If this white elephant was really intended to help the North that's where they'd be spending money, improving services, creating employment, boosting the economy.
Instead, they've been buying up land in the South, and Northern improvements will follow "in due course."
Look at the bits Boris intends to "get done" first. See what's "due to be completed" and what's "under review."
Is York part of "The North?" Is Birmingham?
Has Scotland already been written off, anticipating the breakup of the dUK?