HS2 is, according to this week’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, going to travel all the way in to Euston Station. This seems to be news. It’s quite extraordinary there should be any doubt – except, of course, that the whole endeavour is a monumental waste of money.
Of all the billions
squandered by Governments, few can be as extravagantly nonsensical as a railway
line few people will ever use even if they could afford the inevitably sky-high
fares.
HS2 was, is
and always will be one of the most profligate wastes of money any Government (Tories
and Labour are equally to blame) has yet devised.
The
suggestion it might terminate five miles from central London is so unutterably ludicrous
that even talk of it reveals the truly terrible ridiculousness of this
profligate project. Even now, it would be better to scrap the whole thing, write
off the fortune already wasted and find better things to do with our money.
If giving
some of it back through the tax system is too much to ask then what about developing
a secure energy supply before electricity rationing becomes a way of life?
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