You are confusing the shower of Thatcherites who infiltrated the Labour Party in the mid 1990s with the actual Labour Party.
A anyway irrespective that spending money down the whole spine of the country should bring widespread benefits and provide a catalyst for economic growth
Or move the money to London quicker, the only place that ever benefits from any infrasturcture built in this country of late.
Whichever way you look at it, it sends a clear message of anything but Sheffield. Their deceit in regards to the other Borough's and the mismanagement of their own City's affairs makes a deal to be subordinate, or to risk ,any chance of subordination to them, is not worthy of consideration.