The Budget won’t affect the geographic influences on your prosperity. Here’s Gary Stevenson
Poverty map: if you look at a map of the UK showing GDP per head of population in each region, you can see where the rich people live – and the huge swathes of land where they don’t.
Jeremy Hunt’s Budget speech – and most political announcements – made many references to the well-being of the United Kingdom as a whole.
One of the reasons for this is that, region by region, the economic picture – the well-being of the people – is not as rosy as he’d like to suggest.
Bitty little funding announcements for projects in far-flung parts of the country won’t help those areas as a whole, for the simple reason that the people with all the money don’t live there and don’t care what happens there.
Here’s Gary Stevenson to explain why the Tories’ big mistake is concentrating all the cash among a very few people, who all live in the southeast of England [WARNING: if you can’t tolerate swearing, you won’t like this]:
How do wealthy elites dictate where you live, and how well you live?@garyseconomics breaks it down. pic.twitter.com/vZ3y4Fb1xw
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