Giving BT £24m for Cumbria broadband is ‘nonsense’, says MP

14.07.2012

"We have been too hung up on this idea of 'Big Society', where we have allowed a county council to pontificate and twiddle its thumbs for over a year," he said.

"Central government should be concerned about that; it should be worried that money is not only being spent badly, but that it's just not being spent."