(19 Sep 2024, 3:58 pm)Storx wrote I don't want to go into it to much as this isn't a politics forum but it's all about how this stuff is announced. 

To me announcing £8bn in transport improvements should be that not doing the maintenance of assets. 

These should be coming from the council budgets. It's not funds when it's the money you took off the council budget a year earlier and is just giving credit to Westminster for giving the money back you should've had anyway.

Councils have nothing left down the backs of their sofas, though. It's money that Westminster haven't been giving them and they've not been allowed to raise by other means, while the costs of their various statutory responsibilities escalate.