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Rishi Sunak
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west didsblue
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To be fair you demonstrate your gullibility every time you comment on Tory policy, and to be called dim by the only person left on the forum who’s taken in by the lies of this government is actually quite amusing.The dimmest person on Bluemoon calling others gullible.
metalblue
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Not the point mate the south especially London don’t give a fuck about us.
In fairness I don’t give a fuck about them either
staffsblue
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Are you really that gullible?
There isn’t a £36bn pot that was set aside for HS2 that will be easily accountable as transferred to other projects. It’s a totally bullshit promise where we would see every penny spent on infrastructure in the north touted as a benefit from the cancellation of HS2 when it’s impossible to say if it would or wouldn’t have happened anyway.
Having looked at the Government's accompanying document (which looks like a teenager's first attempt at a PowerPoint presentation), half the projects listed have already been announced or are in progress, and a load more are diverting rail infrastructure spending onto road schemes.
I have a strong feeling that the "£36billion" will be the next "£350 million a week on the NHS" lie.
Alan Harper's Tash
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Or it’ll be ringfenced for Michelle Mone and Dido Harding to launder.Having looked at the Government's accompanying document (which looks like a teenager's first attempt at a PowerPoint presentation), half the projects listed have already been announced or are in progress, and a load more are diverting rail infrastructure spending onto road schemes.
I have a strong feeling that the "£36billion" will be the next "£350 million a week on the NHS" lie.
I agree with the sentiment, but this government have quite a record on 'jam tomorrow' train announcements for the North.Even if half of it gets invested, it will still have a more beneficial impact than HS2.
There's a great thread from Jennifer Williams at the FT (who used to cover politics for the MEN so has been following this stuff for years) - she pretty much suggests that announcements from the Tories are worth the square root of fuck all. Click on the Twitter link to see the longer version.
The speech will no doubt get picked apart in the next few days, but plenty of these plans have already been announced, others are scaled down versions of past announcements, and some have already been announced and cancelled in the past.
meltonblue
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Didn’t they buy up a load of land for HS2? I wonder what the next VIP lane’ll be selling…!
Oh yes.
There was one of my molecules somewhere thinking....this guy surely doesn't have the audacity to cancel this huge investment in Manchester whilst in the city itself?
Fcuk all of that pot will make negligible difference on this city's transportation (and that's if much of that came this way anyway). system.
....and I was once thinking we'd be talking about our own underground by now.
Well and truly shafted with all that nonsense today.
I don't expect them to survive the GE tbh, but still, the damage is done.
There was one of my molecules somewhere thinking....this guy surely doesn't have the audacity to cancel this huge investment in Manchester whilst in the city itself?
Fcuk all of that pot will make negligible difference on this city's transportation (and that's if much of that came this way anyway). system.
....and I was once thinking we'd be talking about our own underground by now.
Well and truly shafted with all that nonsense today.
I don't expect them to survive the GE tbh, but still, the damage is done.
Fred_Quimby
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Far more important than people surviving on a pittance whilst Tesco see a rise of 17% in their profits.