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Any monies spent on Bradford has to be to the benefit of the Leeds City region. Because like it or not that's where the investment will be going. Just like the infrastructure going on around the East side of Leeds near the m1 m62 link. Businesses growing and expanding, big distribution depots such as Amazon, big housing developments between Leeds and Ferrybridge. Potential is cities such as Liverpool or Leeds, even Hull has a chance to change itself due to its location. Bradford as a city is effectively finished, any power we can take away from the useless halfwits at Bradford Council the better.

 

Also, our ethnics in general are not going to frequent football matches or rock concerts are they..?

 

Yet its the future of the club and the city. City have to broaden their appeal.

 

There is a difference between negativity and realism. As others have pointed out, Leeds now attracts all the investment and Bradford is left with low skilled, low paid jobs. Imagine you want to start a tech business, it’s hard to attract talented young people, or senior executives to Bradford, or if you do they certainly don’t live in the city. Which continues the vicious circle, it’s a fact that working class children in general, in general not a rule, do less well in school than children from affluent families where parents are both well educated. The city I work in is similar to Bradford, it’s lost its main industries, none of the board and only one or two of the senior management live locally, there isn’t the housing or schools to attract them and the same is true of Bradford, as is the case with Bolton, Wigan, Sunderland, St Helens, Wolverhampton, Coventry, Government investment goes to the glamorous neighbours up the road.

The other thing going against Bradford is the same as we talk about for a football ground, if you’re building a huge new science and tech park, manufacturing plant or office complex, where the hell do you put it?