SUNAK to move Treasury to Teesside ?

Lottowyn said:
There are people who were originally From the North of the country who would jump at the chance of being able to get decent accommodation rather than paying most of their often substantial salary to live in a shoe box in overcrowded London.
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That's a little bit of a blinkered view I'm afraid. One I can't subscribe to
 
Trug said:
The Tory MP for Stockton South in the 80's (Michael Fallon?) promised good quality MOD jobs for Thornaby. We got Mr Chris's Cakes, paid for by the local tax payers instead. Once Mr Chris got his money he ran to off Cyprus with it and left the factory high and dry.
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That’s the one trugg it was the mod wasn’t it
 
The example where I think it worked was when Thatcher got the whole of the NHS section of the Department for Health to move to Leeds. I think a lot has sprung up around those offices in Leeds with a big medical economy there.
 
Labour set up the PSA to move to Middlesbrough, but Thatcher stopped it when she was elected. She said the civil servants did not want to move. It was the start of the ending of regional policies. Since then the UK economy has bit by bit become more unbalanced.
 
It'll never happen, like most of the things that the Tories are promising for the north. Funny isn't it that HS2 is getting reviewed once the first part is done... it'll have cost the whole budget and the rest will be scrapped.
 
Office space yes, quality office space fit for purpose on Teesside nope. Ive moved a few businesses in the last 5 years and looked at lots and lots of offices and facilities they have, and what we could put in.
Ive 2 to do in West Yorkshire within a year.

Newcastle has business parks at Quorum and Cobalt are nice and they had a large headquarter type building and cobalt the same, good for 3 or 4 hundred. There 2 new ones in Middlesbrough but they are small in comparison, Stockton has quite a lot of more modern but they are partial spaces.
 
I don't care if you do not "subscribe to my blinkered view" that government workers of Northern origin would jump at the chance to come to the north to work and thus greatly increase their quality of life. I was not just musing with this statement, I know it is a fact.
 
It seemed really blinkered and negative. I’m a “worker of a northern origin “ and would in no way jump at the chance to leave London and move back up north. I can’t see anything to entice me up there at all and feel my quality of life would be poorer currently
 
Lottowyn, I would say not only workers of northern origin, but anyone who is not going to inherit a £800k 3-bed semi, would be interested in moving north.
The isolation works two ways:

The northerner can't afford a family home in the south-east. This was just about possible 30 years ago, I recall.

Anyone looking to move out of the SE can afford it, but they are put off by the job insecurity that comes with any change of employer nowadays, and the lack of alternative employment in the regions. Then there's the lack of liquidity in the property market, a potential trap.

All of which is detrimental to the UK economy. In the past, big corporations like BSC and ICI offered the chance of internal career moves around the country, to the benefit of all parties, and with less risk incurred by employer and employee. This has largely disappeared.
 
'It seemed really blinkered and negative. I’m a “worker of a northern origin “ and would in no way jump at the chance to leave London and move back up north. I can’t see anything to entice me up there at all and feel my quality of life would be poorer currently'

Funnily enough, my wife and I were etalking about quality of life having spent a lot of time travelling around, she had 20 or so years in London and we had a couple of years there together. We have the opposite view, the quality of life in the north wins easily. Maybe an age thing.
 
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Could be. I just get bored everytime I go up there. I like to travel so being close to Heathrow is handy and being not too far away from jumping on a train to France, Belgium or Holland. I also spend a lot of time at Kew Gardens. That, plus all the stuff there is too do of an evening, I would miss terribly.
 
Thats why they seldom come on here the people who live away, cant get away from Teesside. They dont miss the place.
 
Does your first sentence make sense? Surely if they can’t get away from Teesside they’d often come on here? Not sure I follow your post
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
Bored?

Yes, an age thing.
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Yes, Bored. There’s not a lot going on currently. If the digital city thing comes off I imagine it’ll pick up and attract more to the region.

Ticker: I’m probably being stupid here but I honestly don’t understand your post. Sorry.
 
An age thing ? I've lived abroad and in the SW of England, but the only reason I'd be in the SE was for employment.
Back in rural N Yorks now, away from the planes buzzing overheard (I don't mind the local RAF) , with a house I can walk around and some neighbours I actually don't mind.

If we could have a bit of global warming here I may even be satisfied.
 
I‘m not sure it was corcaighs post. I guess as you get older you tire of the delights of London? It’s not great for raising Kids for example and the joys of having everything on your doorstep might diminish?
 
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