crackerjack
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Cities in northern England such as Liverpool, Sunderland and Bradford are "beyond revival" and residents should move south, a think tank has argued.
Policy Exchange said current regeneration policies were "failing" the people they were supposed to help.
A mass migration to London, Cambridge and Oxford would stop them becoming "trapped" in poorer areas, it said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7556937.stm
Regional policies used to be a big part of Labour thinking, back before the party got its prefix. No one callls it that now. 'Urban regeneration' has focussed on prettying up city centres but done nothing for other parts. So are these right-wingers right, should swathes of the country really be allowed to die? Cameron's disowned it, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7558742.stm
but then he couldn't do anything else.