What are the current councillors, candidates in the forthcoming elections, doing to create jobs in the North East?
Sure we have plenty of jobs in the North East – mostly in Public Sector. What about commercial jobs? Connectivity is the most important feature in the new knowledge age (goodness knows manufacturing is moving out!).
Transport – prices keep going up, there’s many times more growth in transport in the South East. Would it be a good idea to link North airports with the London airports by high speed, and cheap links? There’s no more air space over London, and if company execs land or take off in Newcastle (or Leeds, or Edinburgh) they’ll do business here on the way past. Surely it makes sense?
Broadband – I’m a knowledge worker. Luckily I’m a specialist. But the Broadband is so bad here that I can’t work from home when I rely on the internet. If I can’t work from home I may as well go to client site, and surprise surprise that means outside the North East – I might as well move house to somewhere else (and take my votes and spend with me) as so many of my friends have been forced to do.
It has to be worth investing in communications to bring jobs here
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