YOU recently reported that: "Birkenhead and Liverpool are among the UK's top 20 economically struggling cities, according to research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation."
The real position is even worse than the foundation suggests.
The official English Indices of Deprivation 2015, published last September, show that the Liverpool Economic Partnership area, which includes the Wirral, is the worst in England overall and also the worst in the categories of employment, income and health deprivation and disability.
These poor employment prospects on Merseyside and the way in which nearly all our major local firms have either closed or been taken over seems strange given the billions of European money that has been spent in the region.
Could it be that other areas of the country would achieve our 'success' if they were also granted the advantage of having their area split into two by a toll?
John McGoldrick, Mersey Tunnels Users Association.
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