The Isle of Wight, Great Yarmouth, Hastings and Morecambe
I am going to Portsmouth to see Ipswich on the 11th of this month to see Ipswich play. I thought that I might take the ferry and see the Isle of wight. but after reading Bronwen Maddox’s article in The Times today, I don’t think I’ll bother.
She says that the Isle is rather run down and virtually cut off from the rest of the UK, just like the other towns in the heading of this post. All places share higher unemployment than the rest of the country and have a run-down feel.
She says that the solution to the Isle of Wight’s problem is a bridge, just as all the other towns could do with transport connections to the rest of the UK to attract industry, jobs and tourists. I know the route to Yarmouth well and is it not only sib-standard, but very dangerous. upgrade it or perhaps the railway that runs alongside it and you might improve one of the worse unemployment blackspots in Southern England. I also drove to Hastings once. Never again!
These are the infrastructure projects that we must start. I even suspect that some might even be financed by the reduction in benefits, when the jobs are created.
The Anonymous Widower 
I have had good reports of the IoW from people who have been there recently, although I haven’t been since I was 10 years old. They do have a bit of a micro-economy there due to their comparative isolation. Costs of local services may therefore be lower and compensate to a certain extent for the lower incomes.
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Read Bronwen Maddox in The Times yesterday
Comment by AnonW | September 1, 2010 |
I am astonished at Bronwen Maddock’s article on the Isle of Wight. I visited recently after about a 10 year break and was pleasantly surprised at the feel and beauty of the place. Perhaps if you just stay close to where the Ferry’s dock you may get a different impression to if you actually go into the Isle of Wight proper. It would be a pity if this was the case.
Comment by Margaret Smith | September 1, 2010 |
My late wife was a barrister and acted for some rather nasty characters, who were incarcerated on the island. She was always surprised at how nic the prison officers were from places like Albany and they used to say that there were so few real jobs on the island the prisons got the pick. It may look good on a visit, but are there the jobs and housing for the locals?
I was also making a general point at how we have abandoned these places, by not linking them to the rest of the country.
Comment by AnonW | September 1, 2010 |