Except it doesn't really work. Raising taxes in wealth drives away wealth. Raising taxes in income drives away work. Raising taxes on spending drives down spending. There's only so much mon… (View Post)

I'm not sure I agree. This fella is clearly a horrible individual - one of the regrettable majority of football fans who give the rest a bad name - but I can't see how what he did constitut… (View Post)

I don't think the Northern Mayors are in any mood to compromise. What the Northern Mayors wanted was HS2 and NPR. Now they are being offered neither. I don't see where the space for agreeme… (View Post)

From what I can see it's been clawed back. It looks to me like they're spending much less on transport than was previously committed. (View Post)

"You can't have both" - so instead of £96bn for the Midlands and North, £36bn gets spread across the whole country. Wonder where the bulk of that will be spent? (View Post)