George Osborne's Fracking Policy - Go North for Growth

May I congratulate George Osborne on his innovative solution to the North-South divide. By offering subsidies for gas fracking he has delivered an awesome planning blight on a swathe of prosperous Southern England, from Dorset to Kent. Who now would want to invest or buy a home there. Also let us not forget that there are proven oil and gas reserves beneath Charnwood Forest, which thanks to the County Council's Mineral Policy mining companies are now free to exploit. In contrast the North Eastern and Tees Valley Local Enterprise Partnerships have hailed a £66 Million investment programme into wind turbines as the start of a £7 Billion boom in renewable energy construction and engineering. It was so well put by Lord Howell, but it is the South East that will become desolate, with economic growth in the North East.