This whole escapade has been a runaway train crash with our cash
Well, it certainly looks that way if the nation’s Fat Controller, Boris Johnson, and his sycophantic signalman, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps, don’t get side-tracked by the threat of a no-deal Brexit, and are railroaded out of power by Halloween.
Shapps announcement on Wednesday that the Government needed the facts and clear evidence before deciding whether the project should be given a green light, and had launched a “go or no go” independent review into this preposterous proposal. Just the ticket, as far as I was concerned, and long overdue.
HS2 should have been stopped in its tracks years ago, certainly before any homes in the way were levelled and especially when the budget of £55.7 billion started spiralling out of control.
With no proper governance or accountability of the project seemingly in place, this whole sorry escapade has been a runaway train crash with the nation’s cash.
Our blustering and embarrassing PM, Bojo himself, recently admitted that he was none the wiser what the completion costs would eventually be, expecting it come in at “somewhere north of £100bn”.
Well I think he is being slightly economical with the truth (again!). How about north of £200bn? Or even £300bn?
Any further north and you might as well try to out-trump Donald and buy Greenland. At least then we would know what we were getting for this humungous waste of money and maybe even make a small return by tapping into the abundant supply
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