We haven't any money, announces local government. Absolute tosh, pronounces ministerial department spokesman - you have £200bn a year to spend.
And so it goes on, and on. I am going to repeat a view I made known some two or three years ago, as I shared a platform with the chair of some large private sector business lobbying organisation.
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