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    So, the Barnsley and Doncaster council areas have voted for a Yorkshire-wide devolution plan, but Sheffield remains aloof. Certainly, it would appear to make more sense to pursue regional co-ordination, rather than two competing plans for one traditional county:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-en...mpression=true

    #2
    But the one Yorkshire deal would cut across the Sheffield City region plan, and the great fear for our great and good is it would focus more power in Leeds.

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      #3
      Make York the capital, then - the Ottawa/Canberra compromise.

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        #4
        That makes sense. The city region model of “Northern Powerhouse” devolution so far risks fucking up towns and rural areas even more than now, as all the cash and powers get funneled to Burnham type wanks.

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          #5
          Places like Barnsley should get funds only if the ignorant racist fuckers write a sodding begging letter to the European Commission.

          If I still lived in Leeds I'd probably launch a campaign for independence from Yorkshire.

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            #6
            But it’s their total neglect over the past (at least) 40 years that has allowed this to happen. Labour patronizing and taking them for granted, parachuting in Blairite PPE twats, has had as much an effect on fucking all trust of the political class as the Tory bastards. Ex mining towns in England and Wales are as fucked as any former East German town slowly dying and equally easy meat for the far right. This is not an excuse. Most of those fuckers are still wankers. But is a contributory factor.
            Last edited by Lang Spoon; 21-12-2017, 21:42.

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              #7
              Needless to say, we want nothing to do with this motley crew.

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                #8
                You are now entering Free Cleveland.
                Last edited by Lang Spoon; 21-12-2017, 23:16. Reason: Eejit.

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                    #10
                    Barnsley will likely be pissed off with Sheffield City Council for their masterstroke in getting Meadowhall HS2 station scrapped.

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                      #11
                      'Places like Barnsley.'

                      Whether it's Sheffield or Leeds in charge.

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                        #12
                        Everyone in Barnsley a racist? Same shite spouted about Sunderland just cos people saw a referendum count on the tv. Anyway, same splits up here: now just the ‘north of tyne’ authorities who’ve clubbed together

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                          #13
                          Fair point, apologies for my intemperate gut reaction. Some good people in Barnsley of course, as everywhere, though locally swamped in a sea of xenophobic economically illiterate idiocy (as would probably be the balance in Leeds too if Leeds didn't have a bunch of universities, to be fair). My outburst wasn't a reaction to the Barnsley referendum numbers, more to the recent Barnsley audience on Question Time, episode link here.

                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFY_3-Xaw1M

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                            #14
                            Lots of that's just down to ageing populations in poorer areas, EEG. Same with Wales. Lots of the would-be Remain vote has moved to other places.

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                              #15
                              Go back to the Metropolitan Borough Councils that Thatcher abolished. I don't feel comfortable with the pseudo-ethnic construct of Yorkshire, which can blend into racism.

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