NB. Apologies to Alan. The similarity of the figures led me to believe he was quoting the reporting on the Civitas report, when he was probably quoting the UK gov here: https://www.instituteforgovern… (View Post)

The £1.4trillion is a bullshit number that Civitas pulled out of their backside & then had to retract because their numbers were so obviously wrong that even they couldn’t sit there with a straig… (View Post)

The automated online services are all remarkably well done & a feather in the cap of UK plc. The moment you step off the happy path & require hand holding by a bureaucrat things don’t always … (View Post)

I look forward to his speech informing the Russian people that “the war situation has developed not necessarily to Russia's advantage”. (View Post)

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)