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)

It’s possible (reasonable even) to argue that HS2 itself was misconceived from the start. But the fact remains that rail transport in this country, both passenger & freight, would benefit greatly… (View Post)