Quote: Upanunder "Is it me or does it seem like box has an unhealthy liking for Cas (the town), to the detriment of Wakefield (the city).
Never really considered it before, I mean I'm all for sharing the wealth around the district generally but he just seems so Cas centric, its difficult to ignore.
I was reading somewhere an interview he gave not long back, in which he was describing his methology, he went on to mention various small towns and villages he hoped to invest efforts for regeneration.
Ain't nothing wrong with that, we've lost a lot of industry in the area generally, what with the pits going and one thing and another but this methodology mentions nowhere west of Fev, it was all Hemsworth, Ponty, Cas, Knottingley.....which seemed odd, I mean if you're sharing it out, there is nowhere deserving of investment west of Fev or something ?
It seems odd to me because, well I don't really know that side of Wakey, I'm from the North/West side, I don't go there for anything ever, I'm more likely to go to Leeds, I have no links at all with the West/South Cas/Ponte region.
Not that I don't think it shouldn't get its share its just that it doesn't seem like Wakey itself and the NW is getting a fair crack of the whip these days.
Course, the current stadia debacle just adds further credence to that assumption.
An interesting box snip
“You have to make sure that the rivalries we have always had with our distinct communities doesn’t undermine what we have to do and doesn’t become a weakness rather than a strength."
I dunno if that is a word to the communities that aren't sharing the Cas centric bias, or a simple say one thing and do the complete opposite politician special.'"
Box and his cronies are all from that neck of the woods...that's how he built his powerbase - by promoting them into prominent positions which were going to be financially beneficial to them in the way of extra income from sitting on influential committees and beneficial to him as they will blindly follow his edict and vote through all of his mantras and obviously not stand up to him if they wish to remain on said financially beneficial committees.
Since the weasel came to power, the western side of the district has been shafted time after time
HTH
