Again, for the hard of thinking, Starmer could easily have expressed a preference to complete HS2 in full prior to Sunak’s announcement but he consistently refused to do so and avoided the issue like the plague. To then come out today in the press and pretend that he would love to commit to HS2, but can’t now do so because of land being released, is simply not credible. You might also want to ask yourself how pledging to simply continue with the government’s new transport plan is holding the government to account.
The funniest part of his press round today however was the promise to work with the Northern mayors to deliver on transport plans. A vacuous statement of course but also a bit rich given that he clearly hasn’t spoken to Burnham about HS2 recently, given that Burnham didn’t have a clue what Labour’s position was on the issue even though the Conservative Party conference was taking place on his patch.
It doesn't matter what was said. We are being governed by a bunch of idiots, and I mean that in the sense of the word.
The strongest case economically for HS2 was freeing up capacity between Manchester and Birirmingham. A new line that would provide fast transport for passengers, and allow freight and slower stopping services to operate on existing lines.
Every report into the viability of HS2 supported that, but where did the building start? In London. If you were running a business, it is inconvceivable you would invest your money into a project that would have the lowest return first.
Like I said, we are being governed by idiots, thick twats that have reduced everything in this country to the barest minimum, but let me point this out.
Under the last Labour government, our standard of living improved by the highest margin in our history.
The tories have been in power for nearly 14 years, the economy has stalled, and we are now far worse off than we were when they came to power.
It's not a great achievemet, all things considered.
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