According to Newcastle City Council's Liberal Democrat's the government is preparing to withdraw regeneration cash from the north in a last minute effort to shore-up Middle England voters.
Bill Shepard, the executive member for housing, fears that politics will mean that Labour will divert money south to help hard pressed mortgage payers in an attempt to stop electoral disaster.
For the Liberal Democrats of Newcastle the mass demolition policy of pathfinder has been a boost to electoral success throughout the city. Demolition of Labour voting council housing and the provision of new homes that cost many times the average wage have brought many Liberal voting people into the city wards that were formally solid Labour. They can both thank Labour for becoming the Turkeys that voted for Christmas and condemn them for abandoning the north when the money disappears. A self-imposed double whammy for the Parliamentary seats that make up Newcastle. At the next election two out of the three seats will be fought with large numbers of entrenched Lib-Dem council seats. Only Jim Cousins in Newcastle Central will find himself with a safer Labour seat.
Other places likely to suffer from reduced Labour votes are the demolition areas of Lancashire, Manchester, Liverpool and Hull. All of which have neatly removed large numbers of Labour voters. Tens of thousands of former Labour voters thrown out of their homes is not what you need when every vote counts. Another self-inflicted policy disaster.
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