Jason McCartney, Tory MP for Colne Valley wants all West Yorkshire funding to be handed to Garry Verity as the Mayor for Yorkshire. Who is Garry Verity? you may ask. Garry works for a board promoting Yorkshire and was a member of the team that won the bid to secure the Tour De France Grande Departe. Note he did not organise the Tour, that was done by the Tour itself and a dedicated team of Council Officers.
Jason also backed Kris Hopkins (another daft Tory MP) at meeting stating that the most important issue to regenerate the economy of West Yorkshire is the modernisation of the road from York to Scarborough. It seems the the West Yorkshire Combined Authority have got it wrong, we shouldn't be calling for support for manufacturing, or for more apprenticeships, we should forget about linking West Yorkshire Towns to Manchester and London, or even promoting our Local Airport, perhaps we are misguided in thinking the M62 is overloaded or that we need to make brownfield land fit for development.
Perhaps Jason and Kris share a caravan at Reighton Gap, so see priorities we don't.
Jason also backed Kris Hopkins (another daft Tory MP) at meeting stating that the most important issue to regenerate the economy of West Yorkshire is the modernisation of the road from York to Scarborough. It seems the the West Yorkshire Combined Authority have got it wrong, we shouldn't be calling for support for manufacturing, or for more apprenticeships, we should forget about linking West Yorkshire Towns to Manchester and London, or even promoting our Local Airport, perhaps we are misguided in thinking the M62 is overloaded or that we need to make brownfield land fit for development.
Perhaps Jason and Kris share a caravan at Reighton Gap, so see priorities we don't.
