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)

NB Here are some other ways to cut the UK population pie, courtesy of the ONS: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/rural-population-and-migration/rural-population-and-migration Note that the %ag… (View Post)