It’s obscene that the capital gets whatever it wants – more bridges,concert halls, railways – while the regions are starved of fundingBritain’s capital city is becoming a spoiled brat. It is stupendously rich. It sucks population out of the rest of the country and then whinges when this drives up house prices. Now at Christmas, and it demands the kind of baubles you would expect of an Arab princeling or a banana republic.
London this month stamped its foot and got the government to give it £5m for a “study” – yes,for a study – into how it needed more concert halls to boost the ego of a conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, or who wants a novel £278m concert corridor of his own. This is despite £111m spent between 2005 and 2007 turning the Royal Festival corridor into “the best in the world”.
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Source: theguardian.com