Budget:  £1 Billion for 45 towns

I see Grimsby, Immingham Goole and Hull are getting free port, I quite like glass of port especially with some Stilton. Some people will surely take the urine and get shitfaced all the time though - especially delinquents from Hull. Also if if you pass the bottle the wrong way don’t you have to shoot your sen...?

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

£1 Billion announced in Budget today for regenerating 45 towns.

Grimsby must surely be one of these?  Could help with funding town centre and possibly supporting businesses linked to a new stadium?

Yes. Grimsby has a Tory MP.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

It’ll be positively humming with metropolitan types when it’s done.

Good one.

I can see them now lapping up the cafe culture on Victoria Street having walked across the super dooper dooper bridge from the regenerated Fish Docks. Smart suits and long frocks worn with long Johns underneath two layers of artificial fur to keep out the balmy breeze as it force sevens its  way across the Riverhead. They can later mingle with the residents of the area and perhaps share a line or two and a bottle of vintage plonk while shivering their way into the smart new cinema where they can spread themselves out to view the latest movies on a score of iPhones and listen to a score of index fingers and thumbs tapping out a tiktok message and checking statuses on Twitter all the time keeping an ear to the fascinating conversations.

It will be grand. Worth every penny!

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Good one.

I can see them now lapping up the cafe culture on Victoria Street having walked across the super dooper dooper bridge from the regenerated Fish Docks. Smart suits and long frocks worn with long Johns underneath two layers of artificial fur to keep out the balmy breeze as it force sevens its  way across the Riverhead. They can later mingle with the residents of the area and perhaps share a line or two and a bottle of vintage plonk while shivering their way into the smart new cinema where they can spread themselves out to view the latest movies on a score of iPhones and listen to a score of index fingers and thumbs tapping out a tiktok message and checking statuses on Twitter all the time keeping an ear to the fascinating conversations.

It will be grand. Worth every penny!

Its ok to take the mick and i get what your saying but this is after all something positive for the our town!
What’s the alternative tell the government that we don’t want the money Grimsby is a excrement hole so just leave it to decay?

A nail bar???!!! Really! Oh thank you Boris. That makes up for those fishermen being thrown on the scrap heap when your predecessor Ted Heath signed up to the Common Fisheries Policy. 40 years of under-investment. Benefits cuts over the last decade.

Hull not happy 🥲

Quoted from Humbercod

Hull not happy 🥲

Worth more to me than the money  

Quoted from Humbercod

Its ok to take the mick and i get what your saying but this is after all something positive for the our town!
What’s the alternative tell the government that we don’t want the money Grimsby is a excrement hole so just leave it to decay?

No, I’m just pointing out that the way such money is spent is pointless unless there is a market for the stuff that it is spent on. As things stand, Grimsby town centre like so many others is run down and the old retail outlets are all struggling. A different retail model is the first thing a town centre needs not a cinema or a flash bridge. I often wonder if planners think why a town centre came into being in the first place and whether those conditions exist anymore and if one will even be necessary by the mid C21st so why waste money on a sowe’s ear? Just think - the previous council knocked down the bus station in the hope that Debenhams would pay for new building on the end of Freshney Place - Debenhams!! Everyman and his dog kept telling them that the Debenhams retail model was bout to be dead and buried but no, it had to be done as a vanity project.

The Freeport idea is fine but it is not going to do anything to regenerate dying ideas.

Quoted from pen penfras

Yea, it's not like they've had to spend billions to keep the country running in the last 12 months. male masturbators

Well, they didn't have a choice but to spend given the circumstances, so not a surprise.

Luckily, all of the money required to support the economy was created by the Bank of England (owned by the UK Government) and was spent on gilts through the Asset Purchase Facility (a wholly owned subsidiary of the BoE). Therefore, we created the money and used it to buy bonds from ourselves. And the interest we pay on the bonds is spent on paying down the national debt. Makes complete sense, eh?

Oh, as for the Pork Barrel stuff, not a surprise at all. Where the US lead, we follow, which is why the Tories are so keen on forcing though voter ID requirements on us. The Yanks have shown that this works pretty well in keeping low earners (who tend to vote for left-wing parties) from voting.

They've got the ultimate squirrel (or perhaps it's just a gigantic dead cat?) in the pandemic to shove through all sorts of unsavoury and borderline corrupt policy and the media isn't really paying much attention, unsurprisingly.