Here are the latest available figures showing the amount of public money spent on transport in the Yorkshire and the Humber region.
To put it simply, Scotland receives twice as much as Yorkshire. London gets three times as much.
Or to put it even simpler - for £1 spent on transport in the "White Rose County" - £3 is spent in London.
The past few days have seen 22 transport schemes in the region either cut back or put on hold.
Business leaders were disappointed to hear that plans to upgrade the A63 Castle Street in Hull and proposals to improve the A160 into Immingham port were delayed for at least five years.
Elsewhere, local authorities have been invited to bid for a £600m pot of money, which will be shared amongst a number of competing transport schemes, such as the Beverley bypass.
It hasn't been all bad news for motorists. Extra capacity will be created on many of our motorways - including the M62 in West Yorkshire - by allowing drivers to use the hard shoulder, effectively creating an extra lane.
But politicians from all sides were hoping that our regional economy had a solid case for getting a bigger slice of the shrinking transport cake.
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The Shadow Chancellor Alan Johnson is urging the unions not to take strike action in protest at public spending cuts.
I spoke to Mr Johnson as he returned to his Hull constituency, following a week where he fronted Labour's opposition to much of the cuts announced in George Osborne's Spending Review.
Alan Johnson - who is a former General Secretary of the Communication Workers' Union - tells this week's Politics Show in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire that public sector strikes would "alienate communities."
He added that scenes reminiscent of the so-called Winter of Discontent in 1979 would be a "propaganda gift" for the Tories.
Mr Johnson's Hull constituency has seen a series of protests this week over fears that hundreds of jobs will be lost in the public sector.
Events in the House of Commons wouldn't normally be required viewing in the Corporation Arms in Grimsby. But today was an exception as lunchtime drinkers watched the Chancellor's big speech in the pub, which lies in one the most deprived parts of the town.
In Grimsby, the number of people reliant on state benefits is higher than the national average, as is unemployment. Of the people who do work, many are on low wages.
The challenge for our local council leaders is how to continue delivering the services many have come to rely on - for less.
The Chief Executive of North East Lincolnshire Council has suggested that people in Grimsby may choose to sweep their own streets in future, so the local authority can prioritise frontline services. Tony Hunter told BBC Look North we need to be "more imaginative" when cutting costs, and asking for volunteers to do council work may be one answer.
So could this broad brush approach be a taster of things to come in our town halls?
The Labour leader Ed Miliband has defended his right to claim child benefit, despite earning an annual salary of more than £132,000. Mr Miliband told me he claimed the benefit in an interview for the BBC Politics Show in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
He and his partner Justine Thornton - who is currently pregnant with the couple's second child - are entitled to £20.30 a week for their 16 month old son Daniel and will be able to claim a further £13.40 a week for baby number two, which is due next month.
Ed Miliband has been defending the principle of universal benefits, following the Chancellor George Osborne's announcement that anyone earning more than £44,000 in one household will lose child benefit from 2013.
I asked him whether a millionaire footballer such as Wayne Rooney was just as entitled to child benefit as someone earning the minimum wage in his Doncaster constituency.
Mr Miliband said: "There are very few millionaires who get child benefit, it's a small number of people. What I am not going to do is say that we should hit middle income families in this country who rely on child benefit or rely on the NHS or rely on the basic state pension."
Asked whether his constituents would find it acceptable that someone on his salary should be claiming the benefit, he replied: "I think what most people in Doncaster will think and indeed elsewhere is that it's right that we all pay taxes for universal benefits, like the NHS, because that logic means that you should charge for the National Health Service. We have a mix of universal benefits and those that are targeted at the poorest."
Ed Miliband has said he will match coalition ministers by taking a five per cent pay cut. The current salary for the post of Leader of the Opposition is £139,355 - which will be reduced to £132,387.
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As the Coalition looks set to protect the schools budget in England, the Bishop of Lincoln has added his voice to the debate ahead of Wednesday's Spending Review.
