Jamie Risner

This is good I think.

Since the takeover?

God it's embarrassing

Strong correlation between flags and incedibly sad high streets in S Yorkshire.

"Welcome to Decline" -- still one of my favourite graphs from last year. In the late 1970s, Britain's economic fate very clearly split in two. How much you blame Thatcher will depend on your politics, but her leadership is useful to understand the timing. tomforth.co.uk/welcometodec...

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It's ehat happens everywhere else in the world, including london

Ah how dull, if you won't read or listen what's the point.

I keep saying, they're not making that case. I am. If the powers were available, they would just use them and Westminster would have nothing to do with it

Creating a more effective local funding system - Centre for Cities In order to provide cities with the resources and incentives to support economic growth and deliver the services people need more effectively and efficiently, we need to go further with fiscal devolut...

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I think CfC has good proposals on this. As I said, WY is not making the case

Well right now they can't have either, and only local powers have any certainty attached.

Depending on Westminster whims is incredibly bad for business, and has resulted in lots of studies and no metro

Then they won't use those powers, no problem. Let them decide

Just let W. Yorkshire decide 😂

They clearly think it's something worth doing, let them make the compromises between cost and quality needed.

We should, as most of the rest of Europe do. It's not even devolution of funding, it's devolution of tax/borrowing powers

But they do suggest local taxes in that report 😁

I wouldn't be making the case if I was them to introduce new powers, but if those powers existed they would 100% be using them instead of gambling on Westminster approval

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It's a simpler ask than "please reform all local government funding mechanisms"...

It was the right decision to remove victorian trams, also right to build modern systems now... just let cities raise taxes locally

It would self fund if it could, but does not have the power to do so

Can you explain more about this - what election?

They can't pay for it because they can't levy taxes or take out bonds

The whole point is just let Leeds raise its own taxes to pay for it 🙄

That's just so self fulfilling though

I think that's just because of the current incentives, there are no benefits to councils of building

People who live in London decide 🤷‍♂️

That is the one small lever they have 🤷‍♂️

More importantly, it has minimal incentives or opportunities to raise taxes

I don't think so if the incentives were right. They currently want to build lots

1.85 million people in the Glasgow metropolitan area.

We're pissed off that London decides who has metros. Just let Leeds decide what they build in Leeds etc 🤷‍♂️

No, but the design is standardised across all stations

Except the reason they evolve isn't much to do with positive outcomes. See centralisation of power in the UK... It's clear to see why it happened and why it's not changing.

It's the free market/evolution, good stuff rises up 🤷‍♂️

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Just ignore the algorithm and use the subscribe feed 🤷‍♀️