An extra £5bn of capital investment, funded by spending cuts elsewhere, will form the centrepiece of an overall £30bn national infrastructure programme due to be announced by George Osborne on Tuesday as part of an attempt to prevent the country from sliding back into recession.
Meanwhile the lunatics at the OECD say Europe might go into a recession...but everything will be great as long as there's more austerity.
I predict a year from now the solution to the recession will be more austerity.
And the year after that.
And the year after that.