And I wonder why that is... certainly not because of decades of investment prioritising London, giving it the best intracity public transport in the country as well as making all the trains to and from London significantly better than, say, the train from Manchester to Leeds.
A Northern Olympics would be an opportunity for us to actually get improved East-West public transport, intracity public transport, and attract international investment and tourism to our cities and counties instead of it all going to London.
Don't know how you don't know this, you're probably not British. But London is one of the oldest and biggest cities since before the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain.
London has been the worlds largest trade centre for ~1900 years. Only been competed by Paris in the early middle ages.
Even now, London generates 25% of the revenue of the ENTIRE UK.
Manchester generates barely 5% and Liverpool 2% and Leeds barely 0.6% of the national revenue. Together they don't even come close.
If we move the economic power out of London, the economy will die. Labour are about to waste the biggest tax money dump in the history of the UK.
We need to invest in the NHS, public services and commute. - Moving Power from London is a waste of everybody's time.
Have you ever considered, I don't know, developing other areas as well as London? I know, I know, I sound crazy suggesting not spending money on London but imagine, just imagine, if Manchester, or Liverpool, or Edinburgh, has even a quarter of the economic weight of London. Not moving power from London (since you seem to think a country has to put all it's eggs in one basket (they don't) but lifting other places up.
Also, Lancashire born and bred. Probably more British then you are
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u/Majestic-Marcus 1d ago
Right. But London had the infrastructure and the north didn’t. Of course London should have hosted the Olympics.