You have just missed Cyclefree’s point about unequal expectations by the proverbial country mile. (View Post)

I’ve read that “Make the contractor take the risk, not the taxpayer.” was one of the things that massively drove up the cost of the first half of HS2 from London -> Birmingham. The Treasury insist… (View Post)

It’s completely reasonable to say that we should have done a laundry list of other things before HS2 & HS2 may not be the most effective thing to have spent a pile of £ on. But spending a pile of… (View Post)

I guess the goal is to sell “tax and spend Labour” to low-information voters who don’t necessarily understand this distinction. If you can handwave “The conservative party saved £Xbillion by cutting … (View Post)

That’s a good line - I expect it to appear in PMQs shortly. (View Post)