It is the perfect marriage of private enterprise and Tory ideology. If its Plan A fails the government has devised Plan B with ITV, in association with Harveys the Furniture People. The plan will be a massive programme of rebirth: rebuilding the communities that current government policies are in the process of destroying. The template will be the close knit community of Coronation Street with its one newsagent, one hairstylist and one pub and featuring homely, community-friendly cobbled streets. The pilot project is on the slate for 2012 in Salford Quay near Manchester. If successful, further Coronation Streets, in association with Harveys the Furniture People, will appear all over blighted inner cities in England and Wales. A similar plan is hoped to extend the same benefits to poor rural areas with Emmerdale, in association with Tombola the gambling people, being cloned.
One criticism, however, is that the manufactured community will just be a facade.
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