Burnham is very astute, he senses the danger of Reform in Labour heartlands.

Not sure it beats the Red Ensign as a symbol of history and tradition, but as a piece of branding, it’s tier one.

Do you think there’s mileage in bringing back the NWDA / similar, or should Combined Authorities be able to set up their own region-level entities. The LPool-Mcr railway board looks a bit of that.

I live in the non-insolvent one.

Somebody just wrote up the press release. TBF publicly funding the relocation of the rail freight yard and using some CPO powers for land assembly probably makes sense, but otherwise no public money for ManU itself.

There’s my midweek fix gone, no Reece either … sigh. Maybe I need to start hacking through the back catalog

😂😂😂

She should watch a few Pollievre PMQ’s on YouTube

Love it, and sadly not a novel you could imagine being written by an English person of letters.

My daughter was in a selective honours program at a FE college in a blue collar town, her good predicted grades were adjusted down for the institution, lost her uni spot, then re-instated, but lost her accommodation, magical experience.

Burnham spends his political capital (of which he has tons) very selectively.

Greens….. Carla Denyer has called for rent control in Bristol given spiraling rents. The 2nd tallest structure in the city is a 300 year old church. They are not serious people.

That devolution white paper is proposing for 1.5M sized strategic authorities. I’m not sure E&W Cheshire + Warrington is even 1M.

Redmayne is an odd leading man, but it works.

Been a blessing for East Manchester though.