIGN” at the edge of the English Channel?
Have this so called ‘Think Tank’ actually visited some of the so-called failed cities ‘Up North’?
Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool and Nottingham are vibrant and exciting cities. Brand new buildings and some of the friendliest people you could wish to meet.
If we wished to live in the filthy and enriched south, I am sure we would have done it long ago. Rather we like the relative cleanliness and Englishness of our northern counties. Even though here we are under seige by the ever growing ethnic ‘Minorities’. No, you southerners can rest assured Northerners have do desire at all to join you in your ‘Multicultural Heaven’.
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Well said, eskimonel - (I’m a northerner too
) - Ed
I did’nt know whether to laugh or cry when I heard this gem yesterday.The namby pamby spokesperson, who was on TV.,was just unbelievable, any Northerner worth his salt, should never vote Tory(even if he were thinking of it).There must only be one party to vote for now and that is the BNP.I know that what I am about to say is slightly off subject,but has anyone noticed the government have refused the police a pay rise, not quite in line with inflation, also leaving out the ‘lost’bit from last year? It seems strange that the EU. Police are flexing their muscles at the moment. I wonder if there is any connection?
I live just across the pond (rlver Mersey) from Liverpool and my god has it changed over the years. The city centre has changed completly and building is still ongoing, I wont be going anywhere. All we need now is a BNP government to bring back our lost industry.I have also been enriched but it adds to the fun, my new neigbours like to hang there washing over the back fence, it makes the place look like Soweto. I can turn the clock back 50 odd years to my misspent youth and go along flicking it all off. It aint so grim up north.
Call me cynical
Or is this more of a smoke screen to split up the Muslim no go areas ???
Because this will launch the BNP into power within a few years after most of the indigenous population has been enriched
North v South, Lancashire v Yorkshire, England v Scotland v Wales v Ireland (in any combination and even parts thereof), London v the rest, my area v your area — these are some of the ways still used to divide and conquer our island peoples. Friendly rivalry by all means, rejoicing in national English, Irish, Scotch and Welsh and local cultures/foods etc also cannot be but healthy. I am a member of the BNP not least because it supports all these while also being a unifying force in the common purpose of regaining our islands.
Great Britain - Four Nations, One Blood.
Eskimonel, You are right, the Northern people are very friendly and you are right the South is over crowded,however it seems that you are a little agressive towards the southerners[I hope I am wrong]and this is just what these political scum want ie to separate the people is to gain power.If you notice, the media report that the think tank is “right wing” and that Cameron has called it Barmy.Notice the emphasis on “right wing”and Cameron calls it “Barmy”, it is my belief he is hitting out at the BNP in a round about way, but with each day that goes by it is becoming more obvious that he is suffering mental problems[my belief].
I’m from leeds and regularly work in Bradford and other enriched towns along the M62 corridor. Look North last night interviewed some people from Bradford; the English agreed with the report, the enrichers said there was nothing wrong with Bradford and if you didnt like it go south . ethnic cleansing anyone? reminds me of Kosovo
I reckon, if the Russian government were to assist the various Nationalist parties of Western Europe in toppling the present shower of traitorous Marxist cabal that control the European Union, Europe could still be saved, the Marxist traitors apprehended, tried for treason and dispatched appropriately - some to the gallows and some to Siberian work camps for life.
Funny thing is, if these northern towns and cities are beyond redemption, why are they overrun with unwelcome “enrichers”.
chain migration enrichers - Ed
This is the worst insult to the British public yet, and another shot in their own feet for the dopey Tories. Where DO they get ‘em from??
Rent-a-Spiv - Ed
Since when did Cameron EVER live in `the real world`? The `CONS` are so out of touch, it’s unreal. A bit like Zanulabour really ! teehehe………Trust CONS at your peril - March on BNP!
So this idiot Cameron is asking people to leave northern cities that have countless years of history & were also the homes of some of the brave WW2 British warriors that died for our freedom/liberty againt tyranny!
CAMERON, YOU ARE A TRAITOR & ONE DAY YOU WILL ANSWER FOR YOUR CRIMES!
I saw the author of the report defend his position on Sky news. He looks just like his report; a complete p***.
A university of Sheffield study issued in October 2007 found that the most accurate way to divide Britain in terms of health and wealth was to draw a diagonal line from the Severn estuary through the Midlands via Gloucester, Warwick, Leicester and Lincoln to Grimsby, separating upland hills from lowland fertile farmland. It is also the line that divides the lower longevity of the North from the longer-lived South, with Manchester and Liverpool residents losing out on an average of 10 years of life compared with the more affluent and healthy South. However, research by Local Government Futures and Oxford Economics also published in October 2007 found that taxpayers in the Tory South were being fleeced by the Labour Party in order to bankroll the North to the tune of nearly 2,000 pounds per person per annum, with a three times faster rise in council tax apparent in the South at the same time as towns in Labour’s northern heartlands were being allowed to dodge it (GMB Union figures released in August 2007). Life is much more expensive in the South, for example petrol prices, house prices and general cost of living but the North has longer NHS queues and higher levels of smoking, binge-drinking, unhealthy eating and lack of exercise.
Previously, in June 2007, Professor Dorling of Sheffield University revealed that the government had failed to close the poverty gap after 10 years of throwing money at the problem. We can only assume the same fate awaited that money as awaits our aid to Africa. The de-industrialised North is still bearing the brunt of impoverishment in all areas of life while areas round London have benefited from enhancement provided by the service industries. In August last year an aide to Lord Snooty Cameron slated the North as “permafrost” to the Tories. No wonder they would like to bring the North south for the summer. So, not only are we being inundated from outside the country, but major displacements are desired within it as well. Will we end up by splitting into a literal North-South divide to bring to fruition Mrs Gaskell’s vision of two different countries one on either side of Luton Airport with one half Islamo-Marxist under Kim Il Brown and the other Islamo-Fascist under Lord Snooty? Only time will tell, but with the prospect of a recession for everyone, perhaps the BNP will be able to bridge the Watford Gap and find a common bond between the two areas.
Like Cameron, I too went to a snooty school. I was in my early twenties before I ever met and spoke at any length with a poor white person. I was in my forties before I began to talk with them occasionally, and only when I moved to a working class town did I begin to have much to do with the working class. Now, I have almost entirely severed my middle class roots, and round about the time I joined the Working Man’s Party, the BNP, I began to identify with the concerns which affect the working class.
Cameron and his expensively educated spivs have never had to deal with England’s real people in any meaningful way, and this is why they can speak blithely of moving the Northern working class communities to the South; they have no comprehension of the close ties with his region and the deep-grained traditions of the Northern Working Man.
I would rather be governed by an honest working man, such as Harold Wilson (for all his faults), than by an Eton spiv such as Cameron. Unfortunately, there appear to be no honest working men left in Parliament. The working class has been betrayed by Labour, and its members are despised and mocked at dinner parties by the Tories. The new-model Tory, a Southern urban creature who has rarely held down a real job, hardly recognises the working man’s humanity, and this is even more the case for the Northern working class.
I loathe Cameron even more than I loathe Brown. I hope that before too many years are gone, the BNP will be a powerful member of a coalition government, able to fight the Working Man’s corner. Certainly, the BNP’s heartland seems to be in the North of England, so a government in which the BNP is a major player, would guard the interests of the working class in general, and the Northern working class in particular. No other party will do so.