alexanderrose.bsky.social
Cheerful & enthusiastic lawyer - subsidy control expert who wants to help deliver prosperity in the regions by helping make regeneration projects happen.
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Vanity project that will be quietly shelved in a few years time.
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Roll on January 10, 2029…
Will the damage be irreversible?
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Can I join too?
I’m sure there’s plenty of demand for detailed Subsidy Control discussions.
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🤦‍♂️ The unbearable incompetence of populists…
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Two erratic people but, so far, they seem to have a common aim...
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No public money being used to build the stadium, but public funding is likely to be used for the adjacent regeneration project.
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Yep, I was pretty annoyed…
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Will Manchester United secure public funding for “New Trafford” and, if so, could we see a Subsidy Control challenge brought by a rival team?
If I was advising I’d be emphasising the wider regeneration benefits, as set out below.
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Today South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority met to discuss the Subsidy Advice Unit report for the Doncaster Sheffield Airport.
The report criticised Principles A, B, D, F and G, so it’s astonishing that it’s described as “broadly positive”.
It’s not. Lots more work needed…
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The pessimism of populism.
Hollow out the institutions that deliver for the American people and what we’ll see in four years time is an angry electorate, who may well fall, once again, for the big promises of a populist Presidential candidate.
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Wow: credit due
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The CMA report can be found at
www.gov.uk/cma-cases/re...
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Doncaster Council needs to decide how to respond to this critical CMA report.
They’ll probably choose to attempt to rectify their Subsidy Control assessment.
However in the past proposals have been scrapped after critical reports (example below) citing additional legal risk.
tinyurl.com/d2jvzz8p
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In December 2023, Kemi Badenoch was bullish about Brexit telling the Sun that it was “working”.
Had she realised the mistakes made by her predecessors, Boris Johnson and Theresa May, at that point? Or were they not evident at that time?
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I wrote it quickly because I had other things to do.
Most people would just clarify, but you felt it appropriate to include an insult too.
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Well, UK productivity is at c.0.5% at the moment…
….and the IMF reckon AI adoption could boost productivity growth by 1.5% per year over a 10-year period and raise global GDP by 7%.
So blame the IMF…
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Horrendous to see these fires raging through the suburbs of LA.
We’re going to see more of these as climate change intensifies (and no, Mr Trump, you can’t just issue rakes to those affected).
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It’s difficult to see how a public authority could ever satisfy Principle F when establishing such a scheme.
That’s because this principle requires the identification of the market & a meaningful understanding of the likely impact.
The obvious solution is to time limit schemes, maybe to 4 years.
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If Elon Musk accepts everyone will be watching Parliamentary TV🍿
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A good idea. That will remove the fuel from the firestorm & allow the government to get on with the job of improving the country.
Indeed, to call for the removal of one UK party leader looks like opportunism, to call for two in a week looks like desperation.
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Those who really wanted it, also really wanted someone else to foot the bill for it. Frustratingly, so far it looks as if they have got their way.
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My only complaint was that Carry On didn’t include Sid James, Kenneth Williams or Barbara Windsor.
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And to think we used to moan about that bloke from Wetherspoons sticking his oar into political decision making…
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So as we come to the final few days of the Subsidy Control consultation, people need to decide do they want to change the rules to allow more taxpayer funded subsidy or to exert greater control…
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tinyurl.com/ConsultDWF
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5. The legal standard which public authorities have to meet still hasn’t been established.
Perhaps the next edition of the Subsidy Control Statutory Guidance will require public authorities to put advance arguments within the green categories of the GLD Risk Matrix? That would seem sensible.