Nigel Farage says Reform understand the North – Richard Tice proves they don’t | Politics | News
This week I am writing on a rugged East Midlands Railway train between Sheffield and Manchester. There is no Wi-Fi, the plug socket does not work, and the transport smells lightly roasted coffee and damp floors. Outside, the industrialized Britain passes through the window; Shutters with shutters, rust warehouses, once built the world. It is a living museum of what we used to be and reminds us how bad we failed. This is a country that once invented the railways, now hoping on a system that was held together with hope, extortion prices and pure denial, England in 2025.
Nevertheless, days ago, Nigel Farage’s assistant Richard Tice decided that Northern Powerhouse Rail, a long -speed high -speed connection from the east to the west for a long time, was not worth disturbing. He’s too expensive, he says. “Madness,” he says, one of the beautiful houses of the Dubai apartment, or perhaps perhaps in the wide portfolio of the extensive property.
There is something about the luxury southern men in bright shoes that they don’t deserve better to the north towns that really uneasy me. For Boston and Clacton Swagger, honorable members, anti -organization fighters, cameras shifts for cameras, but when the mask shifts, despise for the working class.
Tice and Farage are not the champion of the people. They don’t understand us. They don’t fight for us. And do not make mistakes: this is not about saving money, they have already promised billions of unspecified expenditure commitments, this geography, class and power.
If there was a high -speed line from Guildford to Waterloo, they would cut ribbons on the first train. However, Liverpool was told to Hull, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Newcastle, the industrial spine abandoned by people like them, and Queen Victoria was told to make “upgrades ına to the pieces designed when she still mourn Albert.
Manchester Council leader Bev Craig certainly exploded: these people “fundamentally misunderstand” what Northern Powerhouse Ray actually is.
This is not just a few minutes after the journeys, but actually about capacity, ambition and potential. NPR can pump £ 50 billion to our economy by 2040, transforming jobs, growth and lives.
However, of course, right -wing populists such as reform UK are not interested in building anything. They are not here to raise the parts of the country that Westminster has neglected for decades.
They are here to pit the town against the city against the region; I’m just trying to start another cheap cultural war dressed like financial cautiously.
Throughout Europe, high -speed railway cities connect to towns like arteries. Paris to Lyon within two hours. Before Cappuccino cools down, to Rome. From Barcelona to Madrid, we leave the station faster than most of our trains.
But here you will be the winner of a lottery to get Liverpool Hull from Liverpool in the old Blighty here in less than four hours. Manchester from Sheffield? If you’re lucky, it’s just a clock, as much as sneezing twice.
However, you can zoom in our capital for dozens of miles in a better part of half an hour. Nevertheless, Tice wants us to believe in investing to correct these basic inequalities.
This is not financial discipline. Betrayal. Every minute lost in the rolling stock, one minute loss efficiency, lost investment, loss is a loss dignity.
They don’t understand the north of Farage and Tice because they didn’t have to do it. British starts at Cotswolds and ends somewhere in London. Furthermore, they lie in a legendary country of “Red Wall Voters ,, sometimes parachutes for a photo OP, before withdrawing to home districts to underestimate“ leveling ”.
They never knew how to be humiliated on the trains older than you, they don’t pray to pray to the doors, so you can do something you hate, work for a boss who hates you.
Since you cannot move people, goods or ideas quickly enough, they do not understand the overwhelming disappointment of watching the opportunity.
I was told I was told to scrapped. Northern is not a museum and a charitable institution, but a center of power waiting to revive again. If Farage and Tice think that we will sit quietly when they leave us behind, they can come here and explain them personally.
Preferably in a northern railway service, the rest of us shoulder shoulder, holding £ 6 from the tram, the train entered another stopping point. Of course, he’s already running that day.
