Burnham’s Bus Power Grab to Cost Taxpayer £226 Million a Year

When King of the North Andy Burnham isn’t taking shots at Starmer – his latest broadside aimed at Labour’s welfare cuts – he’s busy finding ever more inventive ways to splash taxpayers’ cash in his Greater Manchester Combined Authority. A cool £75,000 on “Race Equality Panels” comes to mind…

Burnham has been trumpeting Manchester’s Bee Network- a plan to streamline Greater Manchester’s transport system by rolling out contactless “tap and go” payments across buses and trams, and introducing hundreds of yellow bee-branded buses by 2026, with the aim of bringing all local bus services under central control.[…] Read the rest