Hull's unemployment rate is going to hit 15% soon. You also have 20% of the working population on incapacity benefit.
You have a large % of public sector jobs, and you have declining industries. you have depression and low education.
Getting over the dubious core cities argument (that we shouldn't prop up dying dying areas of the country any more than we should prop up dying industries), we have essentially paid these areas off to contain their problems and leave us alone.
We have offered Hull prosac and told it to keep its mouth shut. We now have cuts to benefits, services and jobs.
Wherever you put your line on personal responsibility and the nanny state - the cold turkey is going to be horrific..
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