Thinktanks
I suggest this idea, to increase the population of Oxford and Cambridge to something like 2.5m each through an influx of Northerners (previously the preserve of Manchester Grammar School) is what you come up with when you've been told it's your job to come up with something eye-catching and haven't the faintest idea where to start.I wonder what the prospects of a Conservative government implementing it are? They get panicky in Cambridgeshire when a new town of 10,000 people is suggested.
Update: Having read the report, I'm still not persuaded by its contents. I do agree we need faster commuter trains, and that the S.East around Hastings needs some motorways. But I'm not sure they've really allowed for the fact that things don't scale up as easily as they think. THe idea behind the political opposition is this: offering current residents money, i.e. you live in Guilford, you will be offered £15,000 per head to accept 10,000 new houses, paid for by the profits gained from building them. Time to invite 20 close friends to move in with you.
Labels: Odd decisions
posted by Matthew @ 8/13/2008 06:41:00 AM
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