Another tory success story...
HS2 has been given a RED unachievable rating by the watchdog that watches over infrastructure projects.
That means despite costing £108bn and being 8X more expensive than any other rail project per mile.
It cannot be completed.
Labour were in favour of it - or does that slip your mind?
No
They didn't attempt to implement it and make an absolute f**king catastrophic mess of it - pissing away billions of pounds of tax payers money AGAIN
And your point is ?
Labour are in favour of it and were opposed to the delays and the Tory plans to stop it before it even reached the North - which has actually increased costs to the point where it's looking unfeasible.
The mistake was allowing the 'prestige' element (ie a slightly faster London to Birmingham journey) to take precedent over the Northern element of the scheme.
It should have got that bit done first as it's more vitally needed.
Tory commitment to levelling up has always rung bit hollow to me - a way to cadge a few more votes.
But, like Brexit, people fell for it.
Anyway, why build railways, the greenest form of transport, when you can open up dozens of new oilfields.
Hardly anybody uses the train now anyway
Home working, the ridiculous ticket prices, shit service and constant cancellations
Quote: lofthouse @ 31st July 2023, 12:18 PMHardly anybody uses the train now anyway
They do in countries with decent (usually nationalised) rail services.
But if you choose to travel by jet or a motorcade of Range Rovers, I can see why trains might not be top of your to-do list.
Quote: Lazzard @ 31st July 2023, 12:53 PMBut if you choose to travel by jet or a motorcade of Range Rovers, I can see why trains might not be top of your to-do list.
Oh yeah, I see today he has decided to wreck the UK's climate commitments
Here's what one ex Tory minister thinks of his latest brain wave....
"What contemptible nonsense. More evidence of how the Conservative Party has fallen in to the same political gutter occupied by Trump & Co. "
And to think we were once leading the world in our determination to take tough action to tackle climate change."
Sunak/Boris - different men, same moronic leadership
So apparently the reason they can't fill the barge with migrants today due to It possibly being a firey death trap - is Labour's fault
OK thanks
Hmmm...
A firm founded by Rishi Sunak's father-in-law signed a billion-dollar deal with BP two months before the prime minister opened hundreds of new licences for oil and gas extraction in the North Sea.
In May, the Times of India reported that Infosys bagged a huge deal from the global energy company which is thought to be the second-largest in the history of the firm.
The Indian IT company is owned by the prime minister's wife's family although Sunak has insisted the matter is of "no legitimate public interest".
It has since come to light that the IT giant has been involved in £172 million worth of public sector contracts in the UK, and even the most innocent bystanders would admit that the current drive to increase oil and gas exploration in the North Sea is more than convenient.
What's more, it is made even more convenient by the fact that one of Infosys' other major clients is Shell, whose CEO joined Rishi Sunak's new business council two weeks ago and promised a "candid collaboration" with his government
Quote: lofthouse @ 31st July 2023, 12:18 PMHardly anybody uses the train now anyway
Home working, the ridiculous ticket prices, shit service and constant cancellations
And numerous strikes affecting loads of small businesses.
I see Couttes bank caught a tiger by the tail.
Nigel has frightened the life out of them - and bites.
Bankers v Farage.
Hard to know who to boo for loudest.
I see the govt are trying to spin the price of booze going up (except champagne - there are limits) as a Brexit Bonus!
No wonder we need to open more oilfields, what with all this endless gaslighting.
Another lockdown child murder & abuse.
Oh the irony...
A GBnews reporter walked into Greenpeace's offices to interview them about raiding Sunak's house and was told to get out as he wasn't invited.