Friday, 9 December 2011

Blackpool MP earning a crust

Gordon Marsden (Blackpool South, Labour)(working overtime in Lundin)
What the Minister’s paper shows, in what it says about LEPs(legalised ejaculation points?) and skills, is that Ministers are having to reinvent the wheel on what RDAs (round do area?) did. Belatedly, they are giving powers to LEPs, wasting 12 months in the process. Does he accept that, as Members on both sides of the House have said, these powers and opportunities should also be available to second-level towns (Soweto, Punjabiville, Little Afghan), coastal towns (must get Brighton a mention), rural areas and suburban areas on the edge of cities(no real need to say there is no countryside left, it planned for building new immigrant towns on)? Will he also look at the need to combine a skills strategy with localism in those areas—something that his colleagues in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and across the Government have so far failed to do? Or he could just steal from the pensioners as we did for fourteen years.

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