I think 100% it has done something – enriched tories.
No, I don’t believe it. Next thing they’ll be telling us that Levelling up was just a lazy slogan to cover funnelling money into the pockets of friends, family members and party donors. Imagine the thought!
It delivered a lot of jobs and activity in Whitehall…
the problem runs too deep, you can fix it by throwing a shiny building in the town centre or whatever else they did. and most of them seem to be just left as walled off construction sites with not a shred of activity going on in there.
No shit, it’s a slogan, not an actual economic policy. It’s just something you say to stop the northern poors frothing.
I weirdly keep getting government adverts on Reddit for levelling up.
I’ve always wondered how I can get some of this money, you don’t seem to have to actually deliver what you say you will and I could use the cash, maybe I can do a 2 for 1 and say I’m building a childcare facility
My town got given a northern Treasury building. Civil Servants now commute up from London to hot-desk in a different room to usual, and grab a coffee from the franchise coffee outlet on the station platform. So LNER and Costa Coffee have both profited from levelling up!
(Oh, and the office building the Treasury leases was built with EU money to help small-to-medium businesses, so our council had to refund the EU millions, but nevermind…)
You’re telling me a buzzword slogan hasn’t carried any weight? Deja vu.
Just give us a 4 day work week. I think we’d all struggle about most problems if we just got that with no change to pay
Nobody is surprised at this, the only people that have levelled up is themselves.
Colour me surprised.
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It was always a life, a BS slogan.
Who needs policy, when propaganda is the lowest fruit.
Does anyone else have trouble taking the term levelling up seriously due to what a non-project it has been in effect?
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I think 100% it has done something – enriched tories.
No, I don’t believe it. Next thing they’ll be telling us that Levelling up was just a lazy slogan to cover funnelling money into the pockets of friends, family members and party donors. Imagine the thought!
It delivered a lot of jobs and activity in Whitehall…
the problem runs too deep, you can fix it by throwing a shiny building in the town centre or whatever else they did. and most of them seem to be just left as walled off construction sites with not a shred of activity going on in there.
No shit, it’s a slogan, not an actual economic policy. It’s just something you say to stop the northern poors frothing.
I weirdly keep getting government adverts on Reddit for levelling up.
I’ve always wondered how I can get some of this money, you don’t seem to have to actually deliver what you say you will and I could use the cash, maybe I can do a 2 for 1 and say I’m building a childcare facility
My town got given a northern Treasury building. Civil Servants now commute up from London to hot-desk in a different room to usual, and grab a coffee from the franchise coffee outlet on the station platform. So LNER and Costa Coffee have both profited from levelling up!
(Oh, and the office building the Treasury leases was built with EU money to help small-to-medium businesses, so our council had to refund the EU millions, but nevermind…)
You’re telling me a buzzword slogan hasn’t carried any weight? Deja vu.
Just give us a 4 day work week. I think we’d all struggle about most problems if we just got that with no change to pay
Nobody is surprised at this, the only people that have levelled up is themselves.
Colour me surprised.
​
It was always a life, a BS slogan.
Who needs policy, when propaganda is the lowest fruit.
Does anyone else have trouble taking the term levelling up seriously due to what a non-project it has been in effect?