Title

Diary is selling out

It's not often you get to solve the country's financial crises – but that's just what Diary’s team did last week. And we remained true to our localist roots in doing it, too. Well,sort of...

It's not often you get to solve the country's financial crises – but that's just what Diary's team did last week. And we remained true to our localist roots in doing it, too. Well,sort of.

We played around with Channel 4's excellent 'sell or not' game – during which participants are forced to choose what to flog to balance the UK's books.Using highly-scientific methods understood only by us, Beaker from The Muppets and that young Northern scientist who appears on everything these days,we established a fail-proof 'localism' formula which could be retested under lab conditions.

SUBSCRIBE TO CONTINUE READING

Get unlimited access to The MJ with a subscription, plus a weekly copy of The MJ magazine sent directly to you door and inbox.

Subscribe

Full website content includes additional, exclusive commentary and analysis on the issues affecting local government.

Login

Already a subscriber?