I see the levelling up plan is going well: #LevellingUp

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-65091803

Levelling up: More than 90% not yet spent

UK government has spent less than 10% of £4.8bn fund for #levellingUp since its launch in 2020

Figures obtained by #Labour show £392m has been spent as of last month.

The fund awarded £1.7bn to projects in October 2021 & another £2.1bn in January 2023

So much for the #redWall being rewarded for voting the #toriesOut into power

Now - had they arranged a priority queue for their own like #ppeProfiteers it would all have been spent (on yachts)

Another Brexit bonus

#Brexit
#LevellingUp

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/26/back-to-work-schemes-england-previously-funded-eu-forced-close?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

If the next UK government makes Early Years provision a top priority in the way that Polly Toynbee anticipates, that will be a very good thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/10/keir-starmer-government-childcare-pen-green-nursery-sure-start

#EarlyYears #nurseries #LevellingUp

Who could’ve guessed that #levellingup would really be #levellingdown ? Harming the golden goose was always going to be lose-lose, but that’s what successive governments have done. Time for a rethink…London’s slowdown to blame for weak UK productivity, says think-tank https://on.ft.com/3mjL9UO (£) or reply for a gift link

You would have thought that going around with a bag full of money, and handing out cash for projects in England and Wales would increase the popularity of the government. I think the government thought so too, but it hasn’t worked out that way.#levellingup
Richard asks: What is levelling up and how it is supposed to work?

https://kentbylines.co.uk/the-levelling-up-lark/

@sadgrove

All #levellingUp was designed to deliver was more #toryMPs

It is a figleaf policy that replaces #EU regional support with smaller amounts, micro-managing the use of those funds from #whitehall putting those in less affluent areas into the role of #supplicant to a paternalistic central state which nakedly favours the electoral interests of the Conservative Party

#toriesOut

@Woodknot

After the #gardenBridge , #irelandScotlandBridge , #englandFranceBridge , #estuaryAirport , #planForSocialCare and #levellingUp ........

Is anyone surprised this is yet another #johnsonFantasyProject ???

#toriesOut

Provincial train services just get better and better

#PublicTransport
#LevellingUp
#Trains

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64425339

Graeme Bandeira on #MichaelGove #LevellingUp - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

The deliberate tone deafness of the truly arrogant and uncaring.

#ToriesUnfitToGovern
#LevellingUp
#BrokenBritian

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-64397775

The Tory #levellingup delusion, invented by #liar #Johnson & continued by his successors, completely demolished by #IPPR report. Compared with nation states the North would be second lowest in #OECD. http://bit.ly/3DdrjAa #SunakOut #RejoinEU #toryliars #StandWithUkraine

Let's do this.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/25/levelling-up-north-england-regional-germany-barnett-formula?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#AndyBurnham #levellingup #north

@mirrorpolitics
Excruciata Reees-Mog explains the need for levelling up funds in wealthy rural areas following the allocation of £19 million in Rishi Sunak’s constituency.

#LevellingUp

https://dudley-tribune.x10.mx/levelling-up-is-all-relative/

Almost 1 in 10 local bus services were axed last year. This is making a huge difference to the lives of people - from not being able to get to hospital appointments, work and education to feeling isolated because meeting friends is now out of the question. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/24/almost-one-10-local-bus-services-axed-last-year-great-britain

#PublicTransport #Bus #Levellingup

On way to convention of the north
It’s 28 miles from my house
Can’t take train because they’re rarer than rocking horse shit
So I drive. 1 hour 45 minutes
Would have been quicker riding a horse
#levellingup

Put some new shelves up at weekend. I live in the North East, UK. That's the closest I will get to #LevellingUp

#NEFollowers

In which @lisanandy@twitter.com says, on her/Labour’s plans to deliver #LevellingUp by empowering local & regional government: “if you want to build good sustainable places you need a really good sustainable planning & architecture department”; good priorities! https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/steve-richards-presents-the-rock-n-roll-politics-podcast/id1384867286?i=1000595465217

RT @timcook32@twitter.com

Did he just point at the door..for some ‘pleb’ to open it for him? Open your own door. Levelling up my arse. #LevellingUp #bbcnews

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/timcook32/status/1616138816582189056

RT @timcook32@twitter.com

Did he just point at the door..for some ‘pleb’ to open it for him? Open your own door. Levelling up my arse. #LevellingUp #bbcnews

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/timcook32/status/1616138816582189056