Does anyone else think that they're called 'Think Tanks' because of the hollow sound you get if you hit them?

What has to be remembered is that the poorer areas are predominantly Labour voter areas. The reason most are deprived is that their parents, and grandparents before them, voted Labour and they would never dream of voting anything else.

As a result, when the Tories are in power, they know there's no chance of winning that seat. When Labour is in power they know they don't have to do anything to keep the seat.

A lot has been said over the decades about transport and infrastructure to these places. This should have been addressed after the war when they had the chance to start from scratch, like the rest of the Europe. No, as usual, the government wasted the money.

A friend of mine moved to Milton Keynes (50 miles from London) at the end of the 80's. Where he'd moved from the average house price was £30,000 and there it was £80,000 and rising as people from London were moving out due to high living costs, causing the likes of Milton Keynes' house prices to rocket.

They did have cheap "Shared Ownership" housing in which you bought say 30% and rented the other 70% but these were few and far between. When new properties came up for sale on the scheme there was a mass scramble. They were considered a safe bet because they'd put them on the market, say 2 years later, with a premium, i.e. a 30% share should have been say £25,000 and they were asking for £40,000. That meant you had to find the extra £15,000 on top of the 5% deposit.

The majority of conversations were about property prices. Typically "I bought my house for £25,000 and now it's worth £80,000....£55,000 profit. What they hadn't realised was they'd have to down-size to realise that "profit". How can you down-size from a bed-sit flat?

i love that they are arrogant enough to believe that London is the only place that can be successful. Try asking the software industry where is best..... it aint london. Also, if they tell everyone to move to london, what happens to the outlying areas?

I wouldnt move to london, as i dont want to commute for an hour each way from my poxy small but expensive studio apartment locate near an old powerstation that is apparently trendy.

They are morons....

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A disproportionate amount of money is spent in London because this is where MP,s have their second homes and fiddle all there expenses.

It would make more sense to encourage just the opposite, and improve the infrastructure.

If think tanks had anything in them, they would leak.