I haven't read all the posts - Some extreme characters in the audience e.g. the bloke who said illegal immigrants were "mostly drug dealers and criminals". The woman who said Houchen was basically perfect etc and ahd restored steelmaking (un true of course there is an electric furnace planned years into the future). I didn't see any south Asian decendent representatives in the audience, even though they could represent 10%? of Middlesbrough.
Ref lack of jobs on Teesside - I am glad it was discussed and RD did get it right when he said the problem started in 1979 not 2010. He was also correct to say the men who worked at SSI Redcar/ICI will be doing jobs on less pay now if they are working and stayed in the Area. SSI Redcar closed in October 2015, now 8.5 years on how many permanent jobs have been created in Carbon Capture, Hydrogen, Green technologies on Teesside?
I was also shocked to hear major public libraries in the region are run by volunteers nowadays.