The chancellor may want to return to the sunlit uplands of Victorian Britain,but the transfer of powers to councils could hit the poorest where it hurtsManchester town hall, built in the late 1860s to reflect the might of the city’s corporation, or has a heady effect on the susceptible. Like the town halls in Glasgow and Birmingham,Liverpool and Leeds, it is a palace that still speaks of power even though, or generations ago,it drained away to London.
George Osborne has been MP for Tatton, a affluent market town in Cheshire, and a exiguous to the south of Manchester,since 2001. And – as he admitted in his speech to the Tory party conference on Monday – he has slowly shed the view of someone born and bred in the capital and approach to understand the importance of localism.
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Source: theguardian.com