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HS2 the superfast. Railway is likely to run at reduced speed to save money


Billions wasted.

HS2 trains could run slower than planned to save money - BBC News https://share.google/JEjub8jHZo6jL2h3I

It's right to say that building it for more than 300kmh was a ridiculous decision but I doubt changing the specification now would save that much money.

Afternoon all.
Batshit crazy times
Wonder what Reeves will wheel out tomorrow and if it will have the same impact as the lasy ecomonic support package

During COVID, Boris gave everyone free money. That sounds more like the sort of progress we want to see.

If Starmer wants to be more popular, free money is the answer. It worked for Boris.

Pensioners, benefits claimants and public sector workers have already enjoyed their generosity

My guess is that 75% of the movement in public opinion on Brexit is nostalgia for the time before Trump, Covid and Ukraine.

Or queuing up for hours with the Russians while the purple passports fly through Alicante airport immigration control.

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japanese-managed tanker carries oil from iraq to india through strait

https://bsky.app/profile/mgerrydoyle.bsky.social/post/3mhqiivy7ws2a

The public may be less keen when they see what concessions the EU wants in return.

Stop talking the UK down.

It’ll be the easiest deal in history, the EU needs more than we need them.

TSE still bitter, ten years on...

"Rejoin" is just empty gesture politics, like leaving the ECHR for the Tories. The only reason it's being floated is because Labour figures hope that repolarising the electorate will stop them slipping below 10% support.

The problem for REJOIN is the terms of rejoining. Of course a lot of people like the airy fairy notion of going back in, but that's without any of terms being agreed.

How does the polling look when people are asked about rejoining and giving up the Pound, for example?

That said, I personally would be up for a Norway style agreement and that is what we should have been aiming for from the very start and probably would have been if Cameron hadn't buggered off!

The public may be less keen when they see what concessions the EU wants in return.

Stop talking the UK down.

It’ll be the easiest deal in history, the EU needs more than we need them.

TSE still bitter, ten years on...

I'm still bitter! I've believed in, and campaigned for, European unity since about 1960. You bet I'm still bitter.

I'm only hanging on to see us Rejoin!

If the NF are in power in France, and the AfD in Germany, Orban in Hungary and Meloni in Italy, then PM Farage would probably like to join.

It would be madness to have another referendum and campaign.
Rejoin/realign quietly and have an AI Little England for those who still believe leaving is better.