Fracking companies want to give 1% of the business to areas they frack, if we are being generous to them that is. I suggest 10% is more like it. On 1.4 billion pounds of business in Lancashire this would mean 140 million pounds staying in Lancashire, maybe helping places like Burnley who certainly need some kind of investment after years of neglect.

Better than it going to the usual London boardrooms so they can send their children to private schools at ordinary people’s expense. But I suppose cross rail – “going nowhere to nowhere” needs every penny of taxpayers money it can get.

It seems the time has come where British Regions don’t automatically accept being conned out of their resources in the way Scotland was of the proper amount of oil money which should have stayed local.