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Tuesday, 15 September 2009 11:56
This is no time to threaten Yorkshire Forward as David Cameron is now doing. We need to build it up and give it more money to help areas like ours which are hit by the recession. Yet instead David Cameron proposes to scrap it and the other Regional Development Agencies to cut regional spending and to allocate the money from London not Leeds. That would be disastrous for North East Lincolnshire.
Yorkshire Forward is the main channel through which Government is pumping stimulus spending and regional support into the economy. It's brought major economic benefits to North East Lincolnshire, starting with Europarc, the Seafood Institute, Humber Chemical Focus, Catch Training Centre, five seafood projects, the South Humber Bank development, the Grimsby & Cleethorpes Urban Renaissance projects such as Victoria Street and St. James, the Cartergate development and the new £25 million University Centre at the Institute.
We owe all this to Yorkshire Forward and wouldn't have the same development potential without it. If our spending was allocated from London or handed to the big councils as Tory Council Leaders in Yorkshire want, we'd stand little chance of getting our fair share in North East Lincolnshire.
I'm realistic. I recognise that on present poll figures the Conservatives could win the election in May. But Britain can't afford for them to come in like vandals, axing all Labour's achievements. Nor can North East Lincolnshire.
So I appeal to Tory candidates, Leaders and Councillors in our area to speak out now on this issue and use every effort to persuade David Cameron to drop this daft and damaging proposal.
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