You may have a warped understanding of Conservatives then, and what we really value then. It isn't money. It's the security and defence and, indeed, the ongoing viability of our country. (View Post)

The country isn't ready, and it wasn't in 1936 either, but I increasingly don't buy the argument that the MoD just pisses everything up the wall. I think they're chronically under… (View Post)

The speed does cost a lot more because you need far shallower gradients and curves, and therefore much more civil engineering, and slab based track rather than ballast, which is much more expensive. … (View Post)

And, of course, had that been around when the original railways had been proposed a lot of the promoters would have given up. (View Post)

Agree, except the last line. It's not the fact that Brits can't do it and the Spanish and Chinese can. The Chinese do it because they don't give a shit about planning, land rights, the… (View Post)