'The Conservatives are morally bankrupt and deeply cynical. But more than that, they don’t care. Whether it’s levelling up or trickling down, nothing changes' // Mike Small
As Paul Kavanagh has written: “In Scotland, just £177m of levelling up funding is being distributed. This money will be spent on devolved issues with no input from the Scottish Parliament. Under the EU’s 2014-2020 budget, Scotland was allocated up to 944m in structural funding. These funds were controlled by the Scottish Parliament.”
The farce of the “levelling up” experience exposes not just the corruption at the heart of Westminster politics, nor the blatant impact on democracy that spirals out as a consequence of Brexit, but the structural inequality within England’s north-south divide as well. “In any other country these would be routine spending projects decided quietly by local politicians and officials,” he writes, stating the blindingly obvious, he concludes: “It is laughable that a London official should decide if Cleethorpes needs a new seafront or Shetland a new ferry.”
The Conservatives are morally bankrupt and deeply cynical. But more than that, they don’t care. Whether it’s levelling up or trickling down, nothing changes.
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