If DfT civil servants are forced to travel by train to Manchester every week we will find out how strong an effect personal incentives have on the speed of public transport infrastructure projects. (View Post)

Isn't it treason to talk about the death of the King? (View Post)

The role of Prime Minister is a bit different. Where are all the other cabinet ministers going to be? If the PM is mostly in Manchester, but the Commons is in Westminster, what does that say about th… (View Post)

He's going to have to be down in the Commons frequently, and unless he moves Whitehall entire up north the whole machinery of government is there. He's hardly going to commute every day. I&… (View Post)

Job for Billy No-Mates. "Andy likes and trusts me so much he appointed me to a job a couple of hundred miles away from him." (View Post)