So then I think Mike will make an announcement.

If the customers had a choice, it would be tomorrow.

Oh, it would be yesterday.

Already, just put a tent up.

I mean, seriously, the feedback that we've had over the last two days, And like you said, we've sold out of a lot of lines of the merchandise that we have.

And we brought a lot.

Which is crazy.

It's just really rising to the top.

Before we get to what you've found, tell us, what's the traditional Manchesterism story? Why do people look to Manchester as this sign of development?

So I guess is if you visit Manchester as someone who's not from there or doesn't go there that often, it's one of the few places in the UK you can see really, really visible change in like the built environment on an almost day to day basis.

So one of the things I did while going through this piece was just look up the kind of skyscraper boom in Manchester and put some numbers behind it.

As recently as 2015, there was only one building in Manchester that was over 90 metres tall.

Now it's in the hundreds and there's going to be more and more coming in the years to come.

And so Manchester really stands out as somewhere in the UK.

You can see the built environment changing and you can also see it in...

How do you think, if you were advising him and wanted to get the economy growing, how would you advise him to sort of frame Manchesterism? What should he make Manchesterism as a word, as an ideology, as a governing philosophy be? into do you think

What, what, what is it about our language that seems to make it unbelievably expensive to build things? 'Cause we can't, even if, even if Manchester or Leeds or Sheffield have the power to build lots of new tramlines, we can't possibly afford it, and nor can they.

they.So yeah, we've, uh, got a paper coming out soon that actually shows it was quite depressing finding in some ways that our transport investment is actually pretty typical, actually a bit above average for Europe.

It's just the value for money we get for it is appalling.

Uh, and a lot that's driven by HS2, but it's actually true as well of tram projects.

We're paying about 35, 45% over the odds compared to a French project or a German project.

And so I do think some of this is actually downstream of the centralization.

The argument for the centralization is, is basically the man in Whitehall knows best.

What's gone well, and where are the big gaps?