The Conservative Party

Ifwecouldjust....... said:
Water companies promising to spend what they should've spent as long as we all spend £150+ each year more funding what they paid out to share holders .



Another Tory policy failure.
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All problems that come with privatising monopolies.....if I am unhappy can I get a different water company to put their pipes in the ground to pipe water to my house? Can I get a different company to put gas pipes and wires into my home to change? Can I take a train ride to where I want to go but on a different line? No - and so it goes - it was pointed out at the time ad remains the case to this day. You want SKY fibre optic internet to your house...... well you only can if the nationalised BT have upgraded their lines to take it. It was a fucking con then and it is now.
 
Ok, so no northern HS2 extension. Will they channel those funds into vastly improving the network Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Hull? I fucking doubt it. With the budget round the corner and an election next year, they have to appease the voters in the North with a view to putting more money in their pockets. This might, might, keep some of their voters from returning to the red wall, which will screw them out of government. Here's hoping!
 
BrianW said:
He talks about 'shared values'.

I have no shared values with any Tory, still less the sort of Tory now in charge.
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That’s the real damage.

Most of the last century people from labour and the conservatives have managed to “agreeably disagree” to steal a phrase from John Bercow, on most issues, and there actually a decent amount of overlap and common ground. Not true for everything, but most big issues.


This conservative lurch to the right as they desperately try to cling on to power and prepare themselves for life after an election where they might end up being the 3rd party in terms of seats, risks us devolving into a US style of politics where there’s no shared values, no common ground, and there’s no space to just disagree on something without it being toxic.
 
The Black Shed said:
Ok, so no northern HS2 extension. Will they channel those funds into vastly improving the network Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Hull? I fucking doubt it. With the budget round the corner and an election next year, they have to appease the voters in the North with a view to putting more money in their pockets. This might, might, keep some of their voters from returning to the red wall, which will screw them out of government. Here's hoping!
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A reminder that without the HS2 tunnel under South Manchester, which would be part of the Northern Powerhouse Rail route from Liverpool to Manchester, there is no business case for a new line just from Manchester to Leeds. (They'd only offered Widnes to Huddersfield anyway as a new line.)
 
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