One in four Britons have never heard of the government’s flagship ‘levelling up’ strategy

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  1. Honestly that means that they are completely politically illiterate because it’s been all over the papers and political speeches for months. There’s even a minister for it.

    The fact that it appears to be an empty slogan, well, that’s a different matter. But to not have heard the slogan you would have to be actively avoiding politics.

  2. One in 4 have never heard of it, another doesn’t understand what they mean by it and the other two don’t believe they have any intention of following through and doing anything meaningful to achieve anything that might actually equate to levelling up.

    But enough people believe that Johnson is a fun kind of guy who is stopping Romanians suppressing their wages and stealing their jobs and that Patel is going to sink all the Muslim ‘illegals’ in the channel that the Conservatives still have a ludicrous amount of support despite their mismanagement of (checks notes) pretty much everything.

  3. I’ve heard the slogan but I assumed it was just that, a slogan. The idea that this government has anything that can be honestly described as a “strategy” seems laughable to me.

  4. Oh I have heard of it but I have no idea what it means, either as a strategy or a policy.

    As far as I can see it’s just an inane sales type strapline that’s not attached to a tangible “product”.

  5. I think they’ve got this wrong. I think it’s meant to be :1 in 4 members of cabinet haven’t heard of the flagship levelling up strategy’

  6. I have heard of it and have heard some projects banded about, however I highly doubt much will happen beyond token gestures and some paint to cover the cracks. It is Northern Powerhouse 2.0, it is a slogan to get votes from those disenfranchised with Labour but it will not amount to long-term substantial changes.

  7. That’s because it’s just a populist slogan to shout while in the run-up to the next general election.

    And the general population are too dumb to see through the bullshit and will vote these clowns in again.

  8. I believe it roughly translates as “pumping funding into pro-Brexit areas to reward them for being pro-Brexit, at the expense of anywhere that voted remain”

  9. Nice slogan I guess. As someone who lives in the SE, all it means is ‘ we’re going to plough all your taxes into the north and you won’t see a penny of any benefit’.

    So fuck you, tories.

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