chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Just read about the amazing strategic planning behind an enormous flypast involving all kinds of aircraft to mark 100 years of the RAF. As I read it, I figured 'oh that will be at RIAT where plane fans gather, but no, its over London.
London seems to get everything. It's the fat, spoiled child of the family, while the rest of the UK is like Harry Potter forced to live under the stairs. The whole of the UK pay for these aircraft through taxes, and London gets this benefit.
This is small fry really, the tip of the iceberg. Take other examples like sport; the national stadiums for football, rugby is of course down in that small corner of the country. Northerners and midlanders always have that extra expense of travel if they want to watch their team in a finals. Plus if course, the London economy will be boosted as people search for accommodation and a meal.
Then there's ALL the leading hospitals, Heathrow's further expansion (despite the objections), culture, arts, theatre, big gigs. London most often gets the lot. It's downright greedy. Time things were spread around I'd say.
Now I'll admit that I don't like London because its busy, impersonal, unreasonably expensive and smelly, but I feel the same about most cities. It isn't about that. Also, I'm sure someone will use the standard (amoral) argument that this just business, and people come so it works blah blah.
Is it time for a national campaign? Not anti-London, but something to educate / shame our London-only based government that there is a whole country of tax payers beyond the M25 who would quite like to benefit from some of the things they pay for WITHOUT having to go to that corner of the island.
Something simple - like commenting on social media something like #londonyetagain everytime news is announced of something else they've got.
London seems to get everything. It's the fat, spoiled child of the family, while the rest of the UK is like Harry Potter forced to live under the stairs. The whole of the UK pay for these aircraft through taxes, and London gets this benefit.
This is small fry really, the tip of the iceberg. Take other examples like sport; the national stadiums for football, rugby is of course down in that small corner of the country. Northerners and midlanders always have that extra expense of travel if they want to watch their team in a finals. Plus if course, the London economy will be boosted as people search for accommodation and a meal.
Then there's ALL the leading hospitals, Heathrow's further expansion (despite the objections), culture, arts, theatre, big gigs. London most often gets the lot. It's downright greedy. Time things were spread around I'd say.
Now I'll admit that I don't like London because its busy, impersonal, unreasonably expensive and smelly, but I feel the same about most cities. It isn't about that. Also, I'm sure someone will use the standard (amoral) argument that this just business, and people come so it works blah blah.
Is it time for a national campaign? Not anti-London, but something to educate / shame our London-only based government that there is a whole country of tax payers beyond the M25 who would quite like to benefit from some of the things they pay for WITHOUT having to go to that corner of the island.
Something simple - like commenting on social media something like #londonyetagain everytime news is announced of something else they've got.
