sambaDTR
Well-known member
Anybody knocking people for voting for Houchen (especially ex Teesside folk living outside the area) should look at the facts. I didn’t vote for him because I don’t vote for a party who are only interested in making money and looking after themselves. However I am now retired and you have to look at the Teessiders who are working age or the teenagers who are looking to work here in the future.
Teesside Airport is back. You might not think it is important but international businessman do. If you are trying to create jobs for the 21st Century you need to be able to fly people into Teesside, not Newcastle or Leeds Bradford. We had a record number of passengers in 2006 of 900,000 but instead of going upwards it went down under Peel. It is important.
As far as the steelworks are concerned they have gone. The site has now been cleared and it is a prime site for redevelopment. It has a river and carbon catchment and green energy companies etc are going to be built on the site. The Conservatives have also relocated a big treasury site out of London to Darlington. OK, the financial side is suspect but, if you are looking for a job, you are not bothered how the job is created.
Teesside was the first area to vote for a Metropolitan Mayor in 2017 under the Conservatives idea to try to get votes in the North. No other region was interested at the time. We needed it. That is why we got money for the last 7 years over Newcastle and Yorkshire who now, unsurprisingly, now want their share of the pie. We all know most of the money would have gone to Newcastle if they had applied for it in 2017.
Forget about the politics. Teesside will, hopefully, benefit because Houchen is staying in charge. At least it keeps the rest of the Country talking about Teesside. We are Teesside, an anomaly. We have only been here about 150 years built on iron and steel and ICI. We had people coming to work here from all over England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. If we had just gone with what the rest of the Country thought we would do then would have been ignored yet again. No one town in Teesside has City status. It will be interesting to see what happens when Labour get into Government this year but they will have to look after us now. We will not be ignored.
Teesside Airport is back. You might not think it is important but international businessman do. If you are trying to create jobs for the 21st Century you need to be able to fly people into Teesside, not Newcastle or Leeds Bradford. We had a record number of passengers in 2006 of 900,000 but instead of going upwards it went down under Peel. It is important.
As far as the steelworks are concerned they have gone. The site has now been cleared and it is a prime site for redevelopment. It has a river and carbon catchment and green energy companies etc are going to be built on the site. The Conservatives have also relocated a big treasury site out of London to Darlington. OK, the financial side is suspect but, if you are looking for a job, you are not bothered how the job is created.
Teesside was the first area to vote for a Metropolitan Mayor in 2017 under the Conservatives idea to try to get votes in the North. No other region was interested at the time. We needed it. That is why we got money for the last 7 years over Newcastle and Yorkshire who now, unsurprisingly, now want their share of the pie. We all know most of the money would have gone to Newcastle if they had applied for it in 2017.
Forget about the politics. Teesside will, hopefully, benefit because Houchen is staying in charge. At least it keeps the rest of the Country talking about Teesside. We are Teesside, an anomaly. We have only been here about 150 years built on iron and steel and ICI. We had people coming to work here from all over England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. If we had just gone with what the rest of the Country thought we would do then would have been ignored yet again. No one town in Teesside has City status. It will be interesting to see what happens when Labour get into Government this year but they will have to look after us now. We will not be ignored.
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