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The power of the multi nationals dominating policy is a factor.
London is like a country within a country and by God it sucks the life out of the rest of the country.
 
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So, what's the answer?
A confederation of nations, sharing power or the centralised Federal system we have now?
 
So, what's the answer?
A confederation of nations, sharing power or the centralised Federal system we have now?
You main NATO is no longer a viable option. The EU has never been able to control multi nationals.
 
NATO is an important bulwark against Russia, and the alliance of Western Nations containing Chinese expansion in South-East Asia. Those damned multi-nationals can be contained but have an octopus ability to climb out of any legal constraint placed around it. Should never have agreed to that legal sophistry of them being 'people'.
 
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One of the 'promises' we were offered was taking back more of our quotas on fishing.
Why didn't we? why have the French such a hold over us that we can't say no to them.
 
NATO is an important bulwark against Russia, and the alliance of Western Nations containing Chinese expansion in South-East Asia.
Time the eu put it's hand in its pocket and stumped up a bit more then.
 
Time the eu put it's hand in its pocket and stumped up a bit more then.
Which brings us back around to Lancashire Council needing all that EU money to the extent they opened an office in Brussels - how're they getting on with replacing all those funds from London, after Bre*it?
 
Which brings us back around to Lancashire Council needing all that EU money to the extent they opened an office in Brussels - how're they getting on with replacing all those funds from London, after Bre*it?
Good point well brought up considering how 'levelling up' has been confined too the dustbin. Will Starmer be the answer.
Like I say it's time the square mile in London gave back a bit more instead of being catered for by every sitting government.
Ironic the wealth that was created in the industrial north is just something confined to the history books these days.
Now it's made to feel like a beggar by the city slickers.
Still we can bask in the 'glory' of being the dumping ground for 'boat people' taking the pressure off chipping Norton and the likes.
 
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Tied to EU law on trading with other countries outside the EU that would always be the case.
What trade were we not able to do outside the EU whilst a member?

Are you saying the shops weren’t full of goods from China, India, America, Vietnam, Japan, Australia, Canada, Thailand, Mexico etc etc etc

Come on tell us how EU membership restricted trade
 
The majority of the house of commons and civil servants never wanted to leave.
Meant having to start working again instead of rubber stamping EU directives.
Gant, you are once again expressing an uninformed opinion.

instread of posting nonsense and making yourself look silly, go and research for once in your life
 
One of the 'promises' we were offered was taking back more of our quotas on fishing
that was a lie sold to you by vote leave.

along with:

control of our borders
cheaper food
they need us more than we need them
great new trade deals
take control of our rules
remove tariffs
cut red tape
etc etc
 
Good point well brought up considering how 'levelling up' has been confined too the dustbin. Will Starmer be the answer.
Like I say it's time the square mile in London gave back a bit more instead of being catered for by every sitting government.
Ironic the wealth that was created in the industrial north is just something confined to the history books these days.
Now it's made to feel like a beggar by the city slickers.
Still we can bask in the 'glory' of being the dumping ground for 'boat people' taking the pressure off chipping Norton and the likes.

On 2 February, The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove MP, unveiled the Government’s long-awaited Levelling Up White Paper. We have created a briefing which summarises key announcements from the White Paper and what they mean in practice for local government.

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It is therefore only right that they expect the government to end decades of centralisation and set out an ambitious plan to transfer powers and responsibilities to local communities as part of its Levelling Up White Paper.

LGA research has found that nearly 250 different grants were provided to local government in 2017/18: half were worth £10 million or less nationally and 82 per cent are intended for a specific service area. Around a third of the grants are awarded on a competitive basis. This patchwork quilt approach to funding hinders councils’ ability to get on and deliver new investment in their local areas.

Fundamentally, we must use this Levelling Up White Paper as an opportunity to reset the relationship between national and local government and put councils at the heart of delivering their own local strategies, alongside the government’s ambitious programme to improve opportunities in all parts of the country.
 
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