Conservative HS2 - I can't wait!

[blakeyboy 1,643]

I'm not the most left wing of blokes, but this is fun.

 

If they scrap the Mancunian section, and don't link properly in London, they'll look like twats.

If they say it's all going ahead and it turns out all the doubt was a big Conference Setup, they'll look like twats.

[Kipster 194]

I don't think this current bunch need much assistance in making themselves look like twats.

[oldcopper 283]

3 hours ago, blakeyboy said:

I'm not the most left wing of blokes, but this is fun.

 

If they scrap the Mancunian section, and don't link properly in London, they'll look like twats.

If they say it's all going ahead and it turns out all the doubt was a big Conference Setup, they'll look like twats.

It doesn't even get begin or end anywhere near a mainline London station like Euston. Apparently it can only go to Stratford, 45 minutes trip from Euston. So the much vaunted rapid journey time, which is how it was sold to us, is a farce. It should have been kicked into the long grass a long time ago. There was a chance to strangle it in 2019 but Johnson for some reason wanted it to continue.

Still ,could anyone brief me on Labour's opposition to HS2 as its projected cost has risen from the original civil service back of a beer mat estimate of 25 billion (from memory) to over 100 billion. Not a squawk as far as I'm aware. Where is the opposition in this country? 

And the UK is 2.5 trillion pounds in debt. So how can we even afford it? Oh yes, more borrowing.

[copper123 1,434]

5 hours ago, oldcopper said:

It doesn't even get begin or end anywhere near a mainline London station like Euston. Apparently it can only go to Stratford, 45 minutes trip from Euston. So the much vaunted rapid journey time, which is how it was sold to us, is a farce. It should have been kicked into the long grass a long time ago. There was a chance to strangle it in 2019 but Johnson for some reason wanted it to continue.

Still ,could anyone brief me on Labour's opposition to HS2 as its projected cost has risen from the original civil service back of a beer mat estimate of 25 billion (from memory) to over 100 billion. Not a squawk as far as I'm aware. Where is the opposition in this country? 

And the UK is 2.5 trillion pounds in debt. So how can we even afford it? Oh yes, more borrowing.

Sounds like the trouble was the tory parts turned into the labour party LOL

[Peckris 2 2,102]

yeah, HS2 is a big white elephant but as Andy Burnham says, if you're going to have it then have it go to the North not end at Birmingham.

[blakeyboy 1,643]

It's barely credible- the woman with the least self-awareness on the planet, and fader of the Dunning-Kruger party,

turned up at the conference,  and did a 'speech', with people cramming in to witness the almost Victorian sideshow...

[blakeyboy 1,643]

'leader'   not    'fader'.

Mind you....

[copper123 1,434]