Last year the Tory finance spokesman for Southampton wrote what looks to be a Conservative cookie-cutter letter to the Chancellor calling for the south to get its 'fair share.'  You can read it here.

Now of course in that letter he doesn't state WHICH northern authorities are getting too much.  I just wonder if the message has gotten through to northern constituencies that Tories in the south are saying that you are over-funded.  Do Darlington Conservatives support a drastic cut in funds for Darlington, for example?  Or is this a case of the Tories slowly morphing into the Liberal Democrats, where they say completely contradictory things depending on which bit of the country they are campaigning in?

For reference, I don't think the regional funding disparity arguments stacks up at all- here is a good article by John Denham debunking it.