Trevor's Story

Trevor is 42 and lives in North Warwickshire and Bedworth in the West Midlands. He's a skilled transport worker who's watched his community get left behind while London and the South East receive the lion's share of infrastructure investment. The Department for Transport's own analysis shows per-capita spending in his region is a fraction of the national average. The engineers and construction workers to build better transport links exist right here, many of them out of work. The steel and concrete are available. What prevented the investment was Treasury doctrine that public spending must be rationed as though the government were saving up for a household extension. This episode explores how central government spending choices have blocked transport development across the West Midlands. Full disclosure: this podcast advocates for public investment funded by government money creation.