Once Upon A Time I was sitting in a full council meeting when I received a text from my MP.
"Hi Tim, have you got any shovel-ready transport schemes that the Chancellor can announce in next week's budget?"
How not to do infrastructure, I thought.
(Hint: you ain't gonna spend large amounts of money working a scheme up to being shovel-ready if no funding stream to actually build it has yet been identified.)
Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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