[mattomac]

Does in Dr Who figurine scalpers I’m for it.

[Youngian]

Does in Dr Who figurine scalpers I’m for it.

What does this sentence mean?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Andy's paused the prison early release scheme. This is what you might expect a new PM to do, no nonsense, that sort of thing. Which is another reason we didn't need to change the Prime Minister now.

Prison occupancy rate in 99%, with 90% reckoned to be about what it should be. So I don't know what he'll do. Have a few particularly unsympathetic prisoners kept in, and let the others out? The danger with that is the public thinks the PM personally directs releases from prison. If someone on early release, either under this scheme or not, commits a very serious offence, then the public may be more likely to blame the PM.

[soulboy]

Does in Dr Who figurine scalpers I’m for it.

What does this sentence mean?

I'm guessing that 'if it" is missing from the start of that sentence. I know Matt has a lot going on and is jumbling stuff up from time to time.

I assume he is referring to the type of person who, in my world, grabs all the limited Record Store Day releases, gets home, and whacks them straight up on Discogs for twice or triple the price.

[mattomac]

Yup sorry I missed it it does for.

Thanks soul boy

[Tubby Isaacs]

Donnie's stuck tariffs on us again. And the EU, Norway, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and everyone I can think of.

I'm not one that thinks it's easy to stick it to the US. But Andy might as well go in hard. "You see, Donnie, I'm new. I can't have word getting around. Everyone will be taking liberties all along the line".

I don't have a policy, I just think Andy should talk like a Craig Fairbrass character.

[davidjay]

Donnie's stuck tariffs on us again. And the EU, Norway, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and everyone I can think of.

I'm not one that thinks it's easy to stick it to the US. But Andy might as well go in hard. "You see, Donnie, I'm new. I can't have word getting around. Everyone will be taking liberties all along the line".

I don't have a policy, I just think Andy should talk like a Craig Fairbrass character.

If only we were part of a trading bloc that could stand up to him.

[Andy McDandy]

"My new deal's with Europe! Yeah, the Krauts!"

[Abernathy]

Well, the "Number 10 of the North" appears to be an office building called Heron House, opposite Manchester Town Hall.
PM Burnham is apparently there today for the first time, and will be there for at least one day a week in future. Today's work is a meeting of local mayors and business leaders to talk about how to deliver economic growth in the region.

Now, is it just me, or is anyone else having some difficulty in understanding exactly how holding meetings like this in Manchester rather than in That London is going to make any practical difference at all? Might save on a few train fares, I suppose, but I just can't see how it's anything other than a bit of a gimmick.

Help me, here. Am I actually missing something profound?

[Boiler]

He flew up there in a ministerial aeroplane, I understand.

If that's true, that's great for the environment.

Not.

[Oboogie]

PM Burnham is apparently there today for the first time, and will be there for at least one day a week in future. Today's work is a meeting of local mayors and business leaders to talk about how to deliver economic growth in the region.

Sounds like the kind of event a regional mayor might host,

[Tubby Isaacs]

Well, the "Number 10 of the North" appears to be an office building called Heron House, opposite Manchester Town Hall.
PM Burnham is apparently there today for the first time, and will be there for at least one day a week in future. Today's work is a meeting of local mayors and business leaders to talk about how to deliver economic growth in the region.

Now, is it just me, or is anyone else having some difficulty in understanding exactly how holding meetings like this in Manchester rather than in That London is going to make any practical difference at all? Might save on a few train fares, I suppose, but I just can't see how it's anything other than a bit of a gimmick.

Help me, here. Am I actually missing something profound?

The idea is that the symbolism of the move makes other people (especially in Whitehall) understand that the new PM is serious about devolution. I find it pretty unimpressive that senior civil servants might need this to happen but apparently so.

[Oboogie]

The idea is that the symbolism of the move makes other people (especially in Whitehall) understand that the new PM is serious about devolution. I find it pretty unimpressive that senior civil servants might need this to happen but apparently so.

But is it devolution or is it merely decentralisation? Devolution requires giving power away, if all that's happening is just civil servants dishing out central government policy, the location of their office makes no difference whatsoever.

[soulboy]

But at least he isn't sloping off on a Friday for Shabbat dinners.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The idea is that the symbolism of the move makes other people (especially in Whitehall) understand that the new PM is serious about devolution. I find it pretty unimpressive that senior civil servants might need this to happen but apparently so.

But is it devolution or is it merely decentralisation? Devolution requires giving power away, if all that's happening is just civil servants dishing out central government policy, the location of their office makes no difference whatsoever.

There's already devolution happening but it's been said that it's moving slowly because. the civil service don't want it to happen, or that Starmer didn't lead them strongly enough. As I say, I find this deeply disappointing if it's true, but lots of people think it's true, and I think you need to see the Manchester office in these terms.

I take your point that there's a difference between devolving power and moving some people out of London, but the two seem to go together in this case, and in terms of Burnham's thinking.

[Andy McDandy]

I'm sensing a lot of Lyndon Johnson swimming certificates flapping around Burnham over the last week.

[Boiler]

?

[Andy McDandy]

Johnson said that if he walked on water, the reaction of some media would be to report that he couldn't swim.

[Boiler]

Ah, thank you.

[davidjay]

Well, the "Number 10 of the North" appears to be an office building called Heron House, opposite Manchester Town Hall.
PM Burnham is apparently there today for the first time, and will be there for at least one day a week in future. Today's work is a meeting of local mayors and business leaders to talk about how to deliver economic growth in the region.

Now, is it just me, or is anyone else having some difficulty in understanding exactly how holding meetings like this in Manchester rather than in That London is going to make any practical difference at all? Might save on a few train fares, I suppose, but I just can't see how it's anything other than a bit of a gimmick.

Help me, here. Am I actually missing something profound?

And will every other region have the same help?