This doesn’t actually counter my point does it? We could have built a normal, max current UK grade 220km/hr line & captured the overwhelming majority of the economic benefits of HS2. (View Post)

To be clear: I personally think the misconception of HS2 was in feather bedding it with monstrosities like this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-66803258 to appease Tory voters… (View Post)

Yup. If you were married & had a house worth over £350k as one of your family assets of sufficient value then you can pass on £1million tax free to your children & grandchildren. (View Post)

Oh, absolutely: that was Sunakian / Treasury Brain vandalism of the worst sort. When you’ve spent the majority of the £ on a train line already, to cancel it in a way that guarantees you will never s… (View Post)

The question you should be asking is not: why HS2? But rather: why is it apparently impossible to build these other projects? I note in passing that a country which had built these other projects wou… (View Post)