HS2.

PostRe: HS2. by **OrangeRKN** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:13 pm

Can't wait to read how the partner of a prominent Conservative politician is the director of a company that buys those properties only to sell them back at a premium when Labour restart the project.

PostRe: HS2. by **Moggy** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:16 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:
rinks wrote:Now cancel the rest of it.

They can't cancel the first bit as quite a lot has already been built.

Just fill the hole with water and have a 150 mile long swimming lane.

PostRe: HS2. by **rinks** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:21 pm

Moggy wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:
rinks wrote:Now cancel the rest of it.

They can't cancel the first bit as quite a lot has already been built.

Just fill the hole with water and have a 150 mile long swimming lane.

Make it a strawberry floating jet ski motorway!

PostRe: HS2. by **Grumpy David** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:33 pm

Grumpy David wrote:Sky News were saying that HS2 at Birmingham would merge with the WCML heading to Manchester so it isn't any faster and doesn’t add any extra capacity.

twitter.com/LouHaigh/status/1709280357382492196

PostRe: HS2. by **Tomous** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 5:02 pm

twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/1709579002220867922

PostRe: HS2. by **rinks** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 5:15 pm

Tomous wrote:

twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/1709579002220867922

Sorry, your opinion counts for nothing, you Brexit-enabling fuckwit.

EDIT: Not you, Tomous.

PostRe: HS2. by **Victor Mildew** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 6:05 pm

I hate these banana splits so much. strawberry floating banana splits.

PostRe: HS2. by **Moggy** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 6:06 pm

Victor Mildew wrote:I hate these banana splits so much. strawberry floating banana splits.

Tomous?

PostRe: HS2. by **Victor Mildew** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 6:07 pm

Moggy wrote:
Victor Mildew wrote:I hate these banana splits so much. strawberry floating banana splits.

Tomous?

You're god damned right

PostRe: HS2. by **Tomous** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:37 pm

PostRe: HS2. by **Squinty** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:44 pm

LEAVE TOMOUS ALONE :cry:

PostRe: HS2. by **rinks** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:47 pm

PostRe: HS2. by **Peter Crisp** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 8:09 pm

Justice for Tomous!!!!!!!!!

PostRe: HS2. by **Grumpy David** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 11:00 pm

Tomous wrote:

twitter.com/David_Cameron/status/1709579002220867922

twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1709672651789066591

PostRe: HS2. by **Garth** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:23 pm

twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1709819802280173814

PostRe: HS2. by **Rex Kramer** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 1:26 pm

It really is a bit pointless. Everyone knows he decided to scrap it before the conference and everyone knew he was lying when he said before the conference that he hadn't made a decision. And everyone knows he's a lying banana split. None of this is a big gotcha.

PostRe: HS2. by **Grumpy David** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:24 pm

twitter.com/danhollandnews/status/1709908919647162495

twitter.com/LouHaigh/status/1709937815256248787

Labour can not promise HS2 to Manchester - Keir Starmer

Labour can not commit to building HS2's northern leg after the government "took a wrecking ball" to its finances, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

Plans to build the high-speed route north of Birmingham have been scrapped by Rishi Sunak, with £36bn diverted to local transport schemes.

Labour has come under pressure to pledge to revive the route, with £2.2bn already spent on the cancelled stages.

But the party was promising "better connectivity", Sir Keir said.

"I can't stand here and commit to reversing that decision, they've taken a wrecking ball to it."

Labour should consistently highlight the selling of the land immediately is a scorched earth / salt the land to make it an utter nightmare to reverse. 'A wrecking ball' is a relatively tame way to put it.

PostRe: HS2. by **Grumpy David** » Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:44 pm

The Economist has a good summary of HS2:

The horror story of HS2

How a flagship project became a parable of Britain’s problems

PostRe: HS2. by **Peter Crisp** » Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:01 pm

Call me stupid if you like but I still think HS2 is going to be bloody amaszing.

I like trains so any spending on trains is good spending.

Unluess it's Hyperloop which is strawberry floating crap.

PostRe: HS2. by **gaminglegend** » Fri Feb 16, 2024 4:38 pm

I think we are going to look back on this as such a political error in decades to come from the goverment. Such shortsightedness.

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