A small feeling of exultation ;)

No.10 North: Well there is a challenge ;) ;) It was a good speech but I know many who read this blog will be upset. Apologies for that!  Andy Burnham hasn't even been elected yet as the new Prime Minister ( many a slip between cup and lip) But let us take it for granted.  I expect a lot of what he promises will take years to happen but he goes down to grass roots and that is where the Westminster gang have never been.  Well perhaps except Sir Michael  Heseltine, who also spoke out for the Northern scene.  The link plays his speech which is about 16 minutes long.

I have just heard someone on the radio saying that the bond market will not be upset from this latest news.  The talk is of change and putting the money back into  people's bank account and allowing the economy of the country to be worked by us, the ordinary people.

You think it can't happen but look at how Todmorden works, local people gardening all the areas that stand as  an empty space, a college for local activities; money being spent, we had £16 million from the government and there is a lot of noise going on in the square not 50 yards with refurbishment from where we live.  Work means wages.

Yes there was endless discussion of how it would be spent, there are naysayers, miserable sods and moaners who quibbled - but it is getting done!  The truth is simple, governments govern for the people and this country .

London is a marvellous place but they just see things differently to people 'Up North'  Everyone in London you pass in the street is a stranger.  It's attraction for wealth has knocked out two classes, the lower and middle class (I hate class),  From what I have heard on podcasts the young of this country are also fed up with a system that takes from the students £70,000 odd to be paid off over their working age.  Mortgages! would add another large bill to a wage, not too mention,  the outlandish expensive housing they have to have  if they want a family.

 So I am happy, perhaps change will benefit us all.