Construction industry gossip: Bits and pieces

By Joseph Aloysius Hansom2022-02-18T05:00:00

It’s all falling apart in the corridors of power

Bite back better

Manchester mayor Andy Burnham was asked to give his views on the government’s Integrated Rail Plan to a group of transport select committee MPs recently. Not surprisingly, he wasn’t hugely impressed given what the North had got differed from what it had been promised. This didn’t cut it with one member of the select committee who suggested Burnham should be grateful that the region was given anything at all. Conservative MP for Lincoln Karl McCartney asked: “Do you understand the meaning of the phrase ‘do not bite the hand that feeds you’?” Burnham retorted: “You are kind of saying we should just get what we’re given … how about get what we were promised? Because it’s actually your government that promised all of this.” Touché.

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