MP secures debate on Humber economy

“The enduring yap about Siemens is painting Hull as a one-show town. One factory isnt going to save the Humber region. As for Johnson tabling debate time about what can be done-shouldnt that have occurred to him and Prezza the 13 years Labour were in Govt? Their last big idea was flood UK cities with Iraqis, Bosnians, Poles to 'generate growth'-well that fell flat,like they didnt see that one coming.

The gist is there isnt much they can do, re competition, development or migration because pretty much of all those are dictated by Europe. Until the UK can steer its own path choices are limited to begging bowls to energy companies or hoping the latest wave of charity/pound shops will invigorate town centres. Nice one, Ted Heath, EU slimy sell-out...”

“At one time not so long ago we had the deputy prime minister and the home secretary amongst our elected representatives, they did nothing for this city even in the boom years. The main road into Hull is an absolute disgrace and puts a strangle hold on the docks and all the industry associated with them.
I find it very disingenuous that these Labour talking heads suddenly find a voice for this city after years of paying lip service to doing their job. Time for a radical overhaul in this city methinks.”

“What they needi s me running this. 1.30 till 4.30 every day, in a pub playing a few tunes in between the serious stuff. I could give a gallon of beer away for the best input too. How about somewhere like Burlington Tavern?”

“Nothing will come of this. The politicians are simply paying lip service to the general population of the city and country in general, to justify their existence as a toothless tiger and their £140+ per annum jobs. They didn't stop the redundancies at Willerby Caravans, nor Seven Seas nor Kimberly Clark nor anywhere else. It's time we followed Iceland's example and sack the politicians, re-write the constitution, arrest and imprison the banksters reset the balance to zero (the entire recession debacle is a fraud anyhow) and kick the EU into touch. On top of that we can then follow Belgums example and boot out all these unemployed foreigners and anyone else who argues the toss and says otherwise. It's about time you lot all rose as one. Pitchforks and all!”

“The purpose of the debate will be to confirm that we have a laissez faire government that believes in the free market as an act of faith and Heseltine's interventionist plan will be damned by insincere praise.”

“Wonderlful. More talk from Mr Johnson. Like all the other MPs in Hull and the East Riding not one of them has brought a private sector job to this area. Time to deselect the lot.”

“Make sure that electrification of the Hull to London and Transpennine routes are debated and then agree with your counterparts in the East Riding to lobby hard to convince the Department for Transport to extend the wires beyond Selby. The fact that the electrification scheme stops at Selby sends out the wrong message that Hull is closed for business. It is a fact that UK plc judges the investability of a city on its transport infrastructure. if that was not the case then why did Cities such as Swansea lobby so hard for wires to be extended beyond Cardiff? Give me Hull to London on a Pendolino any day rather than those Alstom Coradia units.”

“Stop company's upping sticks and moving buisness to cheaper countries,stop the overwhealming influx of foreign ecenomic migrants,stop the big supermarket chains forcing supplyers to supply at even lower prices which inevatably puts them out of buisness.........If this seimens deal ever gets of the ground which is looking very unlikely the employment gains it would bring have long been cancelled out with the amount of job losses plus whats to come in this area...”

“Polands economy is set to grow this year by 2.5 percent polands economy has been growing at this rate since 2007 then take a look at whats happened to our economy since 2007. It might be coincidence that there is more high street businesses closed or closing down while in Poland theyre opening up. It also might be coincidence that to keep our region ticking over people have to spend their money here not live here 6 to a house then take all their money back home to live like a king for few months. If all the meaningless jobs workforce are going to spend their income in another country what does the government expect to happen do they not speak to economists.”