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)

Yes, there was £96bn earmarked in the IRP for NPR and HS2. This is just the former without the latter. Except that the former will be missing a big section where it had to run on HS2 rails between Ma… (View Post)