Dr John Saxbee chairs the Church of England's Board of Education, which has responsibility for around one million children in 5000 schools.
The Bishop has spoken of his worries that further cutbacks will follow the cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future programme - which would have rebuilt or refurbished a number of schools in Lincolnshire.
Dr Saxbee said there was an argument that education cuts should be opposed "on moral grounds, as well as political and economic grounds."
The Chancellor George Osborne responded by saying that slashing the national debt was the right moral course of action to take on behalf of future generations.
From teachers to tradesmen, bus drivers to bishops - it seems that everyone has a view on how to clear the nation's overdraft
Business leaders claim the spending squeeze could result in thousands of jobs being lost in the private sector across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
Many firms rely on contracts with local authorities and government bodies, which are likely to be hit by next Wednesday's review of public spending by the Chancellor George Osborne.
A report by the accountancy firm PWC suggests around half a million private sector jobs will go nationwide, with tens of thousand at risk in our area.
I met the MD of Hull-based Countrywise Water Coolers. Like many bosses, former nurse Diane Stow is somewhat nervously awaiting the outcome of next week's spending review.
Diane's company supplies almost two million litres a year to workplaces across the north of England, including many in the public sector. She's urging the Chancellor not to forget about the many private sector firms that supply schools, hospitals and councils.
While the majority of bosses accept the need to cut our huge budget deficit, most firms are hope the public spending tap won't be reduced to a trickle.
Prison has been our punishment of choice for centuries. But is it still an effective way of putting criminals back on the straight and narrow?
The Justice Secretary Ken Clarke told the Tory conference this week that prison should be reserved for the most violent and dangerous offenders, with tougher community sentences handed down for lesser offences.
But the man who used to be in charge of the Conservatives' law and order policy believes he has got it wrong.
David Davis - the former Shadow Home Secretary - has dismissed the notion that just because our jails are full, we should put fewer criminals behind bars.
He tells this week's Politics Show in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire that extra prison capacity could be created by sending home 11,000 foreign prisoners who are currently serving sentences in British jails.
The MP for Haltemprice and Howden believes there is a role for community sentences, but only in a minority of cases. He says that when it comes to crimes like burglary: "we don't send enough of them to jail."
Critics argue that prison remains an expensive option in an age of austerity.
But politicians from all sides know that reducing jail sentences is a policy that is often judged harshly in the court of public opinion.
Firstly, apologies to anyone who was not an avid TV watcher in the Yorkshire area in the 1980s and 90s. You may not be familiar with a businessman who regularly appeared in his own commercials for his carpet stores.
His name is Mike Smith of Mike's Carpets fame. Mike would regularly pop-up in between episodes of Crossroads and Emmerdale Farm urging us to get down to his emporium to take advantage of his latest batch of bargain Axminsters and Wiltons.
Mike is still in business and is still an avid supporter of the Conservative Party, describing himself as a lifelong Tory. I asked Mike to appear in an item for the Politics Show in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire to offer his views on the challenges facing the party as it holds its first conference in government for 14 years.
He is not a huge fan of the coalition and although he says he quite likes David Cameron, Mike believes the trouble with the modern Conservative Party is "it's full of toffs and public schoolboys who do not understand the working class."
Mike hails from the West Riding mill town of Batley and was brought up by a single mother at a time when money was tight. Growing up he was particularly aggrieved at not being able to afford one of the newly-built council houses in the area, which he says were being snapped up by people who "couldn't be ar**d to work."
So it's no surprise that Mike lists welfare reform as the biggest challenge facing the Conservative-led coalition. He suggests a sign should be put up in maternity hospitals warning mothers-to-be..."If you can can't feed them don't breed them!"
What are the odds on hearing that line in David Cameron's speech to the party faithful in Birmingham?
I'm Tim Iredale, the BBC's Political Editor in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and presenter of the regional Politics Show. This is strictly a "no-spin" zone where the political viewpoint is more Humber Bridge than Westminster Bridge. Your comments and observations are more than welcome. 
