And that’s why Liverpool will remain an irrelevant backwater when it comes to investment. The desire to remain a city of special outsiders is in direct opposition to improved transport links. Even if HS2 brings Liverpool within an hour of London, the numbers travelling there will remain dwarfed by the (amazingly low) numbers travelling within the North West. If Liverpool wants the economic benefits of improved transport, it has to accept that this involves becoming part of something bigger than itself.
What is this offensive drivel?? I find it pretty disgusting, rather than simply ill informed.
Some facts:
Did you know that Liverpool is the only city in the UK that has more people traveling to it from London, than the other way around? (according to the train operator). And despite that it consistently posts the highest accelerating level of growth (according to the train operator), despite remaining with just one train each hour.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKlOGuMXcAEqWOJ?format=png&name=small
As for an amazingly low number of people traveling in the north west, yes it is dwarfed. The Liverpool metropolitan area accounts for around 100 million internal journeys per year within its own area alone (according to ORR).
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cb60dBQXIAAZUkk?format=jpg&name=small
Someone above also suggested that few people travel outside of the city, in particular to Manchester.
In fact it also accounts for twice the number of passengers between itself and Manchester than Manchester to Leeds. Not surprising given the centuries of business links between the two large cities, which gave rise to the World's first regular passenger railway, built and funded by Liverpool busineses. Inward looking indeed.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DH2sx0YXgAE97yK?format=jpg&name=900x900
It's a nonsense suggestion that a major metropolitan city forged in international migration could be in any way insular.
In the face of these facts, what is it exactly you expect them to do in order to "deserve" an equitable settlement.
I have found these attitudes troublingly common, and I suspect that the city's languishing connectivity may be no coincidence.