Westminster has rejected an SNP plan to borrow from future budgets to fund the bridge, paying it back over 20 years.

BBC: New bridge funding row continues

Last fall, he shut down an attempt by fellow Republicans to de-fund his state's infamous "bridge to nowhere"--a proposed piece of pork that would connect two barely populated towns--by threatening to resign.

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Yet the fund has turned into a monster, whose only purpose is to bridge the policy gap between the parties.

ECONOMIST: Almost a year on, the wheels seem to be falling off

But it seems fair to assume that, given the general atmosphere of austerity, Peace IV would be less generous than Peace III and is more likely to fund revenue for community groups than big capital projects like the Foyle Peace Bridge.

BBC: Is a new tranche of peace money on the cards for NI?

The second is Daiwa Bank, which is being asked by the regulators to spin off its profitable pension-fund management business, perhaps so that the weak commercial-banking rump can be used as a bridge bank, to tide over customers of defunct regional banks.

ECONOMIST: Money for nothing