Time to cancel this £100 billion folly

IT is good that the planned Government yacht proposed by Boris Johnson is no longer to happen.

A vanity project costing £250 million was folly beyond belief. But now a bigger folly needs to be put to the sword - the HS2 high speed train. A train from London to Manchester costing over £100 billion was always a vanity project, even when it was going to Leeds and Wigan, and there was no case for it even before the recession. Now none at all.

We are unable to guarantee food and heating for our children. Enough is enough.

Although £10 billion has been wasted that is not a case for spending 10 times more on the greatest disaster in British railway history.

The need now is not just to cancel the project but to set up a Royal Commission to investigate how so many politicians – but only politicians at Westminster – have been so stupid that they wasted shedloads of taxpayers’ money.

TREVOR FISHER STAFFORD