{"id":176574,"date":"2025-06-11T20:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176574\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T20:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T20:33:21","slug":"comment-this-review-treats-london-as-a-one-way-cash-cow-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/176574\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment: This review treats London as a one-way cash cow \u2014 again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lincoln, Portsmouth, Rosyth, Glasgow, Stevenage, Barrow, Derby, Blackpool and Sheffield all got a shout out as she ran MPs through some of the greatest hits of her \u00a31.4\u2009trillion annual sending plans. But, as has become the pattern over recent chancellor statements, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/politics\/london-spending-review-chancellor-rachel-reeves-tfl-hs2-funding-b1232403.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">there was scant mention of London<\/a>, the metropolis of nine million people and economic superpower that generates much of the tax revenues she will be busily handing out over the next four years of the Parliament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lincoln, Portsmouth, Rosyth, Glasgow, Stevenage, Barrow, Derby, Blackpool and Sheffield all got a shout out as she ran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,8414,257,619,14252,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-176574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-labour","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-rachel-reeves","14":"tag-sadiq-khan","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114666642038382576","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}