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House of Lords to move to York & the House of Commons to go on tour.

I suppose one way of moving parliament around is to move it every ten years - that allows employees some security, allows the right kind of buildings to be leased and at a reasonable price, and without the faff of moving people about every 6 months.

Government de-Londonisation is the other side of this coin - Home Office to Preston, MOD to Lichfield, Justice to Chester, DEFRA to Carlisle, Transport to Plymouth, Health &SC to Stoke-on-Trent...
 
I suppose one way of moving parliament around is to move it every ten years - that allows employees some security, allows the right kind of buildings to be leased and at a reasonable price, and without the faff of moving people about every 6 months.

Government de-Londonisation is the other side of this coin - Home Office to Preston, MOD to Lichfield, Justice to Chester, DEFRA to Carlisle, Transport to Plymouth, Health &SC to Stoke-on-Trent...

Yep, I’m all in favour of ‘Government de-Londonisation’ - getting them out of the Westminster bubble can only be a good thing.
 
I suppose one way of moving parliament around is to move it every ten years - that allows employees some security, allows the right kind of buildings to be leased and at a reasonable price, and without the faff of moving people about every 6 months.

Government de-Londonisation is the other side of this coin - Home Office to Preston, MOD to Lichfield, Justice to Chester, DEFRA to Carlisle, Transport to Plymouth, Health &SC to Stoke-on-Trent...

Lichfield was going to be the Midlands rail hub until the CofE complained because of the Cathedral there and they thought it would fuck up the city. It went to Crewe to fuck up there instead.

Not that this is relevant to your point at all :)
 
Yeah, but nonetheless I think moving the HOL up North is a very good idea.
Where would you like it to be, "up North? Do you have in mind Shetland? Orkney? Aberdeen? Or do you mean Newcastle or Durham? Or York?

York is really not "up North".
 
If York's infrastructure can't cope, maybe there should be a purpose-built new capital in the region, along the lines of Canberra or Brasilia - it'd be an ambitious project, but I think it could be done if they had a new York state of mind.
oh No! Not another New York.
 
Where would you like it to be, "up North? Do you have in mind Shetland? Orkney? Aberdeen? Or do you mean Newcastle or Durham? Or York?

York is really not "up North".

Newcastle or Durham is fine with me.

Let’s get them out of that London bubble so they can see more of the country.
 
Bolton, Barnsley, Nelson, Colne, etc...

I suppose it depends on the model of parliament you want - parliament, at its heart, is 650 people in a room: any warehouse or cathedral in the country can manage that. The problem comes with the add-ons - workspace for those 650 and their parliamentary office staff, somewhere for the MP's to stay, somewhere for their staff to live.

You could have a hub arrangement where, say, parliament was based in Leeds for 10 years, but the bit where 650 MP's sit in a room was farmed out to two dozen other, local (ish) towns between York and Nottingham, Manchester and Hull...
 
York seems odd, but makes sense in transport terms, very good rail links to most of the country (and especially to London).
 
Why won't they build this instead. It looks dope.

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via: Temporary House of Commons: another rotten parliament?
 
York seems odd, but makes sense in transport terms, very good rail links to most of the country (and especially to London).
Actually rail links and rolling stick from the North West to York and the east coast are shite tbh . Moving a proportion of the transport budget for London to the North would be more appreciated than moving the House of Lords .
 
Actually rail links and rolling stick from the North West to York and the east coast are shite tbh . Moving a proportion of the transport budget for London to the North would be more appreciated than moving the House of Lords .

Granted, but it’s going to be a compromise to one degree or another anywhere... York is going to be one of the better ones.
 
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